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OF GARDENING. 
The Plant is a Native of the Ea and Weft-In- 
dies, where it flowers all Summer; and it will | 
live with us and flower abundantly, if allow’d a 
proper Soil, and the common Culture given to the 
Natives of thofe warmer Climates. | 
Culture of the Crvuon Prumgaco: 
As the Root is perennial, the Plant may be 
propagated from its feparated Parts, where it is" 
‘once well eftablifh’d: but it muft firtt be rais’d 
from Seeds. Thefe do not often ripen in Ezrope; 
and as they may be eafily obtain’d from Faniaica, 
’tis beft to depend on them at home. 
Early in Spring they mutt be lown Ate a mno- 
derate Hot-Bed. 
When the Plarits are rifen to a little more than 
two Inches, they muft be tranfplanted into another 
Hot-Bed, at four Inches Diftance; and when they 
have in this acquired a confiderable Strength, 
they are to be planted out into fmall Pots. 
Common Garden-Mould ferves for the Cover- 
ing of the two Hot-Beds; but for the Pots there 
fhould be prepar’d an artificial Soil, fuch ‘as thé 
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Plant naturally loves: this muft be light and 
mellow: It thay be very well comipos’d of River- 
Mud and Wood-Earth, each equal Quantities, 
and half the Quantity of one of them of Cow- 
Dung. ‘This being mix’d and mellow’d in Time, 
muft be put into the {mall Pots, and one of the 
Plants fet in each. 
Thefé muft have a very y light and carefull Wa- 
teririg, and then they muft be fet nearly up to the 
Root freely, and pufh Fibres for a good Growth. 
From this Place, when very well eftablith’d 
in theif Pots, they muft be remov’d into a Frame 
Tops say the Pots in a Bark-Bed, to make them {trike © 
with a Glafs Cover, and there, by Degrees, inur’d oo 
to the Air. 
“After this, largei Pats muft be prepar’d for 
them, and they muft be carefully planted into 
thefe j in the fameé artificial Soil; and here they may 
remaiii. 
They are to be fet out among the Greeh“houfe 
Plants in Summer; and hous’d in Winter in the 
Stove. They will, ‘under this Management, 
flower happily, and the Singularity will Tender 
them very agrecable, 
3 VELVET BINDWEED. 
We raife, for the Decoration of our Gardens, 
_ Fig. 3. various Kinds of Bindweed or Convolvulus, and 
there is not one of them without its Beauty; but 
the Plant here propos’d to the Reader excels all 
by its vaft Growth, and its perpetual Verdure. 
The Characters of this Genus are fo ftrongly | 
mark’d upon all the Plants, that none have refer’d 
this to any other. 
~ Pruxener has call’d it, Convolvulus Canarienfis 
folits longioribus mollioribus &8 incanis. LINN &vus, 
Convolvulus foliis cordatis pubefcentibus caule perenni 
villofo pedunculis multiforis: Perennial hairy-ftalk 
Bind-weed, with downy heart-fhap’d Leaves, and 
many Flowers on the fame Foot-ftalk. 
This laft Character is, however, uncertain ; for 
tho’ the Flowers. often grow clufter’d in that Man- ° 
:. they fometimes ftand fingly. poate 
ec Root is thick, divided, furnifh’d with many 
_ Fibres, and fpreading. 
The Stalk is round, hairy, and naturally pur- 
ple: it rifes, where it can climb, to the Height of 
twenty Foot, and covers its Support with innume- 
rable Leaves and Branches. _ 
The Leaves are plac’d alternately, and they are 
of a diftinguifh’d Elegance. They have long 
redifh Footftalks, and their Shape is heart-like: 
they are broad and lightly indented at the Bafe; 
wav’d at the Edges; and fharp-pointed. 
They are of a pale but not unpleafing green, 
thick-covered with a greyifh filvery Down. This 
gives them a hoary Afpect, very pleafing to the 
Eye; and to the Touch a Softnefs equal to that 
of Velvet. | 
They appear various, according to their Age; 
for the Plant is covered with them at all Seafons. 
Toward the Bottom they are ofteri red, as they 
decay ; ; and on the reft of the Plant a Part of 
them are fofter and paler; thefe are the younger 
ones; and a Part of longer ftanding, dufkyer i in 
their Colon, and to the Touch more harfh. 
~ On thefe laft the Ribs-and Veins are moft con- 
{fpicuous, and they are often purplifh. 
The Flowers are large, and where the Plant is 
well eftablith’d, very numerous. 
- Some ftand fingly; others five; fix, or more, 
together: and their Colour is a {nowy white, more 
or lefs ting’d with red. | 
. Their Form is broad, and fpread out like a 
Bell. Each is form’d of a fingle Petal, expanding 
from the Bafe into this wide Rim, and folded in 
various Places. It ftands in a fall Cup, divided | 
into five light Segments ; and in its Centre rife alfo 
five fhort Filaments, crown’d with oval flatted 
Buttons. The Style is plac’d fingle among: thefe, 
but is fplit at the Top; and the Seeds are contain’d- 
in a divided Capfule. 
The Botanift, while he admires the Beauty of 
this Flower, will fee in its Filaments and Style 
the Place it claims in the Linna@an Syftem. It 
is one of the firft Seétion of his Fifth Clafs, 
the Pentandria Monogynia, explain’d in the pre- 
ceding Article. 
It is a Native of the Canary lands, but it will 
live and flower, with moderate Care, in our Clis 
mate. ‘There it delights in woody Places, and 
afcends, as Ivy, the talleft Trees: with us it muft 
be fupported by Poles properly planted ; and Pru- 
dence directs the reftraining of it far within j its na- 
tural Limits. — ; 
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