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fully ripe, burft in the Heat of the 

 Day with a violent Explofion, make- 

 ing a Noife like the firing of a 

 Piftol ; which occafioned its being, 

 by former Writers, called Arbor cre- 

 pitans ; i. e. the farting Tree ; and 

 hereby the Seeds are thrown about 

 to a confiderable Diftance. Thefe 

 Seeds, when green, vomit and purge, 

 2nd are fuppofed to be fomewhat 

 akin to the Nux Vomica, 



The Seeds of this Plant were fent 

 from Carthagena, in New Spain, by 

 the late Dr. IVilliam Houfioun \ and 

 fmce, there have been many of the 

 Seeds fent into England from Bar- 

 lados, where there are great Num- 

 bers of the Plants cultivated in the 

 Gardens of the Curious. 



It is propagated by Seeds, which 

 fhould be fown early in the Spring, 

 in Pots filled with light rich Earth, 

 and plunged into an Hot-bed of 

 Tanners Bark. If the Seeds are 

 frefli, the Plants will appear in about 

 five Weeks after the Seeds are fown ; 

 and when the Plants are about four 

 Inches high, they mould be tranf- 

 planted each into a feparate fmall 

 Pot filled with light rich Earth, and 

 plunged again into the Hot-bed of 

 Tanners Lark ; and mud be after- 

 ward treated in the fame manner as 

 is directed for other tender Exotic 

 Plants, till the Autumn, at which 

 time they muft be removed into the 

 Bark ftove, and plunged in the warm- 

 eft Part thereof: during the Winter - 

 feafon they muft have frequent W a- 

 tering ; but it muft not then be given 

 in too great Quantities: they muft 

 alfo be kept very wa-m. other wile 

 they will not live in tni- Country. 

 In Summer they muft have a large 

 Share of frefh Air in warm Weather; 

 but they muft not bs removed into 

 the open Air ; for taey are too ten- 

 der to iive abroad n the warnicft 

 Part of the Year in tais Country. 



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This Plant is now pretty common' 

 in the Englifij Garden*, where ther^ 

 are Collections of tender Plants pre- 

 served ; fome of which arc growft 

 to the Height of twelve or fourteen 

 Feet and many of them have pro- 

 duced Flowers ; but there has not 

 been any of their Fruit produced as 

 yet in England. 



As thefe Plants have ample Leave.% 

 which are of a beautiful green Co- 

 lour, they afford an agreeable Vari- 

 ety among other tender Exotic Plants 

 in the Stove ; for where they ate 

 kept warm, and duly refrefhed with 

 Water, they retain their Leaves all 

 the Year in Verdure. 



The Fruit of this Plant is, by trie 

 Inhabitants of the Wefl-Indics, cut 

 open on the Side where the Foot- 

 ftalk grew, and the Seeds carefully 

 taken out j after which, the Shells 

 are ufed as Standifhes to contain Sar;d 

 for Writing ; which gave Rife to the 

 Name of Sand box. When thefe 

 Fruit are brought intire into England, 

 it is very difficult to preferve them ; 

 for when the Heat of the Summer 

 comes .on, they ufually burft with 

 art Explofion, and fcatter their Seeds 

 about. 



HYACINTHUS, Hyacinth, or 

 Jacinth. 



The Characters are ; 



It hath a bulbous Root : the Leaves 

 are long and narrow ; the \ talk is 

 upright and naked, the Flowers grow- 

 ing ori the upper Part in a Panicle : 

 the T lowers confifi each of one Leaf^ 

 are ndked, tubulo/e, and cut into fix 

 Diwfions at the Brim, which arc re* 

 Jiextd : the Ovary becomes a rcund- 

 ijh Fruit with three Angles, which is 

 divided into three Cells, that are filled 

 with roundijb Scads. 

 The Species are ; 



I. Hy ac IN THUS Anglicns, Jlore 

 cocrultQ. Ger. Blueii-vg/y/y Hair-bells. 



2. H l r A- 



