to fill the pot almoft to the rim, and obferve to fhake 
the plant, fo as to let the earth in between the roots ; 
and then with your hand fettle it clofe to the roots of 
the plant, co keep it fteady in the pot ; then water 
them gently, and let them abroad in a fhady place, 
where they may remain for three weeks, giving them 
gentle waterings, if the weather fhould prove hot 
and dry. 
Toward the latter end of September, in a dry day, 
remove them into the houfe again, obferving to give 
them as much free open air as poffible, while the 
weather is warm ; but, if the nights are cool, you 
mult {hut up the glaffes, and give them air only in 
the day; and, as the cold increafes, you muft not 
open the glaffes, but obferve to give them gentle 
waterings often, till the middle of October, when you 
muft abate watering according to the heat of the houfe 
in which they are kept. For thofe plants which are 
placed in a ftove, will require to be watered at leaft 
once a week, moft part of the winter ; whereas thofe 
which are kept in a green-houfe without artificial heat, 
fhould not be watered oftener in winter than once a 
month. 
When thefe hardier forts of Aloes are placed abroad 
in fummer, they fhould have but little water given 
them ; and if much rain fhould fall during the time 
they are abroad, they fhould be fcreened from it : for 
when they imbibe much wet in fummer, they fre- 
quently rot the following winter, efpecialiy if they are 
not kept in a moderate warm air. Therefore, thofe 
who choofe to treat thefe plants hardily, fhould be 
cautious of their receiving too much moifture. 
The tender forts fhould conftantly remain in the ftove, 
or be removed in fummer to an airy glafs-cafe, where 
they may have free air in warm weather, but be pro- 
tected from rain and cold. With this management 
the plants will thrive and increafe, and fuch of them 
as ufually flower, may be expected to produce them 
in beauty at their feafons. 
The hardier forts thrive much better when they are 
expofed in fummer, and fecured from the cold and 
rain in winter, than if they are treated more tenderly.' 
For when they are placed in a ftove, they are kept 
growing all the winter, whereby they are drawn up 
weak ; and although they will flower oftener when 
they have a moderate fhare of heat, yet in two or three 
years, the plants will not appear fo lightly as thofe 
which are more hardily treated. 
The. twenty-third fort is hardy enough to live abroad 
in mild winters, if they are planted. in a warm border 
and a dry foil ; but as they are often deftroyed in fe- 
vere winters, it is proper to keep fome plants in 
pots, which may be fheltered in Winter under a frame, 
to preferve the fort. This is propagated by feeds, 
which the plants generally produce in plenty : the 
feeds muft be fown in pots foon after they are ripe, 
and in winter fhould be fheltered under a common 
hot-bed frame : in the fpring the plants will come up, 
when they fhould be inured to bear the open air by 
degrees ; and when they are large enough to remove, 
fome of them fhould be planted in pots, and the other 
in a warm border, where they will require to be fhel- 
tered the following winter, as they will not have ob- 
tained fufficient ftrength to refill the cold. 
Moft of thefe Aloes are increafed by offsets, which 
fhould be taken from the mother plant, at the time 
when they are fhifted, and muft be planted in very 
fmall pots, filled with the fame earth as was directed 
for the old plants •, but if, in taking the fuckers off, 
you obferve that part which joined to the mother root 
to be moift, you muft let them lie out of the ground 
in a fhady dry place fix or eight days to dry before 
they are planted, other wife they are very fubjeCl to rot. 
After planting, let them remain in a fhady place (as 
was before directed in fhifting the old plants) fora 
fortnight, when you fhould remove the tender kinds 
to a very moderate hot-bed, plunging the pots there- 
in, which will greatly facilitate their taking new root; 
but obferve to (hade the glaffes in the middle of the 
day, and to give them a great fhare of air. 
Toward the middle of Auguft, begin to harden tfiefd 
young plants, by taking off the glaffes in good wea- 
ther, and By railing them at other times with props; 
that the. air may freely enter tile bed, which is ab~ 
folutely lieceffary for their growth, and to prepare 
them to be removed into the houfe, which muft be 
done toward the end of September, and managed as 
before directed for the old plants. 
The African Aloes, for the moft part, afford plenty 
of fuckers, by which they are increafed ; but thofe 
few that do not, may be moft of them propagated, 
by taking off fome of the under leaves, laying them 
to dry for ten days or a fortnight, as was directed for 
the offsets ; then plant them in the fame foil as was 
directed for them, putting that part of the leaf which 
adhered to the old plant, about an inch, or an inch 
and a half (according to the fize of the leaf) into the 
earth, giving them a little water to fettle the earth 
about them ; then plunge the pots into a moderate 
hot-bed, obferving to fcreen them from the violence 
of the fun, and give them gentle refrdhings with 
water once a week : the beft feafon for this is in June, 
that they may pufli out heads before winter. 
The fecond fort produces the Aloes commonly fold 
in the fhops for horfes, and is called Aloe Hepatica * 
But it is from the fifteenth fort, the Succotrine, of 
beft fort of Aloes, is produced ; which is done by 
cutting their leaves tranfverfly, and placing earthen 
veflels under them to receive the juice which drops 
from thefe cut leaves ; which juice, when infpiiTated, 
becomes the Aloe which is ufed in medicine. But I 
believe in making the coarfer fort of Aloes, they prefs 
the leaves, whereby a greater quantity of juice is ob- 
tained : but this is not near fo fine as the other. 
ALOE AMERICANA MURICATA. See 
Agave. 
A L O I D E S. See Stratiotes. 
ALOPECUROS [Gr. ’AAotjA^©-’], Fox-tail, a kind 
of grafs. 
ALPINIA. 
This plant is fo called after Profper Alpinus, who 
was a famous botanift in his time, and travelled into 
Greece and Egypt, and has written two books in 
quarto of the plants of thofe countries. 
The Characters are, 
It hath a trifid empakment , upon which refs the germen i 
I' he flower is of one leaf \ which is unequally divided at the 
top into four parts , and refembles a perfonated flower ; 
the upper fegment which refembles the helmet , and alflo the 
two fide fegments , are indented in the middle , and the lower 
one is divided into three parts at the brim ; in the center 
is placed the round germen, fupporting a Jingle Jiyle crowned 
with a three cornered ftigma : this is attended by a Jingle 
ftamina fixed to the tube of the flower , which is crowned 
with a very narrow fiummit. After the flower is pafl , the 
germen becomes an oval flejhy fruit, divided into three part 
inclofing fever al oval feeds , which have tails. 
This genus of plants, is by Dr. Linnaeus ranged in 
his firft clafs, which is entitled Monandria Monogy- 
nia, the flowers of which have but one ftamina and 
one ftyle. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Alpinia. Royen. Prod. 12. This is by father Plunder 
titled, Alpina racemofa alba Cannacori foliis. Nov. 
Gen. 26. i. e. White branching Alpina , with leaves like 
the flowering Reed. 
This plant is a native of the Weft-Indies, from whence 
it has been brought into fome of the curious gardens 
of Europe, where it muft be. preferved in a good 
green-houfe, and the pots plunged into a tub of water, 
otherwife it will not thrive in this country. The leaves 
decay every winter, and are pufhed out from the roots 
every fpring, like the Maranta; fo may /be propa- 
gated by parting of the roots when the leaves decay. 
A L S I N E [Gr. ’AA Chick-weed. 
Thefe plants are fo well known to moft perfons, it 
will be needlefs to mention them in this place, unlds 
it be to caution perfons from permitting them to grow 
either in their gardens, or on dunghills,, where they 
will foon fired their feeds, and become troubiefhme 
weeds ; 
