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Nov. 
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A COMPLEAT BODY 
Wood- Pile ; adel: to this one eighth Part vy | 
large Sand, and Acatter over it a little frefh 
made Lime. ~ 
Let this lie four Months to mellow, and it will 
then be ready for Ufe. 
Fill half Way up with it feveral Pots, and place 
evenly upon it Roots obtained from the Wef- 
Indies ; or Off-fets from fuch as have grown in 
other Gardens. The Difference is very great ; 
- but when the fine native Roots cannot be had, 
we muft be content with the others. 
The taking away the Off-fets is an effential — 
Part of the Care and Management of the 
Plant, becaufe they always weaken it when 
they are fuffered to remain, and prevent the 
Beauty of its full Tuft of Flowers. . Whether 
feparated from them for this Caufe, or obtained 
for the raifing of the Plant, the Management 
mutt be the fame as that of the full grown Roots 
brought over for that Purpofe. 
If there be an Opportunity of getting well 
grown Roots from the Spot, Directions muft be 
given for taking them out of the Ground as foon 
as their Leaves are withered, and tying them up 
fingly, for fending over by the firft Ship. They 
will come thus without the leaft Damage, and 
- will rather be ftrengthened than hurt by being 
kept that Time out of the Ground. 
Various as the Condition and Value of thefe 
feveral Kinds of Roots and Off-fets are, the famé 
Method is to be followed. 
Let fome Pebbles be put into the Bottom of | 
each Pot; and then as much of the Compoft 
poured in as will half fill it, or more, .if for an 
Off-fet; but fomewhat lefs if for a full grown 
Root. 
_ As foon as the Roots arrive, plant them one 
in each Pot; or if they be Off-fets, as foon as 
they are taken from the Mother Root. 
Pour in more of the Compoft about them, 
and let it rife half an Inch above their Head. 
{ > Let the Pots be then fet in a warm, fheltered,, 
| and fhady Place: 
a vety little Water, and thus let them remain till 
_give them once in four Days 
Autumn. Then bring them into the warmeft 
Part of the Garden, a let them ftand till the 
cold Nights begin to threaten. 
They will by this Time have fent up the firft 
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Shoots of their Leaves; and they muft then be — 
removed into the Greenhoufe, and after fome 
Here they are to be wa- 
Days into the Stove. 
tered now and then; and the Earth at Times 
{tirred at the Top of the Pots. 
get Strength during the Winter; and the next 
Year the full grown Roots will flower: fome- 
times during the Winter. 
The Off-fets will be longer before they thoot 
‘They will thus: 
for flowering ; . and if Care be omitted, they will - 
come on but weakly: but with right Manage- » 
ment they will in Time become eh! to the full 
grown Roots, except to fuch are new brought 
fron their native Climate. 
After this they muft be taken up once in twe 
Years, and their Off-fets removed and nurfed up 
This is the Method of making this elegant 
Plant flower favourably ; and of enfuring a> 
Succeffion : 
Strength for flowering well, is to pare away the 
upper Part of the Earth once a Year; and when 
| the Shoot for a Stalk appears, to forward it by 
frequent Waterings, 
BLE. 
Fig, 3. 
3 HERBACEOUS TETRAGONIA.” 
“The Singularity of this Genus could not fail 
of recommending it to the Curious, tho’ it were 
wholly defective in Point of Beauty. 
Every one who has treated of it has been 
ftruck with the Peculiarity of its Afpect,; and 
many have defcribed, who know not what to 
call it. 
cies of it, under the Name of Eunonymo affinis 
portulace folio: and ComMeELinE Calls this Te- 
tragonocarpos Africana radice magna craffa et car- 
no/a. 
Linnzus foftens the Name, and writes it 
Tetragonia, adding a Diftinétion from the Fi- - 
cure of the Leaves, fois ovatis: 
oval-leav’d 
Tetragonia. The other being fhrubby, and this 
a tender ftalked Plant, the familiar Englifh Name 
“tg derived thence, Herbaceous Tetragonia. 
The Root is vaft foft, tender, yellow, and 
long, hung with a few Fibres, and of a pleafant 
Tafte. 
Many Stalks grow from the Head of this, 
I 
Srpa has given a Figure of a Shrabby Spe- 
and they fpread wantonly upon the Ground, 
ftrageling irreoularly on the Surface free, or en- 
tangled one among another. They are round, 
tender, purplifh or yellowifh at the Bottom, 
elfewhere green, and not much branched. © 
‘The Leaves are placed upon them fingly and. 
irregularly. 
They are fmall at the Bafe, and gradually en- 
large toa broad rounded End. Their Colour is 
a lively green, and their Ribs are fcarce per- 
ceptible. They are thick and juicy, and have a 
pleafant fub-acid Tafte. 
The Flowers are very numerous, and of a 
perfect gold Colour. They are not large, but 
each has. in its Centre a vaft Tuft of Filaments, 
all of the fame gold yellow. 
The Seed-Veffel is very fingular; it is of a 
fquare Shape, and of a woody Subftance. Four 
Edges mark the Angles, and they are raifed into 
a Kind of Wings.” Within is contained a fingle 
Stone, in which are four Kernels. 
The Flower is placed fingly on its Foot. ftalk, 
and 
- feveral together in a Pot, till they come towards - 
flowering. 
all that is required to inter it * 
