Chap I. FLORA 
e. Gel fininum Indicum flavum odoratifSimun. 
ees feet yellow Indian Fa[mine isa beautiful Green, and rifech 
_& withusabout two foot high, dividing into branches, «covered 
with a purplifh coloured Bark, adorned with many fair fhining, dark, 
ever-green leaves, infafhion like thofe ofthe Pomegranate, but lon~ 
ger and broader ,_ the flowers are like in form to thofe of the com- 
mon white Fa/mine, but bigger, of a fair yellow colour and {weet 
fent ; in their natural Countrey fucceeded by fruits like {mall olives, 
which with us flowering late never arrive to any perfection, . 
Phyllirea Variegata. 
| The Variegated or ftriped Phyllirea is the moft beautiful of all the 
kinds, and therefore.in this place to be defcribed as deferving a 
Cafe; and to ftand among the faireft Greens : . for the other forts, 
(fit onely to form ever-green Hedges) you will. find in the end of this 
Volume among Greens more vulgar. This fine Plant rifeth (if fuf- 
fered) tothe height of a Man, thick fet with {mall branches, and 
thofe with {mall ever-green leaves conftantly edged and ftriped with 
whire, and may by the Shears be fafhioned into what form you 
affect, aici , 
The AMyrtles bloffom about the middle of Augufft, and continue 
flowering commonly untill the middle of December: the Indian 
yellow F-4(mine flowers about the fame time ; and the ftriped Phyli- 
rea,whofe glory confifts in the variegated ever-green leaves, is at all 
times achoice object of delight, and hardy enough to be planted. at 
large, where a little defended from Snows and Frofts, it willendure 
the Winter as well as the more ordinary kinds, 
All thefe Plants are commonly fet int Cafes, : set sich orenges and : 
tender Plants houfed in Winter, and increafed by Layers after the 
manner before directed, Thebeft time to tranfplant the more har- 
dy kinds of Greens1s about the Tenth of afarch, and for the more 
tender to be fet in Cafes toward the end of April: the Earth youfer - 
them in muft be frefh, and fuch.that hath long lain on an heap well 
mixed with good old Neats dung, often turned and well mixed un- 
till throughly rotted ; but before this Earth be put. intothe.Cafes, 
it muft be skreened or fifted, andagodd quantity ofthore fticks of 
oler, Withy, or any other foft wood, elfe broken bricks, pebble- 
ftones, andfuch like rubbifh, laid in the bottom of the Cafes to 
draw away fuperfluous moifture and prevent clogging, which would 
rot the finaller fibres, and fpoil the Plants, it not deftroy them, 
Small ticks alfo cur fhort muft in fome quantity be mingled with the 
Earth, wherewith fill the Cafes within three inches of the top; 
thefe {ticks will keep the Mould hollow and from clinging ; which 
done, rafe or cut the bottoms of yonr Roots, and artificially fet your 
Greens and other tender Plants oe but not too deep by any 
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