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Plant in the Country, tliey feem 

 to be very beautiful. 



The feventh Sort was brought 

 from Ja^/^ica, and is growing in 

 the Thyfick Garde7i at Chelfea : 

 This hath four large Lobes to each 

 Leaf; the Spines are fhort, fliff, 

 and crooked, and the Seeds grow- 

 in twifted Pods. This Plant is 

 well defcrib'd in Sir Hans Sloan's 

 Natural Hijiory of Jamaica. 



The eighth Sort was brought 

 firfl into England from Holland, 

 and is probably a Native of Africa. 

 Tjiis Plant is an Ever-green, and 

 without Spines, which is peculiar 

 to this Sort alone. The Flowers 

 of this Tree I have never yet 

 icon. 



The ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, 

 thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and 

 fixteenth Sorts, were difcovered by 

 Do6lor William H o u s t o u n, 

 in Jamaica, 2it Veracruz., and Cam- 

 pecly, and fent into England, Anno 

 1730, where are many of them 

 now growing j but they have not 

 as yet produced their Flowers in 

 Europe, 



Thefe Trees are all propagated 

 by fowing their Seeds on a hot 

 Bed in the Spring of the Year, 

 which will in a fliort time appear 

 above Ground, when you fliq^ild 

 prepare another frefli Hotbed, which 

 if intended for fuch Sorts as are very 

 tender, fliould be pretty vrarm ; but 

 if for fuch as are brought from 

 the Northern Parts of America, 

 fliould be of a very moderate Heat ; 

 then you fhould be provided with a 

 Quantity of fmall Halt-penny Pots, 

 which fhould be fill'd with frelh 

 light fandy Earth; thefe fliould be 

 piung'd into the Hotbed, and 

 afibon as the Earth in the Pots 

 is v^arm, which will be in about 

 24 Hours, you Ihould take up the 

 young Plant^ carefully out of the 



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hrft Hot-bed, planting a fingle one 

 in the Middle of each of thefe 

 Pots, giving them a gentle Wa- 

 tering to Icttle the Earth to their 

 Roots, and fcreening them with 

 Mats over the Glafles, from the 

 Heat of the Sun until they have 

 taken Root ; after which Time 

 you muft give them Air, by rai- 

 ling the GlaiTcs in Proportion to 

 the Heat of the Weather, or to 

 the Conftitution of the Plants. 



The firil and fecond Sort being 

 very hardy, may have a greater Pro- 

 portion of Air, and by Midfummer 

 fliould have the GlaiTcs intirely taken 

 off, that they may be hardened to 

 endure the open Air by Degrees : 

 Thefe, the firll and fecond Winter, 

 fhould be fheltercd in a common 

 Hot-bed Frame, until .they are 

 grown woody j after which Time 

 ( in the Spring of the Year ) they 

 may be turn'd out of the Pots into 

 the open Ground, where they arc 

 intended to remain ■■, which ihouki 

 be in Wildernefs Quarters; or 

 Clumps of Trees, where they 

 may be flielter'd from the Fury 

 of violent Winds, otherwife they 

 will be very fubjeCl to fplic 

 thereby. 



When thefe Trees have arifen 

 to the Height of 8 or 10 Feet, 

 they will then make very ftrong 

 and vigorous Shoots; which fliould 

 be annually fliortned, that the Heads 

 of the Trees may be clofer, and 

 their Branches by this Means, will 

 be much lefs liable to break with 

 Winds, than when they are per- 

 mitted to remain at full Length, 

 and the Trees will be much the 

 handibmer. 



The fourth, fifth, and eighth 

 Sorts are tenderer, and ihould be 

 kept in the Hot-bed^ till July, 

 when they may be expoled to 

 the Air by Degrees, though the 

 GlalTes 



