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OF GARDENING 
Sept. 
Culture of this HEBENSTRETIA, 
: Tt is a Greenhoufe Plant, and requires a dry 
Soil, In this it may be raifed from Seeds, or 
Cuttings ; but the former in'this, as in all ‘other 
Cafes, is the better Method. - 
Which ‘evet is chofen, the Soil fhould be> the 
fame, frefh Mould from a hilly Pafture, with a | 
- Mixture of Wood-pile Earth and clean Sand; of 
each one fourth the Quantity of the Mould. 
‘The Seeds are to be fown in a Pot of this, | 
and raifed by the Help of a Batk- -bed, as we have 
directed on former Occafions; and when the. 
Plants ate large enough to -be taken up, each 
mutt be planced 5 in a Pot ‘of the fame Mould, and 
again fet up to the Rim in the fame Bed till well. 
then they muft by degrees be hardened . Mould be well clofed dibow them at firft, this 
to the Air, by admitting it in the Middle of the 
Day; and when they can bear it, they muft be 
fet out among the Greenhoufe Plants, and houfed 
| rooted in feven Weeks, that they may be taken 
rooted : 
with them in Winter. 
_ The fecond Year they wiil flower ; and if all 
the Branches are permitted to grow as Nature 
throws them out, the Plant will form a very 
pretty Bufh, and be covered all over the Top | 
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This will require fome Care in the Gardener to. 
bring it to flower i in Perfection, but ‘there ‘is Ele: 
_ gance enough in its Appearance very well to 
return the Attention. 
The old‘ Authors could not be ‘acquainted 
with it, for it is no where native excépt in the 
American Ifands, and aery in the hotteft of 
them. 
CoMMELINE calls it, Sena fpuria pe 
odore opii virofo orobi Panmonici foliis- mucr onatts, gla- | 
bris: baftard Sena of the Weft Indies, with Leaves 
like the -Hingarian’ Orobus, {mooth -and pointed, — 
ak with ‘an’ offenfive Smell refembling that of 
eet 
“Linnevs, ee banifhed “all idle. Diftinétions, 
shes this to ‘the Cafia-Kind, to which .alfo by 
its Characters ‘the Tree “Sena -palpably ‘belongs ; 
and adds as the Diftin€tion of the Species, , folis 
quinque-jugatis, ‘odato Wanceolatis, margine feabris, 
exterioribus majoribus glandula bafeos ‘petiolorum:: 
Caffia with Leaves ‘of ’ Evel Pairs of Pinnze, which — 
are Of ‘an Oval olanceolate ‘Form, rough at the 
Edges, targeft outward,:and have Glandules at 
*the’Bafe of the Foorftalks. 7 
~ This.dsia long Names 
undead the Reafon, when we have told him 
| Cuttings ; 
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with Flowers, Thete have a 1 Singularity about 
them, which never fails to attract even the un- 
accuftomed Eye ; and gives a Wariety beyond 
moft others. 
The other Way of raifing it by Cuttings is 
eafy, and with due Care will "abit very pretty 
| Plants. 
The Seafon for this is July, and we have be- 
fore direGted the Gardener at that Time always 
to have two Beds prepared for the Purpofe of 
one for thofe of hardier, the other of 
the tenderer Kind. 
Sept. 
tel 
The Cuttings of this Hebenftretia thould be 
planted in rhe fatter Bed, which has a Quantity 
of Dung under it, and a covering over. 
They fhould be the Shoots of the fame Year, 
and ‘they muft have good Watering. If the 
will foon give them a Tendency to rooting; and 
with the ‘Advantage of the Shelter of Canvas 
drawn ver the Hoops, they will be fo well 
up and planted in ‘feparate Pots. Thefe mutt. 
be fet ‘under the fame.Shelter till they are well 
cftablifhed; aia then they are to be placed out 
among ‘the'Greenhoufe Plants. 
YELLOW OCCIDENTAL cassia, 
vey this Character, and fornetimes when there are 
more; but, in general, as the Number of Spe- 
cies increafes, the Diftinction becomes mere com- 
plicate, and each muft be charaéterized by a 
Name confifting of more Words. This L1n- 
nzeus has found neceffary on all fuch Occafions, 
and he has executed it with fufficient Care and 
-| Accuracy. 
The Root is ie long, and fpreading. ° 
The Stem is tolerably firm, upright, and di- 
vided into many Branches: the Bark on the main © 
Stem is olive coloured, {potted with brown, and 
full of rifing Warts or Protuberances. Nor is 
this ‘all its Irregularity ; for there run downward 
from the Footftalks of each leat, alfo two Ribs 
of a,paler Colour. 
The Iieaves are numerous, and of a freth 
pleafant ‘green. They are in a great meafure ir- 
regular, for Nature indulges in her Wildnefs in 
their Compofition; but toward the upper Parts. 
of the Branches, there are ufually feveral perfectly 
formed.. Thefe always confift of five Pairs of 
‘Pinnz, with an odd one at the End; but the 
| feveral Pairs do not ftand regularly oppofite to 
‘but -the Student will 
one another. 
The Uncertainty in the Formation of thefe 
the Genus Caflia ¢comprehends a-great Number of | ‘Leaves is fo great, that fometimes the extrealp. 
Species. 
-Pinna 1s wanting ; ; and in others, the reft are dif- 
‘When-a Genus enehbe of one Plant, the fingle |.pofed fo wildly, that they feem independent of 
when there are 
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‘Name is fafficienss when of two, an Epithet of |. one -another ; and look like fo many Leaves on 
- Diftintion is to be affixed to each, fhewing the 
Character by which they differ : 
-no. more than two, one Word will ufually con- 
a Branch, not fo many Parts of one Leaf upon a 
common Footftalk. 
The Flowers are large and beautiful; their 
7 § ~ Colour 
