FAG FAG 
mow than before ; and after they have once fweated 
and are dry again, they never after give. 
By the new hufbandry, the produce has exceeded 
the old by more than ten bufhels on an acre ; and if 
the Beans which are cultivated in the common me- 
thod are obferved, it will be found that more than 
half their items have no Beans on them •, for by Hand- 
ing clofe, they are drawn up very tall ; fo the tops 
of the ftalks only produce, and all the lower part is 
naked ; whereas in the new method, they bear almoft 
to the ground; and as the joints of the Hems arefhorter, 
fo the Beans grow clofer together on the Italics. 
In the year 1745 I made the following experiment, 
in planting a piece of eleven acres of Beans in Berk- 
fhire, viz. the gentleman’s bailiff, who was weddec 
to the old pradice of hufbandry, was very unwil- 
ling to depart from it ; and having been an old fer- 
vant in the family, his mafter was inclinable to hear 
all he could fay in favour of his opinion : however, 
at laft I prevailed on the gentleman to let his bailiff 
plant one half of the land in his way, giving him 
the choice which half he would have : accordingly 
the land was divided and planted; but the fummer 
proving wet, the Beans on that part of the field he 
had chofen grew fo tall and rank, that they produced 
no pods but on the upper part of the ftalks ; and 
when they were threfhed out, there was no more than 
twenty-two bufhels on an acre, whereas the other 
half produced near forty. 
FABA iEGYPTIACA, is the Arum fEgyptiacum. 
F A B A CRASS A, is Anacampferos. 
FAB AGO. See Zygophyllum. 
FA GAR A. Brown. Hi ft. Jam. tab. 5. f. 1. Ironwood. 
The Characters are. 
It hath "male and hermaphrodite fiowers upon different 
plants ; the male flowers have a flmall empalernent , Jlightly 
cut into flour flegments , hut have no petals , and fix fta- 
mina , terminated by roundijh fummits : thefle are barren. 
The female flowers have a larger concave permanent 
empalernent with flour flpr ending petals , and four flamina , 
crowned with oval fummits , and an oval germen , flup- 
porting a fender ftyle , terminated by an obtufle ftigma ; 
the germen afterward becomes a globular capflule with 
two lobes , inclojing two feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedion of 
Linnaeus’s fourth clafs, intitled Tetrandria Mono- 
gynia ; whereas it fhould be put into hisfixth fedion 
of the twenty-third clafs, as the flowers are male and 
hermaphrodite on different plants, and the flowers 
have fix ftamina : but this miftake he was led into by 
Jacquin, who had feen and defcribed the hermaphro- 
dite flowers only. 
The Species are, 
1. Fagara ( Pterota ) foliolis emarginatis. Amoen. Acad. 
5. p. 393. Fagara , whofle lobes {or flmall leaves) are in- 
dented at the top. Lauro afflnis jafmini alato folio, 
cofta media membranulis utrinque extantibus alata, 
ligno duritie ferro vix cedens. Sloan. Hift. Jam. 2. 
p. 25. Ironwood. 
2. Fagara ( Tragodes ) articulis pinnarum fubtus acu- 
leatus. Jacq. Amer. 13. Fagara with flpines under the 
leaves at the joints. Schinoides petiolis fubtus aculea- 
tis. Hort. Cliff. 489. 
The firft fort grows naturally in the warmeft parts of 
America. The late Dr. Houftoun found it growing 
at Campeachy, from whence he lent me dried fpeci- 
mens of the plants in flower, by which I am con- 
vinced there are male trees which are barren. It 
rifes with a woody ftem upwards of twenty feet high, 
fending out branches great part of its length, gar- 
nifhed with fmall winged leaves, having three or five 
lobes to each. The flowers come from the fide of 
the branches, Handing four or five together upon 
fhort foot- ftalks. 
The fecond fort I have placed here after Linn^us, 
but am not fare it fhould be ranged with it ; for al- 
though I have pretty ftrong plants of it growing in 
the Chelfea garden, they have not yet flowered ; but 
■ by the external face of the plant, it feems to agree 
with the firft. 
