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the old Plants rarely continue after 

 they have feeded. 



Tho 1 thefe Plants will bear tranf- 

 planting pretty well, if it be done at 

 Michaelmas ; yet it is ^he better 

 Way to fow the Seeds, where the 

 Plants are defigned to remain for 

 Flowering; becaufc they generally 

 have a downright Root, which is 

 often cut or broken by tranfplanting ; 

 and then the Plants never thrive fo 

 well, nor continue fo long in Flower, 

 as thofe which remain undiiturbed. 

 ' The other fix Sorts are more ten- 

 der : thefe mould be raifed on an 

 Hot-bed, and managed as hath been 

 directed for the Atnaranthus : by 

 which Method good Seeds may be 

 obtained, and the Kinds preferved. 



The feventh Sort was found in 

 the Plains of Lima, by Father Feu- 

 illee : this Sort was alio found near 

 Panama by Mr. Robert Millar, Sur- 

 geon, who fent the SeeJs to England. 

 The eighth and eleventh Sorts were 

 found by Father FcuilUe in Chilj: 

 the tenth Sort he found by the Ri- 

 ver of PIate> This grows about a 

 Foot high, and produces large pur- 

 ple Flowers. The eighth Sort 

 grows taller, and produces large vio- 

 let-colour'd Flowers, which renders 

 them more valuable than the other 

 Sorts, 



ONIONS. Vide Cepa. 



ONOBRYCHIS, Cock's - head, 

 or Saint -foin. 



The Characlers are ; 



It hath a papilionaceous Flower, 

 eut of whofe Empalement rifes the 

 Pointal, which afterward becomes a 

 crefled Pod, which is fometimes rough, 

 and full of Seeds, Jbaped like a Kidney: 

 to which may be added, The Flowers 

 grow in a thick Spike. 

 The Species are i 



I.Onobrychis foliis <vhi<£, fru- 

 3ft eroinato, major, foribus dilute ru- 

 teHiikus. C. B. P. Greater Cock's- 



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head, with Vetch-leaves, roughFruk, 

 and pale- red Flowers- 



2.0nobrychis foliis <vici<e,f ru- 

 tin echinato, major, foribus elegan- 

 ter ruhentibus. C. B. P. Greater 

 Cock's - head, with "Vetch - leaves, 

 rough Fruit, and beautiful red Flow- 

 ers. 



5. Onobrychis fruclu echinato, 

 minor. C. B, P. Smaller Cock's- 

 head, with rough Fruit, or Medic- 

 vetchling. 



The two firft are Varieties which 

 only differ in the Colour of their 

 Flower?, the fame Seeds often pro- 

 ducing both Sorts, tho' faved from 

 one Plant. As there is alfo another 

 Variety with a white Flower, which 

 doth come from the fame Seed, they 

 may pafs for one Plant. 



This is an abiding Plant, which, 

 if fown upon a dry, gravelly, or 

 chalky Soil, will continue eighteen 

 or twenty Years : but if it be fown. 

 upon a deep, light, moiit Soil, the 

 Roots will run down into the 

 Ground ; and in the Winter-feafon 

 the Moifture will ret them ; fo that 

 the Plants feldom lafts above two 

 Years i» fuch Places. 



This is efteemed one of the belt 

 Sorts of Fodder for moll Cattle, and 

 is a great Improvement to lhallow 

 chalky r/Jills, upon which it fuc- 

 ceeds better than in any other Soil, 

 and will continue many Years; and 

 the Roots of this Plant, when plow- 

 ed in, greatly enrich the Ground. 



The beftSeafon forfowing of this 

 Seed is in the Beginning or Middle 

 of April, according as the Seafon is 

 early or late, oblerving always to 

 do it in dry Weather ; otherwife the 

 Seeds will be apt to burll withMoift- 

 ure, and never come up. Thefe 

 Seeds being large, there will require 

 a great Quantity to fow an Acre: 

 the common Allowance for this 

 Work is four Bulhels i but I would 



not 



