T he blackcft Ebony from India comes, 

 And from Sabaa Aromatick Gums, &c. 



Saffron, Tulips, Anemones, and many other Plants 

 which be propagated by bulbous or tuberous off-fees, 

 require for their melioration, to be planted in alight 

 Soyl,that receives feme mixture of fatty earth with it: 

 fome commend Cow-dung rotted, above all other foil, 

 to be mixt with o:her fandy earth for the'e Planes. 



Boggy Plants require, even when they be -planted 

 into Gardens, either a natural or artificial Bog, or to 

 be placed near fome water, by which ther-e is -great 

 improvement to all forts of Flags, and particularly* 

 as 1 have obferv'd to C a ^rnns t/€romatlcHs, 



The artificial Bog is made by digging a hole in 

 any ftiffe Clay,and filling it with Earth taken from a 

 Bog ; or in wane of fuch day ground, there may be 

 ftifte Clay like\vife brought in, and laid to line the 

 hole or pit in the bortom or floor, and the fides like- 

 wife, fo thick, that the moifture may not. be able to 

 get through : Of this fore, in our Phylick Garden 

 here in Oxford^ we hwe one artificially made by 

 Mr. Bokart 3 for the prefer nation of Boggy Plants, 

 where being fometimes watered, they thrive as well 

 as in their natural places. 



However 'tis true, that there is variety of ufuage 

 for Plants of different nature, yet for the generality 

 of Plants, they are heft improved by a fat, rich, deep, 

 moift, and feeding Soil ; and it is highly bis intereft 

 that intends a flourifhing Orchard,o:Kitchin-garden, 

 to improve his ground to the height ; divers Flowers 

 reap benefit by the fame advantage; as particularly, 

 Carnations and Auricula's ; though for thefe, and 

 fome other Plants, the rotten Earth that is ufually 

 SQund in the Bodies of hollow Willow-Trees, is 



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