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though there are often fuckers feat forth from the old 
plants, yet they come out from between the .leaves, and 
are fo long, (lender, and ill-lhapen, that if planted they 
feldotn make regular planrs. Thefe feeds Ihould be fown 
early in the fp'ring, in (mall pots filled with light rich 
earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners’ bark. 
When- the plants are ftrpng enough to tranfplant, they 
Ihould be carefully taken up, and each planted into a fe- 
parate pot filled with, light rich earth, and plunged into 
the hot-bed again, obferving to refrefti them frequently 
with water until they have taken new root, after which 
time they Ihould have air and water in proportion to the 
warmth of the feafon. In this bed the plants may re¬ 
main till Michaelmas, at which time they fhould be re¬ 
moved into the (love, and plunged into the bark-bed, 
w here they fhould be treated in the fame manner as the 
ananas. Thefe plants will not produce fruit in England 
until they are three or four years old, and therefore they 
Ihould be llufted into larger pots as the plants advance in 
their growth ; for, if their roots are too much confined, 
they will make' but little nrogrefs. They Ihould alfo be 
placed at a pretty good diftance from each other, for their 
leaves will be three or four feet long, which, turning al¬ 
ways dow nward, occupy a large fpace. The leaves are 
ftrongly armed with ctooked fpines, which render it very 
troublefome to (hift or handle the plants ; for, being fame 
bent one way, and others rhe reverie, they catch both 
ways, and tear tlie lkin or clothes of the perfons who han¬ 
dle them, where there is not the greateft care taken. 
The bromelias, properly fo called, are propagated by 
feeds, which muft be procured from the country where 
they grow naturally,' for they do not produce any in Eng¬ 
land. Thefe mult be fown in ('mail pots filled with light 
kitchen-garden earth, and plunged into a moderate hot¬ 
bed of tanners’ bark : the earth in thefe pots lltould be 
fprinkled over with water two or three times a-week, ac¬ 
cording -to. the heat of the weather, but muft not have too 
much moifture. If the feeds are good, the plants will 
appear in about five or fix weeks, and in a month after 
will be fit to tranfplant, when they fhould be carefully 
fhaken out of the pots, and each planted in a feparate 
fmall pot filled with the fame earth as before; then they 
muft be plunged again into a moderate hot-bed, obferving 
frequently to fprinkle them over with water, but be cau¬ 
tious of giving them too much, left the roots fhould get 
rotten. During the fummer the plants fhould have a mo¬ 
derate fliare of air, in proportion to the heat of the wea- 
ther ; and in autumn they muft be removed into the bark- 
(love, and treated in rhe fame manner as the ananas, or 
pine-apple, with which management they will makegood 
prog refs ; but after the firft winter they may be placed on 
funds in the dry fiove, though they will thrive much bet¬ 
ter if conflantly kept in the tan-bed, and treated like the 
ananas, and will flower in three or four years; whereas 
thole in the dry fiove will not flower in twice that time. 
The other part of their culture is only to /hift them inro 
frefh earth when they require it ; but they fhould by no 
means be put into large pots, for they will not thrive if 
over-potted ; nor mult they have much wet, efpecially in 
winter, Thefe plants making a pretty variety in the hot- 
houtV, thofe who have room may allow a plant or two of 
each.ft rt to have a place in their collection of exotics. 
ERO'MIUS, a name of Bacchus, given on act ount of 
the noife made by the Bacchantes, or the groans w hich Se- 
mele uttered when con fumed by Jupiter’s fire. 
BROM'LEY, a market-town in Kent, (ituated on the 
river Ravenfbourn, in the road from London to Tunbridge. 
The bifhop of Rochefter has a palace at a little diftance 
from the town, where is a mineral fpring, the water of 
w hich has been found to have -the fame qualities as that 
of Tunbridge. King Edgar gave the manor, in the year 
700, to the bifhop of Roc'hefter. Here is alfo a college, 
erected by bifhop Warner, in the reign of Charles II. for 
twenty poor clergymen’s widows, with an allowance of 
xol. a-year, and 50I. a-year to the chaplain. This was 
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the firft endowment of the kind eftabliftied in England. 
T he munificence of the late Rev. Mr. Hetherington, who 
left 2C00I. to this college, and of tlie late bifhop Pearce, 
who left 5000I. to it, has enabled the truftee% to augment 
the allowance to the widows to 30I. per annum, and that 
of the chaplain to 60I. The church is an old (fracture. 
