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tides of yellow Flowers, of a 

 flrong fweet Smell, which will be 

 fucceeded by long flender-jointed 

 Pods in great Plenty, in which are 

 contain'd the Seeds. 



The third Sort dies down every 

 "Winter, but rifes again the fucceed- 

 ing Spring, and produces large trail- 

 ing Branches, which are furnifh'd 

 with great Numbers of variable- 

 colour 'd Flowers, which grow in 

 Bunches j thele are fometimes fuc- 

 ceeded by fmall-jointed Pods, con- 

 taining many oblong Seeds: but 

 the Root creeps very far under- 

 ground, by which the Plant in- 

 creafes greatly 5 which when per- 

 mitted to remain unremov'd for two 

 or three Years, will fpread and over- 

 bear whatever Plants grow near it j 

 for which Reafon the Roots fhould 

 be confind; and it fi:iould be planted 

 at a Diftance from any other Plants : 

 It will grow in almoft any Soil and 

 Situation, but thrives beft in a 

 warm funny Expofure, in which 

 the Flowers will alfo be much 

 fairer, and in greater Quantities. 



The fourth Sort mull be fown 

 in the Spring on an open Bed or 

 Border of good light Earth, in the 

 Places where it is to remain i for 

 it doth not very well bear remove- 

 ing. This is a Plant of little 

 Beauty, and is only preferv'd in 

 curious Gardens oi Plants. 



The fifth Sort is very tender, 

 being a Native of Ceylon : This 

 muft be fown on a Hot-bed early 

 in the Spring ; and when the Plants 

 are come up, they muft be tranf- 

 planted into fmali Pots fill'd with 

 light fandy Earth, and plung'd into 

 a frefh Hot-bed of Tanners Bark; 

 obferving to give them frequent 

 gentle Waterings: and as the Wea- 

 ther is hot or cold, fo they muft 

 have more or lefs Air in Propor- 

 tion thereto, by raifmg up the 



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Glaftes in the middle of the Day, 

 but in the Nights the Glaffes fhould 

 be cover'd with Mats. 



And when the Plants have grown 

 fo as to fill the Pots with their 

 Roots, they muft be carefully fha- 

 ken out of them, prefer ving the 

 Earth to their Roots; and after 

 having pared off the Outfide of the 

 Ball of Earth, put them into Pots 

 a Size bigger than thofe were 

 which they came out of, filling up 

 the Pot with the fame light frefh 

 fandy Earth as before j then plunge 

 the Pots again into the Hot-bed, 

 and manage them as before. In 

 the Winter they muft be plac'd in 

 a warm Bark-Stove amongft Plants 

 of the tendereft Clafs, obferving to 

 refrefh them frequently with Wa- 

 ter which has flood in the fame 

 Stove at leaft eight or ten Hours 

 before, that the Cold may be taken 

 off; but never give them too much 

 at a time: In this Management I 

 have had this Plant fucceed very 

 well for two or three Years ; but 

 I have not as yet feen it flower in 

 England, tho* there are Plants of 

 this Kind in three or four Gar- 

 dens, which are two or three Years 

 old. 



The fixth Sort is a very fmall 

 Plant, and hath very little Beauty 

 in it ; this is prefcrv'd by the curi- 

 ous in Botany, but is feldom found 

 in Gardens of Pleafure, where few 

 Plants are admitted that are not 

 either beautiful or rare; it is pro- 

 pagated by fowing of the Seeds 

 in the Spring, on a Bed of frefh 

 light Earth in a Xvarm Polition : 

 And when the Plants are come up, 

 they muft be either tranfplanted 

 into Pots fill'd with the fame frefh 

 Earth, or into warm Borders un- 

 der a South or Weft Wall ; for they 

 are fubjecft to be deftroy'd by fcvere 

 Frofts ; and therefore thofw which 



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