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Plate 
X XI. 
ied ite *Fop pale and whitith; The F Tl 
: convergent Buttons ; and in the Midft of thefe a 
Seedlings rife to flower. 
_ draw the ripening’ Seed-veffel clofe to the Earth, 
* ftand fingly, one on each of | awe" Stalks ; 5 pres 
their Colour is a deep purplifh red. - 
Each has its Cup, which is ephidad and die 
vided at the Edges into five oval Segments. : 
The Body of the F lower confifts of a fingle | 
Petal, but 1s of a very peculiar Form. At the 
Bottom it is: rounded, ‘and droops: the Part 
from this rifes and is divided into five large Seg- | 
nients; and there is a prominent Neck. ‘This 
falling, there comes a large round Seed-veftel of 
the Berry Kind, covered with a Shell, and burft- 
ing when Tipe, by five Parts at the ¢) oP. - 
{nw Ran Syftem, the ‘Student muft tear open 
the tubular Part. ‘of the Flower : he will find with- 
in that five Filaments, fhort, and terminated by. 
fingle Style. ‘This fhews the Plant. to > be one. of | 
the Pentandria Monogynia. 
“Culture of sis Cxct ae Ne” - ek 
‘ A very little ‘Trouble and Attention will ferve 
to ftock a Garden with this humble Plant; but there — 
will require that Patience which fhould be as much 
the Charaéteriftic of the Gardener as of the 
Angler; for it will be fome Years before | ‘the’ 
a 
Let him gather ripe Seerls from an. “old and 
well-eftablifh’d Root of a good Kind, for the : 
| = are many. 
The Beginning of June is ‘the beft Seafon for 
collecting them; and he will at that Time find 
the Seed-veflel clofe to the Ground upon a> 
twifted Stalk. ‘This was the original Footftalk 
of the Flower; and it thus runs up into a fpiral | 
Form, by the great Contrivance of Nature, to 
where the Leaves may fhelter it. 
| When they have perform’d: this ufeful Office, 
* they fade, and nothing appears till many Months 
after, when. the Flowers rife upon their naked 
' Footftalks, and foon after them the Leaves, mixing Jan. 
among the later Part of the. Bloom. ? <: 
- “When the Gardener has taken up fome of the 
| Seed-veffels, at this advanc’d Seafon, let him lay 
, them ata Diftance from one another, upon a pa- 
per’d Shelf, to dry. They ‘will burft,- after a 
few Days, and the Seeds will fall out. “Let him 
_ fhake out fuch as do not fall naturally ; and hav- 
ing? feparated them, let him fpread them thin upon - 
the fame Shelf, to harden now they are naked. 
- In the latter End of Augufi prepate a Border for 
them in ‘this Manner: ) 
Dig out the Mould two Foot deep, and throw 
in a Parcel of large Gravel to cover the Bottom 
two or three Teenee Then put in the Mould 
again; level the Surface, and {catter over it the 
Seeds, fo that they may lie at. about .an Inch Di- 
ftance. Sift over them a Quarter of an Inch of | 
the fame Mould, and throw on fome Pieces of. » 
- Furze Buthes. . 
If the fucceeding Time be. dry, let. (hig Bed 
have now ahd then a little Water. After this 
the Plants will rife and thrive without any farther 
Care than that of keeping them clear from Weeds. 
They fhould be thin’d where they rife too 
clofe; and fuch as are taken up for this Purpofe,, 
fhould be planted in more vacant Spots. _ . 
They muft. remain in the Bed till.they are 
come to the Time of their flowering, which will 
not be till about the fou rth. Year. 
Then the beft ane to be mark’d, for there will 
rife many Varieties : and when ‘the Leaves. which. 
fucceed their Flowers, are faded, that is, toward 
the latter End of the Fune following, they muft 
be taken up, and planted out in different Parts of 
the Garden, leaving as many as can conveniently 
ftand in the original Bed. Their Diftance in this 
_fhould be about two Foot; for they will grow in 
a Number of Years to more than one Foot in 
Diameter 1 in the Root. 
‘After this they require no particular Care. 
“They bear all Seafons with us, and flower in more 
Profufion every fucceeding Year, as the Roots en- 
_creafe in Bignefs. — | aici 
4 EVERGREEN MELIA. 
The Singnlarity and Beauty of this Tree 
‘brought it early into the familiar Knowledge of 
Fi ‘S 4- the Studious’ in Botany ; and we find it nam’d by 
them with great Praife, under the Title of Aze- 
peor? 
Prien iront has diftinguifh’d it by an Ad- 
dition of great Praife, dzederach semper virens, 5 
florens: Azederach ever-green and ever-flowering. 
banifhing the harfh and barbarous 
Linnaeus, 
_- Name by which it had been fo univerfally call’d 
for fome ime, has given it that of Melia, 
and, as the Leaves on this are branched, and 
there is another Species which has them fimply 
pinnated ; he adds, as the Diftinétion of this 
I 
foliis bipinnatis : 
Leaves, | 
This is a Chatecter not. feen- in » thofe Leaves. 
which; accompany the, Flowers, at. the Extremity 
Moke with doubly pinnated | 
Be of the Branches, but on thofe which are plac’d.lower. . 
_ It.is a Tree of confiderable Bignefs. The Root 
fpreads far; the Trunk. rifes. upright. and. thick s. 
and at fome Height fpreads. into many panicles 
The, Bark is brown,;. but on the young. mea, 
ereen, 
The Leaves are very numerous. and large: 
they.are plac’d in an irregularly. pinnated Manner ; 5 
fome on fimple and fome on. divided Ribs; and 
‘each Pinna, or particular Leaf, is oblong, mo- 
derately 
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