The fourth fort commonly grows from thirty to forty 
feet in the Weft-Indies. This hath oblong pointed 
leaves, which have fome (lender furrows, and whan 
rubbed have a ftrong fcerit * the fruit of this fort is 
feldom eaten but by the negroes ; the tree grows in 
moift places in all the iflands of the Weft-Indies. 
The fifth fort is much cultivated in Peru for the 
fruit, and from thence the feeds have been brought 
to England^ and many plants have been raifed. This 
grows to be a very large tree in the natural country 
of its growth* and is well furnifhed with branches, 
which are garnifhed with leaves of a bright green co- 
lour, which are much larger than thofe of any of the 
other forts; The fruit is oblong and fcaly on the out- 
fide, and of a dark purple colour when ripe the 
flefh is foft and fweet, has many brown feeds inter- 
mixed, which are very fmooth and fhining * the fruit 
is efteemed by the Peruvians as one of their moft de- 
licate forts. This has produced flowers in England, 
but no fruit. 
The flxth and feventh forts grow in fome of the 
French iflands, as alfo in Cuba, in great plenty thefe 
grow to the height of thirty feet or more •, their fruit 
are efteemed by the inhabitants of thofe iflands, who 
frequently give them to ftck perfons, as they reckon 
them very cooling and wholefome. 
The eighth fort grows plentifully in the Bahama- 
iflands, where it feldom rifes to more than ten feet 
high, having feveral ftems the fruit df this fort are 
fhaped like a Pear inverted. This is feldom eaten 
but by the negroes, and is the food of guanas* and 
other animals. 
This fort will thrive in the open air in England, if 
it is planted in a warm lheltered fltuation * but the 
plants fhould be. trained up in pots, and (heltered in 
winter for two or three years, until they have ac- 
quired fome ftrength •, then they may be turned out 
of the pots in the fpring, and planted in the full 
ground, where they are to remain. This fort has pro- 
duced flowers in the curious garden of his grace the 
duke of Argyle, at Whitton, near Hounflow, where 
it has been growing in the open air for fome years, 
as alfo in the nurfery of the late Mr. Gray, near Ful- 
ham. The feeds of this fort are frequently brought 
to England from North America, which are much 
larger than thofe of the other fpecies, and many plants 
have been lately raifed in the gardens near London. 
The fhape of the leaves is alfo different ; this cafts 
its leaves in autumn, whereas all the others retain 
their leaves, never calling them until the fpring, 
when the leaves come out. The fruit is very different 
from thofe of the other fpecies, two or three grow- 
ing together at their foot-ftalks. When the feeds 
of this fort are fown, they frequently remain a 
whole year in the ground •, therefore the earth in the 
pots ftiould not be difturbed, where they are fown, 
if the plants do not come up the firft year ; and the 
pots fhould be lheltered in winter, and the following 
fpring if they are plunged into a new hot-bed, the 
plants will come up much fooner than thofe which 
are fown in the open air, fo will have more time to 
get ftrength before the winter. 
All the other forts which are natives of the warm 
parts of America, are to otender to live In this country, 
if they are not preferved in warm ftoves * they come 
up very eafily from the feeds which are brought from 
America, if they are frelh * but thefe feeds mull be 
fown on a good hot-bed, or in pots of light earth, 
and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark in Febru- 
ary, which is by much the bell time-, becaufe when 
the plants come up early, they will have time to 
get ftrength before the cold weather comes on in the 
aUtumn. 
Thefe plants fhould be kept in the bark-ftove, and 
carefully managed, with which they will make great 
progrefs ; but in warm weather they fhould have 
plenty of frelh air admitted to them, for when the 
air is excluded from them too much, they are apt to 
grow fickly, and are often attacked by vermin, which 
will multiply and fpread over the whole furface of the 
leaves, and caufe them to decay but when carefully- 
managed, their leaves will continue green all the win- 
ter, and make a very good appearance in the ftove 
at that feafon. 
