Sept. 
_ Spot, and prepare his artificial Soil. 
_ chufe a Place under a fouth-weft Wall, and not 
_. wholly without. the Shade of Trees. 
defended againft the cold Quarters; and upon. 
_ this fmall Spot let him thus raife his Plants. To 
-one Part of the common Mould, let him add 
whofe Filarients are longer than the othets. 
It is the fourteenth in Hie Linn an Syftem:_ 
The Name is Didyhamia, a Term fortned like ~ 
the reft, of two Greek Words, and exprefling | 
Plants in whofe Flower two Filaments have 
more Efficacy than the others. 
‘This: 18a Native. of the Canaries. but it) 
is eafily raifed with us, and thrives as, ll as 
in its naturak Climate.) ‘ies 
It ftands our Summer Nights, but rear be 
defended by the Cover of a Greenhoufe, when ° 
the Air is chiller. 
%, be kieaais us the CEDRgIUEA,, 
* 
‘The Seeds are to be Yui babs in Spring; or the 
Cuttings are to be planted in the Summer Months. 
el i ee ee Re. oe 
is dire€ted by thofe who have written on hele Sub." 
jects; but we write not from the vulgar Practice, 
or according to the vulgar same but from 
_ what we have feen. ; 
Strong Plants | oe, bé raifed’ Gam Cuttings ; 
much handfomer from Seeds ripen’d here; and 
the fineft of all from freth, Seed brought from | 
the Canaries. 
Its wild Growth there is by the Sides of 
Woods in light loofe Earth; and this is what we 
- fhould copy ; therefore let the. Gardener who 
would do himfelf Credit from the Superiority of 
his Plants to thofe ofcothets, proceed thus. ’ 
In the fecond Week of April let him fele& his 
Let him 
two Parts. of old rotted Wood from the Earth 
‘PLAIL 
Fig. 2. 
of a Stack Bottom. 
When this is worked ‘ogaitier: let him draw 
his little Drills, and, fow the Seed in two or three 
Rows, covering it but Half an Inch: let him 
then {fcatter lightly a little Peafe Haulm over the 
Place, and leave the Reft to Nature. 
When the Plants begin to fhoot, let the 
Haulm be taken off; and at Evening give care- 
7 a puss NG ‘Watering. Repeat this if 
ke The 
This is a . Shrub diftinguithed by its Beauty, 
and worth the Regard of all who cultivate Ex- 
oticks. The common Writers call it Xylon Go/- 
Lypium, and Ceiba: its proper Name is Bombax 
foliis digitatis caule arboreo: 
with finger’d Leaves. 
Its Height is five or fix Feet, and it ‘peat 
naturally into many Branches, wildly but not un- 
handfomely. The Trunk is of a pale brown. 
The young Shoots glow with a ‘Tinge of yel- 
~ lowifh; and the Foot-ftalks of the Leaves are 
not unfrequently reddifh. 
‘little Water. 
the fame Place till they have.taken. Root ; "and 
_ Sun, 
| natural, Bed are to have equal Regard. 
"Earth is to be levelled, and they are to be wa- 
“Let it be — 
CO T TON TRE E, 
Shrubby Bombax | 
| ber from the Sides of the Aver: 
Showers fail; and let thé Plants gain fome 
Strength ; then mark the ftrongeft and_leave 
theni at a Foot diftance every Way; pullin ing up 
all between them. 
From this Time keep the Border clear of 
Weeds, and now-and-then ftir up the Surface 
with a ‘Trowel: water. the Plapts»; in dry Wea- 
ther, and they will grow faft. 
In the lat Week of July take. up-one Half of 
them. Prepare largé Pots; fill them half up 
with the Earth of the Border: take up thefe 
Plants with as much Mould as can be made to 
hang about them, and place one in each Pot: 
fill up with Earth, and enck the Plants upught 
and fteady. . 
Set thefe in a fhady Scat and give herb a 
Repeat this, and keep them in 
after that fet them where they may have good 
Thele’ beite taken care of, thofe left in their 
The 
tered, after the taking up of the others ; — this 
| is to be repeated oceafiorially afterwards.» © ©” 
We have obferved, that breaking the Earth 
while a Plant is growing, ferves as: Manure to 
it: this will be feen in the prefent Inftance ;. for 
when Half the Plants are taken away, the reft 
“having double Spacé and)a ftefh broken Earth, 
will fhoot up furprifingly. They will have the 
Superiority over thofe in the Pots greatly, from 
their not having been removed; and many of 
‘them will ienedin that Year, about the Middle of 
» September, M4 } 
Thefe Plants are to be left all Winter: and thofe 
in Pots are to be removed into the Greenhoufe. 
~ "Phis--ufed-to “be the Cuftom with all, but we 
write from Trial: the Plants in the open Garden 
will live thro? a common Winter, and exceed 
vaftly thofe in the Pots. 
I have thus raifed the Cedronella to five Foot 
Height, with perfect Strength and Vigour in 
Sept. 
every Part: its Leaves, when bruifed, have per- - 
fumed a Room ; and its Flowers have been finer 
by much than thofe raifed in the common Me- 
thod from Cuttings, and fheltered in the Houfe. 
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~The Leaves are large and beautifully formed; 
each is divided to the Stalk, or nearly, into five 
Parts, which fpread as the fingers of a Hand: 
their Colour is a very deep green on the upper 
Side, and paler underneath; and on the Stalk 
there are Prickles. The Flowers are very large 
and very beautiful their Colour is a pale yel- 
low, often tinged with Purple; and their Cups 
are a finoular Beauty 4 in the Plant ; they are vaft, 
rounded, ribbed and jagged. The Flowers do not 
terminate the Branches; but grow in great Num- 
After thefe 
I come 
