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The ChamSiers are i 

 The whole Plant hath n (ingular 

 Appenmnce, h very fucculent, and 

 hath many Angles^ which are befet 

 TCfiith Jljarp Thorns; the Flovffer con- 

 fifis ofono Leaf, is tubtilofe and Bell- 

 Jljapd, divided into feveral Parts at 

 the Top, and hath many Stamina or 

 Threads i the Ovary becomes a foft 

 fieJJry Frnit, containing many J'mall 

 Seeds. 



The Species are ; 



1. Melocactus ; Indi^ Occiden- 

 talis. C, B. P. The common or 

 large Melon-Thijlle, commonly call'd 

 Turk-Cap cr Pope's-Head in the 

 Weft-Indies. 



2. Meloc ACTUS i Americana, mi- 

 nor. Boerh. Pad. The lefler Melon- 

 Thiftle, or fmall Turks-Head. 



There are feveral other Sorts of 

 this Plant in the IVeJi-Pndies, but 

 the two here mention'd are all the 

 Sorts which I have yet fecn in the 

 Etirotean Gardens. 



Thefe Plants are Natives of the 

 Rocks in the Weft-lndics, where 

 they are thruft out from the Aper- 

 tures thereof, and can receive but 

 little Nourifhment from the Soili 

 FiOr will they thrive when trani- 

 planted into another Situation, 

 tho' it be in the fame Degree of 

 Heat, unleis the Place be rais'd a- 

 bove the Level of the Ground 

 with Stones and Rubbifli. 



The great Sort (which is very 

 p'enty in Jamaica and ilie other 

 I Hands in the Weft-Padies ) is brought 

 into England very often, but it 

 rarely happens that they arrive 

 here in perfedb Health j for the 

 People who bring them over, fup- 

 pofe they can't live v/ithout Moi- 

 flure, v/hich they fcldom fail to 

 iiipply all the Plants they bring o- 

 ver with, v/hereby they are rotted 

 and deHroy'd i and although thefe 

 Plants do not prefcntly ihew the 



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Damage they have luftain'd in their 

 Paffage, yet they feldom continue 

 long before they perifli: Therefore 

 the bed Method to bring them 

 over, is to take them up intire 

 fiom their Places of Growth, and 

 pack them up in a large Box, 

 with dry Hay or Straw, fo that 

 they may not wound each other 

 in their Paffage, oblerving to place 

 them where neither Moifture nor 

 Vermin can come to them, in 

 which Way they will arrive in 

 perfect Health} but the Perfbns 

 who get them, fhould never chule 

 the oldeft Plants, but rather fuch 

 as are young and thriving, which 

 are the moft likely to continue any 

 time with us. 



But if they are brought over 

 planted in Tubs, then the beft Me- 

 thod is to fill the Tubs with Rub- 

 bifh, and fet the Plants therein, 

 oblerving never to give them any 

 Water during their Pallage, nor 

 fufFer them to receive Wet, which 

 will certainly damage them : And 

 when they arrive in England, they 

 Hiould immediately be taken out 

 o^ the Tubs, and planted into Pots 

 fiird with Lime-Rubbifh ana Sea- 

 Sand intermixed, and the Pots 

 plung'd into a Hot-bed of Tanners 

 Bark, to facilitate their taking 

 Root : In which Bed they {hou;d 

 remain until the Beginning of Ocio- 

 her, when they nvjil be rcmov'd 

 into the Stove, oblerving to place 

 them in the warmcft Situation, 

 and be very careful not to let 

 them have the lead Moifture du- 

 ring the Winter- feafbn, whxh 

 will infallibly rot them. In the 

 Spring of the Year, they may be 

 remov'd out of the Stove into the 

 Bark- bed again, at rhe fame Sea- 

 fon when the Anana\ are taken 

 out, and fhould be plac'd in fuch 

 a Frame where they will only re- 

 quire 



