the leaves continue all the year, for which the plants | 
are preferved in green-houfes, to add to the variety in 
winter. 
The fifth fort grows naturally in the Canary Iflands. 
This rifes with” a woody ftalk three or four feet high, 
dividing into many branches, which are garmfhed with 
oval leaves notched on their edges, growing oppo- 
fite upon long foot-ftalks ; they are hairy, and of an 
Affi colour on their under fide •, the flowers are pro- 
duced from the fide of the branches on pretty long 
foot-ftalks, each fuftaining four fnort roundifh fpikes 
or heads, which divide by pairs, and fpread from 
each other. The flowers are white, and appear in 
June and July, but are not fucceeded by feeds in 
England. The leaves of this plant, when bruiled, 
emit an agreeable odour, for which it is by feme 
perfons much efteemed ; the gardeners have given it 
the title of Madam Maintenon, but for what reafon 
I know not. 
The two laft forts are too tender to live through the 
winter in the open air in this country, fo muft be 
kept in a green-houfe during that feafon ; but they 
only require to be fcreened from froft, fo may be 
placed with Myrtles and the other hardy green- 
houfe plants, where they may have a large ffiare of air 
in mild weather, and be treated in the fame way ; 
they are eafily propagated by cuttings during any of 
the fummer months, which, if planted in a fhady 
border and duly fupplied with water, will take 
root in five or fix weeks ; then they may be potted, 
and placed in a fhady fituation till they have taken 
new root, after which they may be treated as the 
old plants. 
The fixth fort grows naturally in Peru, from whence 
the feeds were lent by the younger Juffieu to the 
Royal Garden at Paris, where the plants produced 
flowers and feeds ; and from the curious garden of 
the Duke D’Ayen, at St. Germains, I was fupplied 
with fome of the feeds, which have fucceeded in the 
Chelfea garden, where the plants have flowered and 
perfected their feeds for fome years. 
This rifes with a fhrubby ftalk two or three feet 
high, dividing into many fmall branches, garnifhed 
with oval, fpear-lhaped, rough leaves, fet on without 
order •, they are three inches long, and one inch 
and a half broad in the middle, ftanding on fhort 
foot-ftalks ; they are hairy, and greatly veined on 
their under fide, which is of an Alh colour. The 
flowers are produced at the end of the branches in 
fhort reflexed fpikes, growing in clufters. The foot- 
ftalks divide into tv/o or three, and thefe divide again 
into lefs, each fuftaining a fpike of pale blue flowers, 
which have a ftrong fweet odour. The plants con- 
tinue in flower great part of the year, and thofe flowers 
which come out in fummer, are fucceeded by ripe 
feeds in autumn. 
It may be propagated either by feeds or cuttings. 
The feeds fhould be lown upon a moderate hot-bed in 
the lpring, and when the plants are fit to remove, they 
fhould be tranfplanted into fmall pots filled with light 
earth, and plunged into a hot-bed, where they fhould 
be fhaded till they have taken new root ^ then they 
fhould be inured to the open air by degrees, into 
which they fhould be removed in fummer, placing 
them in a fheltered fituation ; and in autumn they 
muft be houfed with other exotic plants in a good 
green-houfe, where they will flower great part of 
winter, fo will make a good appearance among the 
Orange-trees, and other green-houfe plants, with 
whofe culture this plant will thrive. If the cuttings 
of this plant are put into pots filled with light earth, 
during any of the fummer months, and plunged into 
a moderate hot-bed, they will take root very freely, 
but thefe do not make fo good plants as thofe railed 
from feeds. 
The feventh fort grows naturally on the fea-fhore 
in the Weft-Indies ; this is an annual plant, whofe 
branches trail upon the ground, and grow a foot long •, 
they are garnifhed with narrow grayifh leaves, which j 
are fmooth. The flowers are produced in double fpikes ! 
from the fide of their branches j they are white and 
fmall, fo make no great appearance. It is propagated 
by feeds, and requires the fanie treatment as the fe= 
cond and third forts. 
