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greater variety raifed, as there are (o many perfons 

 en^'-aged in the culture of this flower. 

 The ievera! varieties of Polyanthufes are produced by 

 fovving of feeds, which ftiould be faved from fuch 

 flowers as have large upright flems, producing many 

 flowers upon a ftalk, which are large, beautifully 

 itriped, open flat, and not pin-eyed. From the feeds 

 of fuch flowers there is room to hope for a great va- 

 riety of good forts, but there Ihould be no ordinary 

 flowers ftand near them, left, by the mixture of cheir 

 farina, the feeds fliould be degenerated. 

 Thefe feeds fliould be fown in boxes filled with light 

 rich earth in December, being \ery careful not to 



feed too deep -, for if it be only flightly co- 



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boxes {bould be placed where they may have the be- 

 nefit of the morning fun until ten of the clock, but 

 inufl: by no means be expofed to the heat of the day, 

 efpeciaily when the plants begin to appear; for at 

 thsit time; one whole day's fun will entirely defl:roy 

 them. In the fpring, if the feafon fliould prove dry, 



■ you mult often refrefli them with water, which fliould 

 be ^iven very moderately ; and, as the hear increafes, 

 you fliould remove the boxes more in the fl^iade, for 

 the heat is very injurious to them. . - 



By the middle of May thefe plants will be fl:rong 



s enough to plant out, at v/hich time you fliould pre- 

 pare fome fliady borders which fliould be made rich 

 with neats dung', upon which you muft: fet the plants 

 about four inches afunder every way, obfervmg to 

 water them until they have taken rootj after which 

 they will require no farther care but, to keep them 



, clear from weeds, until the latter end of Auguft fol- 



: lowing, when you fliould prepare fome borders which 

 are expofed to the eall, with good light rich earth, 



: into which you mufl: tranfplant your Polyanthufes, 



. placing them fix inches afunder equally ia rows, ob- 

 terving, if the feafon proves dry, to water them until 

 they liave taken root ; in thefe borders your plants 



. ^il flower the fucceeding fpring, at which time you 

 jTiVA obferve to mark fuch of them as are fine to pre- 

 serve, and the reft may be tranfplanted into wilder- 



and other ftiady places in the garden, where, 

 although they are not very valuable flowers, they will 

 afford an agreeable variety. 



Thofe which you intend to preferve, may be remov- 

 ed foon after they have done flowering (provided you 

 do not intend to fave feeds from t^em), and may^be 

 then tranfplanted into a frefli border of the like rich 



allowing them the fame diftance as before^^pb- 



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ferving alfo to w^ter them until they have taken root; 

 . " after which they will require no farther care, but on- 

 -1y to keep them clean from weeds, and the following 

 fpring they will produce ftrong fewers, as their roots 

 .-.will be then in fliU vigour-, fo that if the kinds are 

 /.:good,they will be little inferior to a fliew of Auriculas. 

 < Thefe roots fhould be conftantly removed and parted 



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otherwife they will degenerate, and lofe the greateft 



part of their beauty. -. - -:._^. 



If you intend to fave feeds, which is the method to 



obtain a great variety, you muft mark fuch of them, 



):- which, as i faid before, have good properties. Thefe 



' Tliould be, if pofllble, feparated from all ordinary 



- 'flowers, for if they ftand furroundcd with plain-co- 



t;!i,lp.ured flowers, they will impregnate each other, 



• -whereby the feeds of the valuable flowers will hot be 



" near fo good, as if the plants had been In a feparate 



border, where no ordinary flowers grew; therefore 



the bed way is to take out the roots of fuch as you 



do not efteem as foon as the flowers open, and plant 



them in another place, that there may be none left in 



. the border, but fuch as you would chufe for feeds. 



