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^oot-ftalk?, clofe to the wings of the leaves ■, thefe ap- 

 pear in June, July, and Augult, and the feeds ripen 



in amrunm. 



Thcfe plants are propagated by feeds, which muft 

 be fown on a hot-bed ; and when the plants are fit to 

 tranfplant, they muft be each planted into a feparate 

 fmall pot, and plunged into a tVefli hot-bed, and af- 

 terward treated in the fame manner as other tender 

 plants of the fame counery, for they muft be kept in 

 the bark-ftove, otherwife they will not thrive in Eng- 

 land. The fecond year the plants will flower and 

 produce goort feeds, but the plants may be continued 

 three or four years if they are often Ihifted, and the 

 roots pared, to keep them within compafs \ for if they 

 are permitted to remain long undifturbed in the tan- 

 bed, their roots will run out through the holes in the 

 bottom of the pots, and extend to a great diftance in 

 the tan ; and when this happens, if their roots are 

 torn, or cut off, the plants feldom furvive it. When 



the plants root into the tan, they grow very luxuriant, I the leaft polTible. 

 and cannot be kept within reafonable compafs ; but on 

 their roots being difturbed, their branches will hang, 

 and their leaves fhrivel up and drop off; therefore, 

 to keep thefe plants within bounds, they fhould be 

 drawn up out of the tan at leaft once in fix weeks. 



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Water will add, in making jets d*eau, and cafcades, 

 which are fome of the noblelt ornaments of a garden, 

 if rightly placed. I fhall firft take notice of the qua- 

 lities of Water, with the feveral opinions of the moft 

 eminent phiiofophers thereon, and then take notice 

 of the beauty which large pieces of Water add to fuch 

 feats as are conveniently fituatcd for them. 

 Sir Ifaac Newton defines Water (when pure) to be a 

 very fluid fait, volatile, and void of all iavour and 

 tafte ; and it feem.s to confift of fmall, hard, porous, 

 fpherical particles of equal diameters, and equal fpe- 

 cific gravities ; and alfo that there are between them 



fpaces lo large, and ranged in fuch a manner, as to be 

 pervious on all fides. 



Their fmoothnefs accounts for their Aiding eafily over 

 thefurfaces of one another. 



Their iphericity keeps them froni touching one ano- 

 ther in more points than one, and by both thefe, their 

 fridlions, in Aiding over one another, are rendered 



The hardnefs of them accounts for the incomprelTi- 

 bility of Water, when it is free from the intermixture 

 of air. 



The porofity of Water is fo very great, that there is 



at leaft forty times as much fpace as matter in it, for 



during thefummer feafon, and the plants (hifted out j Water is nineteen times fpeciflcally lighter than gold, 



of the pots once in two months ; with this manage- I and of confequence rarer in the fame proportion; but 



ment the two laft forts may be continued feveral years, 

 but the firft feldom lives longer than two years. 

 W A R N E R A. Hydraftis. Lin. Gen. 704. 

 The Characters are, 

 The floijoer hath no empakment^ hut conftfts of three oval 

 regular petals^ including a great number of linear com- 



gold will, by preAure, let Water pafs through its 

 pores, and therefore may be fuppofed to have (at leaft) 

 more pores than folid parts. - 



Monf. Le Clerc fays there are thefe things obfervable 

 in Water, which naturalifts ftudy to know, and ac- 

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prejfed Jlamina which are fhorter than the petals^ termi- i. It is tranfparent; becaufe, as fome are of opinion, 



nated by obtufe comprejfed fummits. It bath many gcr- 1 it confifts of flexible particles like ropes, which are 



men coUe^ed into an oval heady having Jhortjiyles^ crowned] not fo clofe as to leave no pores, norfo entangled, 



by broad comprejfed Jligmas. The germen becomes one\ • but that there are right lines enough to tranftnit the 



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berry-, compofed of many oblong acini like Strawberries^ in- 

 cluding one oblong feed in each. 



