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Fifthly, When your flowers begin to open, you 
fliould remove their pots upon a it age (built with 
rows of ffielves, one above another, and covered on 
the top, to p refer ve them from wet : this ffiould be 
open to the morning fun, but ffieltered from the heat 
of the fun in the middle of the day :) in this pofition 
they will appear to much greater advantage, than 
when the pots ftand upon the ground for, their flow- 
ers being low, their beauty is hid from us *, whereas, 
when they are advanced uponftielves, we fee them in 
a full view. In this fituation they may remain until 
the beauty of their flowers is paft, when they muft 
be fet abroad to receive the rains, and have open free 
air, in order to obtain feeds, which will fail if they 
are kept too long under flicker. When your feed is 
ripe, obferve to gather it when it is perfectly dry, and 
expofe it to the fun in a window upon papers, to pre- 
vent its growing mouldy, and let it remain in the 
pods till the feafon for fowing it. 
AURICULA URSI MYCONI. See Ver- 
BASCUM. 
A X I S of a plant. Axis is properly that round fmooth 
cylinder, about which a wheel is turned ; whence, by 
way of metaphor, that long, round, fmooth part, 
placed in the center of the iuli, or cat tails, on Nut- 
trees, &c. about which the male organs are diipofed, 
may be called the Axis. The Frencli call it Arne, 
Noyau, or Poincon. 
AZALEA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 195. American up- 
right Honeyfuckle. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a [mall coloured empalement which is permanent , 
cut into Jive acute parts at the top. I he flower is 
funnel- fa ape dj having a long naked tube , cut into five parts •, 
the two upper fegments are reflexed backward , the two 
Jides are bent inward , and the lower one turns downward. 
It hath five flender ftamina of unequal lengths , which 
have oblong erebl fummits. The round gennen fupports a 
long flender Jlyle , crowned with an obtufle ftigma ; the ger- 
men afterward becomes a roundifh cap fule, having five 
cells , which are filled with roundifh fimall feeds . 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firit fe&ion of 
Linnsus’s fifth clafs, entitled Pentandria Monogynia, 
the flower having five ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Azalea ( Vifcofa ) foliis margine fcabris, corollis pi- 
lofo glutinofis. "Lin. 8p. Plant. 1 5 1 . Azalea with leaves 
bavin 7 rough edges , the petals of the flower hairy and 
glutinous. °Ciftus Virginiana flore & odore pericly- 
meni. Pluk. Phyt. tab. 1 6 1 . f. 4. 
2. Azalea ( Nndifiora ) foliis ovatis corollis pilofis ftami- 
nibus ionjfiffimis. Lin. Sp., Plant. 150. Azalea with 
oval leaves , hairy flowers and the longeft ftamina. Cii- 
tus Virginiana periclymeni flore ampliori minus odo- 
rato. Pluk. Mant. 49. 
There are three or four other fpecies of this genus, 
two of which grow naturally upon the Alps, chiefly 
on bogs ; thefe are low plants, which have little 
beauty, and very difficult to keep in gardens. The 
others grow one in the eafty near Pontus, and the 
other in India •, but as neither of thefe are in the Eng- 
lifh gardens, I ffiall not enumerate them. 
A Z E 
The fifft of thefe here mentioned, is a low ffirub, 
rifling with feveral Render Items near four feet high. 
The leaves come out in clutters at the ends of the 
.ffipots, without order : they are fpear-ffiaped, but nar- 
row at their bafe L their edges are fet with very i'horf 
teeth, which are rough. The flowers come out in- 
clufters between the leaves, at the extremity of the 
branches, which are white, with a mixture of dirty 
yellow on their outftde : they have a tube an inch 
long, and at the top are pretty deeply cut into five 
fegments ; the two upper are reflexed, the two fide* 
ones are bent inward, and the lower one is turned 
downward. There are five flender ftamina, which 
are a little longer than the petals of the flower, fup- 
porting oblong Saffron-coloured fummits. The ftyle 
is much longer than the ftamina, and crowned by an 
obtufe ftigma. Thefe flowers have much the appear- 
ance of thofe of the Honeyfuckle, and are as agreea- 
bly fcented. They appear the middle of July, but 
are not fucceeded by feeds in England. 
The fec.ond fort grows taller than the firft, and in its 
native country frequently rifes to the height of fifteen 
feet, but in England is never more than half that 
height. This fends out feveral ftems from the root, 
which are garnifhed with oblong fmooth leaves, placed 
alternately, having foot-ftaiks. The flower-ftalks 
arife from the divifion of the branches, which are long 
and naked, fupporting a clufter of red flowers, which 
are tubulous, fwelling at their bafe like thofe of the 
Hyacinth, and contracted at their neck they are di- 
vided at the top into five equal fegments, which fpread 
open. The five ftamina and the ftyle are much 
longer than the petals, and ftand erect. This flowers 
about the fame time as the former, but is not fo well 
fcented. 
Thefe plants grow naturally in ffiade, and upon moift 
ground in moft parts of North America, from whence 
many of the plants have been fent of late years to 
England, and feveral of them have produced their 
beautiful flowers in many curious gardens. 
They muft have a moift foil and a fhady fituation, 
otherwife they will not thrive. They can only be 
propagated by fhoots from their roots, and laying 
down their branches, for they do not produce feeds 
here; and if good feeds could be obtained, they 
would be difficult to raife, and a long time before 
they would flower. But when they are in a proper 
fituation, their roots extend, and put out fhoots, 
which may be taken off with roots, and tranfplant- 
ed. When any of them are laid down, it ffiould 
be only the young fhoots of the fame year, for the 
old branches will not put out roots. The beft time 
for this is at Michaelmas, and if they are covered 
with fome old tan, to keep out the , froft, it will be 
of great ufe to them. The autumn is alfo the beft 
time to remove the plants, but the ground about their 
roots ffiould be covered in winter to keep out the 
froft ; and if this is every year pra&ifed to the old 
plants, it will preferve them in vigour, and caufe them 
to flower well. 
AZEDARACH. See Melia. 
A Z E R O L E, or L’A ZAROLE. See Mespilus. 
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