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2 fine Appearance at that Seafon. 

 From thefe Berries continuing fo 

 long untouched by the Birds, we 

 may reafonably conclude, that they 

 Jiave fome venomous Quality ; be- 

 cause few of the Fruits or Berries, 

 v/hich are wholfome,efcape the Birds, 

 in a Country where there are fuck 

 Flocks of many Kinds of Birds. 



This Shrub was much more com- 

 mon in the Englf/h Gardens fome 

 Years paft, than at prefent; for as 

 the Winters had been favourable 

 for fome Years, moil People had 

 planted thefe Plants in the open Air, 

 where they fucceeded pretty well un- 

 til the fevere Froft in the Year 1 740. 

 which celtroyed all the Plants in the 

 Gardens near London ; and fince 

 that time there have been very few 

 Plants raifed from Seeds, tho' there 

 have been confiderable Quantities of 

 the Seeds brought into England \ but 

 whether the Berries had remained 

 long enough upon the Plants to be 

 thoroughly ripe, or from what other 

 Caufe it has happened, I cannot fay; 

 but few of them have come up, tho' 

 they were fown in various Places, 

 and in different Methods : but could 

 we get this Shrub in Plenty, it would 

 be a good Acquifition to the ever- 

 green Gardens. 



Thefe Trees are both of them pro- 

 pagated by fowing tbeirSeeds (which 

 are obtained from Carolina, where 

 they grow in great Plenty near the 

 Sea-coafts) : they mould be fown in 

 Pots filled with light fandy Earth, 

 and plunged into a gentle Hot bed, 

 observing to water them frequently, 

 until you .fee the Plants appear, 

 which is fometimes in five or fix 

 Weeks time, and at other times they 

 will remain in the Ground until the 

 fecond Year : therefore, if the Plants 

 jhould not come up in two Months 

 time, you mould remove the Pots 

 law a ftiady Situation, where they 



may remain till Otiober ; being care- 

 ful to keep them clean from Weeds, 

 and now- and -then in dry Weather 

 giving them a little Water : then re- 

 move thefe Pots into Shelter during 

 the Winter- feafon j and in the March 

 following put them upon a frefli 

 Hot-bed, which will forward the 

 Seeds in their Vegetation. 



When the Plants are come up, 

 they mould, by degree 5 , be expos'd 

 to the open Air, in order to enure 

 them to our Climate ; yet don't ex- 

 pofe them to the open Sun at firir, 

 but rather let them have the morn- 

 ing Sun only, placing them for fome 

 time where they may be meltered 

 from cold Winds : they mould en- 

 joy a Shelter during the two or three 

 firfl: Winters ; after which the Caf- 

 fioberry-bum may be planted abroad: 

 but the Soutb-Sea Thea mould be 

 kept in Pots a Year or two longer, 

 being flower of Growth, and will 

 therefore not have Strength enough 

 to refift the Cold when young. 



They may alfo be propagated by- 

 laying the younger Branches into 

 the Ground in Autumn, which, if 

 kept watered, will take Root by the 

 Autumn following, fit for Tranf- 

 plantation ; otherwife they'll be two 

 Years before they take Root. The 

 Caffioberry - bum is by much the 

 eafter Plant of the two to ftrike. 



The Paraguay or Soutb-Sea Thea 

 is accounted by the Indians very 

 wholfome, and (as I have been in- 

 formed by feveral worthy Perfons, 

 who refided for feveral Years in Ca- 

 rolina) is the only Phyfic the In- 

 dians ufe, and for which, at certain 

 t<mes of the Year, they come in 

 Droves, fome hundred Miles di- 

 iiant, for the Leaves of this Tree (it 

 not being known to grow at any 

 confiderable Dittance from the"Sea); 

 where their ufual Cultom is, to make 

 a Vir& upon the Ground, and, put- 



