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thefe will not live thro' the Winter 

 in the open Air in England: but they 

 are always houfed in Winter with 

 the hardieft of the Green - houfe 

 Plants, and may be treated accord- 

 ingly. The fourth Sort is a low 

 bulhy Shrub, feldom rifing above 

 three Feet high in this Country : 

 this produces Cullers of white 

 Flowers, at the Extremity of all the 

 Branches ; fo makes an handfome 

 Appearance during the Continuance 

 of the Flowers. The Leaves con- 

 tinue green all the W T inter ; but the 

 Plant is not very thick cloathed with 

 them : thefe Leaves bear a great 

 Refemblance, in their Shape, to 

 thofe of the Barberry-tree, but are 

 not quite fo large. This Sort is 

 propagated from Suckers, and by 

 Layers : but as thefe Plants do not 

 fend forth many Suckers, and the 

 Layers being two Years in making 

 Roots, thefe Plants are not very 

 common in the Englijh Gardens. 



The fifth Sort has been long in 

 the Gardens, and is better known 

 by the former Name than this, which 

 has been lately added to it. The 

 old Name is Alaternoides Africana, 

 lauri ferrati folio. But this agree- 

 ing with the other Plants of this 

 Genus, in its Flower and Fruit, 

 Dr. Linnaeus has joined it to them. 

 This Sort will grow to the Height 

 of ten or twelve ^eet ; the Branches 

 are weak and draggling, and the 

 Flowers fmaii, and of an herbaceous 

 Colour, therefore doth not make 

 much Shew: but as it is an Ever- 

 green, many People allow a Plant 

 or two to have Place in their Green- 

 houfes. It may be eafily propagated 

 by Cutting?, during any of the Sum- 

 mer-months ; which need no Care 

 \ but to plant them in a fhady Border, 

 and water them in dry Weather. 



CELERY, or SALARY. VUk 

 Apium. 



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CELSIA. This Name was given 

 to this Plant in Honour to Dr. Olaus 

 Celftus, Profeflbr of Philofophy and 

 Theology in the Univerfity of Vpfal 

 in Sweden, by Dr. Linna?us. We 

 have no Englijh Name for it. 

 The Cbaraders are ; 

 The Empalement of the flower is 

 cut into five obtufe Segments: the 

 Fkwer conf.fs of one Leaf which is 

 cut into five Parts, and expands in a 

 circular Order, having a very Jhort 

 Tube : in the Centre of the Flower 

 are placed four Stamina, two of which 

 are longer than the other : the Ovary, 

 which is f.xed in the Centre of the 

 Empalement, afterward becomes a 

 round Pod, opening in two Cells, and 

 filed with fmall Seeds. 



We have but one Species of this 

 Plant ; which is, 



C E l s i a fcliis duplicato -pinnatis. 

 Lin. Hort. Clif. Celfia with double 

 pinnated Leaves. 



This Plant is ranged in the Genus 

 of Mullein by Toumefort and Boer- 

 haave, by the Title of Verbafcum 

 Orient ale, fopkia; fclio, or Eaftern 

 Mullein, with a Flix -weed - leaf ; 

 but Dr. Linn 'pus has feparated it from 

 that Genus, on account of theNum- 

 ber and Pofition of the Stamina, the 

 Flowers of Verbafcum having five 

 declined Stamina of equal Length, 

 whereas this has but four, two of 

 which are longer thr.n the other, 

 which, by the characteriftic Notes 

 of his Method, removes them to a 

 great Difiance from each other. 



It is an annual Plant, which com- 

 monly fucceeds better, if the Seeds 

 are fown in Augujl, foon after they 

 are ripe, than when they are kept 

 till the Spring ; for the Seeds which 

 are then fown frequently remain in 

 the Ground till the following Spring, 

 before they come up : thefe Seeds 

 ihould be fown upon an open Bcr* 

 der, where they arc to remain, and 



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