t 275 1 



The writer treats largely on the manners and 

 whole economy of this little refllefs quadruped : 

 his obfervations are evidently the refult of long 

 acquaintance and attention. He fays they are deli- 

 cate food. 



60, HORTICULTURA AcADEMlCA. J, G. Wolkath^ 



J 754* 



This paper is intimately connefled with N* 

 54, the Stationes Plant arum. It exhibits a com- 

 pendious fyftem of the principles of gardening, 

 particularly as applicable to botanical or aca- 

 demic gardens. In the beginning it is laid down 

 as an axiom, that the whole depends on a per- 

 feft knowledge of the climate of each plant, and 

 the foil in which it fiouriHies in its own climate,"' 

 As a ftriking inilance of the neceflity of paying re- 

 gard to proper foil, and to induce curious people 

 who tranfmit feeds and plants to Europe, to be more 

 accurate in this particular, the writer mentions that 

 of the Ricotia Mgyptiaca, (Spec. PI. p. 912.) 

 which no management could bring to flower and 

 fruit, until Linn/eus fuo-o-efted mixing the Ar- 

 gilla Nilotica, the clay of the Nile, with the earth 

 in the pot, and which very foon fully fucceeded. 



The Linnaan terms applicable to the feveral 

 kinds of gardens are defined, the heat of the dif- 

 ferent climates afcertained by Celfms's thermometer, 

 and the various foils and fituaticns proper to each 

 enumerated. 



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