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Slimmer you may expofe therri to 

 the Air, by removing or opening 

 the GlalTes in the Front of the 

 Stove i but they fhould never be 

 fuffer'd to (land Abroad, unlefs it 

 be for a few Hours in a warm 

 Rain to wafh them i for when they 

 are treated too hardily, they will 

 never produce either Fruit or Flow- 

 ers i whereas, when they are 

 rightly manag'd, they will flower 

 the third Sealbn after their being 

 ibwn. 



Thefe Trees are planted every- 

 where in the Charibbe Iflands for 

 their Ufefulnefs j tho' the ufual 

 Manner of their Cultivation is by 

 being eaten : The Seeds paffing in- 

 tire through the Body, arc voided 

 in the Excrements j ib that where- 

 ever the Negroes dung, there will 

 never want a Supply of thefe Trees, 

 which is often ib great, as to be- 

 come troublefbme m their Planta- 

 tions and Savanna's. 



The Fruit (fays Sir Hms Sloane) 

 is accounted extremely pleafant, 

 deUcious and wholefome, and may 

 very defervedly take the firft Place 

 among the IVefi-Imiian Fruits, if 

 eaten when thoroughly ripe. They 

 have (continues he) only this In- 

 convenience, that being very aftrin- 

 gent, they ftop up the Belly, if 

 eaten in great Quantities i and the 

 Seeds fometimes flicking to the 

 hard Excrement, in coming through 

 the Inteftines, efpecially the Re^ium, 

 by their irregular Iharp Angles, will 

 occalion very great Pain there, and 

 very often bring a Flux of Blood. 

 GUIDONIA. 



The CharaBers are; 

 The Cup of the Flower confifis of 

 five Leaves, -which are fiijf, and of a 

 thick fucculent Make, expanding in 

 Form of a Star\ thefe are of an Afl)- 

 notour on thz OHtfide, and of a fine 



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Vurple on the Infide: In the Centre 

 of the Cup arifes the Flower, which 

 confifis of fever at Leaves, -which ex- 

 pand iM Form of a Star : From the 

 Bottom of the Flower arifes the 

 Fointal, which beco7nes a rotmdifJf 

 Fruit, divided into three cr four 

 Cells, in which are contained manf 

 oblong Seeds. 



We have hut one Species o? this 

 Plant in the Englijh Gardens i 

 which is, 



GuiDONiA ; Ulmi foliis, Jlore rofed, 

 Vlum. Guidonia with Elm Leaves, 

 and a Rofe-colour'd Flower. 



The Charadters of this Plant do 

 not very well agree with thoic 

 which Fere Flumier hath given td 

 this Genus of Plants. However^ 

 as the modern Botanifts have agreed 

 that this Plant here named is the 

 fame which is figured by Commelin 

 in the Hortus Amflelodamenfis, with 

 the Title of Arbufcula Ulmi facie 

 ^thiopica, ramulis alatis, fioribus 

 purpurafcentibus ; fb I have con- 

 tinu'd P^mier's Name to it : Tho' 

 I am in doubt whether our Plant 

 is really the fame with Vlumier'si 

 but it is undoubtedly that which 

 Commelin has figured and deJP- 

 cribed. 



This Plant may be propagated 

 by laying down the Branches in the 

 Spring, which by the fucceeding 

 Spring will be rooted fufficiently 

 to transplant ; and they fhould be 

 taken up at the Latter-end of 

 March, before the Plant fhoots, and 

 put into Pots fiU'd with good rich 

 Earth; and if you fet the Pots 

 upon a moderate Hot- bed to for- 

 ward their Rooting, it will be a 

 fure Method ; Tho' they fhould 

 not be too much forced ; nor fliould 

 they continue longer than to the 

 End of April under Shelters wheri 

 they may be let abroad in fome 

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