©F FLOWERS, 



SECT. XV I II. 



only need be named, the early oval thin fhelled, and the 

 common rounds or royal walnut. All the others feem 

 to be only .feminal variations from the laft, which is 

 juftly reckoned the belt fruit. Procure trees from feve*i 

 to ten years old, as they feldom bear till about twenty 

 yea: s of age. See pages 76, 103. 



SECTION XVIIL 



OF F LOWERS. 



Flowers, the fole luxury which Nature knew* 

 In Eden's pare and guiltlefs garden grew ; 

 Gay withoul -toil, and lovely without art, 

 They fprung to cheer the fenfe,. and. glad the heart. 



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FLOWERS, as to their cultivation, are claffed into' 

 annuals, biennials, and perennials. Annuals are thole 

 that are fown and flower, and generally die within a 

 year. Biennials are thole that are fown one year, and. 

 flower and generally die the next; though fomeof thefe,. 

 by fowing early, and forwarding by a little heat, will 

 blow the fame year. Perennials are thofe that do not 

 flower the year they are fown* but the next, and con^ 

 tinue to live years afterwards, fome fewer, fome more : 

 Oi this clafs there is a great variety, (perhaps fifty to 

 one of the laft) mofily fibrous rooted, fome flelhy, 

 fome bulbous, and fome tuberous, &c. Moft of the 

 perennials are annual in their flalks, which die down 



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