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Rar. The ftalky African Aloe, with 

 lefs glaucous Leaves furrounding the 

 Stalks, with Spines on the Back-lide 

 of the Leaves at the Extremity. 



37. Al.OE India Orientaiis, fer- 

 rata y fuccotrina vera, fore fbaeniceo. 

 H. Beaum, The Succotrine Aloe. 



38. Aloe Africana arachnoidea. 

 Com. Rar. Pi. 78. African Cobweb 

 Aloe, <vulgo. 



The Soil in which thefe Plants 

 thrive beft, is one half frefh light 

 Earth from a Common (and if the 

 Turf is taken with it, and rotted, it 

 is much better) ; the reft mould be 

 white Sea-fand, and fifted Lime-rub- 

 bifli, of each of thefe two, a fourth 

 Part ; mix hefe together fix or eight 

 Months at leaft before it is ufed, ob- 

 serving to turn it over often in this 

 time. 



The firft of thefe Aloes is very 

 hardy, in r'elpect to Cold ; and has, 

 in mild "Winters, endur'd abroad, 

 being planted in a very dry Soil, and 

 under a South Wall ; but as they 

 are liable to be killed in hard Frofts, 

 they generally are kept in Pots or 

 Tubs in a common Green-houfe with 

 Oranges, Myrtles, &c . but mult have 

 little Moifture in Winter. Moll of 

 the other Sorts are better preferved 

 in an airy Glafs-cafe, in which there 

 is a -Stove to make a little Fire in 

 very bad Weather ; to dry and warm 

 the Air in foggy, cold, or wet Wea- 

 ther, and to prevent the Froft from 

 cnt< ing r he Houie. 



'x fthj fixth, feventh, eigh- 

 teen l ; cnirty-fourth, and thirty-fifth 

 Sorts require a greater Share of Heat 

 to preferve then- in Winter, and 

 (hould be fet in a good Stove, and 

 kept nearly to the Degree of He;nt 

 marked ( pon tiie Botanical Ther- 

 mometers) temperate. Indeed moft 

 of the other Sons may be kept in 

 the fame Temperature of Heat in 

 Winter ; but then you muft obferve, 



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that the greater the Heat is in Win- 

 ter in which you keep them, the 

 more Water they will require : and 

 if they are well managed in this 

 Heat, they will grow very much in 

 Winter ; therefore great Care muft 

 be taken in the fevere Cold, that it 

 doth not enter the Houfe, nor that 

 the Heat be at that time leflened ; as 

 alfo how you begin to give them Air 

 in the Spring ; for the extreme Parts 

 of the Plants will be rendered very 

 tender, by their growing freely in 

 Winter; and the leaft Check to their 

 Growth at that Seafon, is very often 

 their Deftruclion. 



About the Beginning of June, 

 moft People (in England) fet their 

 Pots of Aloes out of the Houfe ; but, 

 if this be done, they mould be fet 

 under the Shelter of Hedges or 

 Trees, to fcreen them from the Vio- 

 lence of the open Sun and Wind, 

 which, in a few Days, will other- 

 wife change their Colour, and very 

 much diminifh their Beauty; and 

 very often the great Rains which fall 

 in June or July, either rot, or fill 

 them with fo much Moifture, as, in 

 Winter, to be liable to Deftru&ion 

 with the leaft Cold : therefore, up- 

 on the Whole, it is much more ad- 

 vifeable to keep them moft Part of 

 the Year in the Houfe (as is the con- 

 ftant Practice in Holland ) ; giving 

 them, in good Weather, as much 

 free open Air as is poiTible, and 

 fcreening them with Mats, Shutters, 

 orTarpawlins over the GlalTes from 

 the great Heat of the Sun in the Mid- 

 dle of the Day. 



In tiic Middle of July is a very 

 proper Seafon to mift thefe Plants ; 

 at which time you may take them 

 out of the Pots, and with your Fin* 

 gers open the Roots, and make out 

 as much of the Earth as poflible, 

 taking off all dead or mouldy Roots; 

 but do not wound or break the young 



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