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to throw off a Superfluity of Moift- 

 ure. 



In Much following you may 

 make out your Plants from the Seed- 

 pots, and divide them, planting each 

 into a feparate fmall Pot filled with 

 frelh light Earth ; then plung them 

 into a moderate Hot-hed, which will 

 greatly promote their Rooting, and 

 increaie their Growth ; but you 

 mould not draw them too much, 

 but give them a large Share of Air, 

 when the Weather is good j and in 

 June you Ihould remove them out 

 into the open Air as before; and, 

 during the three or four Winters, 

 while the Plants are young, you mi 

 houfe them, to fecure them from 

 the Cold ; but, when the Plants are 

 grown pretty large and woody, tome 

 of them may be planted in the full 

 Ground, in a warm Situation, where 

 they will endure the Cold of our 

 ordinary Winters very well ; bat 

 fome mould be kept in Pot?, for 

 fear a fevere Winter mould deftroy 

 the others : the belt Seafon for this 

 is in Aprils at which time you mould 

 make them out of the Pots, being 

 careful not to break the Earth from 

 the Roots, but only pare off with 

 a Knife the Outfide of the Ball of 

 Earth ; then open your Holes, and 

 put in the Pla^t, doling the Earth 

 to its Rootsi, obferving, if the Wea- 

 ther is dry, to give it fome Water, 

 which ihould be repeated twice a 

 Week, until the Plants have taken 

 Root ; but you mull obferve to 

 plant them on a dry Soil, and in a 

 warm Situation, otherwife they will 

 be liable to mifcarry in fevere frofty 

 Weather. 



I have been informed, that there 

 was formerly a large Tree of this 

 Kind in the Gardens of the Pilhop 

 of London at Fulbam, which produced 

 Flowers feveral Years ; but this, 

 vsi:h many other valuable Trees, 



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which were grown to a confiderablc 

 Height in the fame Gardens, hath 

 been long fince demolished. 



There are at prefent no large 

 Trees of this Kind in England, all 

 thofe which were planted in the 

 open Air having been deftroyed by 

 the fevere Winter in 1740. yet 

 there are fome, which were houfed, 

 that have flowered fince ; but I have 

 never feen any ripe Seeds upon the 

 Trees, tho' the f ruit has fomerimes 

 been formed, and grown pretty 

 large ; but the Cold of the Autumn 

 has caufed them to drop before the/ 

 came to Maturity. 



The outfide Pulp of this Fruit is in 

 fome Countries eat, but I don't find it 

 is much commended; but the Nut is 

 by the Monks, and other religious Per- 

 fons in Roman - catholic Countries, 

 bored thro' with an Awl, and ftrung 

 as Beads, with which they fay their 

 Pater-nqJJer, which has occafioned 

 its being called the Bead-tree. 



The fecond Sort is at prefent very 

 rare in England, being in very few 

 Gardens: this is much tencerer than 

 the common Sort, it being a Native 

 of Ceylon : it is propagated by Seeds, 

 which mall be fown on an Hot-bed 

 in the Spring ; and, when the Plants 

 are come up two or three Inches 

 high, they muft be tranfplanted each 

 into a fmall Halfpeny Pot filled with 

 frelh light Earth, and plunged into 

 an Hot-bed of Tanners Bark, ob* 

 ferving to water and lhade them, 

 until they have taken Root ; after 

 which they muft have Air and Water 

 in proportion to the Warmth of the 

 Seafon, or the Bed in which they 

 Hand. In this Bed they may remain 

 until MUbathnas, when the Pots muft 

 be removed in o the Stove, where 

 they mull have a moderate Share of 

 Heat, and be often refreshed with 

 Water. The Spring following they 

 muft be removed into larger f 01 s ; 



