Feb. 
There Mr. BayHERE affiires me has feen the 
——— Flowers. on the Extremity of one Stalk, fpread 
( 
out into a circular Tuft of a Foot and half Dia- 
meter; and glow with a alow that Gold hardly 
emulates. 
The Soil Shich favours, jt is 2 black rich | 
_ 
Mould, impregnated with the Richnefs- of de- : 
cay’d Vegetables ; for it never thrives in this lux- 
uriant Manner, unlefs where the Ground - is mel-~ 
Tema haath: Pine tae 
low’d by fallen Leaves and rotted Branches of 
Trees, and moiften’d in fome Degree by neigh- 
bouring Water. 
On the dryer Parts of the fame Mountain, he 
{fays, the fame Plant is a poor inconfiderable ftrag- 
ling Weed, not a Foot in Length ir in its beft Stalks, 
- and the Flowers fmall and few. — 
- From-this Account we earn the true Method 
of its Culture, and one great and ‘univerfal Lief- 
fon more: which is, that in a ‘State of Nature, 
where the Soil and Situation do not favour it, ‘the 
Plant will be very much beneath its proper Con- 
~ dition, even tho’ it flowers; much more ‘may it 
be fo with us when rais’d by Force. 
Tt isa biennial Plant, and muft be propagated 
_ from Seed. ‘This may be eafily had from: the Cape ; 
. the more eafily, as the Letters of this valuable 
_ Correfpondent mention the particular Places of its 
Growth; or it will eow from fuch as ripen’ 
here. 
Plate | 
XXIV. 
Fig. 6. 
“thus: 
Mix two Buthels of rich black ‘Mould from | 
under the Turf in a Meadow, and one Bufhel 
of Pond- ‘Mud ; add two Pecks of mellow Earth ) 
from under a Wood- Pile ; ‘and when all are thus” 
Let a Compoft be matle for their Reception, 
blended vel oe fill a a Couple of Garden- 
elt he Beauty of this “Blaney; in wll ctides. Blows, 
the moft confpicuous of the Exotics... iol Lb 
-Moft of the late. Writers: have senbnaiaiatel its. 
os but Linn 2us has’ chang’; an se fabftantial 
“3 Reafons, its Generical Namie.” . 
Breynivs | and ComMELINE Call; it. (Clit 
crifia pavonis.’ ‘That Author refers-it to the nu- . 
_ merous Caffia Kind; and:placing it among thofe 
with many. Leaves on the’ fame F ootf{talk,. | 
adds, as its Diftinction, foliolis multijugatis glan- 
dula petiols pedicellata, ftipulis enfiformibus. 
The Englifh Reader. mutt. not expect a Name 
abounding thus with technical Terms, to: be tranf- . 
» elated. without Circumlocution : for to tender the 
~~ Words flipule, and the reft, as they are written 
in the Latiz,.tho’ it be the Cuftom of thofe who 
| pretend to.give the Linn man Names in Englifh, 
is hot ttanflating ‘nor explaining them : it | gives 
the Reader no Knowledge’; and it confeffes an 
unlucky Truth, that the Writer does not under- 
ftand them, ' 
The Senfe of the Name igvohis Caffia, sith 
Pots with. them. Scatter. the Seeds carefully over 
aliead 5 ae « ae il 
Feb. 
the Surface, and fift over them a yery thin Co. ——— 
-vering of the fame Mould.. 
Set thefe Pots up to the Rim in a Bark-Bed, 
and give them once in three Days a very gentle 
Watering. . 
~. When the Plants come . up, take up ‘the weakett 
where they grow too clofe, and leave one ftrong 
Plant i in the Middle, or near the Middle of each 
Pot ; this.is never to be tran{planted : but three or 
each Pot, to be remov’d afterwards. 
‘As thefe rife in Height, let them have Air in 
the Middle of the Day ; ; and Water once in two 
or three Days. | | 
About the fifth Week from their firft apsea 
ance, ‘let a Couple of the beft of thefé be planted 
in middle-fiz’d Pots, and the others in very {mall 
onés, leaving only the fingle Plants intended in 
the original Pots. — 
~ Thee new-planted ones: mutt be fet up to the 
Rim of the Pots in the Bark-Bed, and’ fhaded 
and watered till they have taken Root : after this, 
they are by Degrees to be inur’d to the. Air; and, 
at the Approach of cold Weather, plac’d in the 
Greenhoufe. 
- Early ‘the fehldwing: Spring, let thofe in the 
{mall Pots be carefully fhook out, and planted in 
different warm. and fhelter’d Spots in the open 
Ground; and of the others, let fome be ty’d up 
to Sticks, thruft into the Pots for that Purpote 5° 
and others left to fall and nang, their own way 
over their Edges. 
They will all flower thé fucceeding Autumn ; 
and, with -good Management, | thro’ the Whole 
‘Winter. gee . 
ae Seen, Sa " 
cee aL > 
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Peer: 
ee AEA Y LE AV'D AMERICAN: CASSTA. 
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“numerous , Title Leaves upon. reed gtieral BF a , 
and Fruit, very juftly claim:a Place for i it t\among ftalk, with a Glandule rais’d ona {mall Stem: 
atthé Footftalk of the Leaf; and. filmy Scales ‘in 
‘the fame Part of a Sword-like Shape: 
 “So‘much may be convey’d by a’ few {clentific” 
‘Words; and lefs would’ not’ anfwer the Purpofe 
for the Diftinétion of a Plant, ‘of mele Genus 
there are fo many Species. SD ¥ 
~~ The Root is ‘white, longs oy furnith’d with: 
numerous Fibres. 4 
The Stalk is mad Sake branched from 
the Bottom, and fo well covered with Leaves, 
that the whole Plant makes an extremely beautiful 
; Appearance. | 
Where it is nigtiee, it rifes. to Sab or ‘fiat Re Oot * 
high, and fpreads out every way to a gteat Com:| 
pals. With good Management, . it will nearly 
Teach the fame Bignefs with us, tho’ we ufually | 
fee it much lef, The Stalk is brown toward the 
Bottom, but upwards of a pale filvery green. 
‘The Leaves are extremely beautiful; they are 
of the pinnated Kind; but the {mall Leaves or 
Pinne 
four may for the prefent be left at due Diftance in 
