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mer., and mould therefore be planted 

 in Pots filled with rubbifhing dry 

 fandy Soil, and fheltered in Winter 

 under a common Hot-bed-frame, 

 obferving to give them free open 

 Air, by taking off the GlafTes in 

 mild Weather, and only covering 

 them in very wet or frofiy Wea- 

 ther. 



All the Sorts of Snap-dragons are 

 pretty Ornaments in a Garden ; 

 and, requiring very little Culture, 

 are rendered more acceptable. They 

 are all hardy Plants, and will refill 

 the Cold of our Winters extremely 

 well, efpecially if they are planted 

 on a dry, gravelly, or fandy Soil ; 

 for when they are planted in a rich 

 moift Soil, they will grow very 

 luxuriant for a time, but are very 

 fubject to rot in Autumn or Winter, 

 and are much more fufceptible of 

 Cold, than when they are in a dry, 

 hungry, rocky Soil: fo that thefe 

 Plants may be placed amongft Stones ; 

 or they will grow in the Joints of 

 old Walls, where they may be placed 

 fo as to render fome abject Parts of 

 a Garden very agreeable j for they 

 will continue in Flower feveral 

 Months ; and if the Seeds are per- 

 mitted to fhed, there will be a con- 

 tinual Supply of young Plants, with- 

 out any Trouble, 



Where-ever thefe Plants are de- 

 figned to j?row on Walls, or on a 

 rocky barren Soil, the Seeds Ihould 

 be fown the Beginning of -March, 

 where they are defigned to remain ; 

 for if the Plants are firft raifed in a 

 better Soil, and afterward tranf- 

 planted into thofe Places, they fel- 

 dom lucceed well. When the Plants 

 are come up, they will require no 

 other Culture but to keep them clear 

 from Weeds ; and where they come 

 up too thick, to pull fome of them 

 out, fo as to give them room to 

 grow. In July thefe Sorts will be- 



A p 



gin to flower, and will continue 

 flowering till the Froft prevents 

 them. Thefe Plants which grow 

 on Walls, will be flrong, and have 

 woody Stems, which will continue 

 two cr three Years or more. 



APHACA, Vetchling. 

 The Characters are ; 



It hath a Butt erf y - flower, cut 

 of whofe Empah?nent rifes the Poin- 

 tal, which afterward becomes a Pod 

 full cf round i Jh Seeds : to thefe Notes 

 muft be added, That two Leaves only 

 grew at the feints cf the Stalis, 

 out of who/e Wings proceed the Ten- 

 arils. 



We have but one Species of this 

 Plant ; viz. 



Aphaca. Lob. Icon. Yellow 

 Vetchling. 



This Plant is found wild in divers 

 Parts of England, on arable Land ; 

 but is feldom preferved in Gardens. 

 It is an annual Plant, which perillies 

 foon after the Seeds are perfected. 

 The fureil Method to cultivate this 

 Plant is, to fow the Seeds on a 

 Bed of light Earth in Autumn, foon 

 after they are ripe ; for if they are 

 kept out of theGround until Spring, 

 they feldom grow ; and if fome of 

 the Plants come up at that Seafon, 

 they feldom perfect their Seeds fo 

 well as thofe which were fown in 

 Autumn. Thefe Seeds mould be 

 fown where the Plants are defigned 

 to remain ; for they feldom fucceed 

 well, if they are tranfplanted. All 

 the Culture thefe Plants require, is 

 to keep them clear from Weeds, 

 and to thin them where they come 

 up too clofe, leaving them about 

 ten Inches or a Foot afunder. 



APIUM, Parfley. 

 The Characters are ; 



The Leaves are divided into Things, 

 or grew upon a branched Rib, and 

 are, for the mofi part, cut into fmall 

 Segments : the Petals of the Flower 



are 



