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\y.v:i of t^^^■ r.Mts I eiiv(:n.cd ot their out\v:j\l coat or 

 iru!!:, aPicl t!;c other parr 1 left etilirc, as i received 

 them. 



}'>)th tJiefc parcels I phmred in large pots filled with 

 good Ircfii cartii, and plunged the pots into hot-beds 

 made of tanners bark, ^ivino- tlieni {.^entle and fre- 

 Cjuent waterings, as th.e earrh in the pots feemed to 

 require*; but not one of tlic whole number had 

 made any attempt to flioot, as I could p^creeive ; and 

 upon taking tiieni out of tlie pots, I found tliey were 



rotten. 



About four months after, I received another frcfli 

 parcel of Cocoa-nuts from Barbadoes, which I treated 

 in another nranner-, from that part of thefe I cutoff" 

 the outer coat or hufk, and the otiier part I left en- 

 tire, as before: but fuppofmg it was owing to my 

 planting the other parcel in pots, that they did not 

 iucceed, I made a frefh hot-bed with horfe-dung, 

 and covered it over with frefti earth about eighteen 

 inches thick, in which I planted the nuts, obierving, 

 as before, to fupply it with convenient moifture, as 

 alfo to keep the hot-bed in an equal temper of hea% 

 v/hich I was guided to do by a thermometer, gradu- 

 ated for the uie of hot-beds ; but with all my care, I 

 ]iad no better fuccefs than before, not one of the nuts 

 making any cfTay towards fhooting. 

 The year following, I had another parcel of Cocoa- 

 nuts given me, which, confidering my former ill fuc- 

 cefs, I planted in a different manner, as follows : 

 Flaving a hot-bed, which had been lately made with 

 tanners bark, and which was filled with pots of ex- 

 otic plants, I removed two of the largeft pots, which 

 were placed in the middle of the bed; and, opening 

 the tanners bark under the place where the two pots 

 ilood, I placed the two Cocoa-nuts therein, laying 

 them ficjc-v/ays, to prevent the moifture (which might 

 lefcend from the pots) from entering the hole at the 

 bafe of the fruit, and thereby rotting the feminal^lant 

 ■ vipon its firfi: germinating. 

 1 then covered the nuts over with the bark two or 



three inches thick, and placed the two pots over them 

 in their former ftation. - " -'"'?r ■.: ^.^- * : ;■ . 



In this place I let the nuts remain for fix weeks, 

 when removing the two pots and uncovering the nuts, 

 I found thern both Ihotfroni the hole in the bafe of 

 the fruit an inch in length, and from the other end 

 of the fruit were feveral fibres emitted two or three 

 inches in length.* 



Upon finding them in fuch a forwardnefs, I took 

 them out of the bark, and planted them in large pots 

 filled with good frefh earth, plunging the pots down 

 to the rims in tanners bark, and covering the furface 

 of the earth in the pots half an inch with the fame ; 

 foon after which, the young fhoots were above two 

 inches long, and continued to thrive very well. 

 I communicated this method to fome of my ac- 

 quaintance, who have tried it with the fame fuccefs ; 

 and if the nuts are frefh, fcarce any of them mifcarry. 

 This led me to try, if the fame method would fuc- 

 cecd as well with other hard-lhelled exotic feeds, 

 vv'hich I could not, by any method I had before 

 ■ tried, get to grow ; as the Bonduck or Nickar-tree, 

 -; the Phafeolus Brafilianus lobis villofis pungentibus, 

 ' Maximus Hermanni, or Horfe-eye Bean, with feve- 

 ral others ; and I have found it both a fure and ex- 

 peditious way to raife any fort of hard-flielled fruit 

 - or feeds. 



; For the heat and moifture (which are abfolutely ne- 

 ' cefTary to promote vegetation) they here enjoy in an 

 r equal and regular manner, the tanners bark (if rightly 

 ■managed) keeping near an equality of heat for three 

 months ; and the water which defcends from the pots, 

 <"^hen they are watered, is by the bark detained from 

 being too foon difTipated, which cannot be obtained in 

 a common hot-bed, the earth in fuch being worked 

 away by the water, and thereby leaving the ieeds of- 

 ten deftitute of moiflurc. 



