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all theWinter, in many Parts of Eng- 

 land : it may be propagated in a 

 Garden by fowing the Seeds foon 

 after they are ripe. This Plant is 

 annual. This Species is alfo fonie- 

 times ufed in Medicine. 



The third Sort is very common 

 in Barbados, and many other Parts 

 ©f America : it very often comes up 

 in great Plenty in the Earth that is 

 brought from thence. This is an 

 annual Plant, and mud be fovvn in 

 an Plot-bed ; and managed as hath 

 been directed for the Balfamina, to 

 which I refer the Reader. 



The fourth Sort is faid to grow in 

 great Plenty about Montpelier : this 

 as fomewhat like the firit Sort, and 

 may be propagated by fowing the 

 Seeds foon after they are ripe, which 

 will flower the fucceeding Summer; 

 and, after perfecting its Seeds, de- 

 cays. 



The fifth Sort is an abiding Plant, 

 which with us feldom rifes above 

 eighteen Inches high, but hath woody 

 branches ; the Leaves are very white 

 and foft, which renders them very 

 agreeable when intermixed with dif- 

 ferent-colour'd Plants in large Bor- 

 ders; but the Flowers have no great 

 Iteauty in them. This Plant is pretty 

 hardy, and will endure the Cold of 

 our ordinary Winters in the open 

 Borders, and may be propagated by 

 planting Cuttings in Summer ; for it 

 never feeds in England. 



The fixteenth Sort is a very hardy 

 Plant, and will endure the Cold of 

 pur Winters in England very well : 

 this Sort feldom continues longer 

 than two or three Years ; fo mould 

 be (own every other Year to pre- 

 serve the Kind : this produces plenty 

 of Seeds in England, which if per- 

 mitted- to fcatter, the Plants will 

 some up without any farther Care, 

 and may be tranfplanted tp the Places 

 v/h??5 they are to rejaain. 



The eighteenth Sort is an annual 

 Plant, which Ihould be raifed on a 

 moderate Hot-bed in the Spring ; 

 and in Summer they may be tranf- 

 planted into the open Air, where 

 they will flower, and produce ripe 

 Seeds but as there is little Beauty 

 in this Plant, it is rarely preferved 

 but in Botanic Gardens. 



The feventeenth, nineteenth, and 

 twentieth Sorts are herbaceousPlants, 

 which have annual Sta!ks,and peren- 

 nial Roots. The others are all flirub- 

 by Plants, which make a pretty Va- 

 riety in the Stove, where there is 

 room to admit them. 



Thefe fhrubby Flea-banes are Na- 

 tives of the Weft- Indies, where they 

 ufuaily grow about fix or feven Feet 

 high, and fome of the Tree- kinds 

 ten or twelve Feet high, and divide 

 into many Branches. They are all 

 propagated by Seeds, which ihould 

 be fown foon after they are ripe ; 

 for as they have light downy Seeds, 

 they will not retain their growing 

 Quality yery long. If the Seeds are 

 fown in Autumn, they will remain 

 in the Ground all the Winter, and 

 the Plants will appear the following 

 Spring; but then the Pots, in which 

 the Seeds are fown, mould be plung'4 

 into an Hot-bed of Tanners Bark, 

 and fecured from Cold, othervvife 

 the Seeds will perifh in Winter : and 

 when the Seeds are kept out of the 

 Ground till Spring, they feldom 

 grow : but as thefe Plants rarely pro- 

 duce Seeds in this Country, the fureft 

 Method to obtain them is to have 

 their Seeds fown in a Box of Earth 

 foon after they are ripe, in their na~ 

 tive Country, and fent over tc Eng" 

 land. When thefe Tubs of Earth 

 arrive, they mould be plunged into 

 a moderate Hot -bed of Tanners 

 Bark, and frequently refremed with 

 Water, which will foon bring up 



