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V I N 



4. V. rofea. Madagafcar Periwinkle. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 305. Willd. n. 4. Ait. n. 3. Curt. Mag. t. 248. 

 (Vinca; Mill. Ic. 124. t. 186. ) — Stem flirubby, ereift. 



Flowers felTile, in pairs. Leaves cUiptic-obloiig Native of 



the Eaft Indies. Cultivated here by Mr. Thomas Knowlton, 

 before the year 1756. It is now become a very popular 

 ftove-plant, flowering moft part of the year, and recom- 

 mending itfelf to general admiration, by the beautiful colour 

 of its ample bloffoms, whofe corolla is either of a bright rofe- 

 colour, or pure white, the centre always of a peculiarly 

 rich crimfon, with a yellow eye. The Jiem is bufhy, quite 

 ereft, about a yard high. Leaves entire, rather downy, 

 two inches long, bluntilh. This fpecies is propagated 

 eafily, either by feed or by cuttings, but will not endure 

 much cold or wet, though it requires a free air in fummer. 



5. V. parviflora. Small-flowered Periwinkle. Retz. 

 Obf. fafc. 2. 14. Ait. n.4. Willd. n. 5. (V. pufilla; 

 Murray in Comm. Goett. for 1772. 66. t. 2. f. I. Linn. 

 Suppl. 166.1 — Stem ereft, herbaceous. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acute. — Native of the Ead Indies. An Annual ftove- 

 plant, flowering in Auguft, whofe feeds were imported by 

 fir Jofeph Banks in 1778. The Jtem is about a (pan high, 

 flightly branched. Leaves as long as the lall:, being about 

 two inches, but much narrower, and acute. Flowers fo- 

 litary or in pairs, fmall, with not much pretention to beauty ; 

 their corolla white, with a yellow eye, not ill compared by 

 Willdenow to Lithofpermum officinale. 



ViN'CA, in Gardening, comprehends plants of the (lirubby, 

 evergreen, upright and trailing kinds, among which the 

 fpecies cultivated are, the fmall periwinkle (V. minor) ; 

 the great periwinkle (V. major) ; and the Madagafcar 

 periwinkle (V. rofea). 



The firft has a perennial creeping root, and it varies in 

 the colour of the flowers ; witli pale blue, with purple, 

 and white, and with double flowers of thefe different co- 

 lours ; and the foliage is fometimes variegated either with 

 white or yellow ilripes. 



The fecond fort is larger in all its parts than the preced- 

 ing, having flowers of a purple-blueifli colour. It varies 

 with white flowers. 



The third has an upright branching ftem, tliree or four 

 feet high, having a long fucceffion of pale flefli-coloured 

 flowers. 



It varies with flowers with purple eyes. 



Method of Culture. — Thefe plants are all capable of being 

 increafed by layers, cuttings, and fuckers. 



In the flrft method, when the layers of the trailing 

 branches are put down into the ground, they readily take 

 root at almoft any feafon. This is very much tlie cafe with 

 the firft fort, as almoft every joint furniflies plants in the 

 courfe of the fummer ready to be put out in the autumn. 



The cuttings may be made from the ftalks and branches, 

 and be planted in fliady borders in the autumn or early 

 fpring, when tliey will become well rooted by tlie following 

 autumn. 



All the forts fuccced in this way. 



In the third fort, the cuttings fhould be made from the 

 young flioots and be planted in pots, plunging them in a 

 hot-bed, or the bark-bed, where they will become perfeftly 

 well rooted in the fame year, and may be potted oflf fepa- 

 rately, being placed in the ftove, and (hifted as may be 

 ncceffary into large pots. 



This fort may likewife be raifed from feed, which fliould 

 be fown in pots in the early fpring filled with light rich 

 earth, covering them well in, and plunging the pots in the 

 hot-bed, or the bark-lied of the ftove ; and when the 

 plants have a few inches growth, they ftiould be pricked 



out into feparate pots, re-plunging them in a hot-bed, giving 

 proper fliade and water, managing them afterwards as the 

 cuttings. 



