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Situation until they have taken 

 Root, after which they may be 

 removed into a more open Expo- 

 iurej but in dry Weather muft be 

 frequently watered : In this Place 

 they may remain until the Middle 

 or latter End ot OBober, when they 

 muft be removed into the Green- 

 houfe, placing them in the cooleft 

 part, where they may have as much 

 free Air as pofTible, and muft be 

 often water'd, other wife they will 

 icon decay. 



In Summer Time thefe Plants 

 will require to be fliifted twice, 

 adding frefli Earth to their Roots j 

 and if they are only fhelter'd from 

 hard Froft in Winter, it will be 

 Sufficient, for they are very hardy. 

 The fecond Year after fowing, 

 they will produce Flowers and 

 Seeds, and will continue fo to do 

 every Year after j and although 

 their Flower has no great Beauty, 

 yet, for the Variety of its large, 

 ibft, woolly Leaves, it deferves a 

 Place amongft other exotick Plants.- 



STAPHYLODENDRON i Blad- 

 der-nut. 



The Characiers are ; 



7he Flower confifls of feveral 

 Leaves^ which are placed circularly^ 

 and expand in Form of a Rofe j out 

 of whofe many -leaved Flower -cup 

 rifes the Pointal, which afterwards 

 becomes a membraneous Fruit, fame- 

 what like the inflated Bladder of 

 Fifljes, and divided into two or three 

 Cells, co?itaining Seeds in Form of a 

 Skull. 



The Species are; 



I. Stai'hylodendron ; fylvejlre 

 C^ vulgare. H. L. The common 

 wild Bladder-'nut. 



z. Staphylodendron j Virgina- 

 num trifoliatum. H. L. Three-leav'd 

 Virginian Bladder-nut. 



3. Staphylodendron ; Afrtca- 

 num, (olio fingulari, lucido. Far. Bat. 



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African Bladder ^nut with fingle 

 ftiinina: Leaves. 



The firft of thefe Trees is found 

 wild in the Woods and other fliady 

 Places near Fontefraci in TorkJJjirey 

 and in fome other Northern Parts 

 of England; but near London it is 

 preferved in the Gardens of thofe 

 who are curious in coUedting the 

 various Kinds of hardy Trees. 



The fecond Sort is a Native of 

 Ainerica, but is £0 hardy as to en- 

 dure the fevereft Cold of our Cli- 

 mate in the open Air, and produces 

 Flowers and Fruit as plentifully in 

 England as the common wild Sort. 



Both thefe Kinds may be propa- 

 gated by fowing their Seeds early 

 in the Spring, in Beds of light, 

 frefli Earth, and when the Plants 

 are come up, they muft be care- 

 fully kept clear from Weeds, and 

 in very dry Weather if they are 

 now and then refrefh'd with Wa- 

 ter, it will greatly promote their 

 Growth ; in thefe Beds they may 

 remain until March following, at 

 which Time they fhould be care- 

 fully taken up and planted in a 

 Nurfery, placing 'em in Rows three 

 Feet aiimder, and the Plants eigh- 

 teen Inches diftance in the Rows ; 

 obferving to lay a little Mulch upon 

 the Surface of the Ground about 

 their Roots, to prevent the Sun 

 and Wind from penetrating the 

 Ground to dry them, and if the 

 Spring fliould prove very dry, it 

 will be convenient to give 'em a 

 little Water, to encourage their 

 taking Root ; after which they will 

 require no farther Care, but to keep 

 the Ground clear from Weeds in 

 Summer, and every Spring to prune 

 oft irregular Branches, and dig the 

 Ground between the Rows, to 

 loofen the Earth, that their Roots 

 may the more ealily extend. Tn 

 this Nurfery they may remain two 



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