Some of thefe Seeds I have had Ihoot in a fortnight's 

 time, which, I am informed, would not have fo done 

 in a month, ift' their natural foil and climate. * - " 1 



I iuve alio rcund it an excellent mcihod to re(fo^. 

 Oran-e, or any otner exotic trees, which have iuf 

 fcred by a ted:ous pafTage, in bung too long ou of 

 the ground by laying their roots and ftems^n a no 

 derate tan- bed lor three or four days before thev nr^ 

 planted; inlomuch that I recovered two O-n 



trees, which had been ten months without either'eS 

 or water. ^*-^ 



In the common method of fowin^ f^eds, there ar^ 

 many kinds which require to be fown foon after thev 

 are npe ; and there are many others which lie in t\l 

 ground a year, lometimes two or three years b-fo ^ 

 the plants conie up ; fo that when the feeds which 

 come from diftant countries are fown, the around 

 fliouldnot be difturbed, but wait with patience i^ 

 expeSation of the plants, at leaft two years • for ir 

 has often happened to feeds which I have fown thir 

 have been brought from America, that part of them 

 have come up the firft feafon, fome the next anH 

 others not unti^l the third year ; fo that if the crronnS - 

 had been dill urbed, I fhould have loft many'^plant. 

 which, by my waiting fo long, came up and fucceeded 

 very well. , ^^ 



As there is fuch difference in the length of time, which 

 lome feeds will keep good over others, I thought it 

 would not be unacceptable, if I fhould add ali ac 

 count of thofe feeds which require to be fown foon af 

 ter they are ripe ; and of others, how lona thev mav 

 be kept good, if they are carefully faved° which I 

 have drawn out in the following table, which will in 

 a great meafure, direct: how thofe feeds, which are 

 not here included, require to be treated. 

 The firfl: clafs of feeds which I fhall enumerate is of 

 thofe which Ihould be fown in autumn, foon after 

 they are ripe ; otherwife many of them will not fuc- 

 ceed, and others will often, remain in theVround a 

 whole feafon, if they are kept out of the ground till 

 Ipring, whereby a full year will be lofl, • 



-Adonis, or Flos Adonis, fee Adonis. 

 Alexanders, or Aliffanders, fee Smyrnium; 



.or Windflower, fee Anemone * 



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Angelica, 



Arfe-fmirt the eaftern fort, fee Perficarla." 

 Afh-keys, fee Fraxinusi 



Afphodel, or King-fpear, fee Afphodelus. 

 Auricula. 



Beech-maft, fee Fagus, 

 Bifhop's-weed, fee Ammi. 

 Chriflopher-herb, fee A6l^a. 

 Ciceli, fee Myrrhis. 



Colchicum, or Baflard-faffron. 



Corn-fallad, fee Valeriana. 



Cornflag, fee Gladiolus. 



Crocus. " ^ . ' 



Crown Imperial, fee Fritillaria* 



Fennel-giant, fee Ferula. 



Flower-de-luce, fee Iris. 



Fraxinella, fee Didtamnus. 



Fritillaria, or chequered Tulip. 



Gentian, fee Gentiana. 



Ground Pine, fee Teucrium. 



Hare's-ear, fee Bupleurum. 



Hartwort, fee Bupleurum and Seki 



Hog's-fennel, fee Peucedanum. 



Hornbeam, fee Carpinus. 



Hyacinth, fee Hyacinthus. 



Juniper, fee Juniperus. *' 



Laferwort, fee Laferpitium. 



Lilly, fee Lilium. * 



Lilly-afphodel, fee Crinum and Hemerocallis. 



Lilly-hyacinth, fee Scilla. 

 Lilly-narcilTus, fee Amaryllis, 

 Lovage, fee Ligufticum. 

 Mandrake, fee Mand 

 Maple, fee Acer. 

 Mafterwort, fee Imperal 

 Me'rtuty, fee Mercurial 

 Moly,'Tee Allium, 

 Mufcari." 



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