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mata, he mutt clafs the Plants, let the Fila: 
oem ments and Styles be they ever fo fhort, or even 
be shiey inconfpicuous. 
Culture eof this Ascuarras. 
go Plant is a “Native of North America, and : 
“may therefore be raifed with us eafily, and kept 
alive with little Trouble ; but? though the Cold | -. 
it. bear.ours | 
well, we have not the Heat: our Summers do | 
of its natural Climate makes. - 
not equal theirs. 
Therefore to uae the Plant ote. in all its | 
| tle of their own Earth, and plant them feverally 
Glory, we mutt oa it ane Affiftance of. the 
— Stove. 
Pl. XV, 
Fig. 6. 
The Soil in Whisk} it my naturally take is a 
loofe, light, rich Mould, fuch as is common 
on the Edges of Forefts, where broken Boughs 
‘and decayed Leaves have rotted upon it, and co- 
_vered it from Year to Year, rendering it at once 
rich and mellow. . a. 
This let the careful Gardener imitate by the 
following Compoft. 
- Mixa Barrow of good Earth from under the 
Turf in a Meadow, half a Barrow of Pond 
Mod, and a Barrow of rich Earth from under 
an old Wood.pile. 
6 ALOE WITH 
Few of the Aloes deferve more than this, the 
Attention of the Curious in Exoticks, 
The Form and Variegations of the Leaves 
which always retain their Beauty, give it a plea- 
fing Afpect the whole Year ; and when in F lower 
it is extremely handfome. 
ComMELINE has defcribed it under the Name 
of Aloe Africana flore rubro folio maculis albis ab 
utraque parte notato. Linn £us more correét than 
all others in his Names of Species, Aloe floribus 
pedunculatis, pedunculis, ovato cylindricis curvis. 
Aloe [with Flowers on bent, ovato-cylindrick 
Foot-ftalks. 
The Root is fibrous. 
~ The Leaves rife from its Head in a confidera- 
ble Number, and are broad, flat, thick, and ten 
Inches or more in Length. Their Colour is a 
beautiful {trong Green, and they are fpotted in 
a various and perfectly irregular Manner, on the 
upper and under Side with White. 
The Tips and Edges of thefe alfo have their 
Singularity. While they are young, they are 
white and edged with a tranfparent Rim: 
this foon lofes itfelfon the Edges, which grow 
fough and unequal, from its Fragments, but 
on the End of the Leaf, it remains longer. 
- From the Bofom of the central Leaves comes the 
flowering Stalks, ufually there rife two of thefe, 
but fometimes there is only one; it is round, not 
very upright, of a greenifh Colour tinged with 
Red, and two Feet and a half high. 
This with good Culture will be loaded almoft 
Let thefe be well ftirred to- 
| Stalk, 
Soils. 
- that it be placed im fmall Pots, where the Root 
_ gether, and thrown in a Heap ‘till wanted. 
Let fome of the Seeds be procured from North 
| America, and Directions given that they be 
| gathered when full Se 3 and fent over in the 
1 Pods. | ! 
Ta, the beginning of March, fow thefe upon a 
moderate Hot-bed, and when the Plants appear, 
forward them by frequent gentle Waterings. 
When you can fee which are the ftrongeft 
Plants, pull up the others, ‘referving oiily. fo 
Many as you chufe to raife. 
, Let them ftand in this Bed till they crowd one 
another: then take them carefully up with a lis- 
in fmall Pots, fill’d with the Compoft. 
Give them a gentle Watering, fet them ina 
Bark-bed, and Made them till they are well 
“To0tCd. 
Then by Beavis harden them to the Air, ad 
bring them out in uly among the Green houfe 
Plants. 
For this Year they are only to be fet in the 
- Green-houfe in Winter, and taken out with the . 
reftin Spring ; but the fucceeding Autumn, ‘let 
one or more of: the fineft of chenbe tied into 
the Stove, and they will then flower with the full 
Beauty they have-in their. natural Climate. 
SPOTTED TO NGU E-LIKE LEAVES. 
‘ . 
from the Bottom to Top with Flowers, and thefe 
difpofed in a very elegant Manner; they arife 
fingly with long red Foot-ftalks, of a hooped - 
Form, fo that “they are brought near the main 
though not to touch it, and are intermix- 
ed with a fine Irregularity one among another. 
They are of a tubular Form, giad their Co- 
lour is a perfect Scarlet. - | 
They have no Cup but adhere naked to the 
_ Foot-ftalk ; one Petal forms each of them, andit is 
{welled toward the Bafe, fmaller at the Neck, 
/ and nipped into fix Segments at the Mouth, fix 
‘Filaments, and a fingle Style are placed in it, as 
| in the other Aloes, and this refers it ‘to the firft 
Seétion of the fixth Linn & an Clafs, the Hexan- 
dria pdt tae 
Culture of this Ato. 
It is a Native of Africa, and there thrives in 
the Clefts of Rocks, and in the moft barren 
This refers its Culture to two Articles; 
may have no more Room than in its natural 
Growth, and that the Soil be poor ; for the reft, 
the Culture we have given for the other African 
Aloes, will-with it. 
The old Plants produce Off-fets every Seafon ; 
and thefe are tobe planted in the Manner we have 
before directed, and they will flower the fecond 
Year. : i 
E CHAP. 
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