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they are water'd in dry Weather, 

 will make a prodigious Progrefs : 

 fo that in a few Years from the Plant- 

 ing, they will afford nobie Tree? for 

 planting of Avenues, and other fliady 

 Walks ; and their Trunks are per- 

 fectly ftrait, growing nearly of the 

 fame Size to a confiderable Height, 

 there being the leaft Difference in 

 the Girt of this Tree, for feveral 

 Yards upwards, of any other Sort of 

 Tree whatfoever. The Honourable 

 Paul Dudley, Efq; in a Letter to the 

 Royal Society, mentions one of thefe 

 Trees, which he obferv'd in New- 

 England, whofe Girt was nine Yard?, 

 and held its Bignefs-a great Way up ; 

 which Tree, when cut down, made 

 twenty two Cords of Wood. He al- 

 fo fays, in the fame Letter, That 

 he had propagated many of thefe 

 Trees by cutting off Sticks of five or 

 fix Feet long, and fetting them a 

 Foot deep into the Ground in the 

 Spring of the Year, when the Sea- 

 fon was wet ; and that they always 

 thrive befl in a moift Soil. 



The Leaves of this Sort are lar- 

 ger, and lefs divided, than thofe of 

 the Oriental Plane-tree; and the Tree 

 grows much fafter, and is hardier ; 

 and being thus eafily propagated, is 

 jiow the moft common in England. 



The Maple-leav'd Plane-tree hath 

 its Leaves lefs divided than the firft, 

 but more than the fecond Sort; fo 

 that it is a middle Kind between both: 

 though, as I before faid, it comes 

 Originally from the Eaftern Sort. 



This is propagated very eafily by 

 Layers, every Twig of which will 

 take Root, if they are but cover'd 

 with Earth ; and when tranfplanted 

 out in a moift Soil, will grow equally 

 fait with the Virginian Kind. But 

 whether this will take from Cuttings 

 or not, I cannot fay, having never 

 made Trial of it ; though from the 

 Readinefs pf the Branches taking 



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!&oot, there is s little Reafon to douct 

 of it. The bell time to tranfplant 

 thefe Trees is in March ; for if they 

 are removed in Winter, and the Sea- 

 fon mould prove very fevere, the 

 tender Shoots are often kill'd by the 

 Froft. 



PLINIA. 



The Characters are ; 



// hath a hell Jhafed Flower confin- 

 ing of one Le af, which is divided into 

 five Segments at the Brim ; from 

 whofe Cup rifes the Pointal, which 

 afterward becomes a globular foft 

 chanelfd fruit, in which is included 

 one Seed of the fame Form. 



We know but one Species of this 

 Plant ; which is, 



Pli n i a fruQu croceoodorato. Plum, 

 AW. Gen. Plinia with a fweet-fcent- 

 ed faffron-colour'd Fruit. 



This Plant was difcover'd by Fa- 

 ther Plumier in the Wtfi-Indies, who 

 gave it this Name, in Honour to 

 Pliny the famous Natural Hifiori- 

 an. 



It grows in feveral Places in the 

 warmer Parts of America, from 

 whence the Seeds have been fent to 

 Europe. Thefe Seeds muft be fown 

 in Pots filled with light rich Earth, 

 and plunged into an Hot-bed of Tan- 

 ners Bark ; obferving to moifren the 

 Earth with Water whenever it ap- 

 pears dry, as alfo to prefer ve a mo- 

 derate Temperature of Heat in the 

 Bed ; fo that if the Nights mould 

 prove cold, the G lanes of the Hot- 

 bed fnould be every Night cover'd 

 with Mats ; and in the middle of the 

 Day the Glafies may be raifed to 

 admit frefh Air, when the Weather 

 is warm. Thefe Seeds will fome- 

 times remain long in the Ground be- 

 fore the Plants appear ; and when- 

 ever it fo happens, the Pots mure be 

 connantly kept clear from Weeds, 

 and duiy watered : and when the 

 Plants come up, they mould be 



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