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' and be planted in a very dry fandy 

 : Soil. 



I The fourth Sort produces the mod 

 beautiful Flowers of any of the Sorts, 

 and deferves a Place in every good 

 Collection of Plants ; as do the fc- 

 l cond, third, fifth, and fixth, for the 

 regular Beauty of their Stems, and 

 j large fair thick fucculent Leaves ; 

 J and the fecond, third, and fixth Sorts 

 il produce very fair handfome Bunches 

 li of Flowers, but they feldom produce 

 t Seeds in England. 



The ninth Sort is very like to the 

 I feventh, in its outward Appearance; 

 | but differs from that in having Num- 

 1 bers of dark Spots all over the 

 I Leaves, and the Leaves are larger, 

 I and more fucculent : this is fome- 

 } what tenderer than that, and more 

 i impatient of Moifture in Winter; 

 I -but in other relpe&s may be propa- 

 ! gated from Cuttings, and treated in 

 | the fame manner as is directed for 

 i that Sort. 



The tenth Sort feldom grows above 

 I a Foot and an half high, branching 

 ] out in many Stems from the Bot- 

 i torn ; the Leaves are in Shape fome- 

 ' what like thofe of Purflane, but are 

 ; much thicker, and more fucculent : 

 this Sort feldom flowers with us, but 

 : may be propagated eafily by Cut- 

 tings during any of the Summer- 

 ; months ; and in Winter may be ma- 

 naged as hath been directed for the 

 former Sorts. 



The eleventh Sort is much more 

 hardy than any of the lait-mentioned 

 Sorts, and will endure the Cold of 

 our ordinary Winters in the open 

 Air, if the Plants grow upon a dry 

 Soil ; fo this may be propagated up- 

 on the Walls of Gardens in the fame 

 manner as the firft Sort. 



COURBARIL, The Locuft-tree, 

 fvulgo. 



The CbaraBers are ; 

 It bath a fapUhnaceous Flower, 



from ivbo/e Calyx arifes the Pcinta}\ 

 nibicb afterixard becomes an unicap- 

 fular hard Pod, including roundijh 

 bard Seeds, nvhicb are furroundedwitb 

 a fungous jiringy Subjlance. 



We know but of one Species of 

 this Plant ; 



Courb aril bifolia> fiore pyrami- 

 data. Plum. AW. Gen. Courbaril 

 with two Leaves fet together, and a 

 pyramidal Flower, commonly called 

 Locuft-tree by the Englijh Inhabit- 

 ants of America. 



The Pods of this Tree are fre- 

 quently brought from the Iflands of 

 America, by the Title of Locuft ; 

 from the Seeds of which thefe Plants 

 may be raifeck Thefe Seeds mould 

 be fown on an Hot-bed early in the 

 Spring ; and when the Plants are 

 come up, they mould be very care- 

 fully taken up, and each planted into 

 a fmall Pot filled with frefh light 

 Earth, and plunged into an Hot-bed 

 of Tanners Bark, obferving to fnade 

 them until they have taken Root; 

 after which time they mould have 

 Air and Water in proportion to the 

 Warmth of the Seafon ; but they 

 will not bear to be quite expofed to 

 the open Air in England,even in the 

 hottelt Part of Summer. Jn Winter 

 thefe Plants mall be removed into 

 the Bark-Trove, and plunged into the 

 Tan, amcngft the tenderer Sorts of 

 Exotic Plants ; and during that Sea- 

 fon they fliould be frequently re- 

 frelhed with Water, but it mult not 

 be given them in large Quantities; 

 for they are impatient of much Wet, 

 efpecialiy when they are deftitute of 

 Leaves. If thefe Plants are conti- 

 nued in the Bark-ftove, and fhifted 

 into larger Pots as they increafe in 

 Size, they may be preferved ; but I 

 believe it will be many Years before 

 they will produce Flowers in Europe ; 

 for they are t>f a very flow Growth, 

 a r ter the firft fix Months, being in 

 6 this 