' This genus of plants is ranged in the feventh feftion 

 of Linnseus's thirteenth clafs* which contains thofe 

 plants whofe flowers have many male and female or- 

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'he title of this genus is given to it in honour of 

 Richard Warner, Efqj of Woodford-row, Eflex, who 

 is a Very curious feotanift, and^ af great cblleflor of 

 growing plants. --^— ^ 



We know but one Species of this plant at prefent. 



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Warner A {Canadenfts ,) Warner a^ or Tellow Root. Hy- 

 draftis. Lin. Sp. 784. Water Herb. 

 This plant grows naturally in Canada, and feveral 

 other parts of North America; the root is compofed 

 of thick flcftiy tubers of a deep yellow colour within, 

 but covered by a brown flcin, fending out fibres from 

 - feveral parts in the fpring ; it fends up one or two 

 v;foot-ftalks about nine inches high, on which are one 

 vpr two lobated leaves on the fide, which are compofed 

 of hand-ftiaped leaves, which are fawed on their bor- 

 ders ; the foot-ftalk is terminated by one flower, com- 

 pofed of three oval white petals, including many fta- 

 mina and ftyles, and is fucceeded by a fruit compofed 

 of many acini like thofe of Stra^yberrie$, which when 

 ripe, change to a red colour \ it flowers in May, and 

 the fruit is ripe m July. 



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This plant is pretty uncommon in the Englifli gar- 

 dens, where it does not increafe much; it delights in 

 great (hade and moifture -, for when it is planted in 



. dry ground, or much expofed to the fun, it rarely 



lives through one fummer. Therefore it fliould be 



planted in a moift loamy foil, in a fliady fituation, 



„ where it fnould remain undifturbed three or four years. 



W A T E R is one of the moft confiderable requifites be- 

 longing to a garden : if a garden be without it, it 

 brings a certain mortality upon whatfoever is planted. 

 By waterings the great droughts in fummer are al- 



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light. 



Forfince the particles are not joined clofe together, 

 and in perpetual motion, thq very particles of light 

 eafily pafs through their right lines, unlefs the Water 

 be very deep, or put into motion by fome outward 

 caufe ; then* indeed, the tranfparency of Water is 

 very much obftrufted, and'it looks of a cloudy obfcure 

 colour,'as it is obvious to fight in a rough fea, for 

 at fuch a time the vehement agitation of the Water 

 difturbs their pores, and fpoils their ftraitnefs. . 



2. Water is liquid, but capable of being fixed. Wa- 

 ter feems to be liquid for the fame reafon that other 

 bodies are fo ; for fince the particles of it are flexible 

 like ropes, and leave pores between one another, 

 which are filled with finer matter ; when this matter 

 is put into a vehement commotion,, the particles are 

 eafily tofled about every tvhere ; yet wheri the motion 

 of this reftlefs matter is reftrained, as it is irt winter, 

 then the Water congeals into ice, whether this conicjs 

 of cold only, or there be, befides, nitrous particles, 

 which fall out of the air at that time, and with their 

 rigidnefs fixthe watery ones. - • : .- ; 



3. It may be made hot or cold, the particles of Wa- 

 ter being, as has before been faid, ice, are foon dif- 

 folved by the motion of thofe of fire ; for the particles 

 of fire, getting into the pores of the ice, mightily 

 Ihake the fine flexible particles of it, and reftore then> 

 to their former motion in a little time.^ ;rr-*:: 

 But, if this Water be fet in cold air, the fiery parti- 

 cles will foon vanifli, and the Water become as cold 







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4. Water eafily evaporates by the heat of fire or air. 

 This is becaufe its particles are quickly feparated, and 

 got into motion ; fo that the^iry particles eafily carr^ 

 thofe of the Water about with them. 



5. It is heavy, if compared with air, and fome other 

 bodies, but much heavier than air. It has been (hewn, 

 by various experiments, that the gravity of the air in 

 the place where we live, is to that of Water, as one to 



layed, which would infallibly burn up moft plants, I " eight hundred, or fomething more ; fo that Water is 

 had we not the help of Water to qualify the exceflive I eight hundred tipes heavier than air. - % And for this 

 heats; befides, as. to noble feats, the beauty that ! reafon a bladder, or any other thing, filled with air. 



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