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' germen with an erect brijlly fiyle^ croivmd ly an ohtufe 

 fligma. 'The gerinen afterward turns a roundifo v.akcd 

 feed-, fitting in a difiincJ cell of the cone. - 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firflfeftion of 

 Linn;tu5's fourth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 ■ ■ whofc flowers have four flamina and one ftyle. 



The Species arc, 



1. Protea (Conifcra) foliis lineari-Ianceolatis integer- 

 rimis acuiis glabris obllquatis. Lin. Sp. 138. Protea 

 tvitb linear fpar-fijaped leaves, which are entire, Jharp- 

 p:inied, fmooth aiui oblique, 



2. Protea (Jrgentea) foliis lanceolati 



illofo-fericeis planis, florali 



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 Lin. Sp. 1.57. Protea ^itb Jpcar-fiaped cbliqiie-pointed 

 Reives, v:hich are plain, fdvery hair^, and the flowers 

 'growing in whorls round the ftalks. Conocarpodendron 

 foliis argenteis fericeis latifiimis. Boerh. Ind. 2. p. 195. 



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dis integerrimis, Protea with oblong, oval, hairy, Jhining 

 leaves, which are entire. Lepidocarpodendron folio 

 faligno lato, caule purpurafcentc. Boerh. Ind. alt. 2. 

 138. Lepidocarpodendron, with a broad Willow leaf and 

 a purpliflo fialk, ctherwife called fVageboom, 

 Thefe plants are natives of the country near the Cape 

 of Good Hope in Africa, where there is a great num- 

 ber of fpecies. In the catalogue of the Leyden Gar- 

 den, there are upwards, of tv/enty forts enumerated ; 

 not that they have them grov;ing there, but they have 

 sood drawings of them, ' which were made in the 

 country where they are 

 here mentioned are what I had lately growing in the 

 Chclfea Garden, but the third is now loft there. I 

 Thefe plants are many of them well figured in the 

 index of the plants of the, Leyden Garden, which 

 was publiihed by Dr.^Boerhaave in 1719, by the ti- 

 tles of Lepidocarpodendron, Conocarpodendron, and 

 Hypophyllocarpodendron"; and, by fome former wri- 



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 - •"- phalus, from the refemblance which the cones of thefe 

 ' i**^' trees have to the head of an Artichoke. ^. ' • \ 



vr As thefe plants are natives of the Cape of Good 

 ..:, ^'- Hope, they are too tender to live abroad through the 

 ■ f— winter in England, but the firft fort is hardy" enough 



to live in a good green-houfe. This fort will grow 



to the height of ten or twelve feet, arid may be trained 



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'naturally form a regular large head. /The leaves are 



lonrr and narrow, of a fhininj^ filver colour; and as 



they remain the whole year, the plants make a fine 



when they are Intermixed with others 



In the funimer thefe may be 

 .placed in the open air in a Hieltered fituatio'n -, for, if 

 ''■*•' they ¥reexpofed to winds, the plants will be torn. 



appearance, 



in the grecn-houfe. 





and rendered unfightly, nor will^they make any pro- 



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and in cold weather 



- grefs in their growth 

 ---frequently butfparingly watered 

 ' ^"'this mufl: not be too often repeated, 



— their fibres/ ;j^^^^^'-'^Y:<-^v-fe:fe - 

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^/ith a purplifli bark, dividing into feveral branches, 

 ^3i%hich growereft, garnifbed with broad, ^ihining, fil- 



very, fpear-fhapcd leaves placed on every fide, fo the 

 " plar*rs make a fine appearance, when intermixed with 



other exotics. This fhould be placed in an airy dry 



: glafs-cafe, where ItViay be protefled from cold, and 



^' have as much tight as pofiible, and in winter fhould 



^' have little'Water ; this rifes'eafily from feeds, which 



■;^niuft be procured from the Cape of Good Hope, 



. where it 2;rows naturally. The fteds will fometimes 



remain in the ground fix or eight months, and at 



other times the plaints will appear m fix weelcs ; 



therefore the l^eft way is to fow the feeds in fmall 



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pots filled with foft fandy loam, and plunge them 

 into a moderate hot-bed ■, and, if the plants fhould 

 not come up fo foonas expected, the pots fhould re- 

 main in fhelter till the following fpring, when^ if 

 the feeds remain found, the plants v/ill come up. 

