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this, if you find your bed very warm, you imift give 
air in the day-time by railing the glafles ; but if the 
bed is cool, you mult cover it well with mats every 
night, as alfo in bad weather. In four or five days, 
after, you muft prepare another hot-bed to receive 
thefe plants, which will be fit to tranfplant in ten 
days, or a fortnight at molt, after the feeds are fown ; 
this bed need not be very large, for a few of thefe 
plants will fill a large quantity of frames, when they 
are planted out for good, and while the plants are 
young, there may be a great quantity kept in one 
light ; fo that thofe perfons who raife early Cucum- 
bers and Mufk Melons, may alfo raife thefe plants in 
the fame bed ; for two or three lights will be fuificient 
to raife plants of all three kinds, to fupply the largeft 
families, until they are planted out for good. In 
the management of thefe plants while young, there 
is little difference from the directions given for raifing 
Mufk Melons, therefore I need not repeat it here. 
The chief thing to be obferved, is, to let them have 
a large fhare of air whenever the weather will permit, 
otherwife the plants will draw up weak, and be good 
for little. As thefe plants will require two or three 
hot-beds to bring the fruit to perfection, it will be 
the better way to put the plants into bafkets, when 
they have gotten four leaves,' as is directed for raifing 
early Cucumbers •, but you fhould not plant more 
than two plants in each bafket, for if one of them 
lives it will be fufficient ; therefore when both the 
plants iucceed, you fliould draw out the weakeft and 
moft unpromifing of them, before they begin to put 
out their fide fhoots, otherwife they will entangle and 
render it difficult to be performed, without greatly 
injuring the remaining plant. 
The bafkets in which thefe plants are to be planted, 
need not be more than a foot diameter ; fo that one 
light will contain eight of them, which will be fuffi- 
cient for twenty-four lights, when they are planted 
out for good ; for where the plants are vigorous, one 
fingle plant will fpread fo far as to fill three lights ; 
and if they have not room, they feldom fet their fruit 
well. 
Thefe bafkets may remain in the nurfery-beds until 
the plants have fpread, and put out many runners ; 
for when the heat of this beet declines, it is foon re- 
vived by adding a proper lining of warm dung to 
the fides of the bed quite round •, fo that when they 
are taken out of this bed, and placed in the ridges 
where they are to remain, the heat of the beds will 
laft fo long as to fet their fruit, which is of great con- 
fequence ; for when the plants are ridged out very 
young, the beds are generally made of great thick- 
nefs in dung, in order to continue their heat; fo 
that for fome time after they are made, they are 
fo extreme hot, as to endanger the fealding of the 
plants ; and by the time the fruit begins to appear, 
there is little heat left in the beds, which often occa- 
fions the fruit to drop off, and come to nothing. 
After thefe plants are placed in the beds where they 
are to remain, you muft carefully lead the fhoots as 
they are produced, fo as to fill each part of the frame, 
but not to croud each other ; and be careful to keep 
them clear from weeds, as alfo to admit frefh air 
whenever the weather will permit ; they muft alfo be 
frequently watered, but do not give it them in great 
quantities. In fhort, there is little difference to be 
obferved in the management of thefe, from that of 
Mufk Melons, but only to give them more room, 
and to keep the beds to a good temperature of heat, 
and when the fruit appears, to admit air freely to the 
plants, in order to fet their fruit ; but when the nights 
are cold, the glaffes muft be covered with mats to 
keep the beds warm, without which this fruit will 
feldom come to good in this country. 
ANIL. See Indigophera. 
A N I S U M, or A N I S E. See Pimpinell a. 
ANNONA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 613. Guanabanus. 
Plum. Nov. Gen. 10. The Cuftard Apple, G? c. 
The Characters are, 
The empalemmt is cbmpofed of three fmall heart-Jhaped 
A N N 
leaves, which are concave and pointed. The flower 
hath fix petals , three large and three alternately 
f nailer. The ftamina is fcarce difcernible , but there are 
many fummits on each fide the germen , which is fituafed 
at the bottom of the flower, having no ftyle , but an ob- 
tufe fligma. The germen afterward becomes am oval , or 
oblong fruit , having a fcaly rind, and one cell, in which 
are lodged many oval fmooth feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the feventh fedtion 
of Linnaeus’s thirteenth clafs, entitled Polyandria Po- 
lyginia, the flowers of this divifion having many fta- 
mina and feveral germen. 
