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Place which is pretty well defended 

 from ftrong Winds, where they 

 m2f remaia until Ociober, at which 

 Time they Oiould be remov'd into 

 the Green -houfe, with Oranges, 

 Myrtks,OleAndefs, Sec. placing them 

 in the cooleft Part of the Houfe y 

 for they are pretty hardy, requiring 

 nothiog more than to be proteded 

 from fevere Froft : and during the 

 Winter- ieafon they (hould have but 

 little Water ; for they caft their 

 Leaves in Autumn ; and fo being 

 deftitute of them until Afril, they 

 are incapable of difcharging much 

 Moillure: But in Summer they will 

 require frequently to be water'd, 

 without which, they fcldom pro- 

 duce Flowers. 



Theie may, with Care, be train'd 

 up to the Height of eight or ten 

 Feet, with regular Stems, and their 

 Heads may alio be reduc'd into a 

 hand fo me Shape 5 but they fl:iould 

 cot be clipp'd with Shears, for 

 that will caufe 'em to appear un- 

 fightly, as alfo prevent their flower- 

 ing j but rather {horten all ftrong 

 irregular Shoots with your Knife, 

 obferving to cut behind a Leaf-bud, 

 otherwifi the Stump left beyond 

 the Eye will appear to Sight. The 

 beft Seafon for this Operation is at 

 the Latter-end ol March, at which 

 Time you ihould cut out all decay'd 

 Branches, and (liift the Plants into 

 fre{h Earth. 



They may alfo be propagated by 

 •planting fome ftrong Cuttings into 

 Pots of frefh Earth in March, and 

 plunge them into a moderate Hot- 

 bed, obferving to water them, and 

 fhade the Glalles in the Heat of the 

 Day, as alio to give them a good 

 Quantity of Air when the Weather 

 is warm, and in about a Month 

 or Hz Weeks Time they will have 

 taken Root, when you mufl harden 



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them by Degrees to the open Air, 

 to which thty mull be txpos'd in 

 Summer and manag'd aswasdirecSt- 

 ed for the Layers. 



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HiEMANTHUS ; Blood-flower. 

 The Characters arej 

 It has two Leaves /fringing from 

 the Bulb on each Side, and bowing 

 backwards : The Stem is fmgle, fun- 

 gous, thick and fpechled, bearing a 

 fingle Flower on the Top, as it is 

 thought: The Flower appears naked, 

 hexapetaloHs (\. e. co-nJifting of fix. 

 Petals), or heptapetalcus (i. e. con^ 

 fifting of f even Fetals) i but upon a. 

 clofe Examination, the Flower ap- 

 pears to be Jlofculous, havhig a Calyx 

 confijling of fix Leaves, after th$ 

 manner of a Tulip, of a red Colour ^ 

 among (or within) which are mono- 

 petalous Flowers, that are hexapeta- 

 loide, confifiing of fix long, fine, 

 deeply-cut Segments, tubulous at the 

 Bottom, having fix Stamina, pro- 

 ceeding from a triangular Ovary, 

 and tricapfular ; i. e. confifiing of 

 three CapfuU or Partitions, in which 

 are contained oblong Seeds to the 

 Number of thirty in one Calyx : The 

 Bulb is fquaf?Jofe, and often, as it 

 were, bifoliatsd. 



The Species are j 



1. H^MANTHusj Africanus.H.L. 

 Blood-Flower, or African Tulip. 



2. HiEMAKTHus } Colchici foliisy 

 perianthio herbaceo. Hort. Zlth. 

 HAmanthus with Leaves like Col- 

 chicum, and an herbaceous Erapale- 

 ment, commonly called Dracuncu- 

 loides, 



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