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nap-'d as the Garden Kind, with this 

 Difference, ziiz,. the Plants fliould 

 not ftand nearer than two Feet and 

 an half Diftancej but then they 

 need not be reduced to this until 

 the facceed ing Spring: The fc Roots 

 are perennial, and may be removed 

 with Safety at any time atter their 

 Leaves are decay'd : They leldom 

 produce Seeds until the third Year 

 after they are {own. 



PA VI A J The Scarlet Flowering 

 Horfc-Chefnut 5 vulgo. 

 The Characters are; 



The Leaves are like tbofe of the 

 Horfe-Chefhut : Ihe Flower is of an 

 anomalous Figure, and conjifls of fivif 

 Leaves^ tohich are fo difpos'd as to 

 refemble a Lip Flower j the two up- 

 permoji are united, and form a Sort 

 of Helmet \ the three undermofl ap- 

 pear fomewhat like a Mouth gaping : 

 Thefe Flowers are difpos'd into a 

 Spike, and are of a beautiful fcarlet 

 Colour : The Ovary, which rifes in 

 the Centre of the Flower-cup, after- 

 wards becomes an oblong pyramidal 

 Fruit, divided into three Cells, in 

 each of -which is lodged one globular 

 Seed, 



There is but one Species of this 

 Tree, viz. 



Pavia; Boerh. Ind. The Scarlet 

 Flowering Horfe-Chefnut j vulgo. 



This Tree is a Native of Ame- 

 rica, from whence the Seeds were 

 firfl: brought into Europe : It grows 

 in great Plenty in the Woods of 

 South Carolina, but is very hardy, 

 enduring the levereit Cold of our 

 Climate in the open Air. 



It may be propagated by fow- 

 ing the Seeds in the Spring, upon 

 a warm Border of light fandy 

 Earth ; and when the Plants come up, 

 they Ihould be carefully clcar'd from 

 Weeds : but they muft not be tran- 

 fplanted until the Spring following, 

 when they lliould be removed jull 



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before they begin to fl^oot, andl 

 placed either in a Nuriery to be 

 train'd up, or ellc into the Places 

 where they are to remain ; obler- 

 ving, it the Scafbn be dry, to wa- 

 ter 'em until they have taken Root, 

 as alfo to lay fome Mulch upon the 

 Surface of the Ground, to prevent 

 the Sun and Wind from drying it 

 too faft : And as the Plants ad- 

 vance, To the lateral Branches fhould 

 be pruned off, in order to reduce 

 'em to regular Stems. 



You muft alfb obferve to dig 

 the Ground about their Roots eve- 

 ry Spring, that it may be loofe, to 

 admit the Fibres of the Roots, 

 which, while young, are too ten- 

 der to penetrate the Ground, if it 

 be very hard. 



With this Management the Plants 

 will greatly advance, and in four 

 or five Years will produce Flowers 

 and Fruits, which in warm Sea- 

 jfbns are perfected enough to grow, 

 fo that the Plants may be multi- 

 ply'd therefrom very faft. 



This Tree may alio be propaga- 

 ted by budding or inarching it up- 

 on the common Horfe-Chefnut : but 

 the Trees thus rais'd will never ar- 

 rive to near the Size of thofe which 

 are produced from Seeds ; nor will 

 they grow near fo faft. 



Such of thefe Trees as are rais'd 

 from Seeds, if planted in a good 

 Soil, will grow to be twenty-five 

 or thirty Feet high, and produce 

 great Numbers of beautiful red 

 Flowers, which commonly appear 

 the Beginning of f/ine; at which 

 Seafon it makes :i beautiful Appear- 

 ance amongft other hardv Trees. 



PEACH i vide Perftca.' 



PEAR; vide Pyrus. 



PEASE; viJe?ifiim, 



PEASE EVERLASTING; vide 

 Lathyrus. 



PELLI- 



