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turn them every day in good weather, that they may dry; 
for the moidurc which is occafioned by the fermentation 
of the dung, and the perfpiration of the plants, is of a 
noxious quality, and very unkindly to plants; fo that if 
the weather happens to prove bad, that you cannot turn 
your glades, it will be of great fervice to the plants to 
wipe off all moidure two or three times a day with a wool¬ 
len cloth to prevent its dropping upon the plants. When 
the plants are firmly rooted, and begin to grow, you mud 
obferve to give them air every day, more or lefs, as the 
weather is cold or hot, to prevent their drawing up too 
fall, which greatly weakens their ftems. 
In about three weeks or a month’s time, thefe plants 
will have grown fo as to meet, and will hand in need of 
another hot-bed, which fhould be of a moderate temper, 
and covered with the fame rich earth about fix inches 
thick, into which they fhould be removed, obferving to 
take with them as much earth about their roots as poffi- 
ble, and plant them fix or feven inches didance every way, 
giving them fome water to fettle theearth about their roots; 
but be yery careful not to water them heavily, fo as to bear 
down the plants, as was before directed ; and keep them 
fhaded in the heat of the day, until they have taken frefh 
root; and be fure to refrefh them often gently with wa¬ 
ter, and give them air in proportion to the heat of the 
weather, covering the glades with mats every night, left 
the cold chill your beds, and flop the growth of your plants. 
The middle of May you mull provide another hot-bed, 
which fhould be covered with a deep frame, that the 
plants may have room to grow. Upon this hot-bed you 
mud fet as many three-penny pots as can (land within the 
compafs of the frame ; thefe pots mud be filled with good 
rich earth, and the cavities between each pot filled up 
with any common earth, to prevent the heat of the bed 
from evaporating, and filling the frame with noxious 
deams. When the bed is in good order to receive the 
plants, they fhould be carefully taken up with a trowel, 
obferving to preferve as much earth to their roots as pofii- 
ble ; then place each fingle plant in the middle of one of 
the pots, filling the pot up with the earth before deferibed, 
and fettle it clofe to the root of the plant with your hands ; 
water them gently as before, and lhade them in the heat of 
the day from the violence of the fun by covering the glades 
with mats. In about three weeks more thefe plants will 
have grown to a confiderable fize and drength, fo that you 
mud now raife the glades very much in the day-time ; and 
when the air is foft, and the fun is clouded, draw od' the 
glades, and expofe them to the open air ; and repeat this 
as often as the weather will permit, which will harden 
them by degrees to be removed abroad into the places 
where they are to remain the whole feafon ; but it is not 
advifeable to fet thefe plants in the open air until after the 
firdweek in July, obferving to do it when the air is per- 
fedtly foft, and if podible in a gentle diower of rain. Let 
them at fird be fet in dielter for two or three days, where 
they may be fereened from the violence of the fun, and 
from drong winds, to which they mud be inured by de¬ 
grees. Thefe plants, when grown to a good dature, per- 
fpire very freely, and mud be every day refrefhed with 
water, if the weather proves hot and dry; otherwife 
they will dint, and never produce fo large leaves as thofe 
which are fkilfully treated. This is the proper manage¬ 
ment in order to have fine amaranths, which, if rightly 
followed, and the kinds are good, in a favourable feafon, 
will produce large fine leaves, and thefe plants are the 
greated ornament to a good garden for upwards of two 
months in the latter part of fummer. 
The other forts, being hardy enough to grow in the 
open air, may be fown on a bed of light earth in the 
fpring, and, when the plants are fit to remove, they may 
be tranfplanted into any part of the garden, where they 
will thrive and produce plenty of feeds, which, if per¬ 
mitted to fcatter, will dock the garden with plants. 
Amaranth, f. in poetry, is fometimes an imaginary 
#ower, fuppofed, according to its name, never to fade ; 
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Immortal amaranth! a flower which once 
In paradife, fad by the tree of life, 
Began to bloom ; but foon, for man’s offence, 
To heav’n remov’d, where fird it grew, there grows, 
And flow’rs aloft, lhading the fount of life, 
And where the river of blifs, thro’ midd of heav’n, 
Rolls o’er Elylian flow’rs her amber dream : 
With thefe, that never fade, the fpirits ele£l 
Bind their refplendent locks, invvreath’d with beams. Milton. 
