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it flowereth in Fly, and fometimes , but not every year, bringeth 
feedsand filk in Auguft ; it groweth abundantly in Virginia, and 
hath been raifed often by feeds that have come from thence ; andal- 
though the ftalks dy to the ground every Winter, the root is of long 
continuance, and will fend forth new at the Spring , efpecially if the 
- place where it ftandeth be covered with horfe-dung in Winter ; 
to defend it from the Frofts, 
Canna Indica. 
“He indian flowering Reed rifeth up with fair large green leaves; 
coming from the joynts of the ftalk, at firft tolded; after {fpread 
open ; the ftalk is above a yard high, bearing at the top one above 
atiother divers flowers , like in fafhion to the Gladiolus or Corn-flags 
of 4 bright crimfon colour ; after the flowers the feeds are contain 
in three-(qaare heads, which are round and black, of the bignefs of a 
Peafe, it hath a great white tuberous root full of knobs, whereby it 
sa increafeth, There is of this kind another differing, onely in 
the colour of the flowers, which in this are yellow with reddifh {pots, 
Thefe Plants mutt be fet in large Boxes, in good earth, often watered, 
and howfed in Winter, for one nights Froft will deftroy them; 
Ficus Indica minor. 
Exe Indian Fig with ds confifteth of leaves onély , one {pringing 
' out of another, proceeding from one leaf put half into the earth, 
which taketh root and puts out others; thefe leaves are a 
thick , flat and round-pointed , of a pale green colour, wi 
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 fhew at the firft of brown prickles on the upper-fide, at the reps of 
the leaves , in Fume break out the flowers, which are compofed of 
two rows of pale yellow leaves , with a yellow thrum tipt with 
red in the middle , after the flowers are paft, the head they ftood 
on grows bigger , inform of a Fig, but mever comes to any per- 
fection with us, There is another of this kinde that hath bigger 
_ and much larger leaves, but wilt not endure our cold Winters, for 
the-leffer kind is planted in Pots or Tubs, and houfed in Winter, or 
elfe the Frofts willrot and deftroy ir, / 
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