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O@ob. make a Compoft very like the Earth in which 
the Plant naturally grows. | 
Fill as many Pots with this as there are » good | 
Roots, and carefully lay one Root in each, co-. 
vering it-two Inches deep. Give the Pots a very | 
gentle Watering, and fet themt in fome Place where 
there is Shade and Shelter. They muft be now 
and then refrefh’d with a little Water, and | 
left to Nature for fhooting. - 
| After fome Time the firft Shoots of the Leaves 
_will appear, and this muft be watch’d; for it ‘is 
the Signal for removing them into a more — ’d | 
Place. : a 
Let them i in this Condition be fet tee the 
A GO Me POLE Ar? /B.O D ¥ 
~ Greenhoufe Plants, where they are plic’d out t for the Odiobs 
Summer, and every Evening gently water’d. The a 
Leaves will thus foon exparid themfelves. _ : 
Thus they are ‘to ftand till the Time of taking ; 
in the Greenhouf Plants, and they are then to be - 
remov’d with them, and manag’d in all Refpetts 
_as the reft.. After this they will flower every Year, 
and their Evening Sweetnefs is very agreeable. 
When they are thus eftablifh’d, their Roots will 
- produce Off-fets, from which the Plants may be 
| encreas’d; but thofe which are obtain’d this. 
Way, never equal in any Refpe& fuch as are 
rais’d from good Roots brought from Africa. | 
ig SOL WER ¥Y “PREGHE E.A. 
Pl. VII. 
a Right to claim for it.a Place in the beft Col- | 
lection; had it no Fruit or Flower. 
They have not only Beauty, but Variety ; ies 
{carce two Shrubs of it are in this Refpect alike. 
It is a Native of Africa, and there the White- 
nefs. and the Luftre of its innumerable Leaves, 
make all other Trees poor in the Comparifon : it 
_reprefents a Shrub of wrought Silver. 
With us it lofes much of this Luftre, pige e 
retains Beauty enough to recommend it to the beft 
_ Notice, and varies in Colour every where. 
No Shrub has been more efteem’d, nor has any _ 
been diftinguifhed a fo many, or fo pompous 
Names. 
' Pruxenet has calld it Leucadendros, as he 
White Tree. . Ray, Argyrodendros, The Silver 
brec.:) ane B OERHAAVE, _ Conocarpodendron. 
Tournerort has rank’d it as a Species. of Glo- 
bularia. And each of thefe, befides the different 
Generical Names, has divided it under that va- 
riety of Appearances we have nam’d,. into a 
Number of diftin& Species. | | 
The Tree is one and the fame in all tho 
Forms, and Linn aus has juftly eftablith’d, and 
well exprefs’d this, by calling it Protea, The 
Changing Tree. oy 
There is a diftinét Kind with brown a oval 
Leaves, from which he has feparated this more 
, ufual and beautiful Species, under the Name of 
Protea foliis lanceolatis obliquis acutis fparfis flora- 
libus verticillatis: Protea, with oblique, acute, 
{pear-pointed, fcattered Leaves, and with the flo- 
ral ones plac’d verticillately.. 
At rifes with us to a handfome Shrub, and 
{preads out varioufly in Branches. The Root i 1s 
brown and fpreading: the Trunk is dufky, and | 
the Branches are paler. 
At the Tops they ufually retain oe natural fil- 
very whitenefs of the Tree, as do the. young 
Leaves; and whatever be the general Change i in 
this Plant, yet thefe Parts view’d in a full Sun, 
fhining on them, have a Luftre vafttly fuperior to 
any other Vegetable, and qotrhy of the Character 
a 
The young Botanift is here to be made ac- 
Fig. 5, quainted with a Shrub, whole Leaves alone have 
the Stature of a moderate Tree. 
_ adry but not too poor Soil; and its Fruits ripen 
_ in fuch Abundance there, that ’tis eafy to obtain 
—them.: 
-thofe give it. who have admir’d it in its native 
Soil. 
The Leaves are oblong, narrow, fharp-pointed, 
and varioufly plac’d,. obliquely and otherwife, fo 
that they fhew themfelves always in many Forms. 
They are ferrated elegantly at the Edges, and 
they are of a firm Subftance. Their Colour, 
naturally, is a.perfect white, and their Afpeét 
between Silk and Silver. They. are cover- 
ed with a fine light se and glitter in the | 
Light. : ! 
The Flowers are fingly inconfiderable, but the | 
Fruit is as elegant as the Leaves. It refembles the 
Cone ‘of our F irs or Pines, in Structure, but it 
appears form’d of Silver. : 
The Flowers are difpos’d in the fmall ‘Head, 
which afterwards ripens into this. filvery Fruit. 
Fach is form’d of a fingle Petal; which is 
tubular, and divided into four Segments at the 
Rim; and. within it ftand four Filaments with 
their Buttons, and a fingle Style. Thefe fall ; and 
_ then the Fruit enlarges without altering its Figure. 
Thefe Flowers, where there is an Opportunity 
of feeing,them, ' fhew the Tree to be of the fourth 
Clafs of Linnavus, the Tetrandria; Plants in 
whofe Flower the male Parts are four: and the 
fingle Style declares it alfo to be one of thof 
which form the firft Se€tion of that Clafs,. the 
Monogynia: thofe with a — female:Part. 
ge of the SILVERY PROTEA 
“It is a Native of Africa, where it grows to 
It thrives bet in 
From thefe the Seed is eafily pick’d out, 
and it will freely grow. 
«This therefore is the beft wey of raifing the 
: Sh rub. 
_> Early in ‘Spring mix up the following Compott : 
Put together one Barrow of Earth, ‘feet under 
the Turf in a rich hilly Pafture, a Barrow and 
_ half of Earth from under a Wood- Pile, and half 
a Barrow of sand; break over this two moderate 
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