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6F the common black Cherry, which ripens in au- 
tumn. 
Thefe feven forts are annual, fo their feeds fhould be 
fown in the fpring, on a bed of rich earth where the 
plants are defigned to remain, and when they come 
up they muft be thinned, leaving them at leaft two 
feet diftance, that they may have room to grow, after 
this they will require no farther care but to keep them 
clean from weeds ; in July and Auguft they will flow- 
er, and the feeds will ripen in autumn. Some people 
plant one or two plants of each fort in pots, whofe 
ftalks they train up to flicks to make them ftrait 
and in autumn they remove the pots into the green 
houfe, where they may be preferved till the fpring, and 
during the winter, their fruit being ripe, will make 
& pretty appearance. 
The eighth fort is a climbing woody plant, which 
grows in the hedges in divers parts of England, and 
is by fome planted in gardens, to cover arbours, or 
fhady walls, in London, and other clofe places, whert 
few other plants will thrive. The cuttings or ftalks of 
this are put into glaffes of water, and placed in rooms, 
where they will put out branches and leaves, and con- 
tinue a long time green. This plant is alfo ufed in 
medicine for fome particular preparations ; but the 
herbfolks in the markets often fell this inftead of the 
Garden Nightlhade, which is a cooling plant, and 
this a hot acrid one, which renders it contrary to the 
intention of the ointment, wherein Nightfhade is one 
of the ingredients. 
There is a fort of this with white flowers, which is 
fuppofed to be a variety of the former, but the leaves 
are woolly, in which it differs from the other, and 
this is conftant. There is alfo one with variegated 
leaves, which is preferved by thofe who are very cu- 
rious in colledting the .various kinds of ftriped-leaved 
plants. 
Thefe may be eaflly propagated by laying down their 
branches, or by planting their cuttings in the fpring 
tipon a moift foil, where they will foon take root, 
and may afterward be tranfplanted where they are to 
remain. 
The ninth fort grows naturally at the Madeiras ; this 
rifes with a ftrong woody ftalk four or five feet high, 
and divides into many (lender ftiff branches, which are 
garnifhed with fpear-lhaped leaves turning backward. 
The flowers grow in fmall umbels, or fingly on the 
fide of the branches, to which they fit clofe ; thefe 
are white, with yellow fummits, and appear in June, 
July, and Auguft, and are fucceeded by berries as 
large as fmall Cherries which ripen in winter, when 
they make a good appearance in the green-houfe. 
There are two varieties of this, one with red, and the 
other has a yellowifh fruit. 
This plant may be propagated by fowing its feeds in 
a pot of rich earth in the fpring, placing it upon a mo- 
derate hot-bed, which will greatly facilitate their 
growth •, the earth in the pot fhould be frequently 
watered, for if it is kept too dry the feeds will not 
grow. When the plants are come up, you fhould 
make a gentle hot-bed, which muft be covered with 
rich earth about fix inches thick ; in this they fhould 
be planted about fix inches diftance each way, and 
the bed arched over with hoops, &c. and covered 
with mats, to fhade them from the fun and cold, ob- 
ferving frequently to water them. 
When the plants have acquired ftrength, and the 
feafon becomes favourable, you muft inure them to 
bear the open air by degrees, to which they fhould 
be fully expofed in June, when they fhould be 
taken up, with a ball of earth to the root of each 
plant, and placed feparately in pots filled with rich 
earth, which muft be fet in a fhady fituation, and 
frequently watered until they have taken new root ; 
after which they may be removed into a more open 
expofure, and placed among other exotic plants, but 
they require a great plenty of water in dry weather, 
without which they feldom produce much fruit. 
In winter they muft be removed into the green-houfe, 
and placed in the coldeft part of the houfe, where 
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they' may have as much free air as poffible in mild 
weather j being fo hardy as many times to endure the 
cold of our ordinary winters abroad, when planted in 
a warm fituation, fo that they only require to be Iheh 
tered from levere froft. 
Thefe plants fhould be annually fhifted about the lat- 
ter end of April, when their roots fhould be pared 
round, cutting off all the mouldy fibres which were 
next the pot, and the pots filled up with frefh rich 
earth, which will ftrengthen their flowers, and caufe 
them to produce plenty of fruit ; which (as I faid be- 
fore) ripens in winter, and being of the fhape and fize 
of Cherries, are commonly called Winter Cherries by 
the gardeners. 
The tenth fort grows naturally in the Weft-Indies 5 
this rifes with a fhrubby ftalk three feet high, dividing 
at the top into feveral branches, which are clofely arm- 
ed with ftrait gold-coloured fpines on every fide. 
The leaves are from two to three inches long, and 
three quarters of an inch broad, having a few angu- 
lar indentures, and their midrib is armed with a row 
of the like fpines as thofe upon the ftalks, which ftand 
eredt. The flowers are produced in long bunches 
from the fide of the ftalks •, they are white, and of 
the fame fize as thofe of the ninth, which are fuc- 
ceeded by red berries almoft as large as the fmall black 
Cherry^ 
The tenth fort is much tenderer than either of the for- 
mer, being brought from the warm parts of America. 
This is propagated by fowing the feeds in the fpring, 
upon a good hot-bed ; and when the plants are come 
up, they fhould be each tranfplanted into a feparate 
fmall pot filled with rich earth, and plunged into a 
frefti hot-bed again, obferving to water and fhade 
them until they have taken root ; after which, they 
fhould have air and water in proportion to the heat of 
the feafon, and the bed in which they are placed 1 
and when their roots have filled the pots in which 
they were planted (which they will do in two months 
time, if they thrive) they muft be fhaken out, and 
after having gently pared off the fibres which grew 
next the pot, they fhould be planted into pots of a 
fize larger, which muft be filled with frefh rich earth, 
and plunged into a frefh hot- bed to bring the plants 
forward, obferving to water them frequently, for they 
will not thrive without plenty of moifture in warm 
weather. 
In July thefe plants may be inured to bear the open 
air by degrees, into which they may be removed if 
the feafon be warm •, but otherwife they muft always 
be preferved either under glaffes, or in the ftove ; and 
if they are placed in the open air, they fhould not re- 
main there longer than the middle or latter end of Au- 
guft, left the nights growing cold, fhould hurt them. 
During the winter feafon they muft be preferved in 
the ftove, obferving to refrefh them frequently with 
water, but they muft not have too much each time, 
efpecially in cold weather. The fecond year they will 
produce flowers and fruit. 
The eleventh fort has a fhrubby ftalk which rifes two 
feet high, and divides into feveral woody branches 
which are armed with fharp thorns, and garnifhed 
with oval woolly leaves which have angular inden- 
tures on their edges ; they are an inch and a half long, 
and more than an inch broad. The flowers are pro- 
duced in loofe fmall bunches from the wino-s of the 
ftalks ; they are blue, and larger than thofe of the 
former forts ; thefe appear in June and July, and 
are fucceeded by round berries as large as common 
Cherries, of a gold colour, which turn black when 
ripe. 
The twelfth fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 
Hope ; this hath a ftrong, thick, fhrubby ftalk, which 
rifes from two to three feet high, fending out many 
fhort thick branches, which are clofely armed with 
fhort, ftrong, yellow fpines on every fide ; the leaves 
are about four inches long, and two broad ; thev are 
cut almoft to their midrib in obtufe fegments which 
are oppofite, regular, and formed like winged leaves 
thefe fegments have feveral obtufe indentures on their 
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