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planted only in very large Borders, 

 and not too near other Flowers, left, 

 by their overbearing them, they 

 fhould be deftroyed : but they are 

 much handiomer when confin'd in 

 Pots, provided they are conftantly 

 watered ; for, by this means, their 

 Roots are kept within Compafs, and 

 the Plants feldom grow fo large, 

 but produce a greater Quantity of 

 flowers. 



In faving the Seeds of thefe Plants, 

 you ftould alway make choice of 

 the very double Flowers, which will 

 certainly produce a much greater 

 Quantity of double Flowers the next 

 Year, than would the Seeds of fin- 

 gle or half-double Flowers ; though, 

 if the Seeds are taken from the very 

 belt Flowers, they will degenerate, 

 and bring fome fingleFiowers among 

 them: therefore, to avoid this Dif- 

 appointment, the better Method is, 

 when you have gotten fome fine dou- 

 ble Kinds of thefe Plants of both 

 Colours, to take off fome Cuttings 

 of each Kind toward the Latter-end 

 of Auguji, or the Beginning of Sep- 

 tember, and plant them pretty clofe, 

 in Pots filled with common frefti 

 Earth, fetting them in a fhady Place, 

 and obferving to water them fre- 

 quently. Thefe Cuttings will, in a 

 Month's time, ftrike out Roots, and 

 begin to grow ; you muft therefore 

 remove the Pots into an open Situa- 

 tion, obferving, as before, to refrefh 

 them with Water (which muft now 

 be done gently, that the young Plants 

 may not grow too vigorous before 

 Winter) : in this Place they may re- 

 main until the Latter- end of Oclo- 

 ber, when you mould place the Pots 

 under a common Hot-bed-frame, 

 that they may be fcreened from fe- 

 vere Frofts, which would deftroy 

 them ; butt)bferve to take the Glaffes 

 off every Day, when the Weather 

 will permit; other wife the Plants 



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will draw up, and be very tender, 

 fo that upon the leaft Impreflion of 

 Cold they will fuffer very much ; as 

 alfo by being (hut up too clofe, they 

 would be fubjett to rot by the damp 

 Air which furrounds them. 



In the Spring thefe Plants may be 

 tranfplanted out either into feparate 

 Pots or Borders, as before direfted, 

 where they will flower early ; and 

 hereby you will be fure to have the 

 Sorts right, according to the Plants 

 which the Cuttings were taken 

 from. 



CHRYSOBAL ANUS, The Amt- 

 rican or Black Plum. 



The CharaElcrs are ; 



'The Empalcment of the Flower is 

 of one Leaf and is cut into four Parts : 

 the Flower is compofed of fi<ve plain 

 Petals, which expand in form of a 

 Rofe : in the Centre arifes the Pointal, 

 which afterward becomes an oval 

 flejhy Fruit, inclofng a Stone of the 

 fame Shape, which is very rough and 

 furrowed. 



The Species are ; 



1. Chp.ysobalanus fruclu pur- 

 pureo. Lin. Hort. Cliff, The black 

 American Plum. 



2. Chrysobalanus fruclu ex 

 albo rubefcente. The American Plum, 

 of a whitifti-red Colour. 



Thefe Trees are very common in 

 the Iflands of America, as alfo in 

 many Parts of New Spain, where 

 there are fome other Varieties of the 

 Fruit ; but thofe which- are here enu- 

 merated are all I have yet feen grow- 

 ing in the Englijh Gardens. 



They are very tender Plants ; fo 

 muft be conftantly kept in the Bark- 

 bed in the Stove, otherwife they will 

 not thrive here : they are propagated 

 by Seeds, which muft be procured 

 from the Countries of their natural 

 Growth ; and, if the Stones are j3Ut 

 up in a Box of Sand, it will preferve 

 them better than if they are brought 



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