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Kind are jointed and comprefTed 

 into a Sort of Ifthmus between 

 every Seed. The fourth Sort is 

 extrcamly well figured, and de- 

 fcrib'd in the Hortus Farnejinnus 

 by AUinus. The fifth Sort is very 

 well figur'd, and defer ib'd in the 

 Hortus Amjielodamenfis . The fe- 

 venth Sort is figur'd in Tifo's Hi- 

 llory of Bra/ilj but the fecond, 

 ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, 

 thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and 

 Sixteenth Sorts are new, and nol 

 figur'd in any Botanick Books. 



Acacia Germanorum ; viJe 

 Prunus Sylveftris. 



Acacia Virginiana, vide Pleu- 

 doacacia. 



ACAJOU, or Cajou. The 

 Caftiew Nut. 



The Characiers are. 



The Cup of the Flower (vphkh is 

 produced at the Extremity of a, 

 Foot-fliil}{) is oblong y and quinque- 

 fd-y the Flower confifls of one Leaf 

 ■which is divided into five long^ 

 narrow Segments j in the Bottom of 

 the Calyx is the Ovary, which be- 

 comes a foft Pear-fiap'd Fruit, upon 

 the Apex of which grows a Veffeh 

 in which is contained one Kidney- 

 Jjjafd Seed. 



There is but one Species of this 

 Plant yet known ■■, which is. 



Acajou i Thev. Franc. AntarB. 

 The Cafliew Nut. 



This Tree is very common in 

 many Parts of America, particu- 

 larly in Jamaica and Barbadoes, 

 where it grows to be a very large 

 Tree, but with us in Engla?id 

 (notwithftanding all the Care it 

 can polfibly have) will rarely ftand 

 through our Winters} or if it is 

 by Art preferved, in very warm 

 Stoves, yet is fb very llow of 

 Growth, efpcclally after the firft 

 Year, as fcarcely to be diiiern'd 

 in its Progrefs. / 



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The Seeds of this Tree, if fown 

 in a good Hot-bed in the Spring 

 of the Year, will in a fhort time 

 appear above Ground, in {"o ftrong 

 a Manner that any one, who hath 

 not been converfant with this 

 Plant, would imagine it to be of 

 very quick Growth} for I have 

 known thefe Plants in two Months 

 from the time of fowing their 

 Seeds above fix Inches in Height, 

 and very ftrong} which in about 

 two Months time more have been 

 at a Stand, from which time they 

 have fcarcely advanced two Inches 

 in a Year, with all the Art and Skill 

 which could be ufed to them j 

 nor have I ever feen a Plant of 

 this Kind above two Feet high, 

 though I have had ibme of them 

 that have been three, or four 

 Years old : They are alio in 

 their own Country of very flow 

 Growth, rarely producing either 

 Flowers or Fruits, until they are 

 15- or 16 Years old from Seeds, 

 fo that the Inhabitants of the 

 Wefi-Indies plant them from large 

 Branches taken from the old Trees, 

 which with them take Root very 

 well, and in two Years time pro- 

 duce Fruits. 



The Plants of this Kind which 

 are raifed in England, fhould be 

 planted in fmall Pots fiU'd with 

 frefh, light, rich Earth, and muft 

 be plung'd into a Hot-bed of 

 Tanner's Bark, and often refirefh'd 

 with Water : thefe fhould be kept 

 in Winter, in a Bark Stove , 

 amongft the tendereft Exotick 

 Trees, and fhould not be expofed 

 to the open Air even in the hotted 

 Seafbn. 



One Plant of this Kind flower- 

 ed in the Garden ot Sir Charles 

 Imager, at Parfon's-Green, near Ful- 

 kam, though not above two Years 



old. 