 The pots in which the feed's ar^ fbwn, fhould have 



but ii^tle wetj for moifture frequently caufcs them to 



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rot. When the plants appear, they fl:ouId not be 

 too tenderly treated, for they muft not be kept too 

 warm, norfliould they have much v/etj but in v/ann 

 weather they muft be expofed to the open air in a 

 fheltered fituation, and in winter proteftcd from froft. 

 The third fort I raifed from feeds, which came 

 from the Cape of Good Hope ; thefe feeds were long 

 and {lender, very different in Ihape from thofe of 

 the fecond fort, but the plants have fome refemblance 

 to thofe. The leaves are very filky and white ; the 

 flalks are purple, and grov/ ereft, but have not as 

 yet put out any branches. 



The firft fort may be propagated by cuttings, 

 which ftiould be cut off in April, juft before the 

 plants begin to flioot ; thefe fnould be planted in 

 fmall pots filled v/ith light earth, and plunged into a 

 moderate hot-bed, fliading them from the fun, and 

 now and then 



ntly refrefhing them with water, but 

 it muft be fparingly given, for much wet will roc 

 -'them. 'Thefe cuttings will put out roots by Mid- 

 fummer, when they may be gently flaaken out of the 

 pots and parted, planting each in a feparate fmall 

 pot filled with light earth, and placed in a frame, 

 where they may be ftiaded till they have taken new 

 root -, then they ftiould be gradually inured to the 

 open air, into which they fhould be rembVed, and 

 treated in the fame w'ay as the old plants. 



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There is not any part of gardening which is^ of 

 .- more general ufe tlian that of Pruning, and yet 

 it is very rare to fee fruit-trees fkilfully managed. 

 ■' Almoft Q^vtvj gardener will pretend to be a mafter 

 /"of this btifincf3, though there are but few who 

 -■■rightly underftand it; nor is it to be learned by 

 rote, but requires a ftrid obfervation of the dif- 

 ferent manners of growth of the feveral forts of 

 fruit-trees, fome requiring to be managed one way, 

 . and others muft be treated in a quite different 

 method, which is only to be knowh from carefully 

 , obferving hov^each kind is naturally dilpofed to pro- 

 duce its fruit; for fome forts produce their fruit on 

 — the fame year's wood, as Vines ; others produce their 

 fruit, for the moft part, Upon the^ former year's 

 'wood, as Peaches, Nedarines, &cV"and others upon 

 - ciiffons 6V fpufs, which are produced upon "wood of 

 'three, four, or five, to fifteen or twenty years oldj' 

 as Pears, Plums, Cherries, &c. therefore, in order to 

 the right management of fruit-trees, there fhould 

 -always be provifion made to have a fufBcient quan- 

 tity of bearing wood in every part of the trees, and 

 at the fame time there fnould not be a fuperfluity of 

 ufelefs branches, which would exhauft the ftrength 

 of the trees, and caufe them to decay in a few years. ^ 

 The reafons which have been lai)^ down for Pruning 

 ' of fruit-trees are as follows : Firft, To preferve trees 

 ^ longer in a vigorous bearing ftate -, the fecond is, To 

 -fender the trees more beautiful to the eye; and 

 . thirdly. To caufe the fruit to be larger "and better tafted. 

 ;^t; It prefeVves a tree longer* in a healthy bearing 

 '.ftate; for by pruning off all fuperfiubus branches, 

 '' fo that there are, no more left upon the tree than are 

 neceffary, or that can be properly nourifhed^the rodt 

 is'not exhaufted in fupplying ufelefs branches, v/hich 

 muft afterwards be cut our, whereby much of the- 



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fap will be iifelefiy expended. ,. 

 2. By fkilful Pruning of' a tree it is rendered mDch 

 rriote^pleafing' to the eye ; but here I would not be 

 underftogd to be ah advocate for a fort of Pruning^ 

 which I have feen too much praftifcd of late, viz. 

 the drawing a regular line againft the wall, according 

 to the fliape or figure they would reduce the tree to, 

 and cutting all the branches, ftrong or 'weak, exaftly 

 to the chalked lin€; the abfurdity of which practice 

 will foon appear fo every "one, whb will be at the pains 

 of obferving the difference of thofe branches ftiooting 

 the fucceeding fpring. -All therefore that I mean by 

 ■ rendering a tree beautiful is, that the branches are 

 ^all pruned according to their feveral ftrengths, and 

 are , nailed at equal diftancesj^in proportion to th 



^ different fizes of their leaves and fruit, and that no 



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