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Plants will grow to be eight or ten 

 Feet high, and will produce beauti- 

 ful Spikes of Flowers every Year, 

 which are commonly in Eeauty in 

 Winter ; and are thereby more va- 

 luable, for coming at a Seafon when 

 few other Plants do flower. Some- 

 times thefe Plants will produce ripe 

 Seeds, which, if permitted to* fall 

 upon the Earth of the Pots, will 

 come up the Summer following, 

 fromr whence a great Stock of the 

 Plants may be produced ; tho' as 

 they fo eaiily take Root from Cut- 

 tings, there will be no occafion to 

 propngate them any other way. 



The twelfth Sort feldom produces 

 any Side-branches, but grows up to 

 one fingle large Head, with very 

 large Leaves. This is only propa- 

 gated from Seeds ; for when the 

 Plants produce their Flowers, they 

 always decay as foon as the Seed is 

 ripe ; therefore the Seed mould 

 cither be fown in Pots filled with 

 light fandy Earth, as foon as it is 

 yipe, or permitted to fried upon the 

 Pots where they grow ; which mutt 

 be fheitered from the Froft in Win- 

 ter ; and the Spring following the 

 young Plants will come lip in 

 Plenty ; when they mould be trans- 

 planted into Pots fitted with frefti 

 light Earth, and exp^fed in Sum 

 mer, with other Exotic Plants, in 

 fome well - fhelterM Situation, where 

 they may remain until October, 

 when they mould be hou ?, d with 

 the foregoing Sorts, and managed in 

 the fame manner as hftth heen di- < 

 reeled for them. Thefe Fiants will 

 flower in four or five Years from 

 Seed, provided they are well ma- 

 ringed ; after which (as was before 

 ferrd) thev ufually decay ; therefore 

 it is necefTary to have a Succ'eflion of 

 young Plan:;, that there may be an- 

 nually feme to flower. This Sort 

 rather belongs to the Saxifrage than 

 this Genus. 



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The thirteenth and fourteenth 

 Sorts are of a fmaller Growth : thefe 

 rarely rife above fix Inches high; 

 but fend forth a great Quantity of 

 Heads from their Sides ; which, if 

 taken off, and planted in frefli light 

 fandy Earth, will take Root, and 

 make frefli Plants, which may be 

 preferved in Pots, and houfed in 

 Winter with the other Sorts before- 

 mentioned, aud require to be treated 

 in the fame way. 



' The fifteenth Sort grows to be 

 fhrubby, and may be propagated by 

 planting the Cuttings in the manner 

 direcled for the Tree Houfleek, and 

 muftalfobe hous'd in Winter, and 

 treated in the fame manner as hath 

 been already direcled for that Sort. 



Thefe are all of them very orna- 

 mental Plants in the Green-houfe, 

 and add greatly to the Variety, when 

 placed amonglt other curious Exotic 

 Plants. 



The other Sorts of Houfleek are 

 very hardy Plants, which will thrive 

 in the open Air in England ; and 

 may be eaiily propagated by Off fets 

 or Branches, which will re-:dily cake 

 Root. Thofe Kinc ivl i :fi trail on 

 the Ground (as many of theft do), 

 will pulh out Roots from their 

 Branches, and thereby fpread them- 

 felves to a gre. Diftance : but the 

 thirty - fecond, thirty - fourth, and 

 thirty-fifth Sorts are annual Plants, 

 which are only propagated by Seeds;, 

 but if their Seeds are permitted to 

 fcatter on the Ground, the Plants 

 will come up in Autumn, and re- 

 quire no other Care, but to clear 

 them from great Weeds, which, if 

 permitted to grow amongft them, 

 would overbear and deftroy them. 



Thefe Plants are preferved in the 

 Gardens of fome Perfons, who are 

 curious in Botany ; but are very rare- 

 ly admitted into other Gardens ; too* 

 they may be very ornamental, when 



