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leaves continue many years in growth ; othw 

 forts, or in the greater part, rife with flefhy 

 ftalks and leaves of abiding growth, the ilalks 

 not becoming woody, yet continue of feveral 

 or many years duration, of many different 

 fizes, from two or three inches to feveral feet: 

 high, and, as above noticed, are of various, 

 curious growths, many of them remarkable^ 

 fingular, and great curiofities. 



As to the utility of Green- houfe plants, 

 they in the general part are cultivated prin- 

 cipally for curiolity, variety and ornament j 

 moll of the tree and ihrub kinds being ever-, 

 green, their foliage continuing in verdure the 

 year round ; fome alfo flower ornamenrally, 

 and fome beautiful in a produdion of fruit, as 

 in the orange and. lemon? : and in the her- 

 bacTeous and fucculent tribes, many are fine 

 flowering plants. The fucculents too, in par- 

 ticular, afford a very entertaining variety in 

 their different odd growths, and molHy in 

 conftant verdure at all feafons. 



Moll or all the principal forts of Green- 

 houfe exotics are cultivated for fale at moil of 

 the capital nurfery-gardens, where thofe who 

 intend ro make colledions may be furniOied 

 with aflbrtments of the plants required. 



All the forts mull always be raifed or 

 planted in pots, &c. in this country, for the 

 convenience of moving the plants in and out 

 of the Grcen-houfe, as before fuggelted ; the 

 pots fmaller or iurger, according to the diffe- 

 rent riz:.'s of the plants: and forlbil, they will 

 r.iollly grow in any good garden earth, though 

 the fucculeatsparticuJaily,« onaccounc of theif 



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