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have room to grow. If Care be 

 taken to water and fhifc them as of- 

 ten as is neceffary, they will grow to 

 be three Feet high the firft Seafon. 

 At Michaelmas the Pots mould be 

 plung'd into a frefh Hot-bed of Tan- 

 ners Bark, in the Stove; which mould 

 be kept to the Anana's Heat, mark'd 

 on the Botanical Thermometers, and 

 frequently refrenYd with Water; but 

 you muft never give them large Quan- 

 tities, which is very injurious to thefe 

 Plants at that Seafon. The Earth 

 which thefe Plants fnould be planted 

 in, mail be frelh, light, and fandy 

 (but not over-rich); in which they 

 will ftand the Winter better than if 

 planted in a ftronger Soil. 



With this Management I have 

 rais'd feveral Plants to be eighteen 

 Feet high ; fome of which I have 

 preferv'd five or fix Years, which 

 have produe'd Flowers in the Depth 

 of Winter, when they made a fine 

 Appearance in the Stove. 



The fecond and third Sorts were 

 difcover'd by Dr. William Houjloun 

 at Campechy, where he found them 

 growing in plenty. Thefe do not 

 differ from the firft in the outward 

 . Face of the Plants, but only in the 

 Colour of their Flowers ; one of 

 thefe having yellow, and the other 

 red Flowers ; whereas thofe of the 

 firft are red and yellow variegated. 



The fourth Sort was difcover'd by 

 Pere Feuillee, growing plentifully in 

 the Vallics of Id ma The Flowers of 

 this Kind are fmaller than thofe of 

 the other Sorts, and are of a greenifh- 

 yellow Colour, fo that they are not 

 near fo beautiful. The Seed-pods 

 of this Sort are ufed by the Dyers 

 in the Spanijk Weji-Indies y for dyeing 

 of Black ; and they are alfo ufed for 

 making of Ink : the Infufion of thefe 

 Pods with Galls affords the moft 

 beautiful black Ink in the. World. 



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Thefe Sorts are propagated by 

 Seeds, in the fame manner as the 

 firft ; and the Plants muft be treated 

 in the fame way, being all of them 

 very tender Plants : and although 

 they are fome Years before they pro- 

 duce their Flowers, yet the regular 

 Beauty of their branching winged 

 Leaves renders them worthy of a 

 Place in every good Stove : and 

 when they flower, they are the great- 

 eft Ornaments in a Collection of rare 

 Plants. 



POKE VIRGINIAN. Phy- 

 tolacca. 



POLEMONIUM, Greek Vale- 

 rian, or Jacob's Ladder. 

 The Characters are ; 



The Flower conffs of one Leaf, 

 which is deeply divided into Jive 

 Parts, and is wheel-Jkap'd : the Poin- 

 tal, which rifes from the Flower-cup, 

 afterward becomes a roundifh Fruit, 

 divided into three Cells, which are 

 flfd with oblong Seeds: to which 

 Jhould be added y [he Leaves are pin- 

 nated. 



The Species are ; 



1. Polemonium vulgar e cceru- 

 hum. Toum. Greek Valerian, with, 

 a blue Flower. 



2 . Polemonium vulgar e album. 

 Toum. Greek Valerian, with a 

 white Flower. 



3. Polemonium vulgar e, fore 

 variegato. Toum. Greek Valerian, 

 with a ftrip'd Flower. 



4. Polemonium vulgar e, foliis 

 eleganter variegatis. Boerh. Ind. 

 Greek Valerian, with beautiful 

 ftriped Leaves. 



The two firft: Species are very 

 common in many Englifb Gardens, 

 where they are cultivated for the 

 Beauty of their Flowers. They have 

 alfo been found wild in Carleton 

 Peek, and about Malham Cove near 

 Craven. The Sort with variegated 

 flowers, 



