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Shrubs, growing to the Height of 

 feven or eight Feet, and may be 

 trained up to regular Heads : thefe 

 are very great Ornaments in fmall 

 Wildernels-quarters, when regularly 

 difpofed amongft Plants of the fame 

 Growth. They produce their Flow- 

 ers in Auguft ; and if the Autumn 

 proves favourable, their Seeds will 

 be ripe foon after Michaelmas. Thefe 

 are commonly fold by the Nurfery- 

 men, with other flowering Shrubs, 

 under the Name of Alt h tea f rut ex ; 

 but by the modern Botanifts they are 

 removed from that Genus, and call- 

 ed by the Name of Ketmia, becaufe 

 their Seeds are produced in Velfels; 

 whereas thofe of Althaea grow in 

 form of Cheefes, in the fame man- 

 ner as thofe of the common Mallow : 

 but Dr. Lhin<zus has rejected this 

 Name* being Arabic, and has given 

 it the Title of Hibifcus, which is the 

 old Name for the Marlh-mallow ; as 

 hath been oblerved before under that 

 Article. 



Thefe five are not diftin£t Species, 

 but accidental Varieties; but the 

 Flowers of them being of different 

 Colours, when they are intermixed, 

 they make a finer Appearance in the 

 Garden : fometimes the feveral Va- 

 rieties are by the Nurferv-men graft- 

 ed on the lame Piant, which renders 

 them more beautiful when fo many 

 difFerent-colour'd Flowers are blown 

 upon the fame Plant together. 



Thefe Plants are propagated by 

 Seeds, which mould be fown upon a 

 Bed of rich light Earth in February 

 or March : and when they come up, 

 they mould be conftantiy clear'd 

 from Weeds ; and, in dry Weather* 

 often refrehVd with Water, wnich 

 will forward their Growth. In thefe 

 Beds they fhould remain until the 

 fucceeding Spring : but if the Win- 

 ter mould be fevere, it will be pro- 

 per to cover thefe Plants, becaufe, 



while young, they are fomewhaf: 

 tender ; but after they have got 

 Strength, they are very hardy : in the 

 following March they muft be care- 

 fully tranfplanted into Beds of the 

 like Soil, at about ten Inches fquare 

 each Way, obferving to water them, 

 in dry Weather, as alfo to keep them 

 clear from Weeds : in thefe Beds 

 they may continue two Years, by* 

 which time they will fpread fo as to 

 meet each other : therefore you mull, 

 in March, remove them either into 

 the Places where they are defign'd to 

 remain, or into a Nurfery, allowing 

 them three Feet Diitance, Row from 

 Row, and eighteen Inches afunder 

 in the Bows j being careful, in take- 

 ing them up, not to break or bruife 

 their Roots, which would endanger 

 their growing ; and, in dry Wea- 

 ther, give them fome Water, until 

 they have taken Root ; and lay fome 

 Mulch upon the Surface of the 

 Ground, to prevent its drying too 

 fall ; and be careful to cut down the 

 Weeds between them. 



As thefe Plants fend Out flemy 

 Roots, having but few Fibres, they 

 do not brar tranfplanting v^eli, when 

 they are old, or have itood long un- 

 removed; fo that it is much the belt, 

 to plant thofe which are about four 

 or five Years old from Seed, than 

 fuch as are much larger; for if the 

 young Plants are carefully removed, 

 fcarce any of them wili mifcarry ; 

 whereas the larger Plants frequently 

 fail, and fuch of them as grow will 

 never be fo good Plants as thofe 

 which are removed young. 



The Leaves of thc-fe Plants are 

 feldom produced till very late in the 

 Spring: it is often the Middle of 

 May before their Buds mew any 

 Signs of Life ; fo that many Perfons 

 have fuppofed their new planted 

 Shrubs were dead, and have pulled 

 them oat of the Ground : whereas, 

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