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tlie fake of Variety, but have no 

 great Beauty in them. 



Thefe Plants may all be propa- 

 gated by parting of their Roots, or 

 lowing their Seeds : The firft being 

 the mofl: expeditious Method, is 

 chiefly us'di this muft be done in 

 Tebruary, of the Beginning of 

 March, before the Roots have (hot 

 out their Leaves. The Soil in 

 which thefe delight moft, is Gravel 

 or Sand i but if it be very dry, 

 they will require to be often wa- 

 ter 'd in Summer, efpecially the 

 firfl Sort. The fecond Year after 

 Planting they will produce Flowers, 

 but it is very rare that they do it 

 the iirfi j therefore it is the beft 

 Way to let the Roots remain un- 

 -remov'd for three or four Years, 

 by which Method your Flowers 

 will be ftronger, and in greater 

 Plenty. Thefe Plants . commonly 

 produce good Seeds, if the Scafon 

 is not over-wet, which is fome- 

 times apt to rot their Heads before 

 the Seeds are ripe. 



If you would propagate thefe 

 Plants by Seed, it fnould be fown 

 foon after it is ripe j for if it be 

 kept until Spring before it is fbwn, 

 the Plants feldom arife until the 

 fucceeding Year. When they are 

 come up, they fhould be carefully 

 weeded 5 and in very dry Weather 

 they fhould be refreAi'd with Water 

 two or three times a Week, which 

 will greatly promote their Growth: 

 In this Place they (hould continue 

 until the fucceeding Spring, at 

 which Time they fliould be tranf- 

 planted out to the Places where 

 they are to remain j for they do 

 not care to be often remov'd : The 

 third Year after fowingthey com- 

 monly produce their Flowers, and 

 continue for many Years fo to do, 

 provided they are not difturb'd. 



The firfl and fecond Sorts creep 



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very far under-ground, by which 

 they greatly increafe : but their 

 Roots are of little Ufe, for they 

 feldom grow to any conliderable 

 Size in a Garden. 



ERYSIMUM; Hedge-Muftard, 

 The Characiers are; 



The Ilor&er conjijls of four Leaves^ 

 which expand in For?n of a Crofs: 

 The Poi'/Jtal becomes a long fender 

 bivalve Tod, which is divided into 

 troo Cells, by an intermediate Tarti- 

 i?on, in which are contained many 

 round Seeds. 



The Species are ; 



1. Erysimum j vulgare. C, B. 

 Common Hedge-Muftard. 



2. Erysimum; latifolium, majus, 

 glabrum. C. B. Great broad-leav'd 

 fmooth Hedge-Muftard. 



5. Erysimum; polyceratium, vel 

 corniculatim. C. B. Hedge-Muftard, 

 with many crooked Pods. 



4. Erysimum ; angujiifolium, ma- 

 jus, C. B. Great narrow-leav'd 

 Hedge-Muftard. 



5". Erysimum j Sophia, diSfum, 

 Rail Syn. Ed. 5. Flix-weed. 



There are feveral other Varieties 

 of this Plant, which are preferv'd 

 in Botanick Gardens ; but as they 

 are Plants of little Ufe or Beauty, 

 fo they are feldom propagated in 

 any other Garden. 



The firft, fecond, and fifth Sorts 

 are very common upon dry Banks, 

 in divers Parts of England; but the 

 third and fourth Sorts are Natives 

 of a warmer Country. 



Thefe may all be propagated by 

 fowing their Seeds foon after they 

 are ripe, which will come up in a 

 ftiort Time, and will ftand Abroad 

 and endure the Winter's Cold very 

 well ; and early in the Spring they 

 will fhoot up to Flower, and pro- 

 duce ripe Seeds in ^une or ^uly, 

 but if they are fown in the Spring, 

 the Seeds feldom come up fo well; 

 y " nor 



