Hexandria Monog. Agave. 
in three or four score years, if properly EHE. 
and in its native climate at about a 
years old : and in some very hot Ek ja 
- 1s said to blossom in three or four years. Af- 
ter flowering, the old plant dies ; leaving nu- 
The 
merous offsets to. succeed it. tale of its 
making a af report than a XE arose 
from the rarity of its flowering being more 
talked of, and Mascot in that manner 
making a greater noise" than a gun. It was 
introduced. into Europe by Cortusus in 1561, 
and is now used forhedges in Spain and Por- 
tugal ; aud in South. America, its native coun- 
try, quine of fine wine are made from 
fermenting a juice which is obtained from 
.cutting down the flower stem on its first. ap- 
PER ; each stem yielding many. gallons 
of fluid, which 7s also occasionally "drun 
pure and wbolesome as it issues, without ha- 
uj E ES vinous fus itation.. To 
is superfluous, as almost every one has now 
seen an advertised ** Aloe" in bloom. - 
A. (Miller's) foliis dentato-spinosis, scapo sim- Mtilleri. 
plicissimo. — Mill. dict. ed. 8.— 4gave virgi- 
nia : nec A. virainica SHOP: 
VGHABITAT.. V. - G. H,. X. 
T 
R 
Corr. ante 1768. 
Oss. This is able to live in the Greenhouse, 
while.the next cannot be preserved but in a 
ood stove; hey are much Me vet appear 
distinet,- 