The fuckers may be taken off with root-fibres in the au- 

 tumn or fpring, and planted where they are to grow. 



The two firil forts afl^ord variety iu the borders, clumps, 

 Sec. and they may be planted in thickets and wilderneflfes 

 under trees with perfcft fuccefs ; while the laft has a fine 

 cftcft in ftove coUeftions as an elegant evergreen and flower- 

 ing flirub. 



V INC AC, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Eaft Pyrenees ; 4 miles E.N.E. of 

 Prades. 



VINCELLES, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Jura ; 6 miles S.S.W. of Lons le Saunier. 



VINCENNES, a town of France, in the department 

 of Paris, in which was a royal palace, originally begun 

 by Philip de Valois, but repaired and finilhed by Louis 

 XIV. : the ancient towers ferved as a ftate prifon. At 

 this place the duke d'Enghien fuffered death; i poft E. 

 of Paris. 



ViNCENNEs, a town of America, the capital of the 

 territory of Indiana and county of Knox, on the bank of 

 the Wabafli, 150 miles from its mouth ; in a delightful 

 fituation, furrounded by a prairie four miles long and one 

 broad, moftly cultivated, and the remainder being a fine 

 meadow which produces good grafs. The foil, which is 

 not inferior to any in the United States, yields corn, rice, 

 wheat, tobacco, hemp, hops, grapes, &c. The Wabafli is 

 navigable, almoft through the whole year, as far as this 

 place. Commerce centres here, as the merchants bring 

 their goods from Canada down the Wabafli, from Orleans 

 up the Miflifippi, and from the eaftern ftates, down the 

 Ohio and up the Wabafli. The fort, crefted in 1787, 

 ftands on the E. fide of AVabafli river. It is garrifoned 

 by a major and two companies. The inhabitants, prin- 

 cipally of French extraftion, amount to 670. It is a 

 poft-town ; 743 miles from Wafliington. — Alfo, a town- 

 flilp in the fame territory and county, containing 223 

 inhabitants. 



VINCENT, Willi A m, D.D. in Biography, dean of Weft- 

 miiifter and vicar of Iflip, Oxon, was a dcfcendant of a race of 

 anceftors who officiated as clergy men of the eft abliflied church, 

 and belonged to that clafs of ccclefiaftics ufually denominated 

 the " High Church Party." They were feated at Shepey, in 

 the county of Leiceltcr. The dean was the laft furviving fon 

 of Mr. Giles Vincent, who acquired a fortune as a packer 

 under Spanilh and Portugal mercliants ; but afterwards, 

 by loflcs and diiappointments in his commercial conneftions, 

 retired from trade without being enriched by it. He was 

 born in London, Novcmiber 2, 1739, and being defigned for 

 the church, was entered at Weftminfter fchool in September, 

 174S, and in 1753 "'^^ admitted on the foundation. In 

 1757 he was eleftcd to Trinity college, Cambridge, and 

 fujiported there by his elder brother, who continued the bu- 

 finefs of a packer. He took his firft degree of B.A. in 

 1761, and in the following year was appointed teacher at 

 Weftminfter fchool. In 1764 he was graduated M.A. ; in 

 1771 he became fecond mailer ; in 1 776, D.D. and one of his 

 majerty's chaplains; in 1788, head-maftcr of the lehool ; and 

 in 1708, prefidcnt of Sioii colteije. Having married in e.irly 

 life, his family rapidly increafed, and fome of his children 

 were arrived at inalnrity before he obtaimd any confider- 

 able preferments in the church, notwilhllanding the favour- 

 able fiuialiori which he occupied. In 1777 he was nominated 

 by Dr. Markham, upon his elevation to the fee of York, fub- 

 almoncr to the king, an ofScc which he held until his deraife; 

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