jfhis requires the fame culture as the fifteenth, 
With which it will produce flowers, and often will 
ripen its fruit in England. By fome pejfons this is 
confounded with the fifteenth fort, and palfes for the 
Granadilla. 
All thefe perennial forts which are natives of the hot 
parts of America, require a ftove to preferve them 
here, without which they will not thrive ; for although 
fame of the forts will live in the open air during the 
Warm months in fummer, yet they make but little pro- 
grefs ; nor will the plants produce many flowers, un- 
kfs the pots in which they are planted are plunged 
into the tan-bed of the ftove, and their branches are 
trained agamft an efpalier. The beft way to have them 
in perfedion, is to make a border of earth on the back 
fide of the tan-bed, which may be feparated by planks 
to prevent the earth from mixing with the tan ; and 
when the plants are ftrong enough, they .fhould be 
turned out of the pots, and planted in this border ; 
adjoining to which, fhould be a trelliage erededto the 
top of the ftove ; againft this the ftalks of the plants 
mult be trained, and as they advance they will form a 
hedge to hide the wall of the ftove, and their leaves 
continuing green all the year, together with their 
flowers, which will be plentifully intermixed in fum- 
mer, will have a very agreeable effect. 
As there will be only a plank partition between the 
earth and the tan, fo the earth will be kept warm by 
the tan-bed, which will be of great fervice to the roots 
of the plants. This border fhould not be lefs than 
two feet broad and three deep, which is the ufual 
depth of the pit for tan •, fo that where thefe borders 
are intended, the pits fhould not be lefts than eight 
feet and a half, or nine feet and a half broad, that, the 
bark-bed, exclufive of the border, may be fix and a half 
or feven feet wide. If the border is fenced off with 
ftrong (hip planks, they will laft fome years, efpecially 
if they are well painted over with a compofition of 
melted pitch, brick-duft and oil, which will preferve 
them found a long time; and the earth fhould be taken 
cut carefully from between the roots of the plants, 
at leaft once a year, putting in frefh : with this ma- 
nagement, I have feen thefe plants in great perfec- 
tion. But where there has not been this conveniency, I 
have turned the plants out of the pots, and planted 
them into the tan-bed when it was half rotten, into 
which they have rooted exceedingly, and have thriven 
for two or three years as well as could be defired ; but 
when their roots extended to ar great diftance in the 
tan-bed, they have been injured by renewing of the 
bark ; and when it has fermented pretty violently, 
the roots have been fealded, and the plants have been 
.killed, fo that the other method is more eligible. 
Thefe plants are propagated by feeds, which fhould 
be Town upon a good hot-bed in the fpring, and when 
the plants are fit to remove, they fhould be each 
planted in a fmall pot filled with good kitchen-garden 
earth, and plunged into a bed of tanners bark, ob- 
ferving to fhade them from the fun till they have 
taken new root; then they rnuft be treated like other 
tender plants from the fame countries. When they 
are too high to remain under the glaffes of the hot- 
bed, they fhould be turned out of the pots and planted 
in the ftove, in the manner before mentioned. 
As thefe forts do not often perfect their feeds here, 
fo they may be propagated by laying down their 
branches, which, if done in April, they will put out 
roots by the, middle of Auguft, when they may be fe- 
parated from the old plants, and either planted in pots 
to get ftrength, or into the border of the ftove, where 
they are to remain. 
Some of thefe forts may alfo be propagated by cut- 
tings ; thefe fhould be planted into pots about the 
middle or latter end of March, and plunged into a 
moderate hot-bed, obferving to fereen them from the 
fun, and ref re fir them with water gently, as often as 
the earth may require it ; and in about two months or 
ten weeks, they will put out roots, and may then be 
treated as the feedling plants. 
-3? AS SI 0 N-F LO W E R. See Passiflora. 
PAS 
P A ST IN AC A. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 319. tab. 170. 1 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 324. [of Paftus, Lat. fed; becaufe 
it it a plant whole root is edible.] Parfnep ; in French, 
Panais. 
The Characters are. 
