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Auguft. very well in their Pots; and they are Bien to 
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Time they are to be carry’d into the Green- 
houfe. 
There is nothing in which the Generality of 
Gardeners fail fo much as Planting: Time mutt 
be allow’d, and Care taken, in placing thefe 
young Grraniums in their Pots: and the Eye of 
the Mafter fhould be over his Gardener at the 
doing it; for it is the laft Trouble they require, 
and they will receive no Check from it, if 
rightly manag’d. 
When they are in the Green-houfe, they muft Auguft. 
be fet in the moft airy Place, and not fhelter’d 
by larger Plants. They muft have, now and 
then, a little Water, and the Surface of the 
Earth muft be ftirr’d once in a Month. In Sum- 
mer, when they are fet out, the Earth fhould be 
taken off two Inches deep, and its Place fupply’d 
by a frefh Parcel of the fame artificial Soil. 
This was the Practice I caus’d to be obferv’d 
at the late Lord Perrn’s, at Thorndon, in Effex ; 
and it was owing to this that his Geranrums ex- 
celled thofe of all Europe. 
§ OLEANDER, 
This is a Plant eminently diftinguifh’d by its 
Beauty. The common or fingle Kind has been 
always efteem’d one of the greateft Ornaments 
of a Green-houfe ; but the double OLEANDER as 
much exceeds that, as the fineft Garden-Flower 
the wild Weeds that grow near it. It is a well- 
known Plant: 
common Writers Nerium and OLEANDER, and 
Its proper Name is 
Nevium foliis lineari-lanceolatis terms. 
It is a Native of almoft all the warm Cli- 
mates, Syria, Paleftine, the Indies, and the Greek 
Iflands; and it flourifhes with us perfectly well, 
under that Degree of Care we allow our com- 
mon Green-houfe Plants. | 
It is a fhrubby Plant, of fix Foot in Height: 
the Subftance of the Stem is tender, and its 
Bark is brown. ‘The young Branches are green 
and juicy. The Leaves are feven Inches long, 
an Inch broad; of a fine green on the upper 
Side, and filvery underneath. The Flowers are 
numerous, very large, and of a glorious Pur- 
ple; they grow in Clufters all over the upper — 
Part of the Branches, and cover the Plant with 
a moft elegant Colour. 
We have reprefented them in the Figure 
fingle and double: the latter is their Condition 
of moft Elegance; but in the other we fee them 
from the Hand of Nature; and it is there the 
Student is to trace their Structure, and learn 
the Clafs to which the Plant belongs. 
Each Flower, examined carefully, is form’d 
of a fingle Petal, narrow at the Bafe, and. 
fpreading to a great Breadth at the Verge, 
where it is Hed by flight Segments, into five 
Within ftands the Necrarium, which 
is of a fingular Structure, and adds not a little 
to the Beauty of the Flower. It is a kind of 
Coronet, terminating the narrow or tubular 
Part; and it is divided into Capillary Segments. 
_ Deeper in the Flower ftand the Threads or 
Filaments, from which the Clafs of the Plant 
is to be learn’d: thefe are five in Number, and 
they are very fhort, and lodg’d within the tu- 
bular Part: the Buttons or Anthere are fhap’d 
like Arrow-heads; they converge together, and 
they are terminated by long Threads like Hairs. 
In the Center, among thefe, ftands the Rudi- 
ment of the Fruit; it is a roundifh Button, 
{plit at the Summit, and crown’d with Stigmata, 
or Tops, the Styles of which are fcarce per- 
her oo 
the vulgar call it Roszpay, the © 
ceptible they are fo fore The Seed-veffel is 
double, and the Seeds are wing’d with Down. 
The Flower ftands in a fmall Cup, form’d of a 
fingle Piece, divided into five Segments, and 
this remains with the Fruit. 
If the Student recolleéts what we have written 
concerning the Method of Linnavs, under 
the firft Article, he will eafily underftand in 
what Manner this Plant is arrang’d in that 
Author’s Syftem: the Filaments are five, and 
of the common Difpofition: it is therefore one 
of the Genera of his Fifth Clafs. This he calls 
PENTANDRIA; 2 Term form’d of two Greek 
Words, as the others, and fignifying a Plant 
in whofe Flower the Male Parts are five. 
From this, as in other Cafes, the Student will 
-alfo extend his Knowledge; and obferve that 
whatever other Plant he finds, in whofe Flower 
there are five Filaments plainly difpos’d, that i ig 
| alfo of the pentandrous Clafs. 
The Rudiment of the Fruit being fing ne it 
belongs alfo to the firft Section of this Clafs : 
it is therefore diftin@tly one of the PENTANDRIA 
Monocynia Of LInNAUwS. 
-Thus Nature fhews the Flower of OLzanper, | 
but Culture renders it double, and fometimes 
alfo ftrip’d. In this Cafe, it confifts of numerous 
Petals, and in Form and Colour refembles a 
fine Rofe; which it exceeds in Smell, 
The Amfterdam Garden ea i all Europe with 
this elegant Plant. 
The Culture of the OLEANDER. 
In Autumn prepare for it an artificial Soil, 
which is to lie all Winter for the fucceeding 
Summer’s Ufe, as in the former Inftance. In 
Holland, they make it thus: Mix together two 
Loads of rich Garden Mould, a Load of rotted 
Leaves, from the Sweepings of the Garden, and 
half a Load of Sand. Let this be turn’d feveral 
Times during the Winter, and in this the double 
NeRium is to be rais’d from Cuttings; for it 
rarely produces its Seeds, and fcarce ever brings 
them to Perfection. 
In the Middle of May let this Mixture be 
- form’d into a Bed, of two Foot deep, and hoop’d 
for fhading. 
Plant good Cuttings ; as foon as the Bed is 
made up; water the Whole to {fettle the Earth 
to them, and cover it up two Days and Nights, 
admitting Air only at the Ends: After this, let 
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