fkme joints, dole to thofe of the leaves, one on each 
fioe the {lanes-: thefe are long, naked, and grow hori- 
zontally, extending beyond the leaves before they 
divide and branch •, then there comes out three or 
four pair of fin all foot-ftalks from the large one, each 
of which divides again into three fmaller, each ftm- 
porting a Angle flower : the lower pair of thefe are 
extended four or five inches, the other gradually di- 
itiinilh to the top, io that they form a pyramidal 
thyrfe of flowers ; thefe are white, and are compofed 
of four narrow petals which are reflexed back, but 
the ftamina all Hand erect. 
This hath been by fame perfons fuppofed to be the 
lame with the common Travellers Joy, but thofe who 
have feen the two plants, cannot doubt of their be- 
ing diftinft fpecies. 
1 he fourteenth fort was fent me from Campeachy 
by the late Dr. Houftoun. This hath ftrong climb- 
ing ftalks, which fallen themfelves by their clafpers 
to the neighbouring trees, whereby they are fupport- 
ed, and rife to the height of twenty feet or more, gar- 
nifiied at each joint by trifoliate leaves, which are 
heart-fhaped, pointed, and entire. The flowers 
come out on long, naked, branching foot-ftalks, 
which rife from the wings of the leaves; they are 
white, and colleded into round ifh bunches; thefe are 
fucceeded by feeds fhaped like thofe of the common 
fort, but have long curling beards to each, which are 
finely feathered. 
The fifteenth fort grows naturally in Carolina, from 
whence I received the feeds in the year 1726. This 
hath weak ftalks which rife near four feet high, and 
by their clafpers fallen themfelves to the neighbouring 
plants, whereby they are fupported. The leaves 
come out oppofite at the joints; thefe are lbmetimes 
jingle, at others trifoliate, and fome of the leaves are 
divided into three lobes. The flowers come out 
fingly from the fide of the branches upon Ihort foot- 
ftalks, which have one or two pair of leaves below 
the flower, which are oblong and {harp-pointed. 
The flowers have four thick petals, like thofe of the 
tenth fort ; thefe are of a purple colour, and their 
inner furface is curled, and hath many longitudinal 
furrows. This flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in 
September. 
The three firft forts have perennial roots, which mul- 
tiply pretty faft, but their ftalks die down every au- 
tumn, and new ones arife in the fpring, in which par- 
ticular they differ from all the other fpecies, therefore 
require different management, and are propagated in 
a different manner ; therefore I fhall firft give direc- 
tions for their culture. 
Thefe plants are propagated either by feeds, or part- 
ing their roots ; but the, former being a tedious me- 
thod (the plants feldom riling until the fecona year 
after fowing, unlefs the feeds are Town in the autumn 
foon after they are ripe, and are often two years 
more before they flower,) the latter is generally prac- 
tifed. The belt feafon for parting thefe roots is in 
October or February ; either juft before their branches 
decay, or before they rife again in the fpring. 
They will grow almoft in any foil orfituation ; but if 
the foil is very dry, they iliould always be new plant- 
ed in the autumn, otherwife their flowers will not be 
fo ftrong ; but if the foil be wet, it is better to defer 
it until the fpring. The roots may be cut through 
their crowns with a iharp knife, obferving to preferve 
to every offset fome good buds or eyes ; and then it 
matters not how fmall you divide them, for their 
roots increafe very faft : but if you part them very 
fmall, you fhould let them remain three or four years 
before they are again removed, that their flowers 
may be ftrong, and their roots multiplied in eyes, 
which in lefs time cannot be obtained. 
Thefe plants are extreme hardy, enduring the cold 
of our fevereft winters in the open air, and are very 
proper ornaments for large gardens, either to be 
planted in large borders, or intermixed with other 
hardy flowers in quarters of flowering flirubs ; where, 
by being placed promifeuoufly in little open places, 
they fill tip thole fmall vacancies, and are agreeable 
enough. They begin to flower about, the beginning 
of June, and often continue to produce firefh flowers 
until Auguft, which, renders them valuable, efpeci- 
aily fince they require very little care in their culture ; 
foi their roots may be fuftered to remain feveral 
years undifturbed, where there is no want to part 
them, which will not in the leaft prejudice them. 
The fourth fort is found v/ild in moft parts of Eng- 
land, growing upon the Tides of banks under hedges, 
and extends its trailing branches over the trees and 
flirubs that are near it. This plant in the autumn is 
generally covered with feeds, which are collected into 
little heads, each of which having, as it were, a rough 
plume raftened to it, hath occafioned the . country 
people to give it the name of Old Man’s Beard. It 
is titled by Lobel and Gerard, Viorna'; and by Do- 
donseus, Yitis alba : in Englifh it is moft commonly 
called 1 ravellers Joy. This fort is rarely cultivated 
in gardens, being too rambling, and having but little 
beauty. 
The fifth and fixth forts have no more beauty than 
the fourth, fo are leldom preferved in gardens, unlefs 
for the fake of variety. They are both as hardy as 
the common fort, and may be propagated either by 
feeds or laying down their branches. 
The feventh fort retains its leaves all the year, 
which renders it valuable. This was formerly pre- 
ferved in green-houfes in the winter, fuppofing it too 
tender to live in the open air in England ; but now 
it is generally planted in the full ground, where the 
plants thrive much better than in pots, and produce 
plenty of flowers, which they never did when they 
were more tenderly treated ; nor have I found that 
the plants have fuftered from fevere frofts ; for thofe 
which have been growing in the open air at Chelfea, 
more than fifty years, have refilled the greateft cold 
without covering. 
This fort doth not produce feeds in England, fo it is 
propagated by layers, and alfo from cuttings. If 
they are propagated by layers, it muft be done in the 
beginning of Odtober, when the fhoots of the fame 
year only fhould be chofen for this purpofe ; for the 
older branches do not put out roots in lefs than two 
years, _ whereas the tender {hoots will make good 
roots in one year : thefe muft be pegged down into 
the ground, in the fame manner as is ufually prac- 
tifed for other layers, to prevent their rifing. If the 
fhoots have two inches of earth over them, it will be 
better than a greater depth ; but then, a little old tan- 
ners bark fhould be fpread over the furface of the 
ground, to keep out the froft ; for as the plants ge- 
nerally begin flowering about Chriftmas, lb at the 
fame time they are putting out roots, which being 
but juft formed, m^y be injured by fevere frofts": 
thefe layers will have ftrong roots by the follow- 
ing autumn, when they may be taken from the old 
plant, and traniplanted where they are defigned to 
remain. 
When they are propagated by cuttings, they fhould 
be planted in March, in pots filled with good kitchen- 
garden earth, and plunged into a very moderate hot- 
bed, obferving to {hade them from the fun in the day- 
time, and gently water them two or three times a 
week, and in lefs than two months they will have 
taken root, when they Ihould be gradually inured to 
the open air. The following fummer they may be 
placed in any part of the garden till Michaelmas, and 
then they fhould be turned out of the pots and planted 
in the full ground, either where they are defigned to 
remain, or into a nurfery-bed, to grow a year longer 
to get ftrength, before they are placed out for good. 
All the varieties of Virgin’s Bower are propagated by 
laying down their branches ; for although the Angle 
flowers fometimes produce feeds in England, yet as 
thefe feeds, when fown, generally remain a whole 
year in the ground before they vegetate, fo the other 
being the more expeditious method of increafing thefe 
plants, is generally praftifed : but in order to fuc- 
ceed, thefe layers fhould be laid down at a different 
feafon. 
