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liwarift Hr y weather. The fifth, fort will not thrive 
in pots, fo fhould be planted in a rich light foil, 
where, if it is allowed room, and plentifully watered 
in dry weather, the plants will grow to a very large 
fize, and make a fine appearance. 
The twelfth fort is alio tender, fo whoever is inclina- 
able to cultivate that plant, fhould treat it in the 
fame manner as is directed for the former. 
The other forts are hardy enough to grow in the open 
air, fo may be fown on a bed of light earth in the 
fpring, and when the plants are fit to remove, they 
may be tranfplanted into any part of the garden, 
where they will thrive, and produce plenty of feeds, 
which, if permitted to Latter, will ftock the garden 
with plants. 
The two firft forts muff be fown on a good hot-bed 
in February, or the beginning of March at fartheft ; 
and in about a fortnight’s time, if the bed is in good 
temper, the plants will rife ; foon after which you 
muft ' prepare another hot-bed, covered with good, 
rich, light earth, about four inches thick •, then raife 
up the young plants with your finger, fo as not to 
break off the tender roots, and prick them into your 
new hot-bed about four inches diftance every way, 
giving them a gentle watering to fettle the earth to 
their roots ; but in doing this, be very cautious not 
to hear the young plants down to the ground by hafty 
watering, which rarely rife again, or at leaft fo as to 
recover their former ftrength in a long time, but very 
often rot in the flems, and die quite away. 
In the middle of the day keep them fcreened with 
mats from the heat of the fun, and give them air by 
tailing up the glaffes •, and if the glaffes are wet, it 
will be proper to turn them every day, in good wea- 
ther, that they may dry •, for the moifture which is 
occafioned by the fermentation of the dung, and the 
perfpiration of the plants, is of a noxious quality, and 
very unkindly to plants 5 fo that if the weather hap- 
pens to prove bad, that you cannot turn your glaffes, 
it will be of great fervice to the plants to wipe off all 
moifture two or three times a day with a woollen cloth 
to prevent its dropping upon the plants. When the 
plants are firmly rooted, and begin to grow, you muft 
obferve to give them air every day, more or lefs, as 
the weather is cold or hot, to prevent their drawing 
up too fall, which greatly weakens their Items. 
In about three weeks or a month’s time, thefe plants 
will have grown fo as to meet, and will Hand in need 
of another hot-bed, which fhould be of a moderate 
temper, and covered with the fame rich earth about 
fix inches thick, in which they fhould be removed, 
obferving to take them up with as much earth about 
their roots as poffible, and plant them fix or feven 
inches diftance every way, giving them fome water to 
fettle the earth about their roots ; but be very careful 
not to water them heavily, fo as to bear down the 
plants, as was before directed ; and keep them 
fnadOd in the heat of the day, until they have taken 
frefn roots j and be fure to refrefh them often gently 
with water, and give them air in proportion to the 
heat of the weather, covering the glaffes with mats 
every night, left the cold chill your beds, and ftop 
the growth of the plants. 
The middle of May you muft provide another hot- 
bed, which fhould 'be covered with a deep frame, 
that the plants may have room to grow. Upon this 
hot-bed you muft let as many three-penny pots as can 
ftand within the compafs of the frame •, thefe pots 
muft be filled with good rich earth, and the cavities 
between each pot filled up with any common earth, 
to prevent the heat of the bed from evaporating, and 
filling the frame with noxious ‘fleams : when the bed 
is in good order to receive the plants, they fhould be 
carefully taken up with a trowql, or fome fuch in- 
ftrament, obferving to preferve as much earth to 
their roots as poffible : then place each fingle plant 
in the middle of one of the pots, filling the pot up 
with the earth before defcribed, and fettle it clofe to 
the root of the plant with your hands ; water them 
gently, as before, and (hade them in the heat of the 
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clay from the violence of the fun, by covering fee 
glaffes with mats. 
lit about three weeks more thefe plants will hive 
grown to a -eonfiderable fize and ftrength, fo that you 
muft now raife the glaffes very much in the day-time * y 
and when the air is Toft, and the fun is- clouded, draw 
off the glaffes, and expole them to the open air ; and 
repeat this as often as the weather will permit, which 
will harden them by degrees to be removed abroad 
into the places where they are to remain the whole 
fealon ^ but it is not adviieable to fet thefe plants in 
the open air till after the firft week in July, obierv- 
ing to do it when the air is perfectly loft, and, if 
poffible, in a gentle fhower of rain. 
