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and appear in April, but are rarely fLiccceded by feeds 



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The lirft fort is generally propagated in the Englifh 

 nurlcries, by fuckers taken from the roots of the old 

 trees, or by cutting ofFfome of the roots, and plant- 

 ing them upon a gentle hot-bed ; thefe will put out 

 llioots, and become plants ; but thefe are not fo va- 

 luable as thofe which are raifed from feeds, becaufe 

 "they do not make near fo great progrefs in their 

 growth, and are very fubjedt to fend forth many 

 -ibckers from their roots, whereby the ground will be 

 filled with them to a great diftance ; and thefe fuckers 

 will draw away the nourifhment from the old plants, 

 whereby their growth will be greatly retarded. 

 If this is propagated by feeds, they fliould be fown 

 on a bed of light earth about the latter end of March 

 or the beginning of April ; and if the bed is well ex- 

 pofed to the fun, the plants will appear in about five 

 or fix weeks, and will require no farther care but to 

 keep them clear from weeds. In this bed the plants 

 may remain till the following fpring, when they 

 ihould be tranfplanted into a nurfery about the latter 

 end of March, placing theni in rows at three feet 

 diftance row from row, and a foot and a half afunder 

 in the rows. In this nurfery they may remain two 

 years, by which time they will be fit to tranfplant 

 where they are defigned to grow ; for as thefe trees 

 fend forth long tough roots, fo if they ftand long un- 

 rcmoved, the roots will extend themfelves to a great 

 diftance ; therefore they muft be cut off when the 

 plants are tranfplanted, which fometimes occafions 

 their mifcarrying. / .' ■ > 

 Thefe trees will grow well upon almoft every foil, 

 but beft in a light fandy ground, in which they will 

 Ihoot fix or eight feet in one year ; and while the 

 trees are young, they make an agreeable appearance, 



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 old, the branches being frequently broken by winds, 

 render them unfightly, efpecially if they ftand in an 

 expofed place ; and when the trees grow old, their 

 branches decay, which renders them very difagreea- 

 ble, and has occafioned their being rooted out of fe- 

 veral gardens fome years paft. This is commonly 

 known by the title of Locuft-tree in America, and 

 there are quantities of the feeds annually fentto Eng- 

 land with that title. 



The fecond fort is propagated in the fame manner as 

 the firft, and the trees grow to the fame fize. 

 The third fort is at prefentfcarce in the gardens about 

 London, but in Devonfhire it is in greater plenty, 

 where the inhabitants give it the title of Rafpberry 

 plant, fi;om the young fhoots being covered with 

 briftly hairs like the Rafpberry plants ; this docs not 

 produce feeds in England, fo it is propagated by cut- 

 ting off part of the roots, and planting them upo'ri'a 



being well furnifhed with leaves 



entle hot-bed, where they will^ put out fibres and 



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oots, and become new plants. .This fort ftiould 

 have a warmer fituation than the two former, though 

 the ordTnary winters in this country never injure it, 

 but in very fevere winters their young fhoots arc fome- 

 times killed in expofed places. It loves alightmoift 



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The fourth, fifth, fixth, feventh, eighth, and ninth 

 forts, are tender, fo cannot be maintained in England, 

 unleJs they are placed in a ftove in winter. Thefe are 

 propagated by feeds, which muft be procured from 

 the countries where they naturally grow, for they do 

 not produce any here ; thefe fhould be fown in fmall 

 pots filled with earth from the kitchen-garden, and 

 plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark; if the fee.ds 

 are good, the plants will appear in fix weeks or two 

 months; when thefe are fit to tranfplant, they' fhould 

 be carefully fliaken out of the pots, and their roots 

 feparated j then each plant fhould be put into a fmall 

 , pot filled witli the like earth, and plunged into a hot- 

 bed of tanners bark, obferving to fhade them till they 

 have taken new root, and then they muft have the 



fame treatment as other tender plants from the fame 

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While the plants are young, th^y are more teiidcj- 

 than afterward, therefore it will be proper to k^^-p 

 them in the tan-bed in the ftove the tv.*o or three firft 

 years j but when they have obtained ftrength, they 

 may be kept in a dry ftove of a tempciatc laeat in 

 winter, and in fummcr tlicy may be expofed to the 

 open air in a flieltered fituation \ with this manage- 

 ment I have kept feveruj of the fpecies, feme of whtch 

 have produced ftowers in the Chelfea Garden, and 

 fome of the forts I have propagated by curtlnc^s. 

