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fown on a moderate Hot-bed early 

 in the Spring; and when the Plants 

 are come up, they fhould be tranf- 

 planted into Pots fill'd with frefti 

 Earth, and then plung'd into a mo- 

 derate Hot-bed of Tanners Bark ; 

 obferving, after they have taken new 

 Root, to admit a large Share of free 

 Air to them every Day, when the 

 Weather is warm, as alfo to water 

 them conftantly every Day ; for they 

 naturally grow in moid Places. The 

 twenty-fixth Sort, which is an annual 

 Plant, will flower toward the Mid- 

 dle of June, and the Seeds will ri- 

 pen the End otAugujl ; when fome of 

 them mould be fown to come up be- 

 fore Winter ; becaufe the Seeds will 

 more certainly grow at this Seafon, 

 than in the Spring ; and the Plants 

 will grow much ftronger. The twetv 

 ty-feventh Sort, being a biennial 

 Plant, rarely flowers the firft Seafon; 

 therefore this, and the twenty-eighth 

 Sort, which is an abiding Plant, 

 fhould be removed into the Stove at 

 Michaelmas j and placed where they 

 may have a temperate Degree of 

 "Warmth in Winter, in which they 

 may be preferv'd : but they muft be 

 frequently refreflVd with Water, 

 tho* in very cold Weather it mull: 

 not be given in great Quantities. 

 With this Management the Plants 

 will flower extremely well, arid add 

 to the Variety in the Stove. 



VISCUM, Mifleto. 

 The Characters are ; 



The Flower coiffifis of one Leaf, 

 which is fiatfd like a Bafin, and, for 

 the moft part, divided into four Parts, 

 and befet with Warts : the Ovary , 

 which is produced in the Female Flow- 

 ers, is pined in a remote Part of the 

 Plant from the Malt Flowers, and 

 conffs of four Jhorter Leaves : this 

 afterward becomes a ronnd Berry, full 

 cf a glutinous Subfance inclof.ng a 

 flain heart -fcap'd Seed. 



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We have but one Species of this 

 Plant in England; viz. 



VlSCUM haccis albis. C. B. P. 

 Common Mifleto, with white Ber- 

 ries. 



This Plant is always produced 

 from Seed, and is not to be culti- 

 vated in the Earth, as moft other 

 Plants ; but is always found grow- 

 ing upon Trees ; from whence the 

 Antients accounted it a Super plant; 

 moft of whom thought it was an Ex- 

 . crefccnce on the Tree, without the 

 Seed being previoufly lodg'd there : 

 which Opinion is now generally con- 

 futed from a repeated Number of 

 Experiments. 



The Manner of its being propa- 

 gated is this; viz. The Mifleto- 

 thrufli, which feeds upon the Ber- 

 ries of this Plant in Winter, when 

 it is ripe, doth often carry the 

 Seeds from Tree to Tree ; for the 

 vifcous Part of the Berry, which im- 

 mediately iurrounds the Seeds, doth 

 fometimes faften it to the. outward 

 Part of the Bird's Beak ; which to 

 get difengaged of, he ftrikes his 

 Beak againft the Branches of a 

 neighbouring Tree, and thereby 

 leaves the Seed flicking by this vif- 

 cous Matter to the Bark ; which, if 

 it lights upon a fmooth Part of the 

 Tree, will faften itfelf thereto, and 

 the following Winter will put out 

 and grow ; and in the fame manner 

 it may be propagated by Art ; for 

 if the Berries, when fu!l-ripe, are 

 rubbed upon the fmooth Part of the 

 Bark of a Tree, they will adhere 

 clofely thereto ; and, if not deftroy- 

 ed, will produce Plants the follow- 

 ing Winter. 



The Trees which this Plant doth 

 moft readily take upon, are, the 

 Apple, the Afh, and fome other 

 fmooth-rinded Trees ; but I have fe- 

 veral times try'd it upon the Oak 

 y\ rthotlt Succefs ; for the Bark of that 



Tree 



