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‘O&ob, and Bignefs, and a new Hot- Bed muft be prepared 
s—£— for them. Let this have feven Inches Depth of 
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repeat the Waterings. 
‘refembles that of the Adutable Hibifcus ; 
Mould, for the Roots pierce deep, and Dung 
hurts them. On this Bed draw Lines at five 
Inches Diftance, length- -way and crofs-way ; and 
in the Center of Backs. Square, made by thefe Lines; 
place one of the Plants. 
Raife them gently from their firft Bed, not with 
a Finger, as fome direct, but with a hollow 
Trowel, and leave the Holes open to receive them, 
Set them upright, fix the Mould well about 
them, and give them a very light and gentle Wa- 
tering. | | 
Give them Air as there may be Occafion, and 
They will thus grow up 
brifkly ; and at the End of about four and twenty 
Days they will be ready for their third Hot-Bed. 
_ This muft be larger than the others, and co- 
vered with a deeper Frame., Its Mould muft be 
nine Inches thick, and the Heat moderate. 
_ Here the young Plants muft be fet at about | 
eight Inches Diftance; water’d at firft, and after- 
wards expos’d cradually to the Air. 
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It will now be Time to prepare the Border for Oavb. 
them. Let the artificial Soil, already directed, 
be laid a Spade and half deep, either in an entire 
Border, or in the Places in other Borders where 
the Plants are to ftland. Let them be carefully 
removed into this, after Sun-fet, in a dripping 
Seafon, and fhaded till they have taken Root. 
Gentle Waterings will from Time to Time be 
needful; and they will thus rife to a Yard in 
Height, fpread_ out forty or more Branches from 
a Root, and be covered with a Profufion. of 
Flowers, larger and. ofa finer Colour than thofe 
rais’d any other Way. - 
This Care is worth employing, i ceike of the 
Duration of their Flowers. They will not only 
| be full‘of Beauty in the Ground; all this and Part 
of the fucceeding Month, fo long as 'Frofts are 
gentle, but being gather’d in their Prime, they 
will retain their Beauty a vaft while, and ferve in 
the Places of artificial Flowers, in Ornaments, 
Deferts, and all the other Ufes of thofe Things, 
exceeding every Thing, that has come from the 
_ Hand of Art, in Beauty. 
a OVAL-LEAV’ D ROSE HIBISCUS. 
We have recommended to the Attention of the 
Curious, in a preceding Number, a Species of 
Hibifcus, cal’d, from the Multiplicity of Petals 
and Bignefs of the Flower, the China Rofe. . -\ 
This which we here propofe to their Regard, is 
Jittle inferior to it in Luftre; and from the fame 
Caufe has been alfo called the Rofé of China. 
Breynivus calls it the Tree Alcea, of Faviy | 
making it a Kind of Vervain Mallow. 
Linn aus juftly ranks it with the Hibifcus, and 
names it, Hibifcus foliis ovatis ferratis acuminatis 
glabris caule arboreo: that is, Shrub Hibifcus, with 
fmooth, fharp-pointed, oval, and ferrated Leaves. 
It rifes to fix or eight Foot in Height a Apreag- 
ing Shrub. 
the Srenhes is 
the younger 
The Root is fibrous and infipid 
covered with a brown rough Bark : 
Shoots are grey and fmooth, and their inner Bark | 
is green. 
. The Leaves. are’ ntimerous, ana of a harcMame 
Shane’ ; they have long Foot-ftalks, and their Co: 
lour is a pale but elegant green; they are grofly 
ferrated at the Edges, and foft to the Touch. » 
. The Flowers are very large and beautiful, they 
termihate the Branches, and their Colour is a fire 
{trong red: they are naturally double, and. the 
~ numerous Petals which compofe them, are curl’d 
and wav’d at the Tops and Edges.. 
Each Flower has a double Cup. The outer. 
‘The internal Part 
whitifh, and the inner green. : 
the Fila- 
ments being connected in the lower Part, fo as to 
form a kind of Cylinder, and their Buttons nume- | 
rous; thefe are yellow, and the Divifions of the | | 
Style are crimfon. 
The Structure of thefe Organs fhews it to be of 
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Degree of Perfection ; 
the fee Claf with the other Hibs ifeus, and of the 
fame Seétion 5 it is another of the Monadelphia Pa 
lyandria. - The Filaments being conneéted at their 
Bafe into a fingle Body, and their Buttons nume- 
rous. | 
This we have eitplain’ d under the before- nam d 
Article, and need not repeat it here. 
The Shrub is a Native of the Eaj- Indies, and 
is one of the fineft and moft valu’d of their gay 
Productions. 
ous for their Number, than, their Size and Colour, 
-and they there cover the Branches throughout all 
‘the Year. 
With us it mutt not be expected. to attain this 
but we may raife to fo 
much Excellence as to eclipfe moft of our Stove 
Plants. | 
— Its Culture need not be fet down at length, 
for it muft be the fame with that of the other 
Hibifcus, we therefore refer for this, as for the 
Explanation of its Clafs to our fecond Number. 
When it fhall have been once eftablifhed among 
| us, the Method: of propagating it muft be by 
Layers; for it very rarely ripens its Seeds in the 
Indies, and cannot well be expected’ to bring them 
to the due Perfeétion here. 
This is one of the Species we recommend to be 
- introduced as an: Addition to our common Stove 
Plants. We have been long accuftomed to fee its 
Figure in the China-Paintings ; and fome have 
thought-it, as they did the other, the Product only 
of the Defigner’s Fancy; but a better Knowledge 
of Things has now fhewn us that it is Nature ; 
and there are at this Time feveral Plants of it 
rifing in our Gardens. 
3. AFRICAN 
The Flowers are not lefs confpicu- 
