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Mot-bed declines its Heat, tliev h:ippening, deftroy'd the whole 



■fliould be remov'd into a third Plant. 



JHot-bed, which will bring them The jd, 4,th, i6th, 17th, aid, 



forward towards Flowering j and 23d, i+th, and ifth Sorts do 



in July thefe Plants may be ex- branch out and grow llirubby, and 



pos'd to the open Air by degrees, produce large Quantities ot very 



by which Time their Flowers will beautil-ul Flowers, which beino- ex- 



appear, and be hereby render'd 

 jftrong, and capable to produce 

 vgood Seeds : but you fliould always 

 .confine in fmall Pots Tu^ h Plants as 

 you defign for Seed, never futfer- 

 inp; them to root through the Hole 



panded in the Heat of the Day, 

 aftbrd a very agreeable Profped, 

 and are well worth cultivating in 

 every Colleaion of Plants, for their 

 Beauty ; as are all the Dwarf fuc- 

 culent Sorts, for their Oddnels; 



.in the Bottom of the Pot into the and fbme of them produce beaut 



'.Ground, which would occalion 

 their growing to be much larger 

 .and ftronger Plants : but then their 

 Strength would- be diverted from 

 the Seed-Veflels to nouriih and 

 produce ftrong Shoots : fo that it 

 jfeldom happens that the ftrongeft 

 Plants produce good Seeds. But 



ful Flowers, tho' not in fuch Plenty 

 as the former. 



Thefe are, fome or other of their 

 Sorts, continually in Flower : but 

 their chief Seafon of Flowering is 

 from April to September-^ and many 

 of them produce good Seeds : but 

 as their Cuttings feldom fail to take 



•if you would have fome of thefe Root, fo they are rarely propagated 

 Plants of a large Growth, you by Seeds in England. 



•fliould fhake them out of the Pots 

 •into an old Hot-bed of Tanners 

 .Bark, where their Roots and 

 Branches will extend to a ccnfider- 

 able Length. I have had one of 

 thefe Planes in fuch a Bed, which 

 •has fpread above a Yard fquare^ 

 and the Leaves and Branches were 

 .of a prodigious Size. 



The Flowers of this Plant are 

 .of no great Beauty; but the Odd- 

 nefs of the whole Plant renders it 

 worthy of a Place in every curious 

 ^Garden. 



The I ft, ad, and lift Sorts I 

 •have never yet feen flower, al- 

 though there are many large Plants 

 of each Kind in divers Gardens in 

 England. I had one Plant of the 

 2 1 ft Sort which had been plant- 

 ed into an open Border againft 

 a Wail, that was let very thick 

 with Buds in almoft every part 



FICUS; The Fig-tree. 

 The Characiers arci 



^he FloTvers, which are always 

 inclos'd in the Middle of the Fruit, 

 conjijl of one Leaf, and are Male 

 and Female in the fame Fruit : The 

 Male Flovpers are fituated toward 

 the Crown of the Fruit ; and the 

 Female, which^grow near the Stalky 

 are fucceeded by fmall hard Seeds : 

 The intire Fruit is for the mofipart 

 turbinated, and globular, or of an 

 Oval Shape, is pfloy, and of a fweet 

 Tafie. 



The Species are; 



1. Ficus J fativa,fruE{u violaceOy 

 longo, intus rubente. Tourn. The 

 long blue Fig. 



2. Ficijsj fativa, fruclu oblongo, 

 albo, melUfiiw, Tourn. The long 

 white Fig. 



3. Ficus ; fativa, fruBu pr.uDciy 

 albido^ fugacl. Tourn. The early 



of the Plant, late in the Autumn white Fig, by fome falfely call'd the 

 .1726 i but a fudden, fliarp Froft Marleilies Fig. 



2- % 4. Fi 



