The Plants thus raised, will grow 

 to the Height of three or tour 

 Feet, and fpread their Branches ve- 

 ry wide (cfpecially if the Roots 

 have Room in the Pots) and their 

 Flowers will begin to appear in 

 J-une, and they will continue con- 

 llantly flowering until the Froft 

 prevents them j which, together 

 with the great Diverlity of Colours 

 in the Flowers upon the fame 

 Plant, renders them valuable to e- 

 very curious Pcrfon. The Flow- 

 ers of theie Plants never expand 

 in the Day-time, while the Sun is 

 hot, but in the Evening, when 

 the Sun declines, they begin to o- 

 pen, and do continue expanded un- 

 til the Sun fliincs warm upon 

 them the next Day, fo that when 

 it happens to be cloudy Weather, 

 as alfo late in the Autumn, when 

 the Weather is cool, the Flowers 

 will remain open moft Part of the 

 Day. 



As the Flowers are produc'd fuc- 

 celliveiy almoft every Day, fo the 

 Seeds are in a Ihort Time after 

 ripe, and do foon fail to the Ground j 

 fo that when your Seeds begin to 

 ripen, you muft carefully look for 

 them upon the Ground twice a 

 Week, otherwifc, if they lie too 

 long upon the Ground, and there 

 fnould fail fome Rain, they will 

 Iprout, and be good for nothing : 

 In fowing thcfc Seeds, you fhouid 

 be careful to take them from fuch 

 Plants as produc'd the greatcft Va- 

 riety of Flowers i for if you favc 

 them from fuch as produce only 

 plain-coiour'd Flowers, the Seeds 

 v/ill always produce the fame Sort, 

 and thofe with yellow and red va- 

 riegated Flowers will conlhintly 

 produce the fame, thele never va- 

 rying from the Red and Yellow 

 to the Purple and Wnire, though 

 they will fomedmes degenerate in- 



to plam yellow or red Flowers, as 

 will the other into plain Purple or 

 White, but they will conllantly 

 retain one or both of their origi- 

 nal Colours. 



Altho' in the above-written Cul- 

 ture of thefe Plants, I have diredl- 

 ed their Seods to be fown on a 

 Hot-bed, yet they may be propa- 

 gated by fowing them in a warm 

 Border of light Earth toward the 

 latter End of March ^ and when 

 the Plants come up, they fhould 

 be tranfplantcd as before directed : 

 In which Method they will fuc- 

 ceed very well, but will not flow- 

 er fo ibon by a Month or fix 

 Weeks as thofe rais'd on the Hot- 

 bed, nor will the Plants grow £o 

 large. 



When the Frofl has pinch'd the 

 Leaves and Stems of thcfe Plants, 

 you fiiould take up their Roots, 

 which fliould be laid to dry, and 

 then may be preferv'd in dry Sand 

 all the Winter, if fecur'd from the 

 FroH: ; and in the following Spring 

 thefe Roots fliould be planted into 

 large Pots, and plung'd into a mo- 

 derate Hot-bed, to promo'cc their 

 taking Root ; and when the Shoots 

 appear above ground, they fhould 

 be treated 2s was diredfed for the 

 fcedling Planrs, hardening them by 

 Degrees to endure the open Air. 

 The Plants fo rais'd, Will be much 

 larger than the Seedlings and will 

 flower earlier in the Year. 



Thefe Plants are all afHrm'd by 

 Tere Fhi.mier to be different Sorts 

 of Jalap , but the feventh Sort, he 

 fayi, is the particular Plant, whofe 

 Root is commonly us'd in Medi- 

 cine. But I have been lince infor- 

 med by my worthy Friend Dodror 

 Wiiiiam Houfioun, that the Jalap is 

 the Root of a Convolvulus, and is 

 not akm to either of thefe Planrs. 



Ggx 



JAS- 



