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to give them but little Water in the 

 Winter, and keep them intirely from 

 the Froil. In May following, pre- 

 pare a good rich Bed of Earth, and 

 turn your Plants out of the Pots into 

 this Bed, being careful not to difturb 

 the Earth about their Roots, and 

 giving them plenty of Water in dry 

 Weather. When your Roots have 

 once fattened themfelves into this 

 Bed, they will grow vigoroufly, and 

 produce many ftrong Stems ; which 

 will flower much ftronger than thofe 

 kept in Pots, and ripen their Seeds 

 very well. 



The fcarlet Bloflbm is by far the 

 moft beautiful Kind ; tho' a Mixture 

 of the yellow-fpotted Sort will look 

 very agreeable ; but the common 

 pale-coloured Sort is hardly worth 

 keeping, unlefs in Botanic Colle- 

 ctions. 



This Sort will live through the 

 Winter, in the open Air, if it is 

 planted in a warm Situation, and a 

 dry Soil ; and will fend up Stems 

 every Summer, four or five Feet high, 

 and produce Flowers, and, in good 

 Seafons, will perfect their Seeds very 

 well ; but in Autumn the Shoots 

 and Leaves will decay to the Root, 

 and will not (hoot again till the Mid- 

 dle or End of May following : this 

 has occafion'd their having been de- 

 ftroyed by unfkilful Perfons, who 

 fuppofed they were dead. 



Thefe Sorts may be alfo increafed 

 by parting their Roots in the Spring ; 

 but thefe Plants feldom flower To 

 well as Seedlings : and fince the 

 Seeds are fo eafy to be obtain'd, it 

 is hardly worth pra&ifing, uniefs for 

 the ftrip , d-leav 1 d Sort, which can be 

 no other way increas'd. The Inha- 

 bitants of A??:erica call this Plant In- 

 di."i s hct, and fay, the Indians make 

 ufe of this Seed in {lead of Shot, to 

 fhoot Wild-fowl, fcrV. 



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The third, fourth, and fifth Sorts 

 make a fine Appearance in the time 

 of their Flowering, which (if they 

 are kept in Pots, and placed in a 

 moderate Stove) will be from De- 

 cember to the Middle of April, and 

 thefe will ripen their Seeds in Junr, 

 fo that a Plant or two of each Kind 

 are worthy of a Place in every 

 Stove where Exotic Plants are pre- 

 fer ved. 



The fixth Sort produces Spikes of 

 very large yellow Flowers, which 

 make a fine Appearance: but this 

 rarely flowers in England', for in 

 feveral Gardens, where it has been 

 long preferved, it has not flowered 

 above once in four or five Years : 

 this Sort is very apt to fpread at the 

 Root, where the Plants are not con- 

 fined in Pots ; fo may be plentifully 

 increafed by the Side- moots or Suck- 

 ers. 



CAPERS. Vide Capparis. 

 CAPNOIDES, Podded Fumi- 

 tory. 



The Characters are; 



The 



Lea<v es an d whole Face of this 

 Plant is like Fumitory ; but the Style 

 of the Flower becomes a long taper 

 Pod, which contains many round Jhine- 

 ing Seeds. 



Capnoides. Tourn. Podded Fu- 

 mitory. 



This is a pretty annual Plant, 

 which may be fown in an open Bor- 

 der in the Spring of the Year, where 

 the Plants are to remain, either in 

 the Borders of the Flower-garden, 

 where they will make a pretty Shew 

 for two or three Months together ; 

 or in Beds, where they may be fown 

 with other annual Plants, which are 

 preferved for Variety. The Seeds 

 of this Plant, if fufFered to fhed up- 

 on the Ground, will furnilh you with 

 Plants enough, without giving you 

 the Trouble to fow it any more. 



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