Sept. 
OF GARDENING. 
come the Seed Vefiels, which’ are roundifh but 
“= _ pointed, and contain each, in four Cells, many 
Pi. I. 
Fig. 3. 
-hot Bed, and they will fhoot freely. 
have rifen. to a little Height; they muft be pot- 
ted, and afterwards. removed ) into the Stove. 
large Seeds, wrapped round in a fnowy and foft 
Down,,. which is Cotton: 
To know the Clafs to hake this Plant ba | 
: longs, the Student muft infpect the F lower. 
He 
finds it placed in a déuble Cup, and formed. of 
five large Petals, whofe Bafes are united. 
Opening thefe he fees numerous Filaments 
crowned with their Antherz; and following their 
Courfe down with an obferving Eye, he per- 
ceives they all unite and form a Kind of Tube. 
We need not tell him! to what Clafs the Plant 
belongs, for he has made himfelf acquainted al- 
ready with the Monadelphia under two preceding | 
Articles, the Fig Hibifcus and\ the China Rofe 
and we have told him all: Plants whofe Flowers 
_ have Threads fo united into one Body, belong to 
the fixteenth, the Monadelphous Clafs:: the 
Filaments being numerous, refer it alfo to the 
fame SeCtion with. thote ; ; the third containing 
the Polyandria.. | 
The Shrub is: a: Diacfv of the Eap and We sf 
iihs and. with us. go: the Warmth of a 
Stove. 
The Culture of ihe Covton-Tret. 
.. Procure Seeds from the Places where it is na- 
tive, and give Inftructions that they be gathered — 
when fully ripe; and fent over the fame Year. 
Sow thefe early in Spring upon a common 
When they 
The Method is this, 
Let a Quantity of good Garden Mould be: 7 
made very fine ; and.as many Pots fet ready, as 
it is intended to. raife Plants. Let each Pot be — 
(3 EGG NIGHTSHADE, 
~ This Plant demands a Place among thofe of | 
Curiofity, from the great Singularity of its Fruit, 
which is of the Bignels and Colour of an Ege. 
The common Writers call it Melongena and Ma- 
la infana, in Englifh, Map-Apprzs; and it has 
been fuppofed, that being of the Nightfhade 
Kind, thought ‘in general poifonous, and cha- 
racterifed by fo fingular a Name, it had the Ef- 
fect of caufing Madnefs; but this is an Error; 
for the Fruit-is perfectly innocent. | 
many Parts of Europe, and the ni tho’ we 
raife it only for Curiofity. 
It is truly and ‘planeta of the Nightfhade 
Kind, and its Name, according to Linn aus, is 
Solanum caule.inermi berbaceo foliis ovatis tomentofis 
integris, calyctbus [pinofis: Weak herbaceous Night- 
shade, with oval, 
and prickly Cups. 
'. The Plant is two Foot apd ahalf high, of an 
irregular Growth, and f{preading: the Stem is | 
feat thick and hairy ; the Leaves are large, and | :therz-.or Buttons, » which. conyerge at the Points. 
| Form, but that is not need fal 4 
‘Tt is eaten in 
undivided, downy Lespes, | 
filled half Way with the Mould, and then let the 
beft and moft Promifing of them be carefully 
taken up;. and fet in the Pots; one in each. 
more of the fire Mould be put in; and the 
young Plant fecured upright, and well fixed: 
Then let them have a very gentle watering from 
4. Bot with {mall Holes; and let them be “fet in 
a hot Bed with Tanners Bark. 
Let them be kept here with Care; watering: 
them at times, and giving them as much Air-as 
they. can.bear ; for thé more Air they have, .pro- 
vided they are not checked by it; the ftronger 
they will grow. 
When as have got to fome. Height they 
muft be removed into. larger Pots; for in the 
fmall ones there will not be then Room for their 
Roots; nor Earth enough for their Nourifhment, 
Still nothing is to be ufed: for them but Garden 
Mould. . Thefe larger Pots muft be’ half filled 
_ with this § andthe Plants are to be removed into 
thefe, keeping a good deal of the Earth: about 
them ; and the Pots are.then to be filled with 
more: they muft thus be put into the Bark Bed 
: again, and watered as.Occafion requires. 
As the Summer is by this Time advanced, the 
| Air is fitter for the Plants ; and they may be al- 
| lowed.a great deal of it, by often raifing the Glaffes. 
_ Thus they are to be kept; till they are fo tall 
as to reach the Glafs of the hot Bed Frame. If 
they were kept there longer it would fpoil their 
for they may 
now be taken to the Stove. They are there to 
| be fet in their Pots in the Bark Bed, and they 
will flower, the. hil Seafon, and continue 
feveral Years. } 
There mutt be Care to pick 
Leaves as any aré feen; and in all other Refpects 
they are to be treated in the fame Manner as 
other Stove Plants. 
called the MA D-APPL EL 
‘they ftand upon long foo Gath ; they are sBictled | 
{| at the Bafe,. fmaller to the Point, and irregularly 
wav'd at their Edges : their Colour is a pale 
green, and they are zie 
The Flowers are not of any great Beauty: 
they are moderately large, and of a dufky 
white, with more or lefs of Purple. The Fruit 
which follows thefe is of the Bignefs = a Hen’s 
Egg, white, foft and juicy. 
To know to what Clafs this Plant is to be re- 
ferred, 
the Student moe examine the Flower - 
2 
Sept 
’ off she dead 
more nearly. He will find it is placed in a Cup — 
formed of a fingle Piece, divided into five Seg- 
ments ; which remains when it is fallen, and en- 
clofes the Bafe of the Fruit. The Body of the 
Flower is compofed of a fingle Petal, divided 
deeply into five Seoments, and tubular at the 
Bottom. In its Centre ftand five Filaments of 
equal Length, and regularly difpofed : they are 
fhort,’ but they -have confpicuous oblong An- 
The 
