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growing, which were all he ever faw ; from thefe he ga¬ 
thered the feeds, and brought them to England in 1726, 
from which many plants were raifed in the Engliflt gar¬ 
dens, feme of which have fmee flowered here. It rifes 
with a branching' ftetn to the height of ten or twelve feet, 
covered with a pale rufTet bark ; the branches come out 
alternately from the bottom to the top, with fmall leaves, 
refembling thofe of the box-tree, in clufters all round the 
branches, at certain diffances ; the flowers come out Angle 
from the fide of the branches, hanging downward ; and are 
of an orange-yellow colour. The berry is the fize of a 
•middling plumb, hollow within, with fmall angular feeds. 
Mr. Catefby relates that the larged; of the trees which lie 
faw, was about four inches thick, and twelve or fourteen 
feet in height ; the bark fmooth, of a greeniih ruflet co¬ 
lour, and the wood feemingly tough and hard ; the leaves 
like thofe of box, but fnaller, growing in clufters at in¬ 
tervals of about an inch ; from every clnfter two fiiarp 
pliant fpines (hooting out. The flowers are about fix in¬ 
dies long, in the form of a Roman trumpet, except that 
■they are divided at the verge into four deep fegments, ufu- 
ally reflex. The fruit is the fize of a pullet’s egg, the pulp 
like that of a ripe apple, with a fniooih yellow (kin, and 
has an agreeable tartnefs. It flowers moll part of the fum- 
■mer, but not fo freely as many other (love plants. 
2. Cate(baea parviflora : tube of the corolla four-cor¬ 
nered, abbreviated ; berries roundifli. This is a native 
of Jamaica. 
Propagation and Culture. This (limb is propagated by 
feeds, which mud be procured from the country where it 
naturally grows. If the entire fruit be brought over in 
fand, the feeds will be better preferved ; when they ar¬ 
rive in England, the feeds nuifi be fown in fmall pots, fill¬ 
ed with light fandy earth, and plunged into a moderate 
hot-bed of tanner’s-bark, and now and then moderately 
watered. If the feeds are good, the plants will appear in 
about fix weeks after fowing ; when, if the heat of the bed 
declines, the tan fhould be turned over to the bottom, 
and, if necefiary, Come frefh added to renew the heat, for 
thefe plants make but little progrefs the firft year. When 
the pots are plunged again into the tan-bed, they mu ft 
have frefli air admitted to them every day in proportion to 
the warmth of the feafon, and frequently refrelhed with 
water, in fmall quantities, for much wet will certainly kill 
them; if the nights (hould prove cold, the glaTes (hould 
be covered with mats every evening. As thele plants 
grow (lowly, they will not require to be removed out of 
the feed-pots the firft year. In the autumn the pots (hould 
be removed into the ftove, and plunged into the tan-bed. 
During the winter, the plants (hould be watered with great 
caution, and in fpring they (IvonId be carefully taken up, 
and each planted in a feparate fmall pot, filled with light 
fandy earth, and plunged into a frefh hot-bed of tanner’s- 
bark, being careful to (hade them until they have taken 
frefh root, as alfo to refrefli them with water gently, as 
they may require it; and in fummer, when the weather is 
warm, they fhould have a good (hare of air admitted to 
them; but in autumn mu ft be removed into the ftove, 
where they (hould conftantly remain, and muft be treated 
afterwards in the fame manner as other tender exotic 
plants. This plant may be propagated by planting cut¬ 
tings in fmall pots, filled with light earth, during the 
months of June and July. The pots (hould be plunged 
into a moderate hot-bed of tanner’s-bark, and the cuttings 
clofely covered with fmall bell-glafl'es to exclude the ex¬ 
ternal air. If this is properly performed, the cuttings will 
put out roofs in about two or three months, when they 
may be carefully leparated, planting each into a fmall pot, 
filled with.light earth, and plunged into the hot-bed again, 
and afterwards muft be treated as the feedling plants. 
Moll of thofe plants which were raifed from Mr. Catefby’s 
feeds, were killed by the fevere winter in 1739. None 
were fo fuccefsful in railing it, as Mr. Powers, a (kilftil 
and curious gardener, at Mr. Blathwait’s, of Derliam, 
Dear Bath, who raifed a plant, which flowered in 1734. 
