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But where the Water is fo deep, 

 that it will not be eafy to plant them, 

 the befl; Method will be to get a 

 Quantity of the Plants, juft as their 

 Seeds are ripening, and throw them 

 on the Surface of the Water, where 

 they are defign'd to grow j and their 

 Seeds will ripen, and fall to the 

 Bottom, where they will take Root, 

 and produce a Supply of the Plants. 

 Thefe Plants produce Seed the Lat- 

 ter-end of June, or the Beginning of 

 July, which is the proper Time for 

 this Work. 



The third, fourth, fifth, and fixth 

 Sorts are Water-plants, which grow 

 in landing Waters ; but are not ad- 

 mitted into Gardens, except for the 

 fake of Variety. 



The feventh and ninth Sorts grow 

 wild on dry Banks in feveral Parts 

 of England: thefe were formerly 

 iifed as a Winter Sallad ; but fmce 

 there have been a great Number of 

 other Herbs introduced into the 

 EngUJh Gardens, they have been in- 

 tirely rejected. Thefe may be pro- 

 pagated by Seeds, which mould be 

 {"own fdon after they are ripe ; and 

 when the Plants are come up, they 

 mould be hoed, to feparate them 

 where they are too clofe, as alfo to 

 deftroy the Weeds, which is all the 

 Culture they require. The Sum- 

 mer following they will produce 

 Seed, and the Plants perifti foon af- 

 ter. But if the Seeds are permitted 

 to fcatter, the Plants will come up, 

 and become troublefome Weeds. 



The eighth Sort is a Variety of the 

 feventh, which accidentally arofe from 

 Seeds ; and is preferved in fome cu- 

 rious Gardens, for having a double 

 Flower. This is propagated by part- 

 ing the Roots ; fo that in crder to 

 preferve the Kind, the Plants mould 

 not be fuffered to fend forth too 

 rcany Flower- ftems, left they mould 



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exhauft the Root too much to fend 

 forth any Side -heads for parting. 

 The belt, time to tranfplant and part 

 thefe Roots is at Michaelmas, when 

 they mould be planted into a Bed or 

 Border of frelh undunged Earth, in 

 an open Expofure. 



The tenth Sort is very like the 

 feventh, from which it differs in 

 having a rough Leaf ; but may be 

 cultivated in the fame manner ; tho* 

 thefe are rarely allowed a Place in 

 any Gardens, unlefs for the fake of 

 Variety. 



SI YRINCHIUM, Spani/hNut. 



The Characters are ; 

 It hath a Flower refemhling the 

 Iris, from which it differs in having 

 a double Root, one lying over the other , 

 after the fame manner as thofe of the 

 Crocus and Gladiolus. 

 The Species are ; 



1. Sis yrinchium majus,flore lu- 

 tea macula notato. C. B. P. Greater 

 Spanijb Nut, with a Flower mark'd 

 with a yellow Spot. 



2. Sisyrinchium majus , Jlore aU 

 ha macula notato. C. B. P. Greater 

 Spar.ijh Nut, with a Flower mark'd 

 with a white Spot. 



3. Sisyrinchium medium. C. B. 

 P. Middle Spanifh Nut. 



4 . Sisyrinchium Creticum man- 

 tanum, angufiffmo folio. Toum. Cor. 

 Mountain Sifyrinchium of Candy, 

 with a very narrow Leaf. 



5. Sisyrinchium Africanvm, fc- 

 his longijpmis, fore aibo, radice ve- 

 nenata. African Sifyrinchium, with 

 very long Leaves, a white Flower, 

 and a poifonou? Root. 



The three firft Sorts grow wild in 

 Portugal and Spain, where the Roots 

 are fought after; and dug up by 

 Children, and the Shepherds, who 

 eat them, as alio the Hogs ; for they 

 zrt fweet, and in Tafte refemble the 

 Earth-nut. The fourth Sort wa» 

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