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require no further Care, but to keep 

 them clear from Weeds the follow- 

 ing Summer; but if the Winter 

 mould prove very fevere, it will Se 

 proper to cover them with Mats, 

 Peas-haulm, or fome other light Co- 

 vering, to guard them againft the 

 Frolt, when otherwife would be 

 apt to injure them while they are fo 

 young : but in March, or the Be- 

 ginning of dpril, the following 

 Spring, they mull be removed into 

 the Places where they are to remain; 

 obferving, if poffible, to tranfplant 

 them in a warm moift Seafon, and 

 not to let them remain long above- 

 ground ; for if their Roots are dry'd, 

 they feldom grow well after. The 

 Soil in which thefe are planted 

 lhould be a dry warm Sand or Gra- 

 vel; and the poorer the Soil is in 

 which they are planted, the better 

 they will endure the Cold of the 

 Winter, provided the Ground be 

 dry; tho' indeed the Plants will 

 thrive better in Summer upon a rich 

 moilt Ground; but then they will 

 not produce fo many Flowers, nor 

 will the Plant afford near fo ftrong 

 an aromatic Scent ; as is the Caie 

 with molt. Sorts of aromatic Plants. 



Thefe Plants may alfo be propa- 

 gated by planting Slips or Cuttings 

 of any of the Kinds in the Spring, 

 obferving to refrefh them with Wa- 

 ter until ihey have taken Root ; af- 

 ter which they may be managed as 

 hath been directed for the Seedling- 

 plants ; but as thofe Plants, raifed 

 from Seeds, are much better than 

 thefe, it is hardly worth while to 

 propagate them this way, efpecially 

 fince their Seeds ripen fo well in this 

 Country. 



The Heads of the firft Sorts may 

 be gather'd for Ufe when the Flow- 

 ers are in full Perfection, and fpread 

 to dry in a fhady Place ; after which 

 they may be put up for Ufe. 



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STONECROP. Vide Sedurn. 



oTONECROP - TREE. Vide 

 Chenopodium. 



STOVES are Contrivances for 

 the preferving fuch tender Exotic 

 Plants, as will not live in thefe 

 Northern Countries, without artifi- 

 cial Warmth in Winter. Thefe are 

 built in different Methods, accord- 

 ing to the Ingenuity of the Artift, 

 or the different Purpofes for which 

 they are intended ; but in England 

 they are at preient reducible to two. 



The firft is call'd i Dry Stove, 

 being fo contriv'd, that the Flues 

 through which the Smokf paries are 

 are either carried under the Pave- 

 ment of the Floor, or elfe are erect- 

 ed in the Back-part of the Houfe, 

 over each other, and are returned fix 

 or eight times the whole Length of 

 the Stove. In thefe Stoves the 

 Plants are placed on Shelves of 

 Boards laid on a Scaffold above each 

 other, for the greater Advantage of 

 their flan-ding in Sight, and enjoying 

 an equal Share of Light and Air. In 

 thefe Stoves are commonly placed 

 the tender Sorts of Aloes, Cereus's, 

 Euphorbiurns, Tithymals, and other 

 fucculent Plants, which are impatient 

 of Moifture in Winter ; and there- 

 fore require, for the moft part, to be 

 kept in a feparate Stove, and not 

 placed among Trees, or herbaceous 

 Plants, which perfpire freely, and 

 thereby often caufe a damp Air in 

 the Houfe, which is imbibed by the 

 fucculent Plants, to their no fmall 

 Prejudice. Thefe Stoves may be re- 

 gulated by a Thermometer, fo as 

 not to over-heat them, nor to let the 

 Plants fuffer by Cold ; in order to 

 which, all fuch Plants as require 

 nearly the fame Degree of Heat, 

 mould be placed by themfelves in a 

 feparate Houfe ; for if in the fame 

 Stove there are Plants placed of ma- 

 ny different Countries, which require 



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