CAT 
CATFIRTHVO'E, a bay on the north-eaft coaft pf the 
ifland of Shetland : ten miles north of Lerwick. 
CA'THARJNE, [from Gr. pure, chafte.] A 
proper name of women. 
CA'THARINE of AR'RAGON, firft queen of Henry 
VIII. was the youngeft of four daughters of Ferdinand VI. 
king of Spain, and of Ifabella queen of Caftile. In her 
eighteenth year, and on the 14th of January 1501, file was 
married to Arthur prince of Wales, who left her a widow 
on the 2d of April 1502. Soon after his deceafe, (he was 
contracted to Henry VIII. the younger brother of her de- 
ceafed hufband, and was married to him immediately after 
his acceftion to the throne ; and both of them were crown- 
e^d, June 5, 1505. The agreeablenefs of her perfon, her 
amiable difpofition, and her many other excellent qualifi¬ 
cations, kept her for almoft twenty years in the king’s affec¬ 
tions ; after which he had her divorced, in order to make 
way for Anne Boleyn. She was not only pious and learned 
herfelf, but was the patronefs of all good and learned men. 
This dignified fufferer is thus deferibed in a letter of 
Gerarde de Piaine to Margaret of Auftria: “ C’eft line 
dame recreative, humaine, et gracieufe, et de contruire 
complexion et maniere a la reyne de Caftille fa foeur.” 
That acute and comprehenfive critic Dr. Johnfon, in his 
remarks upon Shakefpeare’s Tragedy of Henry the Eighth, 
lays, “ that the meek borrows and virtuous diftrefs of queen 
Catharine, have furnilhed fo.me feenes which may be 
juftly numbered amongft the greateft efforts of tragedy. 
Blit the genius of Shakefpeare,” adds he, “ comes in and 
goes out with Catharine.'’ Holinftiead thus deferibes her 
laft illnefs and death, 1111536. “The princefs dowager 
lieng at Kimbolton fell into her laft ficknefte ; whereof the 
king being advertifed appointed the emperour’s ambafla- 
dour, that was leger here with him, named Euftachius 
Capucius, to go to vifit her, and to doe his commenda¬ 
tions to her, and will her to be of good comforte. The 
ambaftadour with all diligence did his duty therein, com¬ 
forting her the belt hee might; but fhee, within fixe days 
after, perceiving herfelf to waxe verie weake and feeble, 
and to feele death approaching at hande, cauled one of her 
gentlewomen to write a letter to the king, commending to 
him their daughter Mary, afterwards queen of England ; 
and befeeching him to (land good father unto her ; and far¬ 
ther delired him to have fonte confideration of her gentle¬ 
women that had ferved her, and to fee them beftowed in 
marriage. Further, that it would pleafe him to appoint 
that her fervants might have their due wages, and a year’s 
wages befides. This in effect was all (lie requefted ; and 
fo immediately hereupon fhe departed this life the 8th of 
Januarie, at Kimbolton aforelaid, and was buried at Pe- 
terborrowe.” 
CA'THARINE de ME'DICIS, queen of France, was 
the only daughter of Laurentius de Medicis, and born at 
Florence in the year 1519. She was married in 1533 to 
the dauphin, afterwards Henry II. of France. The gal¬ 
ley which fiift landed her at Marfeilles, bore a device of 
the fun, with thefe words in Greek, “ I bring light and 
fine weather.” The events of her government, however, 
anfwered not to her device ; fince civil wars, plots, con- 
fpiiacies, maflacres, and murders, filled up the period of 
it. She was three times regent of France, and, during 
her adniityftration, made a confpicuous figure in the an¬ 
nals of Europe, by the various turns of her political ge¬ 
nius. At one time fhe took the French Proteftants under 
her protection ; at another fhe deferted them, and joined 
their enemies; and finally countenanced, if not advifed, 
the horrid maffacre of Bartholomew’s-day, which fee 
under that article. Bold, enterprifing, and fagacious, her 
courage never was difconcerted, and her penetration was 
feldom eluded. Infinuating in her manners, magnificent 
in her difpofition, and liberal to profufion ; a generous 
patronefs of the arts and fciences, even amidft the horrors 
of war, Ilie foftered and protected the feeds of learning, 
which had been introduced in the reigns of Francis and 
Henry.4 but reverfe the medal, and (lie was cruel, rapa- 
eiousj 