The fiowers of thefe ftiould not be gathered, except 



fuch as are produced fingly upon pedicles, leaving 



all fuch as grow in large bunches ; and if the feafon 



Ihould prove dry, you muft now and then refrelh 



;hcm with water, which will caufe their feed to be 



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entirely neglc£lcd. In June the feed will be rip?, 

 which may be eafily known by the pods changing 

 brown and opening; {o that you fliould at that nme 

 look over the plants three or four times a week, ga- 

 thering each tiiiie fuch of the feed-veflels as are ripe, 

 which fliOuld be laid upon a paper to dry, and may 

 then be put up until the feafon of fowino-. i 

 As the plants which arife from feeds, generally flow- 

 er much better than oifs^ts^^ thofe who would have 



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thefe flov/ers in perfefldon, fliould annually fow their 

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PRIMROSE-TREE. See Onagra. 

 PRINOS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 398. Winterberry. 

 The Characters are. 



Tie ficzver hath a permanent empakrnent cf one kaf^ 

 which is cut into fix fmall plain fegmenls^ a?id is perma- 

 nent -, it hath one whcd-JIjaped petal "with no tuhe^ cut 

 into fix plain figments; it hath fix awl-fioaped fiamina 

 fioorter than the petals terminated by chtufie fiummits^ and 

 an oval germen fitting upon the fiyle^ crowned hy an ohtufe 

 Jiigma, The germen afterward turns to a round berry open- 

 ing in three par ts^ including one hard feed, 



■ This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fe<5t:ion of 

 Linnseus's fixth clafs, which includes thofe plants whcfe 

 flowers have fix ftamina and one ftyle. 



.'The Species are, 



PfiiNOs {Verticilldtm) foliis longitudinaliter ferratls. 

 Lin. Sp. Plant. 330. Prinos^ or Winterberry^ with leaves 

 fiawed lengthways. . 

 2. Prinos {Glaber) foliis apice ferratls. Lin. Sp. Pl:nt. 

 330. Prinos with leaves Jawed at their points, 



■ The firft fort grows naturally in Virginia, and other 

 parts of North America. This rifes with a flirubby 

 ftalk to the Height of eight or ten f^et, fending out 

 many branches from the fides the whole length, which 

 are garniflied with fpear-fliaped leaves about three 

 inches long, and one broad in the middle, terminating 

 in acute points; they'are of a deep green, veined on 

 their uader fide, and fawed on their edges, having 

 flenderfoot-ftalks ftanding alternately on the branches. 

 The flowers come out from the fide of the branches, 

 fometimes fingle, at others two or three at each joint ; 

 they have no tube, but are wheel-fliaped, and cut 

 into fix parts ; they have fix awl-fliaped ereft ftamina, 

 terminated by obtufe fummits, and an oval germen 

 fitting upon the ftyle, crowned by an obtufe ftigma ; 



.'thefe are fucceeded by berries about the fize of thofe 



of Holly, v/hich turn purple when ripe. ^ It flowers 



CW^ July, and the feeds ripen in the winter, .; * 



he fecond fort grows naturally in Canada ;^this is of 



Jower growth than the former. The leaves are ftiorter, 



and fawed at their points, but the flowers of this I 



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.They are propagated by feeds, which ftipuld be fpwn 

 foon after they are ripe upon abed of light earth, co- 

 , vering them about half an inch with the fame fort of 

 earth, ■ The feeds which are fo foon put into the 

 ground, wul many of them come up the following 

 fpring -, whereas thofe which are kept longer out of 

 the ground, will remain a whole year in the ground 

 before the plants will appear in the fame manner as 

 the Holly, Hawthorn, and fome others ; therefore the 

 ground ftiould not be difturbed, if the plants do not 

 come up thb firft year. When the young plants come, 

 up, they may be treatedjnthe fame manner as hath 

 been direded for the American Hawthorns, for thefe 



defight in a moill foil and' 



./a fliady fituation ; fpr in hot land they make but 

 little progrefs, and rarely produce any fruit. 



P R I V E T, See Ligustrum. 



P ROTE A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 104. Conocarpoden- 



. dron. Boerh. Ind. alt. 2. 195. Silver-tree. 

 The Characters are, \ ; 



The flowers are colk£led in an oval head -^ they have one 

 common imbricated fcaly perianthium. The flower is cf 

 me petaly having a tube the length cf the empalement ; 

 th^ brim is cut into four parts^ which fpread open, and 

 are equal It has four briftly ftamina the length of the 



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