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tiful red, and they have a Fragrance fuperior to 
—— almoft any other Flower. 
PLIV. 
‘ flender Tube. 
pear a kind of double Pods fucceeding each, and { 
Fach has a {mall green Cups and is itfelf com- 
pos’d of a fingle Petal, tho’ fo divided at the O- 
pening, that it appears form’d of five large ones, 
of an oval Figure. Its lower Part is a long and 
When the Flowers fall, there ap- 
full of large imbricated Seeds. : 
To know to what Clafs it belongs, the Student 
muft tear down the tubular Part of the Flower. 
He will in this find five Filaments growing from 
about its Middle: thefe are equal in Length, and 
regular in Difpofition; therefore the Clafs is to be 
determined from their Number; and the Student 
finds it is the Fifth of the Linn an Syftem, di- | 
ftinguifhed by the Name Penranpria. In the 
Centre of thefe rifes the Female Part, which is 
fingle, but terminated by two little Coronets. ‘The 
Singlenefs of the lower Part, has occafioned Lin- 
- nus to place it among the Monocynia: it is 
therefore one of the firft Section of this fifth Clafs. 
The Culture of the PLuMERIA. | 
Its Culture muft be this: Let the farft Care be 
to obtain from famaica, where it is native, fome 
good Seeds, gather’d when full ripe, and of the 
Jaft Year’s Growth. 
Let a Mixture of equal Parts, fine Garden- 
Mould, and the rotten Matter from the Bottom 
ase 
GARDENING. 
, 
of a Wood-Pile, be carefully made, and with that Sept. 
fill a couple of. middle-fiz’d Pots. 
thefe fow about twenty of the Seeds, covering 
them with half an Inch of the fame Earth; give 
them a gentle Watering, and place the Pots in a 
Bark Bed. Leave all to Nature, and the Seeds 
will fhoot. 
Let the young Plants be thin’d, till only three. . 
remain in each Pot, and let them be refrefh’d oc- 
| cafionally with Air and Water, as they require one, 
and will bear the other. 
When they are of fome Weeks Growth, take 
_ Up two out of each Pot, leaving only the ftrongeft 
Plant. Set thefe carefully in other Pots, and 
bn Gach -of 
then give all of them the fame Care and Maz | 
nagement. | 
After this, let one of the principal Pots be te- 
mov’d into the Greenhoufe, and the other into the 
Stove, and let them be manag’d there as the other’ 
Plants. Let their dead Leaves be pull’d off as they 
appear. Let them ftand free from other Things; 
that they may not be drawn up weak, by means 
| of their Shade; and let them be water’d as they 
-—Fequire it. : 
‘This Method, which we direét for many other 
Plants, will fhew in what Situation they thrive 
beft, and flower faireft,; what Degree of Heat 
each abfolutely requires, and what Cold it will 
bear, without perifhing: this is an important 
Point, and can be determined only by Experience, 
‘ 
3. PEAR-FRUITED SOLANUM. 
This is a Plant whofe extreme Singularity en- 
Fig. 3. titles it to the Notice of all who delight in thefe 
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Things; and which is never pafs’d over without 
Notice by the moft incurious Obferver. Its vul- 
gar Name is the Barbadoes Batchelor’s Pear: fome, 
from its Fruit having the Shape of a Breaft 
with its Nipple, have called it Solanum imammofum. 
Linn us names it, Solanum caule aculeato herba- 
cco, foliis cordatis quinquelobis, utrinque villofis acu- 
leatis. Herbaceous Nightfhade with prickly Stalks, 
and Leaves heart-fafhion’d, divided into five Parts, 
and prickly. ie at | 
- Itis a fpreading Plant of a Yard high, The Stalk 
is green and round, and it is arm’d with many ftrong 
crooked Thorns. The Branches fpread themfelves 
irregularly, and. the Leaves ftand thick upon them. | 
They are extremely fingular.and beautiful. Each 
has its feparate Footftalk, and the Shape is fome- 
what Heart-like. They are broad at the Bafe, where 
they are ufually indented for the Reception of the 
Stalk, and they have five principal Divifions. Their. 
Colour is a ftrong green, but it is rendered paler 
by a downy Matter that hangs about both Sides 
of them; and they are arm’d on each Side with 
numerous upright yellow Thorns. | | 
The Flowers are fcattered over various Parts 
of the Plant; and they are not confiderable. 
Each is form’d of a fingle Petal, which is tubular 
a little Way at the Bottom, and form’d into five 
large Segrnents at the Edge; and the Colour is 
naturally white, but fometimes dafh’d irrecularly 
with a dufky Purple. 
‘Stalk. : 
pure bright. gold yellow. The Plant will often 
| ithe Bowles the confpicuous Produ&; this is 
faid to be of the Shape of a Pear, but that is an 
indeterminate Word, Pears being of various 
Forms : it refembles, in Shape and Size, a comi- 
mon Fig, but grows at the large End to the 
Its Skin is fmooth, and its Colour is a 
have forty of thefe upon it at a time; and, ih that 
Cafe, makes a very confpicuous Appearance, 
To know its Clafs, the Student muft tear open 
a Flower. He will find its inner Structure per- 
fectly correfpond with that of the Ege Nightfhade: | 
This fhews hin to what Clafs it belongs, namely, the 
PENTANDRIA ; -and that it is of the firft Section, 
Monoeynia; the Filaments being five, and the 
Style fingle among them. It’ alfo thews him 
fomething more; it juftifies Linn avs upon the 
Principles of his own Method for joining that 
Plant with the Nightfhades, | 
_ Tournerort,whom thepopularWriters follow, 
_ feparates the Mad-apple as a diftin& Genus, under 
the Name Melongena; butit is feen, upon Enquiry, 
that as the Filaments are the fame in Number and 
Difpofition, fo are the feveral other Parts of the 
Flower. 
The Culture of the Pear-fruited Sovaxvm., 
Take Care to have ripe Seeds, either fromm 
Plants that have grown here, or, what is much” - 
better, from the American Ifands, in moft of 
which it 1s common. : 
Let 
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