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here mention'd, are the moft beau- 

 tiful Kinds, and bell worth culti- 

 vating for the Beauty of their 

 Flowers. 



The fir ft, fecond and eighth 

 Sort are abiding Plants, and may 

 be propagated by parting their 

 Roots either in Spring or Autun^n, 

 and fliould be planted in a frefh, 

 light Soil, and an open Situation, 

 where they will greatly increafe, 

 efpecially the eighth Sort, which 

 is very fubjed to creep under 

 Ground, and fend forth abundance 

 of Heads, whereby the Scafon of 

 flowering is continued thro' mod 

 Part of the Summer 5 for the new 

 Off-fets commonly produce Flow- 

 ers foon after they come up. Thele 

 are alfo propagated by Seeds, which 

 {hould be fown either in the Au- 

 tumn, foon after they are ripe, or 

 very early in the Spring; for if they 

 are fown very late, the Plants fel- 

 dom come up until the Autumn 

 following, whereby a whole Seafon 

 is loft; but as they increafe Co faft 

 by Otf-fets, it is hardly worth while 

 to low their Seeds. 



The other Sorts here mentioned 

 are annual Plants, which, for the 

 Variety of their Flowers, deferve a 

 Place in a Garden ; thefe Plants are 

 much ftronger, and produce a 

 greater Quantity of Flowers, when 

 they are rais'd in the Autumn, than 

 thofe which are fown in the Spring, 

 and they are fo hardy as to endure 

 the fevereft Cold of our Climate in 

 the open Air, provided they are 

 planted or fown upon a dry Soil, 

 for too much Wet is apt to rot 

 them : The beft Seafon for fow- 

 ing the Seeds is in Auguji, and to- 

 wards the latter End of September 

 the Plants will be (Irong enough to 

 tranfplant, which ihould be into 

 the Borders where they are to re- 

 main for Flowering i thefe will 



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produce their Flowers in May, and 

 their Seeds will be ripe in July, 

 which if fuffer'd to (hed upon the 

 Ground, will grow and fave the 

 Trouble of fowing them. 



HIPPOCASTANUM ; Horfe- 

 Chefnut. 



The Charaders arcj 

 It hath digitated or finger' d Leaves; 

 the Flowers, which conjifi of five 

 Leaves, are of an anomalous Figure, 

 opening as it were with two Lips ; 

 there are Male and Female upon the 

 fame Spike, which, when fully blown, 

 make a fpecious Shew, being always 

 produced at the Extremity of the 

 Branches i the Female Flowers are 

 fucceed^d by Nuts, which grow in 

 green prickly Husks, 

 The Species are ; 



1. HippocASTANUM ; vulgars, 

 Tourn. Comi5ion Horfe Chefnur. 



2. HippocASTANUM j vtilgare, fi" 

 His ex luteo variegatis. The yellow 

 blotch'd Horfe Chefnut. 



3. HippocASTANUM j vulgarc, fo- 

 His ex albo variegatis. The white 

 blotch'd Horfe Chefnut. 



The firft of thefe Trees (of which 

 there feem to be two or three Va- 

 rieties differing in the Breadth of 

 their Leaves, and the Colour ot 

 their Flowers, one of which hath 

 its Flo\ters remarkably fpotted with 

 Red and Yellow, £0 as to be feen 

 at a great Diflance, and is fome- 

 what later in flowering) is very- 

 common in England, having been 

 greatly cultivated for planting Ave- 

 nues and ihady Walks near Habita- 

 tions, where, in the Spring of the 

 Year, (v^-hich is their Seafon of 

 flowering) they make a mofl beau- 

 tiful Shew, and their Leaves being 

 very large, afford an agreeable Shade 

 in the Heat of Summer , but if the 

 Number of thefe Trees be too 

 great, or too near the Habitation, 

 they caufe the circumambient Air 



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