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m the Summer -feafbn, without 

 which it will rarely flower i but 

 in Winter it muO; have it more 

 fparingly, tho' it will of. en require 

 to be refreflfd. This delights in 

 the iarne Degree of Heat with the 

 former. 



The Flowers of this Plant are 

 very fmall, and of fhort Duration j 

 nor is there any great Beauty in the 

 Plant, or any Thing valuable in its 

 Fruit to recommend it j however, 

 it may have a Place in great CoUe- 

 *5ticns of Plants, to add to the 

 Variety. 



Tke eleventh and twelfth Sorts 

 1 have had come up in the Earth, 

 which came from the Weft-Indies j 

 but I have not as yet feen their 

 Flowers : Thefe may be prefer v'd 

 in the fame Manner as the former ; 

 but delight to grow in a moid 

 Soil, therefore muft be often re- 

 freftVd with Water. Neither of 

 thefe do promife to be of long 

 Continuance, tho' I am apt to be- 

 lieve they may be propagated by 

 Layers. 



The thirteenth Sort is alfo a pe- 

 rennial Plant, which is very com- 

 mon in divers Parts of the M'^eji- 

 Indies: The Flowers of this Kind 

 are very fmall, and of a grecuifl^ 

 Colour, without Smell, and the 

 Fruit is of a fine purple Colour when 

 ripe. It requires the fame Ma- 

 nagement as the former, and may 

 be propagated by laying down the 

 Branches early in the Spring. 



Thefe are all the Sorts of the 

 FafJ-on- Flower which I have, as yet, 

 oblerv'd in the Engliftj Gardens, tho* 

 there are fome other Kinds defcrib'd 

 in the Books of curious Botanifts 

 who have travelled in the Weft-Indies j 

 but I have not heard of their being 

 brought into Europe. As to what 

 Mr. Bradley relates of his having 

 feen above thirty, different i^inds 



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ot this Flint in the Vhyfick-Garder^ 

 at AmfttrJam, I cannot entirely rely 

 upon It i for when I was there at 

 Midiummer 17x7, I did not fee a 

 fourth-part of that Number, when, 

 if they had been there, they would, 

 at that Seafon, have appear'dj noi* 

 did 1 find their Stoves fo contriv'd, 

 as to be capable of maintaining 

 fome of the very tender Kinds, fo 

 that I am apt to think that Gentle- 

 man was miftaken in his Account. 

 GRAPES 5 vide Vitis. 

 GRASS. The EngUft? Grafs is of 

 fo good a Quality for Walks or 

 Grafs-Flots, that if they be kept in 

 good Order, they have that exqui- 

 lite Beauty that .they cannot come 

 up to in France, and feveral oth::r 

 Countries. 



But Green Walks and Green Plots 

 are, for the moft part^ not made 

 by fowing the Grafs Seed, but by 

 laying Turfs i and indeed, the Turfs 

 from a fine Common are much pre- 

 ferable to fown Grafs, 



In fowing a fine Green-plot, there 

 is a Difficulty in getting good Seed : 

 It ought not to be fuch as is taken 

 out of a Hay-loft without Diftin- 

 d:ion ; for that Seed (hooting too 

 high, and making large Stalks, the 

 lower Part will be naked and bare, 

 and although it be mow'd ever fo 

 often, it will never make handfome 

 Grafs, but on the contrary, will 

 come to nothing but Tufts of 

 Weeds and ^^ick-Grafs, very little 

 better than that of the common 

 Fields. 



If Walks or Plots be made by 

 Sowing, the befl; way is to procure 

 the Seed from thofe Paftures where 

 the Grafs is naturally fine and clear, 

 or elfe the Trouble of keeping of it 

 from fpiry and benty Grafs will be 

 very great, and it will fcarce ever 

 look handfome. 



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