It hath an umbellated flower ; the principal umbel is com- 
pofled of many fmatter , a?td thefe are likewife compofed of 
Jeveral rays. They have no involucrum , and the empale- 
ment is fcarce vifible ; the umbel is uniform. The flowers 
have five fpear-Jhaped incurved petals , and five hair-like 
ftamina , terminated by roundijh fummits. The germen is 
fituated under the flower , fupporting two reflexed ftyles , 
. crowned by obtufe ftigmas. The germen afterward becomes 
an elliptical , plain, compreffed fruit , dividing into two 
parts , having two bordered elliptical feeds . 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedion 
of Linnteus’s fifth clafs, which contains thofe plants 
whofe flowers have five ftamina and two ftyles. 
The Species are, 
1. Pastinaca ( Sylveftris ) foliis fimpliciter pinnatis hir- 
futis. Parfnep with Jingle , winged , hairy leaves. Paf- 
tinaca fylveftris latifolia. C. B. P. 155. Broad-leaved 
Wild Parfnep. 
2. Pastinaca ( Sativa j foliis fimpliciter pinnatis gla- 
bris. Parfnep with flngle winged fmooth leaves. Pafti- 
naca fativa, latifolia. C. B. P. 155. Broad-leaved Gar- 
den Parfnep. 
3. Pastinaca ( Opopanax ) foliis decompofitis pinnatis. 
Hort. Cliff. 105. Parfnep with decompounded winged 
leaves. Paftinaca fylveftris akiffima. Tourn. Inft. 319. 
Talleft wild Parfnep , by Cafpar Bauhin titled , Panax 
Coftinum. Pin. 156. 
The firft fort grows jiaturally on the fide of banks, 
and on dry land, in many parts of England. This is a 
biennial plant, the firft year {hooting out leaves which 
fpread on the furface of the ground ; thefe are fingly 
winged, and the lobes are irregularly cut ; the leaves 
are hairy. The following year the ftalks rife four 
or five feet high, which are channelled, hairy, and 
garnifhed with winged leaves like thofe'at the bottom, 
but fmaller ; the ftalk branches out toward the top, 
each branch being terminated by a large umbel of 
yellow flowers ; thefe are fucceeded by comprefled 
fruit, having two flat bordered feeds. The plant 
flowers in June, and the feeds ripen in Auguft. 
The root and feed of this fort is fometimes ufed in 
medicine, but it is feldom cultivated in gardens, the 
markets being fupplied from the fields ; yet the drug- 
gifts commonly fell the feeds of the garden kind for 
it, which they may purahafe at an eafy price when it 
is too old to grow, but then the feeds can have no 
virtue left. 
The fecond fort hath fmooth leaves, of a light or 
yellowifh green colour, in which this differs from the 
former; the ftalks alfo rife higher, and are deeper 
channelled; the foot-ftalks of the umbels are .much 
longer, and the flowers are of a deeper yellow colour. 
Thefe two forts have been thought only varieties, the 
Garden Parfnep they have fuppofed to differ from the 
wild only by culture ; but I have cultivated both ma- 
ny years, and have never found that either of the 
forts have varied ; the feeds of each having conftantly 
produced the lame fort as they were taken from, fo 
that I am certain they are diftind fpecies. 
This fort is cultivated in kitchen-gardens, the roots 
of which are large, fweet, and accounted very no u- 
rifhing. They are propagated by feeds, which fhould 
be fown in February or March, in a rich mellow foil, 
which muft be well dug, that their roots may run 
downward, the greateft excellency being the length 
and bignefs of the roots. Thefe may be fown alone, 
or with Carrots, as is pradifed by the kitchen-garden- 
ers near London ; fome of whom alfo mix Leeks, 
Onions, and Lettuce, with their Parfneps ; but this \ 
think very wrong, for it is not poffible, that fo many- 
different forts can thrive well together, except they 
are allowed a confiderable diftance -, and if fo, it will 
be equally the fame to fow the different forts feparate. 
However, Carrots and Parfneps may be fown together 
very well, efpecially where the Carrots are defigned 
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