As thefe plants advance in their growth, they fhould 
be Ihifted into larger pots * but this muft be done 
with caution, for nothing is more prejudicial to them 
than over-potting them. They muft alfo conftantly 
remain in the tan-bed, otherwife they will make but lit- 
tle progrefs * for although they will live in a dry ftove, 
yet they will make little progrefs* nor will their leaves 
appear fo fine, as when they are preferved in a vigo- 
rous growing ftate * and it is more for the beauty of 
their leaves, than any hopes of their producing fruit 
in this country, that they are preferved in ftoves : for 
though there has been fome of the forts which have 
produced flowers in England, yet none have ever 
fhewn their fruit here; 
Some of thefe plants are twelve or fourteen feet high 
in our gardens, and a few years ago there were plants 
of the fifth fort in the garden at Chelfea, which were 
more than twenty feet high, and produced flowers 
two or, three years; The ftove in which thefe plants 
are placed, fhould, during the winter feafon, be kept 
to the Ananas heat, marked on the botanical thermo- 
meters. The earth fhould be light and rich in which 
they are planted, and the tan-bed fhould be frequently 
turned over and refrefhed. Their waterings muft be 
frequent in fumrner, but not in too great quantity. 
In the winter they muft have it but feldom, a little 
once a week in open weather, and, in froft, once in 
a fortnight or three weeks, will be fuflicient. 
ANTHEMIS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 870. Chamomile* 
The Characters are, 
It is a plant with a compound flower, whofe common 
mpalement is hemifpherical, compofed of many fcales 
which are equal. I he border , or rays of the flower , is 
compofed of many female florets , whofe petals are ftretched 
out like tongues on one fide , and are indented in three 
parts at their extremity. The middle , or dijk of the flower , 
is compofed of many hermaphrodite florets , which are fun- 
nel-Jhaped, eredl , arid cut into five parts at the top * Thefe 
have five jhort narrow Jiamina , which are crowned by 
cylindrical hollow fummits. The germen is fituated at the 
bottom, fupporting a J lender ftyle, crowned by two reflexed 
ftigma , which afterward becomes an oblong naked feed. 
The female florets have no ftamina, but an oblong ger- 
men in the center , fupporting two inflexed ftyles. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feftion 
of Linnaeus’s nineteenth clafs, entitled Syngenefia 
Polygamia luperflua, the flowers of this fection be- 
ing compofed of many florets, which are female and 
hermaphrodite, whofe ftamina are joined at the top. 
The Species are, 
1. Anthemis ( Nobilis ) foliis pinnato-compofitis lineari- 
bus acutis fubvillofls. Lin. Sp. Plant. 894. Chamomile 
with winged leaves , compofed of many very narrow-point- 
ed hoary figments. Chamsemelum nobile five Leucan- 
themum odoratius. C. B. P. 135. Common, or noble 
Chamomile. 
2. Anthemis ( Arvenfis ) receptaculis conicis paleis feta- 
ceis feminibus coronato-marginatis. Flor. Suec. 704. 
Chamomile with a conical receptacle of briflly chaff, and 
bordered feeds. Chamasmelum inodorum. C. B. P. 
136. May IVeed. 
3. Anthemis ( Cotula ) receptaculis conicis paleis fetaceis 
feminibus nudis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 894. Chamomile with - 
a conicle receptacle, briflly chaff, and naked feeds. Cha- 
m^melum fcetidum. C. B. P. 135. May Weed. 
4. Anthemis {Cota) florum paleis rigidis pungentibtis. 
Flor. Leyd. 172. Chamomile with ftiff pungent chaff be- 
tween the florets. Chamaemelum annuum ramo- 
fum cotulae fceticke floribus amplioribus capitulis 
fpinofls. Mor. Hill. 3. p. 36. 
5. Anthemis (Altiffima) erecta foliorum apicibus fub- 
fpinofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 893. Upright Chamomile with 
leaves ending with fpines. Chamasmelum Leucanthe- 
mum Hifpanicum magno flore. C. B. P. 135. 
6 . Anthemis ( Maritima ) foliis pinnatis dentatis carno- 
fis nudis pun&atis caule proftrato, calycibus fubto- 
2 mentofis. 