The eighth fort rifes with an upright Woody ftalk 
fix or feven feet high, with a hoary bark, full of marks 
where the leaves have grown ; the tipper part of the 
ftalk divides into two or three ftrong woody branches,* 
which grow ereft, and are very clofely garnifhed with 
long, narrow, woolly leaves, which ftand on every 
fide the branches without order. The flowers come 
out from the fide of the ftalks, to which they fit ciofe 5 
they are fhort and reflexed, like thofe of the other fpe- 
cies. The flowers are purple, fitting in very woolly em~ 
palements, which are divided into five fe'gments, which 
fpread open j the whole plant is very white and woolly, 
like the Sea Cudweed, fo makes an odd appearance 
when intermixed with other exotic plants : this is pro- 
pagated by feeds, which muft be procured from the 
places where it naturally grows, for it never produces 
any in Europe ; thefe feeds fhould be fawn in a tub of 
earth in the country, for when the dried feeds come 
over they feldom grow j and if they do, it is not be- 
fore the iecond year : and from ievefal parcels of the 
feeds which I have received from the Weft-Indies, I 
have not railed more than two plants, and thefe came 
up from the feeds which had been fown more than a 
year ; fo that if the feeds are foWn as foon as they are 
ripe in a tub of earth, when they arrive in England, 
the tub fhould be plunged into a hot-bed of tanners 
bark, which will bring up the plants ; and when thefe 
are fit to remove, they fhould be each planted in a 
feparate fmall pot filled with earth, compofed of land 
and light undunged earth, with a little lime rubbifa 
well mixed together, then plunged into s hot-bed of 
tanners bark, and fhaded until they have taken new 
root j after which, they muft be treated as other ten- 
der exotic plants, always keeping them in the tan-bed 
in the ftove, giving them but little water, efpecially 
during the winter feafon. 
The ninth fort is a native of the Weft-Indies,- 
where it grows plentifully on the fea-fhore •, it rifes 
with an upright fhrubby ftalk a foot and a half 
high, garnifhed with fmall fpear-fhaped leaves* 
fcarce one inch long, and one-third of an inch 
broad in the middle, ending in acute points, fit- 
ting ciofe to the ftalk ; they are hoary on their un- 
der fide, but fmooth above. The flowers are pro- 
duced in Angle flender fpikes, which come out from 
the fide, and at the top of the ftalks ; they are but 
little recurved, efpecially thofe on the fide, but thofe 
at the top are more bent ; they are white, fo make 
but little appearance. 
The tenth fort was fent me from Carthagfena in 
New Spain, where it grows naturally On the Tandy 
fhores. This is an annual plant, with trailing 
ftalks which grow fix or feven inches long, garnifhed 
with fmall oval leaves, which are woolly and en- 
tire. The flowers are produced at the end of the 
branches, in Angle fhort fpikes, which are re- 
flexed ; they are fmall and white, fo make little ap- 
pearance. 
The eleventh fort was fent me by the late Dr. Hotif- 
toun from La Vera Cruz, where he found it grow- 
ing in plenty this rifes with a fnrubby ftalk three 
feet high, dividing into flender branches, which are 
clofely garnifhed with oblong, oval, woolly leaves, 
placed without order. The flowers are produced at 
the end of the branches in double fpikes, which are 
flender, fhort, and ftrait, not recurved as the cthef 
fpecies. The flowers are fmall and white, and the 
plant is perennial. 
Thefe three laft mentioned are propagated by feeds, 
but the difficulty of getting them freffi from America, 
and the uncertainty of their growing, unlefs they are 
Town abroad, and brought over in earth, has rendered 
them rare in Europe ^ and as they are plants of little 
beauty, fo few perfons have taken the trouble to pro- 
cure them : befides, as they require a ftove to preferve 
them in this country, and muft have a peculiar foil 
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