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The third Sort is fometimes ufed 

 in Medicine. This is a mifchievous 

 Plant for creeping at the Root ; fo 

 that if once it has taken in a Gar- 

 den, it will be difficult to extirpate 

 again, and will deftroy whatever 

 Plants grow near it ; therefore it 

 lhould be planted in fome abject Part 

 of the Garden by itfelf, for it will 

 thrive in almoft any Soil or Situa- 

 tion. 



The fourth and fifth Sorts grow 

 wild in Spain, Italy, and the South 

 of France ; but in England they are 

 preferved, for Variety, in Botanic 

 Gardens. Thefe moft be planted 

 in Pots rilled with light rich Earth, 

 and (heltered from levere Cold in 

 Winter > otherwife they will be de- 

 Itroyed thereby ; but they mould 

 have as much free Air as poflible 

 in mild Weather. Thefe produce 

 Flowers every Year ; but never per- 

 fect their Seeds in this Country. 



The fixth Sort is the Snakeroot, 

 which is greatly ufed in Medi- 

 cine; but thefe Roots are brought 

 over from Virginia and Carolina. 

 where there are two or three Species 

 of this Plant. In England, it is 

 preferved as a Curiofity, in Pots 

 rilled with frem light Earth, and re- 

 quires to be Iheltered from fevere 

 Cold in Winter; in Summer they 

 mult be frequently watered, and 

 lhould be placed in a well -Iheltered 

 Situation, where, in a good Sealon, 

 they will per fed their Seeds, by 

 which new Plants may be obtained. 

 Thefe Seeds mould be fown oil an 

 Hot-bed early in the Spring ; and 

 When the Plants are come up, they 

 muft be tranfplanted into Pots, and 

 managed as hath been directed for 

 the old Plants. 



The feventh, eighth, and ninth 

 Sorts are Natives of the warmeft 

 Parts of America ; fo muft be pre- 

 ferved with great Care in this Qft? 



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mate. Thefe may be propagated 

 by fowing their Seeds in the Spring : 

 the belt Method to raife them is, to 

 fow the Seeds in Pots filled with 

 frem light Earth, and plunge therri 

 into an Hot-bed of Tanners Bark : 

 in about a Month or five Weeks 

 after the Seeds are fown, the Plants 

 will begin to appear : when the 

 Plants are advanced to be about two 

 Inches high, they lhould be care- 

 fully tranfplanted, each into a fepa- 

 ratePot filled with frem light Earth, 

 and mould then be plunged into the 

 Hot-bed again. 



About the Beginning of Augufi 

 thefe Plants will have filled the Pot3 

 with their Roots, when they lhould 

 be lliaken carefully out of the Pots, 

 and their Roots trimmed ; then they 

 lhould be planted into larger Pots 

 filled with the fame frem Earth as 

 before ; and thofe which are of low 

 Growth fnould be plunged into the 

 Hot-bed again ; but the taller fnould 

 be plunged into the Bark - ftove, 

 efpecially the ninth Sort, which will 

 rife to a great Height. 



The feventh Sort is known in Ja- 

 maica by the Name of Contrayerva, 

 and is greatly ufed as an Alexiphar- 

 mac, by the Inhabitants of that 

 Ifland. 



All thefe three Sorts will require 

 to be kept in the Bark-Hove, other- 

 wife they will not thrive in this Cli- 

 mate. 



ARMENIACA, Apricot. 



I mall enumerate all thofe Sorts 

 which are commonly cultivated in 

 England ; where this Fruit is gene- 

 rally in as great Perfection as in moll 

 of our neighbouring Countries, efpe- 

 cially when they are not planted 

 upon a Soil too hot, or againft the 

 warmefl-afpected Walls. 



We have in the Englifi Gardens 

 about feven Sorts of this Fruit cul- 

 tivated ; which are, 



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