Amaranth, Gi,obe,/1 in botany. See Gomphrena. 
AMARA'NTHl, Spica,/'. in botany. See Phryma. 
AMARA'NTHINE, adj. '\_amarantkinus>~L,i\\..~\ Relat¬ 
ing to amaranths ; confiding of amaranths : 
By the dreams that ever flow, 
By the fragrant winds that blow 
O’er tire Elyfian flow’rs ; 
By thofe happy fouls that dwell 
In yellow meads of afphodel, 
Or aramanthine bovv’rs. Pope. 
AMARAN'THO affinis,/". in botany. See Gom¬ 
phrena and Illecebrum. 
AMAR ANTHOl'DES, f in botany. See Celosia, 
Gomphrena, and Illecebrum. 
AMARA'NTHUS, /. in botany. See Achyran- 
thes, Amaranth, Celosia, Illecebrum, Iresine, 
and Rivina. 
Amaranthus LUTEUs,yi in botany. See Gnapha- 
hum. 
AMA'RELLA,y. in botany. See Gentiana. 
AMA'RITUDE, f. [ amaritudo , Lat.] Bitternefs.—. 
What amaritude or acrimony is deprehended in choler, it 
acquires from a commixture of melancholy, or external 
malign bodies. Harvey. 
AMA'RULENCE, f. \_amaritudo, Lat.] Bitternefs. 
AMARYL'LIS,y [the name of a Ihepherdefs.] In 
botany, a genus of the hexandria monogynia clafs, rank¬ 
ing in the natural order of lilia or liliaceae. The gene¬ 
ric characters are—Calyx: fpathe oblong, obtufe, com- 
prefled, emarginate, gaping on the fiat fide and wither¬ 
ing. Corolla : petals fix, lanceolate ; nedtary fix very 
fhort feales without the bafe of the filaments. Stamina : 
filaments fix, awl-fhaped; with oblong, incumbent, riling, 
anthene. Pidillum: germ roundifli, furrowed, inferior; 
dyle filiform, almod of the length and in the fituation of 
the damens ; digma trifid, (lender. Pericarpium: a fub- 
ovate, three-celled, three-valved capfule. Seeds, feve- 
ral.— EJfcntial CharaEler. Corolla, hexapetaloib, irregu¬ 
lar ; filaments inferted into the throat of the tube, bend¬ 
ing down, unequal in proportion or direction. 
Species. 1. Amaryllis 1 11 tea, or yellow amaryllis, or 
autumnal narcidus : fpathe undivided, obtufe; flower 
feflile; corolla bell-fliaped, eredt, fliortly tubular at the 
bafe; damens eredt, alternately Oiorter. The flowers of 
yellow amaryllis feldom rife above three or four inches 
high ; they are fliaped fomething like thofe of the large 
yellow crocus ; the green leaves come up at the fame time, 
like the faftron, and, after the flowers are pad, the leaves 
increafe all the winter. The roots are fliaped like thofe 
of the narcidus. Is a native of the foutli of France, Spain, 
Italy, and Thrace, and flowers in September. 
2. Amaryllis pumilio, or dwarf artiaryllis: fpathe two- . 
leaved, one-flowered ; corolla funnel-fhaped, equal, feg- 
ments revolute ; damens bent in, alternately diorter. It 
is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it was found 
by Mr. Francis Mallon. It flowers in November. 
3. Amaryllis ataraafeo, or atamafeo lily: fpathe bifid, 
acute; flower pedicelied, corolla bell-fliaped, nearly equal, 
eredt, diortly tubular at the bafe; damens bent down,equal. 
The flowers of the atamafeo lily, at their fird appearance, 
are of a fine carnation colour on the outdde, but fade till 
they are almod white. They are nearly as large as thofe 
of the fmall orange lily, but do not grow above dx or 
eight inches high ; they appear the end of May, or be¬ 
ginning of J une, and fomeiimes in Auguft. It is a native 
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