414 The Gardener's New Director. 

 are placed, they would grow and prevent the plants from 

 flowering or feeding; therefore fet thofe pots upon the 

 pavement, or upon bricks, which will make them foon 

 fly up into feed. A friend of mine had from eight plants 

 of thofe Ficoidesh in pots, a vaft quantity of feed, fo 

 furprifing that I could fcarce credit fo fmall and fo few 

 plants could produce fo much feed. His method was 

 this: After the plants had been planted for fome time in 

 the pots, and were profpering and growing, he put them 

 upon a lead battlement on the top of the houfe, well ex- 

 pofed to the fun ; the refle£lion of which upon the leads, 

 made the plants grow well, and their being curbed in 

 growth of leaves, by being confined in the pots, m^de 

 them to flower, and to perfe61: their feed, in a much 

 greater degree than if they had been in any garden. 

 This I mention for perfons who are defirous of much 

 htd from their plants. 



I have alfo kept them all winter, by planting their 

 cuttings in Augufi or in Jtily, ten days after I had taken 

 them off their mother plants; and when their wounds at 

 the amputations were dry, I potted them in very dry 

 fandy mould, placing them in the green-houfe in the 

 moft airy place, or into the glafs-cafe, which I have 

 already defcribed in this work; but at the fame time 

 preferving them from all manner of frofl, and giv- 

 ing them very fmall quantities of water. Thefe plants 

 flowered the fucceeding year much better than thofe 

 which were fown the fame feafon, and from thofe plants 

 I had good feed. 



409. Lacbrima Jobi, Chtf. Hiji. Common Job's Tears. 

 The feed of this plant fhould be fown in March on a 

 -warm border of frefh earth, at fix inches difiance, ktd 

 from feed, and fhould be ke; tj clear from weeds; this 

 plant is named Coix by Doftor Linnaus, ProfefTor of 

 Botany at Upfal, in Siveden. 



410. Melongena fpinofa, fruflu roiundo crccco, Toiirn. 

 Mad Jppki with a round faffron coloured fruit. 



411. Melongena fpinofa fru^u ohlongo violaceo, Tourn. 

 Mad Apple, with a long violet coloured fruit. 



There is nov/ a kind of it called ;he Melongena Ame^ 

 Tirana fruMu eiJho obkngo, or Egg Plant, from the refem- 

 blance v,'hich the fruit of this plant has to an egg ; the 



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