 The tenth, eleventh, und twelfth farts, are propa- 

 gated from feeds, which ftiould be fov;n in a fiiadv 

 fituation in autumn, and then the plants will come 

 up the following fpring; but if the feeds are fown in 

 the fpring, the plants feldom rife the fame feafon. 

 When the plants come up, they will require no other 

 care but to keep them clean fronfi Weeds till autumn, - 

 when, if they have made any progrefs, they ftiould 

 be tranfplanted on anonh border, at about fix inches 

 diftance,, where they may grow two yeans and then 

 fhould be planted where they are to remain, v/hich 

 fhould be in a cool mcift foil, not too much expofed 

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Lin. Gen. Plant. 206. 



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^he flower has a fcrmanevt cmpak^V-cnt ^f one leaf^ fit- 

 ting upon the germen^ cut into five acute points. It has 



one funnel-Jhaped petaU '^nth a cylindrical tube loyiger than 

 the empalementy. bellied toward the top^ and cut i7ito five 

 roundifij fegments at the hrim^ which are refexed. It has 

 five awl'fi^aped ftamina^ icrniinatedl^y fii^glejumnnts\ the 

 roundip germen tsfituated under the fio^er^ fupporting^a 

 flender ftyle the length of the tube^ cro^jjned by an obtufe . 

 ftigma, The germen afterward becomes ^ roundiffj crown- . 

 edcapfule with two cells^ indofmg tzvo or three angular . 

 feeds in each, '." -'I .::..-'. . '-> - .'■■>" ;". • ■ •- '-'^^ 

 This genus of plants h ranged in the firft fedion of , 

 Lirina^us's fifth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have five ftamina and ont ftyle. '* 

 The Species are, . 



RoNDELETiA (Jmericdua) foliis feftllibus, panicula 

 . dichotoma. Iah. Sp.Fhnt. 24.^. RonJelctiaivith leaves 

 fitting clofe to the h^anches, and a forked panicle, Ron- 

 deletia arborefcens, tini facie. Plum. Nov. Gen. 15. 

 Tree-like Rcndeletia having the appearance of Tinus. 

 2. RoNDELETiA {^fiatica) foWis pctiolatis, oblongis acu- 

 tis. Flor. Zeyl. 80. Rondeletia with oblong leaves grow- 

 ing upon foot-flalks, Cupi. Hort. Mai. 2. p- 37. .;. 

 -,.:The firft fort grows naturally in the Weft-Indies, . 

 "'where Plumier difcove^ed it, and g^ve it this title in 

 ., honour'of Gulielnius Rondeletius, afanioUs ph\^cianr. 



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 The feeds of this pUnt were firft fent me by Mr. 

 "Robert Millar, who collefled thetii'on'the north fide 

 of the ifland of Jamaica;" he' alfo obfervcd the trees 

 growing plentifully in the Spanifh AVeft-Indies-, I 

 have alfo fince received the feeds from Barbadoes^ 

 which have fucceeded at Chelfeavrr-This rifes with a 

 woody ftalk ten or twelve feet high, branching QUt 

 on every fide ; the branches are covered with a fmooth 

 greenifli bark, and 2irt garniftied with oblong leaves 

 ending in acute points j they are entire, and fit very 

 clofe to the branches; the upper furface is of a lucid 

 green, and the under of a pale green > they are a lit- 

 tle crumpled on their furface, and ftand alternate. 

 The flowers come out in bunches at the en^of.the/' ' 

 branches, they are" white and have little fcent. Thefe , 

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 The fecond fort grows naturally at Malabar; this 



i rifes with a woody ftalk fix or fevcn feet high, divid- 

 ing into feveral branches, which ar^ covered with a 

 fmooth bark, and garniftied with ftiff oblong leaves 



; of a lucid green, ftanding alternate on the lower part .' 

 of the branches, but by pairsi toward the extremity ; 

 they have ftiort foot-ftalks, and are entire. The '.,-;;':■'.,•* ■ 

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