Sept. 
fets, let the Ground Be: carefully. loofened all : 
—————= over the Surface, and remov’d almoft down to 
Pl, Ill. 
Fig. < 
ome, by its Indian Name, INHAME. 
perly of the Bind-weed Kind, and its -diftinet 
Name is, ‘Convolvulus foliis cordatis angulato ner- 
-vofis cadle repente tuberifera. | 
heart-fafhion’d | sara Leaves, cand creeping 7 
7 ‘tuberiferous Stalks. 
‘more fharp-pointed Segments , 
where the Root lies’; and when the Pot is thus 
far emptied, let the Earth near the Sides: be cut 
and broken’by Means of a long blunt Knife. . 
This done; fprinkle over it a little Water ; 
\ 
then fill up the Pot fomewhat higher than it was 
before, with the fame Kind of Soil, and give 
another centle watering. 
have been ill- managed. 
Hand of a fkilful and earefil Gardener, they 
Let this bé repeated the following Autumn, 
With the fame Care they will moft 
are fome that do not till the third Seafon. Thefe 
are the weakeft of the Off-fets, or fome that 
In gerieral, under the 
will flower two Years after planting. 
Shi TUBEROUS BIND WEED, called the RED BATTATA. 
This is a Plant cultivated with us only for'C u- 
Bakcy, but in many other Places for Ufe; the 
Root being efculent. 
‘Its “moft common Name .1s the BaTratTa. 
Some, after the Spanifh, call it Camores; 
Bind - weed, with 
‘Tt is one of the mof ft elegant of aa Bind-weed 
Kind. 
fide, but white within. “Fhe Stalks are weak; and 
- when they trail, upon ithe Ground, there grow 
other fuch tuberous Lumps from. them: but it is 
better they fhould be: fupported, -otherwife the 
Plant grows dirty, and fhews little of its Elegance. 
The. Colour of the Stalk is purple: it is round, 
_ thick, and tough, and will climb to a vaft 
Height, winding, — our a teu 
- thing: near it. 
The Leaves ftand fh on long z oot- t-ftalks, 
and they are of a very elegant Form and Colour. © 
‘They are broad at the Bafe, and are there heart- 
fhap’d and angulated, or {pread out into four or 
from thence the 
Body of the Leaf is continued {maller to a Point, 
and this Part is vufually wav’d upon the Edges. 
~ The Colour is a very fine deep Breen, and the © 
Veins are purplifh. 
The Flowers grow in a fcattered Manner all 
over the Plant , 
purple Foot-ftalks, rifing from the Bofoms of the 
Leaves; and they are large, and of a Bell-like 
Shape. Each ig compos’d of a fingle Petal, and 
plac’d in a {mall Cup, divided into five Parts at 
the Edge. The Body of the Flower is form’d of 
a fingle Petal, which is narrow at the Bottom, and 
' fpreads to a great Breadth at the Top, where it is 
folded, and, as it were, wav’d at the Edge. Its 
Colour, when moft perfect, is a celeftial blue, 
“Tis from the Colour of | 
the Outfide of this the Plant is called red, for the ! 
Flowers are ufually blue: in this: Refpect of Co- 
Jour, however, neither Root-nor Flower are con-— 
ftant; the Plant-varying according to the Soil and 
~ Situation, when wild, in’ both. - 
cand 
It is pro-— 
is of the Fifth Clafs of Linn aus, 
the five Male Parts PENTANDRIA. 
The Root-is tuberous, alle and sede on the Out: 
they are plac’d fingly on long 
with an Eye of gellods this Goldur goes thro* 
the Petal in its lower or tubular Fate. it 18 
throughout yellow.” Sometimes tls | altogether 
white, and fometimes reddith. , : 
This is the general Struéture of the Flower, 
which is followed by a large fhelly Seed-veffel, de- 
fended by the remaining Cup. To know the’ 
Clafs to which the Plant belongs, its inner Parts 
muft be examined. Tearing a Flower in- two, 
‘down to the Bafe, the Student will perceive there 
ftand in the tubular Part five fhort, feparate, and 
reoular F ilaments ; thefe fhew him that the Plant 
nam’d from. 
He will next 
fee a fingle Style rife among thefe Threads; and 
this fhews that the Section, to which 3 it eit ie is 
the firft, the Monoeynia. | 7 3 
_ All the Bind-weeds, and many inher Plants, 
have the Male and Female Parts of the F lower. 
thus difpofed, and are of the fame Clafs. - 
This is a Native of the Eaf and Weft- Indies, 
‘and with us will require Heat and ‘Shelter 5 but 
there is no Difficulty in raifing i It. 
The firft Care. mutt oe to get good and frefh 
Seeds. 
The Culture of the Tusrrovs Brxpwee. 
In March prepare a common Hot-Bed, and 
fow thefe ; covering them an Inch deep with the 
| Mould, ‘When the Plants have three or four 
Leaves, prepare another Hot-Bed for them, 
and let them be carefully tranfplanted into it, and 
fet at ten Inches Diftance. 
Here let them be watered often, but lightly 
each Time; and, as the Summer advances, give 
them more and more Air. When they have ftood 
in this Bed a Month, prepare an artificial Soil of 
Garden-Mould and rotted Wood, and fill fome 
Pots with it. Place in every one of thefe one 
Plant, and fix a Stick by it for climbing. Put 
fome of thefe Pots into the Green-houfe, and 
fome into the Stove, and treat them in each: 
Place as the other Plants, according to the Sea- 
fon : the Green-houfe Plants will thrive beft during 
Summer, and fome will flower. The Flowers are 
_ lafting, and have a great deal of Beauty. 
6. BIXA, 
Sept. 
and fome of the ftrongeft Plants will flower the --— 
next Year. 
of thern flower afterwards ; but commonly there 
