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over dry ; or, if the whole Fruit is 

 put up with Sand between them to 

 keep them from rotting each other, 

 there will be a greater Chance of 

 their growing ; but they mould be 

 fent over as foon as pofiible after 

 they are ripe, otherwife they will not 

 grow. They malt alfo be fown as 

 foon as pomble after they arrive, and 

 plunged into an Hot-bed of Tanners 

 Bark, where, if the Fruit is good, 

 the Plants will come up in a Month 

 or five Weeks, efpecially if they are 

 fown in the Spring or Summer-fea- 

 fon; but if it is in the Autumn or 

 Winter, they may be allowed a 

 longer time to vegetate : when the 

 Plants are fit to remove, they mould 

 be each planted carefully into a fmall 

 Halfpeny Pot filled with a foft loamy 

 Earth, and plunged into the Hot- 

 bed again ; and mull: be treated in 

 the fame manner as is directed for 

 other tender Plants of the fameCoun- 

 tries ; obferving, when the Plants 

 have Ihed thei> Leaves, not to give 

 them too much Water, efpecially in 

 the Winter-feafon, left the Moilture 

 Ihould rot their Roots : in all other 

 refpecls they may be managed as the 

 Cofree-tree, and mould be kept in 

 the feme Temperature of Warmth. 



Some of thefe Plants have grown 

 to the Heigh' of five or fix Feet in 

 England, and have produced Flow- 

 ers ; but, excepting one Plant, which 

 ripened one of the Fruit, I have not 

 feen any produced. Thefe Trees 

 are often deftitute of Leaves four or 

 five Months, and the Flowers gene- 

 rally precede the Leaves : that Plant 

 which ripened its Fruit in England 

 had no Leaves upon it, when the 

 Fruit was ripe. 



In the Weft • Indies thefe Trees 

 rarely grow above twelve or four- 

 teen Feet iiigh, and are there often 

 bare of Leaves for four or five 

 Months j and ths Flowers are gene- 



rally produced before the Leaves ap- 

 pear. The Fruit of thefe Trees have 

 very little Pulp, only a thin Cover- 

 ing over the Stone, which is very 

 large. This Fruit has an unpleafant 

 fvveet Tafte, and is reckon'd un- 

 whoHome when eaten in any Quan- 

 tity. 



In the Places of its naturalGrowth, 

 the Inhabitants plant the Cuttings ; 

 which, in a (hort time, will take 

 Root, and the following Summer 

 produce Fruit. I have alfo raifed 

 thefe Plants from Cuttings in Eng- 

 land. 



CHRYSOCOMA, Goldylocks. 



The Characlers are ; 

 // hath a compound Flower: the 

 Florets are funnel-Jhatf d, and divided 

 at their Brim into five Parts, and 

 are ftretch'd out beyond the Empale- 

 ment : on the Outfide are ranged the 

 Hermaphrodite Flowers, which are tu- 

 hulofe and reflex ed at the Top : thefe 

 are all included in one common Empale- 

 ment, which is fcaly : the Embryo 

 becomes one plain Seed, crowned with 

 a Down. 



The Species are ; 

 t. Chrysocoma calycibus /axis, 

 Lin. Hort. Cliff. German Goldy- 

 locks. 



2. Chrysocoma fruticofa, foliis 

 linearikuSy dorfo drcurrcntibus. Lin. 

 Hort. Cliff. African Ihrubby Goldy- 

 locks. 



3. Chrysocoma /oil is linear il us 

 fubtus piloftsy Jioribus ante florefcen- 

 tiam refiexis. Lin. Hort. Cliff. Dwarf 

 African Goldylocks, with very nar- 

 row Leaves, hairy underneath. 



4. Chrysocoma foliis I an ceo la to- 

 linearibus altcrnis integerrimis, fori- 

 bus corymbejis. Goldylocks with nar- 

 row whole Leaves, and Flowers col- 

 lected in a Sphere. 



Thefe Plants have been ranged, 

 with fome other?, under the Title of 

 Coma Aurea\ which, being a com- 

 pound 



