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! The Charaelers are ; 

 'he Empale merit of the Flower is 

 'y ; the Scales lying over each other 

 lies on an Houfe : the Flower is 

 iated: the .outward Rays are Fe~ 

 !e : but thofe in the Dijk are Her- 

 \hrodite Flowers : thefe are tubu- 

 ; and Jit on the T op of the Ovary , 

 ich is crowned with two fmall 

 wes : the Ovary afterward becomes 

 oblong blunt angular Seed, each 

 Hng in a feparate Cell', fo that 

 ten the Seeds are thrujl out, the V a- 

 \fies have the appearance of an 

 ntycomb. 



The Species are ; 

 ,1. Helianthus ra.dicr annua, 

 i. Vir. The annual Sun-flower. 

 ,2. Heliahthvs radice tereti in- 

 xa perenni. Lin. Hort. CI iff. The 

 pimon perennial or everlafting 

 ! n-flower. 



t 3 . Helianthus radice fufformi. 

 n. Hort. Cliff. Tall broad-leav'd 

 .rennial Sun -flower. 

 4. Helianthus foliis oyatis acu- 

 natis ferratis, pedunculis longiffmis. 

 \or. Virg. Sun flower with oval 

 pinted, and fawed Leaves, having 

 ng Footftalks. 



, 5. Hllianthus foliis ova t is cre- 

 ttis trinerviis Jcabris, fquamis caly- 

 nis erecfis, hngitudine difci. Flor. 

 irg Sun-flower with oval crenated 

 pugh Leaves, having three Veins, 

 fid a fcaly Flower-cup. 

 [ 6. Helianthus foliis lanceolatis 

 VtfiUbus. Flor. Virg. Sun-flov^r 

 {pith 1 pear -fh aped Leaves growing 



lofe to the Stem, 

 it J. Helianthus foliis oblongo- 

 Xvu'atis fca!/ris, radice repent e. Sun- 

 flower with oblong oval rough 



.eaves, and a creeping Root. 

 II 8\ Helianthus radice tuberofa . 

 jtin. Hort. Cliff, Sun-flower with a 

 Tjjuberous Root, commonly called Jc- 

 )\ufalem Artichoke. 



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All thefe Species of Sun-floiyers 

 are Natives of America, from whence 

 we are often fupplied with new 

 Kinds, it being a large Genus of 

 Plants : and it is very remarkable, 

 that there is not a fingle Species of 

 this Genus that is. European ; fo that 

 before America was difcovered, we 

 were wholly unacquainted with thefe 

 Plants. But although they are not 

 originally of our own Growth ; yet 

 are they become lb familiar with our 

 Climate, as to thrive and increafe 

 full as well as if they were at Home 

 (fome of the very late-flowering 

 Kinds excepted, which require a 

 longer Summer than we generally 

 enjoy, to bring them to Perfection) : 

 and many cf them are now fo plen- 

 tiful in England, that Perfons unac- 

 quainted with the Hirlory of thefe 

 Plants would imagine, them at leaft 

 to have been Inhabitants of this 

 lfland many hundred Years ; parti- 

 cularly the Jerufalem Artichoke, 

 which, though it doth not produce 

 Seeds in our Climate, yet doth lb 

 multiply by its knobbed Roots, that, 

 when once well f.xed in a Garden, it 

 is not eafily to be rooted out. 



The firltSort, being annual, mull 

 be fown every Spring, in a Bed of 

 good light rich Earth ; and when the 

 Plants are come up about three 

 Inches high, they muft be tranfplant- 

 ed into Nurfery-bcds. at about eight 

 or ten Inches Dtilance every Way, 

 where they may continue until they 

 are a Foot high, when they mull be 

 carefully taken up with a Bail cf 

 Earth, and tranfplanted into the 

 Middle of large Borders, or inter- 

 . mixed in Bofquets of large-growing 

 Plants, obferving to wr.ter them un- 

 til they are well rooted ; after which 

 they will require no further Care 

 but to clear them from Weeds. 