Let them at firft be fet in fhelter for two or three 
days, where they may be fcreened from the violence 
of the fun, and ftrong winds, to which they muft be 
inured by degrees. Thefe plants, when grown to a 
good ftature, perfpire very freely,, and muft be every 
day refrefned with water, if the weather proyes hot 
and dry ; otherwife they will flint, and never pro- 
duce fo large leaves, as thofe which are fkilfully 
treated. 
"This is the proper management, in order to have 
fine Amaranths, which, if rightly followed, and the 
kinds are good, in a favourable feafon, will produce 
large fine leaves, and are the greateft ornament to a 
good garden for upwards of two months in the latter 
part' of fummer. 
Where perfons are curious in having thefe annual 
plants in great perfection, there fhould be a glafs- 
cafe ereclecl with upright and Hoping glaffes on every 
fide, with a pit in the bottom for tan, in which the 
pots fhould be plunged j if this is raifed eight or nine 
feet to the ridge, and the upright glaffes are five 
feet, there will be room and height enough to raife 
thefe and other annual plants to great perfection, and 
in fuch a building, many of thofe tender annual 
plants, which rarely perfect feeds in this climate with- 
out fuch contrivance, may be every year brought fo 
forward as to ripen their feeds. 
AMARANTHUS CRISTATUS. See Celosta. 
AMARYLLIS, Lily Daffodil. 
The Characters are. 
It hath an oblong compreffed [path a, (or fheath ) which 
inclofes the flower-buds , and open fide ways , becomes dry , 
and is permanent ; the flower hath fix fpear-foaped pe- 
tals. In the center is ftuated the roundifh furrowed ger- 
men , fuppopting a fender ftyle , crowned with a three-cor- 
. nered ftigma •, this, is attended by fix awl-floapcd ftamina , 
which are crowned with incumbent fummits. After the 
flozver is pafl , the germen becomes an oval capfuls, opening 
in three parts , having three cells , which contain round 
feeds. 
This genus is ranged by Dr. Linnaeus in the firft fec- 
tion .of his fixth clafs of plants, entitled Hexandria 
Monogynia, from the flower having fix ftamina and 
one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Amaryllis (. Lutea ) fpatha uni Bora, corolla aequali, 
ftaminibus declinatis. Lin. Sp. 420. Lily Daffodil 
with a fingle flower in each fpatha , which is eogaal , and 
the ftamna declined. Lilio Narciffus luteus autumna- 
lis major. Tourn. Inft. 386. Commonly called autum- 
nal Narciffus. 
2. Amaryllis (. Atamafeo ) fpatha uniflora, corolla aequa- 
li, piftillo declinato. Hort. Cliff. 135. Lily Daffo- 
dil with a fingle flower in each fheath , which has equal 
petals , and the pointal declining. Lilio Narciffus Indi- 
cus pumilus monanthos albus. Mor. Hift. 2. 266. 
Commonly called Atamufco Lily. 
3. Amaryllis (Formoffflma) fpatha uniflora, corolla in- 
asquali, petalis tribus genitalibufque declinatis. Hort. 
Cliff. 135. Lily Dafl'odil with one flower in each co- 
ver , which has unequal petals , and the ftamina and ftyle 
are declined. Lilio Narciffus Jacobaeus flOre fangtii- 
neo nutante. Hort. Elth. 195. Commonly called Ja - 
cob^ea Lily. 
4. Amaryllis ( Sarnienfls ) fpatha multiflora, corollis. re- 
volutis genitalibus. Hort. UpfeL 75. Lily Daffodil 
s ' with 
