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they may be treated as the feedling 

 Plants. 



RESEDA, Baftard rocket. 

 The Characters are ; 



It hath a poly pet alous anomalous 

 Flower, compofed of feveral dijfmilar 

 Petals, out of whofe Cup arifes the 

 Pointal, which afterward becc?nes a 

 membranaceous Fruit, for the mof 

 part three or four-cornered, oblong, 

 and, as it were, cylindraceous , preg- 

 nant with round f Seeds. 

 The Species are; 



1. Reseda vulgaris. C. B. P. 

 Common Baftard-rocket. 



2. Reseda crifpa Gallica. Bocc. 

 Rar. PL Curled French Baftard- 

 rocket. 



3. Reseda latifolia, fore fid'tjo. 

 Mar. Hijl. Broad -leav'd Baftard- 

 rocket, with a yellow Flower. 



4. Reseda foliis calcitrapee, fore 

 albo. Mor, H. R. Bhf Baftard. 

 rocket with Star-thiftle-leaves, and 

 a white Flower. 



5. Reseda minor vulgaris. Inf. 

 R. H. Smaller common Baftard- 

 rocket. 



6. Reseda minor vulgaris, folio 

 minus incifo. Inf. R. H. Smaller 

 common Baftard - rocket, with a 

 Leaf lefs cut. 



7. Reseda minor vulgaris, foliis 

 iniegris. Inf. R. H. Small common 

 Baftard-rocket, with whole Leaves. 



8. Reseda Pyrenaica, linari<e 

 folio glauco. SchoL Bot. Pyrcnean 



Baftard - rocket, with a glaucous 

 Toad -flax-leaf. 



9. Reseda JEgyptiica minor, fo- 

 ri bus fragrantijjimis. The Mignonette 

 d'Egypt, or fmall fweet-fcented Re- 

 feda. 



Thefe Plants are preferred in the 

 Gardens of fome Perfons, who are 

 curious in Botany ; but at prefent 

 they are not ufed in Medicine. All of 

 thero, but the laft, are very hardy 

 Plant", which are propagated by Seeds : 



thefe mould be fown in the Spring, 

 on an open Bed of frefh undunged 

 Earth, in the Place where they are 

 defign'd to remain ; and when the 

 Plants come up, they fhould be hoed 

 to feparate them, where they are too 

 cloi'e, as alfo to deftroy the Weeds. 

 The four firft Sorts fhould be allow- 

 ed eighteen Inches, or two Feet ; 

 but the other Sorts, being of lefs 

 Growtif/ do not require above half 

 that room. The Weeds mould be 

 CQnftantly hoed down between the 

 Plants when they arife, which is all 

 the Culture the Plants require. Some 

 of thefe Plants will flower the fame 

 Year they are fown, when they come 

 up early in the Spring ; but in gene- 

 ral they do not flower till the fecond 

 Year, when they produce their Seeds, 

 and the fianrs commonly perifh, 

 foon after. If the Seeds of thefe 

 Plants are permitted to fcattcr, the 

 Plants will come up, and ftcck the 

 Ground, fo as to become Weeds. 



The ninth Sort hath been lately 

 introduced into the Etiglijh Gardens. 

 The Plants of this Sort are generally 

 annual, and perifh i'oon after their 

 Seeds are ripe ; though if the Plants 

 are placed in a warm Stove in the 

 Autumn, they may be preiervjd thro* 

 the Winter, and the Plants will keep 

 conftantly in Flower. 



This Sort fhould be fown on a 

 moderate Hot-bed in March ; and 

 when the Plants are ftrong enough to * 

 tranfplant, they fhould be pricked 

 out upon another moderate Mot-bed 

 to bring them forward : but the 

 Plants fhould have a large Share of 

 Air in warm Weather, otherwjfe 

 they will draw up verv v, eak. About 

 the Latter end of May the Hants 

 may be planted out, fome into Pots, 

 to place near the Apartments ; and 

 others into warm Borders, where 

 they may -emain to flower and feed. 

 For the Flants which grow in' the 



