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NUMBER XI ns i boixmats" 
For the Second Week in WOVEMBER. 
SHTEAEERNORSREDOESREORESEREERUNEREENEREAEREEERRER EAS EEREEEONOREES 
SECTION L z 
F.L.0O-R.A,..or the Preasure-Garpdin 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
I, SHORT, THICK+LEAVD ALO E, 
Nov. HE Aloe we laft recommended to the . This Variety of Colour added to the Singu- : 
i _» Attention of our Reader, was di- larity in Form of the Leaves, renders the Plant _— 
Fiat _ ftinguifhed by its noble Afpect and "very pleafing. when no more appears; but its : 
©" ™ numerous Flowers. This claims an equal Re- Flowers, when the Seafon and right Culture call 
gard, but from another Source; its elegant 
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* COMMELINE calls. ity. Aloe Africana breviffimo 
craffffi imoque folio, flore viridi. Others, Moe. foliis 
rbomboidalibus,; and Aloe vetufa: Linw.@vus, more 
accurate than all.im his, fpecifick ‘Names, Aloe 
flovibus. fefilibus, triquetris. bilabiatis, labio- inferiore. \ 
revoluto . Aloe. with), feffile and..three fquare 
Flowers formed into two Lips, the under one 
sanides batkeds | 
vtdth asap aalallen Platt: ia valk: of. iie Aloe | 
Kindig i but- never fails. to attract the Eye, even, 
of. thofé: unaccuftomed, to. fuch Objects, when. 
: placed among the moft rich and glaring. | 
. ‘The.,Root, is COMPOS of, numerous brown 
Ribas Asien: tions inka A 
‘The Leaves fain in a , Clutter. felled its Head, 
and. taife : themfelves partly upright: They | 
are fhort, extremely thick, fharp pointed, and | 
turning down with a large thick End, appear — 
there triangular, +. 4, 
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_.Their-Colour is; a very Ene oreen, ftriped i in a 1 | 
reoular and. elegant Manner with white, and they 
are frequently “tip'd with a beautiful red at the | 
Point. 
Numb. XI, 
them forth, anfwer.to them very lik in Beauty. 
The Stalk which fupports thefe rifes in the 
Centre of the Leaves, and is eight Inches high, 
round, fmooth, and in Colour purplith. 
The Flowers are neither numerous nor Ipe- 
cious; but they appear fometimes prettily vein’d, 
and at others elegantly fimple. © 
_ When the Culture has been eu judicious, if 
| the,Plant happens to thew i its F lowers, they are 2 of 
a faint, green. 
This explains Commeanine’s. ss Pay That 
Author had. never. brought it. to flower un- 
| der. his own Care, tho’ long poflefied of it in 
Root and Leaves... ‘He sabia an Account of the 
Flowers among the Papers. of. Mynheer Wirstrn, 
with whom it had produced them weakly, and 
confequently they were defcribed green, - 
In better Culture they often appear eee 
ftriped with green and white; and where the 
Plant fucceeds beft they are perfectly.:;white. ‘Ehus 
Tin produced them at Pifa ;. and. thus, we! fhall 
inftrucét the Gardener, to bring them: forwards in 
England. 
‘They ‘are, fmall, and they crown the ‘Top of 
the Stalk raifed to, fupport them ina loofe irre- 
Ji y @ular 
