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 fmooth fruit, and a Tingle violet coloured Iweet fcented 

 flower, commonly called the Didro of tbePerffans. 



There is another kind of this Stramonium^ viz. Stra- 

 mcnium Malabaricum fruBu glabra, foliis latioribus ner- 

 'vofis, flore magno. Great flJali'bar Thorn Jlpplc, with a 

 large white flower. This plant may be fown on a hot- 

 bed in the fpring; it will flower and ripen its feed very 

 well in the open air, but if it is houfed, the flowers will 

 be larger. 



The feed of thofe plants fhould be fown on a hot- 

 bed, and the plants when come up fhould be treated in 

 the fame manner as is prefcribed for the AmaranthuSy to 

 force them on, otherwife they will neither flower nor 

 perfe£t their feed. 



408. Ficoides Jlfricanuy pJaniaginis folio unduJato, micis 

 argenteis afperfo^ Tcurn. Ac. Reg. African Ficoides with 

 a waved plantain leaf, covered over with filvcr drops, 

 commonly called the Diamond Ficoides. 



The flrange appearance which this plant has of clear 

 large drops of fubflances like ice, upon its leaves and 

 ftalks particularly, gives it a merited place in every col- 

 lection of plants. 



The feed of this beautiful plant fhould be fown in Fe- 

 bruary in pots, put into a hot-bed, and in five weeks af- 

 ter they will come up, provided they are fown in a dry 

 fandy mould ; when they have fix leaves, they fhould be 

 tranfplanted into pots filled with the fandy mould, and 

 again put into a hot-bed, until they become largo plants ; 

 but as foon as you perceive them to branch out and fprcad, 

 the pots with the plants fhould be taken out of the beds, 

 and put into the green houfe for ten or twelve days, as 

 rear the windows as you can, to inure them to the 

 air. 



Some of them you may keep in pots, where they will 

 flower and feed better, when their roots are confined, 

 than thofe which are taken out of the pots and planted 

 in the garden, which will fpread a great way, and (htw- 

 the fpani-ling of their cryltalline-like matter upon their 

 flalks and leaves: But obferve, when the plants are in 

 pots, and defi^ned lo flower and pcrfe6t their Iced, that 

 you do not fufl'iT their roots to come out at the holes of 

 the pots, for if ihcy reach the earth upon which the pots 



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