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Weather will permit; otherwife the 

 Plants will draw up weak, and be 

 good for little. As thefe Plants will 

 require two or three Hot-beds, to 

 bring the Fruit to Perfection, it will 

 be the better way to put the Plants 

 into Bafkets, as was directed for the 

 raifing early Cucumbers ; but you 

 mould not plant more than two 

 Plants in each Balket ; for if one of 

 them lives, it will be fufncicnt : 

 therefore, when both the Plants do 

 fucceed, you lhould draw out the 

 weakeft and moft unpromifing of 

 them, before they begin to put out 

 theirSide-fhoots; otherwife they will 

 entangle, and render it difficult to 

 be performed, without greatly in- 

 juring the remaining Plant. 



The Balkets in which thefe Plants 

 are to be planted, need not be more 

 than a Foot Diameter ; fo that one 

 "Light will contain eight of them ; 

 which will be fufiicient for twenty- 

 four Lights, when they are planted 

 out for good ; for where the Plants 

 are vigorous, one fingle Plant will 

 fpread fo far as to fill three Lights ; 

 and if they have not room, they fel- 

 dom fet their Fruit well. 



Thefe Bafkets may remain in the 

 Nurfery-beds, until the Plants have 

 fpread, and put out many Runners ; 

 for when the Heat of this Bed de- 

 clines, it is foon revived by adding 

 a proper Lining of warm Dung to 

 the Sides of the Bed quite round ; 

 fo that when they are taken out of 

 "this Bed, and placed in the Ridges 

 where they are to remain, the Heat 

 of the Beds will laft fo long as to 

 fet their Fruit, which is of great 

 Confequence ; for when the Plants 

 are ridged out very young, the Beds 

 are generally made of a great Thick- 

 nef> in Dung, in order to continue 

 their Heat ; fo that for fome time 

 after they are made, they are fo ex- 

 treme hot, as to endanger the fcald- 



ing of the Plants : and by the time 

 the Fruit begins to appear, there is 

 little Heat lef: in the Beds, which 

 often occalions the Fruit to drop off, 

 and come to nothing. 



After thefe Plants are placed in 

 the Beds where they are to remain, 

 you mult carefully lead the Shoots 

 as they are produced, fo as to fill 

 e:!ch Part of the Frame, but not to 

 croud each other; and be careful 

 to keep them clear from Weed?, as 

 alfo to admit frefh Air whenever the 

 Weather will permit: they muft alfo 

 be frequently watered ; but not in 

 great Quantities. 



In fhcrt, there is little Difference to 

 be obferved in the Management of 

 thefe, from that of Mufk-melons, 

 but only to give them more room, 

 and to keep the Beds to a good Tem- 

 perature of Heat, without which 

 thefe Fruit will feldom come to good 

 in this Country. 



ANIL, The Indigo-plant. 

 The Characters are ; 



It hath pinnated ( or winged) 

 Leaves, ivbicb are terminated by a 

 fingle Lobe at the Extremity : the 

 Flcnvers ( ivbicb are for the niofi part 

 difpofed in a Spike ) confifi of five 

 Leaves, and are of the papilionaceous 

 Kind, the uppermoji Petal ( or Stand' 

 a>d biing larger than the ethers, and 

 is rounder, and light If fiurrovSd on 

 the Side : the louver Leaves ( or Pe- 

 tals ) are jhort, and terminate in a 

 Point : in the Middle of the Flovuer 

 is fituated the Style, vjhich afterward 

 becomes a jointed Pod, containing one 

 cylindrical Seed in each Partition. 

 The Species are ; 



1. Anil, five I:di go Americana, 

 filiquis in faicul.r modum confortis, 

 D. Merc hand. Ivhm. Ac. Reg. Scien. 

 Anno 1 7 1 8. The true Indigo, with 

 Pods Ihaped like a Sickle. 



2 . Anil, five Indigo Americana, 

 fruticofa, argentea, fioribus e viridi 



G 3 - purpwe'u, 