The market is on T hurfdays, and two fairs annually 01^ 
Feb. 14 and Auguft 5. Bromley is twenty miles eaft ot 
Maidftone, fix louth of Croydon, and ten fouth-fouth-eaft 
of London. 
Four miles weft of Bromley is Holwood-houfe, the feat 
ot the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, chancellor of the exche¬ 
quer, &c. near which are the remains of Julius Ctefar’s- 
cainp, and a cold bath, called Julius Cajfar’s well, much 
frequented in,fummer. One mile louth is Langley, the 
feat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, and near that is the feat of 
lord Auckland. Three miles eaft is Camden-placp, rite 
feat of earl.Camden, formerly the property of the cele¬ 
brated antiquarian of that name. Over a well, in the lawn 
near the houle, It is lorciihip has ereCted'a celebrated piece 
of architecture, called the Lantern vf DcmoJlhcnes y on the 
lame plan as the original. 
BROM'LEY, a fmall town in Staffordfhire, commonly 
called Abbot’s Bromley, other wife' Bagot’s Bromley, was, 
once-a place of great privileges. It took its name from 
the abbey, of which there is not now the lead veltige. It 
(lands in a fine open fertile country, diftant from Litchfield 
eleven miles; Rugeley, Uttoxeter, and Wolfel'ey-bridge, 
fix; from Stafford thirteen; and from London 128. Here 
is a good free grammar-fchool, founded in 1603 by Mr. 
Richard Clarke. Alfo an alms-houfe well endowed, by 
Lambert Bagot, Efq. in 1703, for fix poor old men; and 
feveral other charities, to a confiderable amount. It has 
a market on Tuefdays ; and three fairs annually, for hor- 
fes, cows, pigs, Iheep, &c. viz. on the 'JT.uefday after Mid- 
lent-Sunday, the 22b of May, and the 4H1 of September. 
Two miles from Bromley is Blithfield, the feat of lord 
Bagot; at the fame diftance is How-crofs, the (eat of the 
earl of Shrewfbury ; the Foreft of Needwood, the beauty 
of Staffordfhire, alfo enriches the vicinity of this town, 
BROMP'TON, a pleafant town in Kent, nearly adjoin¬ 
ing to Rochefter and Chatham. Behind and on each fide 
of the town, is a traCt of land, called the Works, on which 
there had formerly been redoubts, and a line of circmn- 
vallation was in the laft war thrown up, by way of fecuriry 
to Chatham dock-yard ; which has lately undergone very 
confiderable improvements; feveral out-works are alfo 
ereCted for the more effectual fecurity of that important nr- 
fenal. Near Brompton are Chatham barracks, the mbit 
healthy of any in England. In the fuminer of 1778, bar¬ 
racks were alfo ereCted here for the marines. It has a fair 
on the 22d of May, and is thirty miles eaft from London. 
BROMP'TCN, an elegant and populous fuburb on the 
weft fide of the citv of London, between St. James’s Park 
and the village of Clielfea. 
BROMSE'BRO, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland, remarkable for a treaty made there in the year 
1645, between Sweden and Denmark. It is four leagues 
from Chriftianople. 
BROMS'GROVE, a market-town in Worceftei (Eire, 
fitnuted near the river Salwarp, twelve miles,, from Wor- 
cefter, and 114 from London. It is the centre of tire roads 
to Coventry, Worcefter, and Shrewlbury. This town is 
governed by a bailiff, recorder, and aldermen. Edw. Vi- 
founded a grammar-fchool here, and Sir Thoiuas Cooks 
added to the endowment. The church, is ancient, but 
hand-fume ; the tower and fpire of which is laid to be the 
completed in the county, 189. feel high ; the church (lands 
on a hill, afeended by fifty fteps, and has fome painted 
glafs, and good monuments. Market on Tuefdays; and 
two fairs annually, viz. on. June 24 and OCto-ber j. This 
parifh is famed for its manufacture of linen-cloths, fifli- 
hooks, needles, nails, and linfeys ; and has coal and lime-. 
On the Lickey, in this parifh, rifes the river Arrow, which 
empties itfelf into the Avon, near Stratford; as does the 
5 R Salwarp,. 
