Feb. Style, fhews it one of the 
Section of that Clafs. 
The Culture of the Tulip we thall lay down 
Plate 
OF GARDE 
Monogynia, the firtt 
NING 
at large,’ treating of the finer Kinds in a fuc. Feb. 
ceeding Number. 
6° PSIDIUM. 
A very elegant Tree, confpicuous’ for its { and {trong green: on the under Part 
XXXVI. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit; and for its regu- 
Fig. 6. lar Growth worthy a Place wherever Exoticks 
are preferved. 
Moft who have of late written on Plants, have 
defcrib’d it, tho’ not under this Title. Its Name 
in them is Guajava. SOR, Soe tae 
- Piuxenert has called it, Guajava alba acida 
and Commetine has well defcribed and figured 
it; tho’ in the Place of the Term acida he places 
dulcis. 3 | 
This Author names alfo the Acid Kind as a 
diftinct Species: but Linnaus with good Rea- 
fon joins them, allowing this fweet Guajava only 
the Diftinction of a Variety. — 
This Author calls the Genus Pfdium , and as 
there is no other known Species, he adds no E- 
pithet for -Diftingtion: in his lateft Work the 
Species Plantarum; tho’ in the earlier he added, 
vamis tetragonis, and caule quadrangulo, the Square- | 
nefs of the Shoots affording that Chara¢ter 
In its native Climate it is a Tree of moderate 
Growth, five and twenty Foot in Height, and of 
confiderable Thicknefs in the Stem. With us it 
requires the Heat of a Stove; and want of Air 
checks its Growth ; but we have it from fix to 
eight, or nine Foot in Height. : 
~The Stem is firm and folid, and the Bark jis 
brown. The young Shoots are green, ting’d 
fometimes a little with brown ; and they firft rife 
with four Ridges, giving them a fquare Appear- 
ance. <2 eee: i : 
The Leaves are numerous and very’ beauti- 
ful, they are long, and they ftand as it were 
an Air of Singularity and Fullnefs. 
They have fhort Footftalks, and they are 
moderately broad, obtufely pointed, and fome- 
what undulated at the Edges. 
Their Colour on the upper Side is.a deep 
| the Stove, and there fet in a moderate Part - 
| will only require after this to be kept clean, and 
they are 
paler. | 
The Flowers’ are numerous, large, and white ; 
they rife on fhort Footftalks from the Bofoms 
of the-Leaves, and have’ numerous Thréads in 
the Centre. _ er! 
The Fruit is large, oblong, and umbilicated, 
and is not unpleafant to the Tafte, 
The Cup of the Flower is of a companu- 
lated Form, made of a fingle Piece, ‘and di- 
vided lightly at the Edge into five oval Seg- 
Ments; os c2 S=. | 
The Body of the Flower is compofed. of five 
Petals; they are of an oval Form, and infert- 
ed into the Cup. 
The numerous Filaments are inferted alfo 
into the Cup. This places the Tree among the 
Lcofandria.  Amidft them rifes an extreamly long 
Style; this is fingle, and the Tree is therefore 
one of the Monogynia. 
Culture of the Psipium. 
The Seeds of the Fruit raife this Tree freely, 
and they are eafily obtain’d from the Weft Indies, 
where it is very common : they muft be raifed in 
a Pot of rich Earth, fet up to the Rim in a 
Bark-Bed.. . 
When the Plants appear, each is to be fet 
| ina feparate Pot, and this put into the Hot-Bed 
again. 
_ When they are grown to fome Size, they muft 
| be removed with their Ball of Earth into larger 
| | Pots, and they muft be water’d occafionally 5 
crofswife upon the Branches: this gives at once 
and Air muft be admitted freely in the Middle 
OF ihe Day. 2 Sis | 
~ Toward Autumn they muft be removed into 
they 
moderately water’d. 
Il. 
The Management of the Garden for this Week. 
Vy Bees will now begin to appear thick | have the greateft Share unlefs 
upon the Borders; and they will, un- 
lefs removed quickly, diferace the Gardener, and 
hurt the Roots of flowering Plants. The Intent 
is, that all the Nourifhment the Border can af. 
ford fhall be abforb’d by them; but thef will 
I? 26, ) 
deftroy’d. This 
neceffary Bufinefs muft be done with great Care, 
The Buds from many of the Roots appear a 
a~ 
mong the Weeds; and thofe of mott others are 
form’d, and have made fome Shoot, though they 
have not pierced the Surface, 
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