ing them, whenever you want to 

 know the Sorts of Fruit : beiides, they 

 ought not to be opened before their 

 Seafon to be eaten ; for the ofcener 

 they are open'd, and exposed to the 

 Air, the worfe they will keep. I 

 don't doubt but this will be objected 

 to by many, who imagine Fruit 

 can't be laid too thin ; for which 

 Reafon, they make Shelves to dif- 

 pofe them fingly upon, and are very 

 fond of admitting frelh Air, when- 

 ever the Weather is mild, fuppofing 

 it very neceifary to preferve the 

 Fruit : but the contrary of this is 

 found true, by thofe Perfons who 

 have large Stocks of Fruit laid up in 

 their Storehoufes in London, which 

 remairi clofely (hut up for feveral 

 Months, in the manner before re- 

 lated ; and when thefe arc open'd, 

 the Fruit is always found plumper 

 and founder than any of thofe Fruits 

 which were preferv'd fingly upon 

 Shelves, whofe Skins are always 

 fhrivell'd and dry. For (as Mr. Boyle 

 obferves the Air is the Caufe of Pu- 

 trefaction ; and, in order to prove 

 this, that honourable Perfon put 

 Fruits of feveral Kinds into Glalles 

 where the Air was exhaufted, in 

 which Places they remained found 

 for feveral Months ; but, upon be- 

 ing expos'd to the Air, rotted in a 

 very lhort time ; which plainly fhews 

 the Abfurdity of the common Me- 

 thod now ufed to preferve Fruit. 



■\UAMOCLIT, Bind- 

 3 weed. 



The Characlers are : 

 The Flower conjijls of one Leaf, 



Q, u 



fhafed tike a Funnel, and divided a* 

 the Top into feveral Segments : from 

 the Flower -cup rifes the Pointal* 

 which afterward becomes a roundifh 

 Fruit, inclofing feveral oblong Seeds. 



We have but one Species of thii 

 Plant in England '; which is, 



Qu a M O G L l T foliis tenuiter incifts, 

 C5* pennatis. Tourn. Quamoclit with 

 \ f ery fine-cut winged Leaves, com- 

 monly calPd, in Barbados t Sweet 

 William. 



This Plant is very common in 

 Jamaica, Barbados, and the Carib- 

 bee IJIands, where it climbs upon 

 Bullies, Hedges, or whatever grows 

 near it, and produces great Quanti- 

 ties of beautiful fcarlet Flowers, al- 

 moft of the Figure of a fmall Con- 

 volvulus-flower ; but the Tube be- 

 ing much lenger, and the Seeds be- 

 ing of a different Figure from thofe 

 of the Convolvulus, Monfieur Tmr* 

 nefcrt hath feparated it from that 

 Genus. The Seeds of this Plant are 

 generally brought into England every 

 Spring, from the Weft- Indies : they 

 Ihould be -fown on an Hot-bed in 

 March ; and when the Plants are 

 come up, they mull be pianted each 

 into a fmall Pot fill'd with light 

 fandy Earth, and plunged into a 

 frefh Hot-bed, to bring the Plants 

 forward As the Plants advance in 

 Height, fo they mould be remov'd 

 into larger Pots, and Sticks placed 

 down by them, for them to climb 

 upon. They muft alio be removed 

 to a fre(h Hot bed, when the old 

 one has loft its Heat ; and when the 

 Plants are too high to be contain'd 

 under Frames, they mould be re- 

 moved into the Stove, where, if they 

 plunged into a moderate Hot-bed of 

 Tanners Bark, and not too much 

 drawn, they will produce a great 

 (Quantity of beautiful fcarlet Flow- 

 ers, and ripen their Seeds very welf ; 

 but if they are expofed to the open 



Air, 



