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and remove 'em into the Stove, 

 where they will produce their 

 Flowers in July, and in Augufl 

 their Seeds will ripen : But except 

 they are thus manag'd, they will 

 rarely produce either Seeds or 

 Flowers in our Climate 5 tho' they 

 may be kept alive in the Summer, 

 if planted in the full Ground. 



Thefe Plants, tho' they may pro- 

 duce Seeds the firft Year, yet may 

 they be continued two or three 

 Years, if preferv'd in a moderate 

 Stove in Winter, and frequently re- 

 frefh'd with Water : yet lince they 

 are eafily rais'd from Seeds, and 

 young Plants are much more light- 

 ly than the old ones; it is hardly 

 worth while to fill a Stove with 

 them, lince there are fb many o- 

 ther Sorts that will not flower or 

 ieed the firft Year, which will 

 take up all the Room there in 

 Winter. 



The Flowers of thefe Plants are 

 very beautiful, but are of ihort 

 Duration, feldom continuing longer 

 than one Day j but they arc luc- 

 ceeded by frefli Flowers, if the 

 Plants are llrong^ and healthy, o- 

 therwile there is little Pleafure in 

 them in our Country : but in the 

 Wefi-lnd'iesy where they grow in 

 great Plenty, and often ariie to the 

 Height of a Shrub, they are more 

 productive of Flowers, and are in 

 great Efteem amongft the Inhabi- 

 tants of thofe Countries. 



The thirteenth Sort is by ibme 

 People valu'd for the exceeding 

 Svv^eetnefs of its Seeds ,• as are the 

 fifteenth and lixteenth Sorts for 

 their Seed-velTcls, the Juice of 

 which the People of Barbados, 

 jam:iica,, Sec. make ufe of, to add 

 a pleafant Tartnefs to their Viands. 

 -And the Pods of the feventeenth 

 and eighteenth Sorts arc by them 

 put into their Soups to thicken 



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them. For all which Purpofes 

 thefe Plants are much cultivated in 

 thofe Countries i but with us they 

 are prelerv'd only as Curiofitics. 



The nineteenth, twentieth, and 

 twenty-fir fl: Sorts, are annual Plants, 

 which are propagated by fowing 

 their Seeds in March, in the Places 

 where they are defign'd to remain,- 

 for they generally form downright 

 Woody Roots, and feldom fucceed 

 well if tranfplanted, except it be 

 done while the Plants are very 

 young: They delight in a frefh 

 light Soil, and an open Situation: 

 for if they are over-lhaded with 

 Trees, they never thrive well, nor 

 produce £0 great a Number of 

 Flowers. 



They are very proper Ornjunents 

 for the Borders of Pleafure-Gar- 

 dens, where, being intermixed with 

 other annual Plants, they make an 

 agreeable Variety, and are very 

 hardy, requiring no other Culture 

 than only to fow their Seeds, and 

 keep them conftantly clear from 

 Weeds. They produce their Flow- 

 ers in June and July, and their 

 Seeds are perfected ibon after, and 

 tho' their Flowers are of fhort 

 Duration, feldom continuing open 

 above half a Day (which occafion'd 

 Gerard in his Herbal, to call them 

 Flowers of an Hour ;) yet they are 

 every Day fucceeded by frefli Flow- 

 ers until the Froft prevents them. 



KITCHEN-GARDEN: The 

 'Kitchen-Garden fliould alwavs be fi- 

 tuated on one Side of the Houfe, 

 fo as not to appear in Sight, but 

 muft be plac'd near the Stables for 

 the Conveniency of Dung \ Wmch 

 ought always to be conlider'd in 

 the Difpolition of the BuildingSj 

 and the laying out of the Garden ; 

 for if this Garden be plac'd at a 

 great Diftance from the Stables, 

 the Labour will be very great in 



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