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Thefe are both tender plants, fo muft be kept in the 
bark-ftove conftantly, and are propagated by feeds, 
and alfo by cuttings, if properly managed. 
FAGON I A. Tourn. Lift. R. FI. 265. tab. 141. Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 475. This plant was fo named by Dn 
Tournefort, in honour of Dr. Fagon, who was fuper- 
intendant of the royal garden at Paris. * 
The Characters are, 
The flower hath a flpreading empalernent , compofled of five 
flmall leaves ; it hath five hear t-fh aped petals , which 
Jpread open , aud are narrow at their bafle , where they are 
inferted in the empalernent. It hath ten ftamina which 
are erehl , terminated by roundijh fummits. In the center 
is Jituated a five-cornered germen , fupporting an a-wl- 
ftoaped ftyle , crowned by a Jingle ftigma. The germen 
afterward becomes a roundijh capfule having five lobes , 
ending^ in a point , and Jive cells , each having a Jingle 
roundijh feed. 
Linnaeus ranges this plant in the firft fedion of his 
tenth clafs, intitled Decandria Monogynia, from the 
flower having ten ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Fagonia (. Ere Ha ) fpinofa, foliolis lanceolatis planis 
laevibus. Hort. Upfal. 103. Prickly Fagonia , whofle 
leaves are flp ear- (leaped , plain, and flmooth. Fagonia 
Cretica fpinofa. Tourn. Thorny Trefoil of Candia. 
2. Fagonia ( Iliflpanica ) inermis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 386. 
Fagonia without flpines. Fagonia Hifpanica non fpi- 
nofa. Tourn. Spanijh Fagonia without thorns. 
3. Fagonia (. Arabica ) fpinofa, foliolis linearibus con- 
vexis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 386. Prickly Fagonia with nar- 
row convex leaves. Fagonia Arabica, longiflimis acu- 
leis armato. Shaw. PI. Afr. 229. Arabian Fagonia , 
armed with very long flpines. 
The firft fort is a native of the ifland of Candia : 
this has been defcribed by fome botanifts under the 
title cf Trifolium fpinofum Creticum, which occa- 
fioned my giving it the Englifh name of Thorny Tre- 
foil of Crete ; though there is no other affinity be- 
tween this and the Trefoil, than that of this having 
three leaves or lobes on the fame foot-ftalk. 
This is a low plant, which fpreads its branches 
clofe to the ground, which are extended to the 
length of a foot or more every way, garniffied 
with fmall trifoliate oval leaves, placed oppofite ; 
and at each joint, immediately below the leaves, 
come out two pair of fpines, one on each fide 
the ftalk ; and at the fame places come out a 
Angle blue flower, Handing upon a fhort foot- 
ftalk, compofed of five fpear-ffiaped petals, which 
are narrow at their bafe, where they are inferted 
into the empalernent ; after thefe fall away, the ger- 
men turns to a roundifli five-lobed capfule, ending 
in an acute point, having five cells, each containing 
one roundiffi feed. It fiowers in July and Auguft, 
but unlefs the leafon proves warm, the feeds do not 
ripen in England. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in Spain; this dif- 
fers from the firft in being l'mooth, the branches of this 
having no thorns ; and the plant will live two years, 
whereas the firft is annual. 
The third fort was difcot ered by the late Dr. Shaw 
in Arabia ; this is a low plant with a fhrubby ftalk, 
from which come out feveral weak branches armed 
with long thorns; the leaves of this are thick, nar- 
row, and convex on their lower fide ; the flowers 
come out in the fame manner as in the firft fort. 
Thefe plants are propagated by feeds, which fhould 
be fown upon a border of freffi light earth, where the 
plants are defigned to remain, for they do not bear 
tranfplanting well ; when the plants come up, they 
may be thinned out to the diftance of ten inches or a 
foot; and if they are kept clean from weeds, they 
wfill require no other care. 
The firft fort is an annual p’ant, which feldom per- 
feds its feeds in England, unlefs the feafons prove 
very warm ; therefore the belt way is to low the 
feeds upon a warm border in the autumn, and in 
frofty weather flicker the plants with mats, or fome 
covering to fecure them ; or if they are iown in 
pots 
