122 A COMPLEAT BODY 
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cular Spike. Sometimes they grow clofe to the | and oe declare the beft and hitteft forthe. Nov 
o———— Stalk, as. Linn aus exprefles them ; fometimes | Plant there defcribed. | nS 
each has its feparate flender Pedicle: Thefe are We fhall convince them that both declare 
ufually very fhort, but fometimes a little longer, | otherwife. 
and they are always of the Colour of that Part of | The Plant, tho’ a Species of the Aloe, is fin- 
the Stall frotfi whence they rife. i gular i in it Nature, Qualities, and original Soil 3. 
- The Flower, de mined with a curious Eye; 1s | and what favours the others will ftarve it. 
found to be tubular toward the Bafe, and ex- Moft of the Aloe Kind live naturally in a 
panded at the Mouth: ‘it is marked obfcure- | loole, dry Earth ; but this on the contrary is ne- 
ly with three Ridges in the tubular Part, and {| ver found wild in its native Climate, but on— 
divided in an irregular Manner at the Opening Clay. | is 
into two Lips: the lower one of thefe always This all who know the Plant declare * = ‘< poe 
This is the proper Direétion for its Soil with “sill. 
rolls back; and ufually all the Segments do 
us; for it will be in vain we mimick the Heat of ashe 
~ more of lefs the fame. 3226 
The Flower has no Cup, but adheres naked to 
the Stalk; and within ftand fix Filaments, 
each crowned with an oblong Button; with a 
fingle Style in their Centre, terminated by a 
three parted Top, or Stigma. | 
When the Filaments are tracttl to their Bot- 
toms,: they will be found ifferted on the Re-— 
ceptacle. This is a Singularity in a Flower 
formed of one Petal, and abundantly. diftin- | 
puifhes the Aloe Kind from all others: 
The Clafs and Place in. the Linn man Syftem 
are feen fo obvioufly in this Flower we need © 
but name them. The fixth Clafs in the Me- 
 thod of that Author comprehends thofe Plants 
which have fix regular Filaments in the Flower ; 
and this is one of them. Behe 
Its fingle Style determines it aif to the firft 
Section of that Clafs, and the Student wants not 
our Affiftance in determining it to be one of ~ 
the Hexandria Monogynia. 
It is fingular in this Aloe that it has not the 
bitter refinous Juice with which the Leaves of 
moft others abound. When a Leaf is cut what runs 
- from it is watery, colourlefss and perfeétly infipid, 
\ 
ie ~ Culture of the THICK-LEAV'D Aon. » 
We have obferved this Species often lofes 
half its Beauty by an injudicious Management. 
We fee in the Article of its Juice, how much. 
it differs from the common Aloes; and every 
Thing we know concerning it declares the fame 
Singularity : yet the Gardener, becaufe. it is an 
Aloe fuppofes.it muft be ufed like the Reft, and 
gives it the fame Culture. 
What this is all may know; for there is but 
one Source whence it is taken; the Garde- 
ners Dictionary ; compiled as the 7; itle fays, (not- 
withftanding all its Greek) by Mr. Purnip Mit- 
teER. ‘The Authors from whom that Work js 
principally colleéted, knew little of the Culture 
of Exotics; therefore what could be compiled | 
from them, though vouched by the Tefti: 
mony of ’em <all (for all copied one another) ) 
muft have been very deficient ; and what ig ad- 
ded little affifts in the Inftruéction. 
The Soil in which the Aloes thrive beft, that 
Book informs the Reader, is two fourths light 
Earth ; and Sand, and Lime Rubbifh, of each 
one fourth, 
This is dire€ted equally for all the Aloes; and 
this the Gardeners therefore fuppofe that Reafon . 
I 
its Climate, if we ignorantly commit it to an im- 
proper Mould. | Loo 
This is the true Foundation for the C ethics of 
Plants; and we muft; for the publick Utility, re 
mind the Proprietors. of the Work juft nam’d, who 
are now giving a new Edition, that it would have 
become their Author, wholeence he is, in this 
Inftance, to have kept his Promife of treating: 
thofe Species diftinétly, which require a parti- 
cular Culture ;:-and that we hope he will re. 
gard it better in fucceeding Articles. | 
- After this unwilling. bue neceflary_ Cenfure on 
a Work intended to be ufeful, we fiiall be un- 
dérftood not to direét a different Management of 
this Plant from Inexperience and Error (becaufe 
|. 1t contradicts what is there given) but from the 
Dictates of Reafon and Authority of ‘Frial, 
To imitate the natural Soil; let the Gardener 
feek for a-firmloamy Earth under the Furf-in | 
fome Pafture which lies on the Defcent of a 
Fill. He will ufually find it of a yellowifh 
brown Colour, and covered with an Ihch or twa 
of Mould. 
~ Let him pare off the Turk, aad) this light Cox 
“—_~ en 
Let him take Home a Barrow full of the clean: 
Loam, and mix with it a Quarter of a Pound of 
Salt and a Peck of ftiff Marle. ~ 
Let thefe be put together early in Spring , and 
_ they will be ready for Ufe by Wiidtain ess 9 
The Marle will have fufficiently’ opened the 
Body of the Loam by this Time, and’ the Sea-: 
| fon will be come for propagating the Plant, 
This is very eafy, for the Aloe is- fo full of 
Life that every Leaf will grow. 
Let therefore half a Juice of the fretheft ae 
fineft of the Leaves be taken from the lower Part 
of fome flourifhing Plant. . Let thefe be laid on! 
a Shelf in any Room three. Days: and’ they wil 
be then fit to fet, | | 
Fill as many middle -fized Pots with the 
Compoft. Set one Leaf in each,. with the Pare 
where it adhered to the old Plant downwards, 
and cover it up half the Heighth with the Mould: 
Give it a very gentle Watering. 
Set’ the Pots ‘in’ a Bark’ Bed of ‘a moderate 
Heat, and fhade them from the Sun. * 
‘Every other Evening givé them a gentle Wa- 
ter, and in the Middle of the Day admit fome Air 
by raifing the Glafies, 
Thus shey will root ; and in. this Manis they 
- will 
| vering which has arifen from’ the rotted Leaves — 
of Graths and-the Dung ‘ufed as Manure. ee 
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