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Dec. that it adheres naked to its Foot-ftalk without a 
oe CUD s and from a long and ‘tubular Body of an 
irregular Form, opens into fix Segments at the 
Rim, or frequently one more. 
| The fix Filaments and fingle Style, which 
fhew themfelves at the Mouth of the Flower, 
‘and are continued within the tubular Part, thew 
it to be one of the fixth Clafs and firkt Section; | 
the Hexandria Monogynia, in the Linn #AN Sy- 
ftem, asareallthe other Aloe 
? 
Culture of this Avoz. 
/ 
The Culture of the Aloe Kind, having been’ 
in general laud down before, as well as the Cha- 
racter of the Clafs, we fhall not, except in Regard 
The Management of the -Flower-Garden, Gree 
| a this Waek, 
| FITS Week, if the Weather be not fo frofty | 
“as to hinder it, let the: Gardener turn all 
his Heaps of Compott ; digging up every Parcel, 
carefully breaking all Clods, and turning it up 
to the Air with a new Surface: when he has 
done this, if the Weather be dry, let him give 
every Heap a fprinkling of Water, and thus 
leave them to the Weather. 
This done without Doors, let him fee to eve- 
ry Part within. Few Weeds will rife to trouble 
him in his Gravel Walks, but let the few that ap- 
pear be taken up, and thofe Walks rolled firmly 
which are near the Houfe, that no Opportunity — 
may be loft of Walking when the Seafon per- 
mits. : | 
The Beds of Ranunculus’s, Anemonies, and 
other choice Flowers, will now require a cCare- 
ful Regard: we have direéted the planting 
them in the moft advantageous Manner; but | 
that Care will be loft, unlets all Danger be obvi- 
ated at this Seafon. _ 
If there fall, Snow it will do them no Harm; 
it rather fhields .them from other: Injuries, than 
caufes any ; and mellows the Ground which it co-> 
vers: but Froft and Rain are equally deftructive : 
we have dsected in what Manner they are be oc- 
cafionally defended, and let it now be done up- 
on, either Occafion.. . 
The Confequence of fevere Froft, if they be 
left expofed to it, is evident; and that of Rains, 
Af violent, is worfe. They not only may, by 
their own Coldnefs and Damp. rot the Roots; 
but if they fhould efcape’ this firkt Danger, the 
Wetnets of the Ground will give the next Frofts 
‘double Power upon them. 
- Let the Practice we directed laft Week for the 
Fruit-Garden, be continued this Week in the 
Flower-Grounad. 
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A -GOMPLEAT BODY 
1 &er; 
tition, but name the general Articles, 
This is one of the African Aloes, which pro- 
. duce Suckers in Abundance, ‘therefore it is eafily 
propagated: its Soil is in its natural Cli- 
mate, loofe, dry, and fandy ; therefore the ge- 
| neral Compofts we have directed for the Aloe 
Kinds, will perfeftly anfwer its Purpofe. 
_.[he Suckers are to be taken from the old 
Plants in the latter End of Summer, and they 
fhould be laid upon a Shelf two or three Days 
before they are fet: they are then to be carefully 
planted in middling Pots of the Compoft, and 
from that Time raifed with the fame Care we 
have directed for the other Kinds, 
te cade 
n-houfe, and Stove, for 
’ 
Let the Gardener mark out all Places Where — 
he can plant flowering Shrubs in Spring, : 
them two Spades depth. | | 
Let the Earth that is thus thrown up, be laid — 
in a Ridge, as the F armers throw up their 
Ground for fallowing ; and once in three Weeks, 
let it be ftirred and frefh turned during Win- 
The Severity of the Seafon will not allow the 
Green-houfe Plants to have much Air now ; but 
for that Reafon let there be no Opportunity loft 
of giving them that Advantage, when it can be 
done with Safety. . 
Every Evening their Shutters on the Outfide of 
the Windows and Doors fhould be fhut in the 
worft Weather; but when it is any Thing milder, 
they muft be refrefhed with Air whenever the 
Sun fhines well upon the Place. 
One Kind of Reafoning direéts all this; and 
as we would have our Gardener underftand eve. 
ry Thing he practifes; we would imprint this 
itrongly upon his Memory. oe ae 
Fie may be affured from what we have faid of 
Plants and Flowers, raifed under Frames in 
Hot-beds, from what we have told him of the 
_ Management of his Kitchen Produéts, raifed at 
thefe Seafons, in'Frames and under Glaffes, and 
from numerous other Inftances occafionally inter- 
fperfed in our Work, that a confined Air is de- 
ftructive of all.Plants. .. 
That which the common Produés of a 
Kitchen Garden cannot bear, he may be fure 
will prove fatal to the Exoticks in his Green- 
houfe; and he mutt fet out-with this general and 
unalterable Rule, that a Plant can no more be 
Kept alive without frefth Air than an Animal. _ 
_. In this Seafon therefore, he is to manage care- 
fully in guarding thefe ‘tender Kinds from 
Cold, 
of fuch. Species, as from their Nature requite Dec. 
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