The Species are, 
1. Annona [Reticulata') foliis lanceolatis frudtibus ova- 
tis reticulato-areolatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 537. Annona 
with fpear-Jhaped leaves, and oval fruit which are netted 
or wrought in fquares. Guanabanus frudlu aureo & 
molliter aculeato. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. The Cuftard 
Apple. 
2. Annona ( Muricatis ) foliis ovali-lanceolatis glabris 
nitidis plariis pomis muricatis. Hort. Cliff. 222. An- 
nona with plain, fmooth, fhining, oval, fpear-Jhaped 
leaves, and a prickly fruit. Guanabanus fructu e vi- 
ridi lutefeente molliter aculeato. Plum. Nov. Gen. 
43. The Sour Sop. 
3. Annona ( Squamofa ) foliis oblongis frudtibus obtuse 
lubfquamatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 537. Annona with ob- 
long leaves , and obtufe fcaly fruit. Guanabanus foliis 
odoratis fructu fubrotundo fquamofo. Plum. Nov. 
Gen. 43. The Sweet Sop. 
4. Annona ( Paluflris ) foliis oblongis obtufis glabris, 
frudtu rotundo, cortice glabro. Annona with oblong , 
blunt , fmooth leaves , and round fruit, with a fmooth 
fkin. Guanabanus paluftris frudtu laevi viridi. Plum. 
Nov. The Water Apple. 
5. Annona ( Cherimola ) foliis latilfimis glabris, frudtu 
oblongo fquamato, feminibus nitidiflimis. Annona with 
very broad fmooth leaves, 
flyining feeds. 
6 . Annona ( Afficana ) foliis ovato-lanceolatis pubefeen- 
tibus frudtu glabro fubcaeruleo. Annona with oval, 
fpear-Jhaped , downy leaves, and fmooth bluijh fruit. Gua- 
nabanus frudtu fubcsruleo. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43 » 
The Sweet Apple. 
7. Annona ( Afiatica ) foliis lanceolatis glabris nitidis fe- 
cundum nervos fulcatis. Hort. Cliff 222. Annona with 
neat fpear-Jhaped leaves, with nervous furrows. Guana- 
banus fructu purpureo. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. The 
Purple Apple . 
8. Annona ( Triloba ) foliis lanceolatis frudtibus trifidis. 
Lin. Sp. Plant. 537 - Annona with fpear-floaped leaves , 
and trifid fruit. Annona fructu lutefeente lasvi ferotum 
arietis referente. Catefb. Car. 2. 85. The North Ame- 
rican Annona, called by the inhabitants Papaw. 
The firft fort ufually grows to the height of twenty- 
five feet, or upwards, in the Weft-Indies, and is well 
furniflied with branches on every fide ; the bark is 
fmooth, and of an Afti colour ; the leaves are oblong, 
of a light green colour, and have feveral deep tranf- 
verfe ribs or veins, ending in acute points ; the fruit 
is of a conical form, as large as a tennis-ball, of an 
Orange colour when ripe, having a foft, fweet, yel- 
lowifh pulp, of the confiftence of a cuftard, from 
whence the title of Cuftard Apple was given to it. 
The fecond fort is not fo large as the firft, rarely rifing 
above twenty feet high, and not fo well furniflied 
with branches ; the leaves are broader than thofe, have 
a fmooth furface without any furrows, and are of a 
Aiming green colour ; the fruit is large, of an oval 
fhape, irregular, and pointed at the top, being of a 
greenifh. yellow colour, and full of fmall knobs on 
the outfide ; the pulp is foft, v/hite, and of a four and 
fweet tafte intermixed, having many oblong dark-co- 
loured feeds. 
The third fort is a tree of humbler growth, feldom 
rifing more than fifteen feet high, and is well furniflied 
with branches on every fide; the leaves of this fort 
have an agreeable feent when rubbed ; the fruit is 
roundifii and fcaly, and when ripe turns of a purple 
colour, and hath a fweet pulp. 
oblong fcaly fruit, and very 
The 
