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Earth, and plunged into a moderate 

 Hot-bed of Tanners Bark, obferv- 

 ing frequently to refrefh them with 

 Water : If they come over in an hot 

 Seafon, it will be proper to made 

 them from the Sun until they are 

 rooted ; and at that Seafon they will 

 require but a very moderate Warmth 

 in the Hot - bed ; for too great 

 Warmth would then be very injuri- 

 ous to them. But when they arrive 

 late in the Year, the Bed Ihould have 

 a larger Share of Heat, in order to 

 forward their Rooting, before the 

 Winter's Cold comes on. 



Thefe Plants may alfo be propa- 

 gated by fowing of their Stones, 

 which mould be brought over as 

 frefh as poffible. Thefe mould be 

 fown in the Spring of the Year, in 

 fmall Pots filled with light rich 

 Earth, and then plunged into an Hot- 

 bed of Tanners Bark ; where, if the 

 Bed is in a good Temperature for 

 Heat, and the Pots of £arth are du- 

 ly moiftened, the Plants will come 

 up in about a Month, or fix Weeks, 

 after fowing, when they ihould have 

 frefh Air admitted to them every 

 Day, in proportion to the Warmth 

 of the Seafon ; and they muft be 

 'frequently refrefhed with Water. 

 When the Plants are fit to tranfplant, 

 each Plant (hou'd be planted in a 

 feparate fmall Pot rilled with light 

 rich Earth, and then plunged into 

 the Hot-bed again, where they muft 

 have a pretty large Share of frefh 

 Air in warm Weather. 



When the Plants have grown fo 

 large as to have filled the Pots with 

 their Roots 9 they fnould be fhifted 

 into others of a larger Size, being 

 careful not to make the Earth from 

 their Roots. They muft then be 

 plunged into the Hot - bed again, 

 provided the Plants are -not too tall 

 to ftand under the'Glafies, without 

 Injury to their Leaves ; in which 



Cafe they muft be plunged into the 

 Bark-bed in the Stove, where they 

 may have room to advance in Height: 

 but if they have room in the Hot- 

 bed, they may remain there till about 

 Michaelmas, when the Nights begin 

 to be cold ; at which time they mull 

 be removed into the Stove, and 

 plunged into the Bark-bed in the 

 warmeft Part of the Stove. During 

 theWinter-feafon they muft be often 

 refrefhed with Water ; but it muft 

 not be given them in large Quanti- 

 ties when the Seafon is cold, efpeci- 

 ally if tney mould caft their Leaves, 

 which they frequently do toward the 

 Spring ; then they muft have but 

 little Water, until they put out new 

 Leaves ; becaufe too much Moifture - 

 is injurious to them when they are 

 in almoft an unaclive State. 



This Plant ha 1 -; produced Fruit in 

 England, which has ripened well : 

 but as there is little Flefh upon them, 

 they are fcarce worth cultivating in 

 England, for the fake of their Fruit: 

 but thofe Perfons who are curious 

 in Exotic Plants, fhould not be 

 without a Plant or two of this Sort, 

 becaufe it makes an agreeable Ap- 

 pearance when it is in Flower, as 

 alfo in Fruit. 



As the Plants obtain Strength, 

 they may be treated a little more 

 hardily than while young ; and they 

 will be longer lived ; for when they 

 are forced too much by Heat, they 

 feldom continue above three or four 

 Years : they always caft their Leaves 

 in Winter; and thofe Fruits which, 

 have been produced in England, ri- 

 peied upon the Plants after the 

 Leaves had fallen : the Fruii, when 

 ripe, had the Appearance of a Sweet- 

 meat candied over. 



MONTI A. 



The Cbaraflers are; 



// bath a funnel-Jbaped Flower, 

 conjifting of one Leaj\ nubofc under 



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