DEC. IV, Hiftoria f lard an n Succulent am. 



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The Turk's Head, or Turk's 





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lo callM in America 



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or with us the true Melon- 

 Thiftle. 



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LANTA hare nomine Me 



locardui infignitur ex parti- 



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HIS Plant is particularly 



calVd Melcn-Th'iftk) becaufe 

 bus 5 quoniam caulis ejus melonislftb* Body of the Plant refetfiblts a 

 semulus canaliculars 5C raultan-LW^w, being ribfrd, and confjiing 

 gulus confpicitur^ cujus extremi-p/ many Angles; the Edges of 

 tates fpini.s ftellatis ' iunt obfita?, which are 'very thick, fee with Star- 

 femunciam 8C dimidium longse : \like Thorns, about three Fourths of 



Hinc enim appellationem forfiturUw Inch long, which is the Occ a* 

 Melocardui. * \fwn of giving it the 'Name of Thi- 



flle as well as Melon, 

 Spinofus caulis, & MelonisI This thorny and Melon like Bo- 

 semulus, infummitate gerit coro-l^ bears on its Top a woolly or 

 nam lanuginofam, in cujus (uper-l cottony Head, on the outfule of 

 fkie rubere exiles fpins, aurantii|wfoV&, appear reddifi finall Spines, 

 maturi colorem fimulantes, rifun-l^/V^ gives is a Colour net much 



SC ex fpinarum meditullio I «»//£* that of a full ripe Orangey 



tur 



come 



prxcoces oriuntur frudus, color is \frc m the midfl of which 



mall Perficae inter florendum \ qui- \ forth the Friiit full ripe, of a 



bus dunntibus per paucos fas A? each -blown Colour, which remain 



ocyus decidunt 



a few Days tip on the Plant, and 

 then drop off. 



D. Fairchild Hoxtonienfis, Rei From the Seed of this Fruit, 



hortenfi promovendx natus, quam-lAfr. Fairchild, a famous Gardener 



. phirimashujufmodi plantas fativaslo/Hoxton, has raifed many young 



fufcitavit ex pulvino calenti : Et\Plants, by fowing them in the Sum ■ 

 amputata fummitate, tenelli {utA^ier in Hot* beds; and if the Head 



crefcent ramufculi, idque repetip*? then cut off , the Plant will put 



forth 



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