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mufl: be conftantly kept in a Bark- of Ground is once planted with 



Stove ; for though they may be *em, they will continue feveral 



kept alive in another warm Stove, Years j for the old Plant producing 



yet ;hey will make very little Pro- one large Bunch of Fruit from the 



grefs therein, and do not appear Center, when that is ripe and cut 



half fb beautiful, their chief Orna- off, the whole Plant decays, and 



ment being the Largenefs of their feveral young ones fpring up from 



Leaves, which are fometimes four the Roots, which being produced 



Feet long, and near two Feet broad j one after another, fiiccelTively, af^ 



but as thefc Plants take up a great ford the Inhabitants Plants of va- 



deal of Room in the Stove, efpe- rious Size and Age, which produce 



cially v/hen they arrive to a conli- their Fruit fucceilively, in like 



derable Siz,e, fo it is not convenient manner. 



to keep more than one Plant of each It is the firft of thefe Species 



kind. which is chiefly cultivated in the 



During the Summer Seafon thefe Weji-Indies, that producing a much 

 Plants muft be plentifully water'd, larger Bunch of Fruit, is by the In- 

 fer the Surface of their Leaves habitants greatly preferr'd to the 

 being large, occaiions a great Con- other, which is accounted a very 

 fumption of Moifture, by Perfpira- pleafant Fruit, when ripe, and isby 

 tion, in hot Weather j but in the many Perfons greatly coveted by 

 V/inter they muft be water'd more way of Defert, being fofter and 

 fparingly, though at that Seafon more lufcious to the Tafte, but is 

 they muft be often refrefli'd, but it not fo much efteem'd for Food, 

 muft not be given 'em in fuch Thefe Plants rife to be fifteen 

 Quantities. or twenty Feet high in the Wejl- 



Thc Pots in which thefe Plants Indies, to which Height they gene- 

 are placed fhould be large, in pro- rally arrive in about ten Months 

 portion to the Size of the Plants, from their firft planting, ibon after 

 for their Roots generally extend which they produce their Fruit, 

 pretty far; ani the Earth fhould be and then decay: They are of the 

 rich and light. The Degree of quickeft Growth of any Veeetable 

 Heat with which thefe Plants thrive yet known. S\v Hans SloarTe ibiysy 

 beft, is much the fame with the one may almoft fee them grow j he 

 Anana, or Vine- Apple, in which I cut a young Tree even at the Top 

 have feen this Plant twelve or four- with a KniFe, which immediately 

 teen Feet high, but never could grew up difcernably, and in an 

 obferve any Tendency to produce Hour's Time the middle Leaves, 

 Fruit, tho' I believe they may be which were wrapped up within 

 brought to Fruit in fome of the the others, were advanced above 

 lofty Stoves which have been lately them half an Inch, 

 crcftcd near Lojidon. M U S C A R I : Musk, or Grape 



Thefe Plants are eafily propa- Hyacinth ^ ijulgo. 



gated, by cutting off an old Plant The CharaHers arej 



near the Ground, v/hich will occa- Jt hath a bulbous Root, the Leaves 



fion their fhooting out feveral young are long and narrow, the Flower is 



ones from the Root ,• which is the hermaphroditical, conjiji'mg of one 



Manner they are propagated in the Leaf, and flmfd like a Vitcher, and 



hot Countries j fo that after a Spot cut at To^ into fx Segments -which 



are 



