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1 raifed a great number of plants, but from the feeds 
which have been lately brought over, there have 
been but few plants produced; whether the feeds 
were not perfe&ly ripe when they were gathered, or 
from what other caufe this has happened, I cannot 
fay, but it is certain the fault muft be in the feeds, 
becaufe thofe before-mentioned were differently fown 
and managed by the feveral perfons who received 
them, and the fuccefs was nearly alike every where. 
There have been feveral plants of the firft and fecond 
fort raifed from layers, and fome from cuttings ; but 
thefe do not thrive fo well as thofe which come from 
feeds, nor will they grow to near the fize of thofe, fo 
that it is much the beft way to procure their feeds 
from America, and propagate them that way. 
The firft fort frequently comes up well from feeds, 
but the young plants are very difficult to keep the 
two firft years ; for if they are expofed much to the 
fun, their leaves change yellow and the plants de- 
cay ; fo the beft way is to keep the pots plunged in a 
moderate hot-bed, and ffiade them every day from 
the fun with mats, giving them air in plenty when the 
weather is warm, and frequently refreffi them with 
water ; during the winter feafon they muft be fcreen- 
ed from froft, and in mild weather they muft enjoy 
the free air, to prevent their growing mouldy, 
and they ffiould have but little wet in winter. 
With this management the plants may be train- 
ed up, and when they have acquired ftrength, 
they may be planted in the open air, where they will 
. thrive and flower, if they have a warm ffieltered 
fituation. 
The fecond fort is not fo difficult to train up as the 
firft, but in order to get them forward, it will be 
proper when they are removed out of the feed-pots, 
to plant them each into a feparate fmail pot, filled 
with foft loamy earth, and plunge them into a gentle 
hot-bed of tanners bark, obferving to ffiade them 
from the fun, and admit proper air to them ; but at 
Midfummer, if they are well rooted, they ffiould be 
inured to the open air gradually, and then placed in a 
ffieltered fituation, where they may remain till au- 
tumn ; but on the firft approach of froft, they ffiould 
be removed under ffielter, otherwife the early frofts 
will pinch their tender ffioots, which often occafions 
their dying downward after. When the plants have 
got ftrength, fome of them may be turned out of 
the pots, and planted in the full ground in a warm 
ffieltered fituation, but part of them ffiould be kept 
in pots, and fheltered in the winter, to preferve 
them, left, by fevere froft, the other ffiould be killed. 
If the plants make good progrefs, they will be ftrong 
enough to plant in the full ground in abour fix or le- 
ven years from feeds. The time for removing or 
ftiifting thefe plants is in March, before they begin 
to ffioot, which may fometimes happen to be too loon 
to turn them out of the pots into the full ground, 
efpecially if the feafon proves late ; but as there will 
be no danger in removing them out of the pots, the 
ball of earth being preferved to their roots, fo it is 
beft to defer this till the month of April ; but it will 
be necefiary to harden thofe plants which are intend- 
ed to be planted out, by expofing them to the air as 
much as pofilble before, which will keep the plants 
backward, and prevent their fhooting ; for if they 
make ffioots in the green-houfe, thofe will be too ten- 
der to bear the fun, until they are by degrees harden- 
ed to it, and the leaft froft will greatly pinch them, 
and fuch frofts frequently happen very late in the 
fpring. 
The two or three winters after thefe are planted out, 
it will be neceffary to lay fome mulch on the furface 
of the ground about their roots, as alfo to throw 
fome mats over their heads, efpecially at the begin- 
ning of the morning frofts in autumn, for the reafons 
before given ; but in doing this, the heads of the 
plant ffiould never be too clofely covered up, left 
thereby the fhoots ffiould grow mouldy, for that will 
certainly kill the leading buds of every ffioot, and 
prove to the full as injurious to them as the froft. 
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As the plants get ftrength, they will be better able 
to endure the cold of our climate, though it will be 
proper to lay fome mulch about their roots every 
winter *, and, in very fevere froft, to cover their heads 
and ftems. 
It is the firft fort which requires the moft care, 
being much tenderer than any of the other, for they 
will endure the cold very well, without much care, 
after they have acquired ftrength for as thefe lofe 
their leaves in the winter, the froft will not have fo 
much force upon them as of the firft fort, whofe 
leaves are frequently tender toward the end of the 
fhoots, efpecially when they grow freely, or ffioot late 
in the autumn. 
MAHALEB. See Cerasus. 
MAJOR AN A. See Origanum. 
MALABAR NUT. See Justicia. 
MALA fETHIOPICA. See Lycopersicqn. 
MALA ARMENIACA. See Armeniaca. 
MALACOIDES. See Malope. 
MALA COTONE A. See Cydonia. 
MALA IN SAN A. See Melongena. 
MALL O W. See Malva. 
MALLOW-TREE. See Lavatera. 
MALOPE. Baftard Mallow. 
The Characters are. 
The flower , which is fhaped like that of the Mallow , hath 
a double empalement , the outer being compofed of three 
heart-Jhaped leaves , and the inner is of one leaf cut into 
five fegments ; the flower is of one petals divided into five 
parts at the bottom , where they are joined , but [o near 
the bottom as to have the appearance of five petals. In 
the center arifes the. pointal , having a great number of 
Jlamina fur rounding it, which are joined clofely, and form 
a fort of column. The pointal afterward becomes a fruit 
compofed of many cells, which are collected into a head , in 
each of which is lodged a fingle feed. 
We have but one Species of this plant, viz. 
Malope ( Malacoides ) foliis ovatis crenatis glabris. Lin. 
Hort. Cliff. 347. Baftard Mallow, with oval fmooth 
leaves, which are notched. 
This plant was by Dr. Tournefortfeparated from the 
Mallow, and made a diftindt genus, by the tide of 
Malacoides •, but Dr. Linn^us has altered the title of 
this for Malope, being an enemy to all names which 
are compounded of oides. 
The whole plant has greatly the appearance of the 
Mallow, but differs from it, in having the cells col- 
ledted into a button, fomewhat like a Blackberry ; the 
branches fpread, and lie almoft flat upon the ground, 
extending themfelves a foot or more each way. The 
flowers are produced fingly upon long foot-ftalks, 
which arife from the wings of the leaves, which are 
in ffiape and colour like thofe of the Mallow. 
This is propagated by feeds, which ffiould be fown 
in the place where they are defigned to remain, for 
they do not bear tranfplanting well. If thefe feeds are 
fown upon a warm border in Auguft, the plants will 
frequently Hand through the winter, and flower early 
the following feafon, fo that good feeds may be ob- 
tained ; for thofe which are fown in the fpring, rarely 
ripen feeds the fame year in England ; and thefe 
plants being large, are often deftroyed in winter, un- 
lefs they are fheltered under a frame ; it feldom con- 
tinues longer than two or three years, fo that young 
plants ffiould be annually raifed. 
MALPIGHI A. Plum. Nov. Gen. 46. tab. 36. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 38. Barbadoes Cherry, vulgo. 
The Characters are. 
The fewer hath a fmail permanent empalement of five 
leaves, which are clofed together. It hath two oval mel- 
lous glands, adhering to the fmail leaves within and with- 
out. It has five kidney-fhaped petals , which are concave , 
and fpread open, having long narrow tails , and ten 
broad awl-fhaped fiamina, which are erect, terminated by 
heart -fit aped fummits. It has a fmail toundifh germen , 
fupporting three fender fiyles, crowned by obtufe fiigmas . 
The germen afterward turns to a large furrowed globular 
berry with one cell, indofing three rough ftony feeds, 
which are angular. 
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