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planted in Pots of frefh Earth, and 

 prderv'd in Stoves : In the Summer 

 they may be expos'd during the 

 Months of July and Auguft, but 

 mull be remov d into Shelter early 

 in Sepember, During the Winter- 

 feafon they will require frequent 

 Waterings j provided the Stove is 

 kept to a good Degree of Heat, 

 otherwife they muft be water'd 

 very fparingly. The Temper of 

 Heat which thefe Plants do bed 

 agree with in the Winter, is about 

 the Temperate Point, as mark'd on 

 Mr. Fowler's Botanical Thermometers y 

 for in a much greater Degree of 

 Heat they will grow too freely in 

 Winter 5 and in a lefs, they will be 

 apt to drop their Leaves, and lofe 

 their leading Bud, whereby the 

 Beauty of the Tree will be greatly 

 impair'd. But if you are delirous 

 to have thefe Trees grow to a 

 large Size, and in a fhort Time, 

 you fliould plunge their Pots into 

 Tanner's Bark, which will caufe 

 them to make a conliderable Pro- 

 grefs. I have had Plants of the 

 leventeenth Sort, which, by this 

 Management, have been eight Feet 

 high in two Years from the Time 

 ot fowing the Seeds, and the Leaves 

 have been prodigiouily large and 

 fair. 



FICUS INDICA; viJe Opuntii. 

 FILAGO; 'vjje Gnaphalium. 

 FILBERT; viJe Covylns. 

 FILIPENDULA; Dropwort. 



The Characters arej 

 It hath a fibrofe Root, roith oblong 

 Bulbs or Tubers faften'd to the Bot- 

 tom of the Fibres : The Leaves are 

 finely cut into narrow Segments : The 

 Flowers,, which co'nfijl ofJ?x or feven 

 Tetals, are Jifpofed into a loofe Pa- 

 nicle : The Frmt is almofl round, 

 containing many Seeds, r^hich are 

 gather'd into a Heap refsmbling a 

 -Xiib. 



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The Species are ,• 



1. F1LIPENDULA5 "vulgaris. An, 

 Molon Blinii. C. B, Common Drop- 

 wort. 



2. FiLiPENDULAj vulgaris* AUy 

 Molon Flinii, folio variegato. H. R. 

 Far, Common Dropwort, with a 

 variegated Leaf. 



3.- FiLiPENDULA ; omni parte 772a- 

 jor, folio angujliori. Boerh. h2d. 

 Larger Dropwort, with a narrower 

 Leaf. 



The firft of thefe Species is ufed 

 in Medicine, but is feldom culti- 

 vated in Gardens : It grows wild 

 in moft Parts of England upon 

 open Heaths and Commons, as alio 

 upon Chalky Hills. 



The fecond Sort is a Variety of 

 the firfl:, with ftrip'd Leaves, and 

 is preferv'd in fbme curious Gar- 

 dens by fuch as delight in varie- 

 gated Plants. 



The third Sort I brought from 

 Holland, Anno I'j'i.'j' This diifcrs 

 from the common Sort, in being 

 larger in every Part; but the Leaves 

 are narrower, and finer cut. 



Thefe Plants may be ealily pro- 

 pagated by taking up their Roots 

 in Autumn, when the Leaves be- 

 gin to decay, and parting them into 

 fmall Heads; which, if planted in 

 an open Situation, will thrive and 

 increafe exceedingly. They may 

 . alfo be propagated by "fowing their 

 Seeds in Autumn, which will come 

 up the Succeeding Spring, and the 

 fecond Seafon v/iil flower : But 

 this is not the furcft Way to pre- 

 ferve the Kinds ; for they may be 

 apt to vary trom the Sorts fown. 

 FILIX; Fern. 



There are great Varieties of this 

 Plant in the different Parts of the 

 World, but particularly in America^ 

 as may be feen in the Natural Hi- 

 (lory of Jainaica, publifli'd by the 

 Worthy Sir Hans Sloane, Bart, and 



