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have as rrmcli free air as .poffible in mild weather, and be 
covered only in great rains or frofts; for which purpofe, 
a common hot-bed frame is the propereft flielter for them ; 
becaufe the glafles may be taken off conftantly every day 
in dry open weather, which will encourage the leaves to 
grow flrong and broad ; whereas when they are placed in 
a green-houfe, or not expofed to the open air, they will 
grow long and (lender, and have a pale weakafpeCt, where¬ 
by the roots will become weak, fo that it feldom happens 
that .-they produce flowers under fuch management. 
Thefe roots fliould be tranfplanted every fourth or fifth 
year towards the latter end of June, or beginning of July, 
and planted into frefli earth, but they fhould not be of- 
tener removed, for that would retard their flowering. 
The offsets fhould alfo be taken off, and planted into fe- 
veral pots, which, in three years time, will produce flow¬ 
ers ; fo that, after a perfon is once flocked with thefe roots, 
he may increafe them, fo as to have a fupply of blowing 
roots, without being at the trouble or expence of fending 
to Guernfey every year for frefli roots; and the roots pre- 
ierved here will flower flxongerthan thole which are ufu- 
ally brought from thence, for the inhabitants of thofe 
iflands are not very curious in cultivating them. Their 
ufual method is to plant them at a great diftance in a bed 
of common earth, where they let them remain for many 
vears ; in which time they produce fuch a number of off - 
jfets, that many times one Angle duller has contained above 
a hundred roots; by which means, thofe which grow on 
the infide are fo much comprelfed by the outer roots, that 
they are perfectly flatted ; and from the number of roots 
growing in each duller, they are all rendered weak, and 
unfit to produce fuch large Hems of flowers, as thofe which 
have grown fingle, and are ofa fpherical figure. But, when 
a perfon is poflefled of a large number of thefe roots, it 
will be troublefome to preferve them in pots, therefore 
there fliould be a bed prepared of the following earth, in 
fome well-fheltered part of the garden, viz. Take a third 
part of frefli virgin earth from a pafture ground, which is 
light, then put near an equal part of fea-fand, to which 
you fliould add rotten dung, and lifted lime-rubbifli, of 
each an equal quantity. With this earth, when well mixed 
and incorporated, you fliould make your bed about two 
feet thick, railing it about four or five inches above the 
iurface of the ground, if the fituation be dry ; but, if the 
ground be wet, it fhould be raifed eight or nine inches 
higher. In this bed, about the beginning of July, as was 
before directed, you fliould plant the roots about fix or 
eight inches afunder each way; and in the winter, when 
the frofl begins, you fliould either cover the bed with a 
frame, or arch it over, and cover it with mats and draw, 
to prevent their leaves from being pinched with cold; but 
m the fpring the covering may be entirely removed, and 
the bed kept conftantly clear from weeds during the fum- 
mer, obferving to ftir the furface of the earth now and 
then ; and every year, when the leaves are decayed, you 
fliould lift a little frefli earth over the beds, to encourage 
the roots. In this bed the roots may remain until they are 
flrong enough to produce flowers, when they may be taken 
up and planted in pots, as was before directed, or fuffered 
to remain in the fame bed to flower. The roots of thefe 
plants do not flower again the fucceeding year, as in many 
other other forts of bulbs ; but if their bulbs contain two 
buds in their center, as is often the cafe, they very often 
flower twice within the compafs of three years; after 
which, the fame individual root does not flower again in 
feveral years, but only the offsets from it. 
The Ceylon lily is tender, and muft be treated in the 
fame manner as the Mexican lily; this is more common in 
the gardens in Holland than in this country ; and, as it is 
a plant which increafes but (lowly, will not be very com¬ 
mon here. It flowers ufually in June and July, and fome- 
ximes the fame root will flower again in autumn ; for, if 
the pots are plunged into a bed of tanner’s bark, the roots 
generally flower twice every year, but the flowers are not 
of long duration. 
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Tire beft time to tranfplant the roots of all the fpecies 
is about the beginning of Auguft, when their leaves are 
quite decayed, before they put out new fibres, for it will 
be very improper to remove them afterwards. All thefe 
bulbous-rooted flowers delight in a loofe fandy earth, 
mixed with good kitchen-garden mould ; and In the cul¬ 
ture of them there fliould be but little water given them 
at thofe times when their leaves decay, and the roots are 
not in a growing date, for much moifture at that time will 
often caufe them to rot; but when they are growing, and 
putting out their flower-ftems, they fhould be frequently 
refrefhed with water, but not given in too great quantities 
at a time. The pots, with the tender forts, fliould con¬ 
ftantly be kept in the (love, and in fummer they fhould 
have as much free air as pollible; for, although fome of 
thefe forts may be kept abroad in fummer, yet thofe do 
not thrive fo well, nor flower fo conftantly, as thofe which 
are treated in the manner here deferibed. 
Amaryllis Capensis, f. in botany. See Hypoxis 
STELLATA. 
Amaryllis ciliaris, f. in botany. See Hjeman- 
THUS CILIARIS. 
Amaryllis disticha, f. in botany. See H.eman- 
THUS TOXICARIUS. 
Amaryllis umbrella, f. in botany. See Cyrtan- 
THUS OBLIQJJUS. 
AMARYN'THIA, a furname of Diana, taken from a 
village of Euboea, where fhe was worfhipped. 
AMARYN'THUS, anciently a hamlet of Eretrias, in 
the ifland of Euboea, about feven ftadia diftant from its 
walls. Here Diana was worfhipped by an annual folem- 
nity, at which thofe of Caryftus ailifted ; hence the title of 
the goddefs was Amarynlhia and Amaryjia. 
AMA'SA, [twex Heb. i. e. fparing the people.] The 
foil of Abigail. 
AMA'SIA, now Marpurg, a city in the landgraviate 
of Hefle on the Lalin. According to others, it is Emb- 
den in Weftphalia. 
Amasia, an ancient town of Turkey, in Natolia, re¬ 
markable for the birth of Strabo the geographer. It is the 
reftdence of a bafliaw, and gives its name to the province 
it Hands in, where there are the beft wines and the bed 
fruits in Natolia. It is feated near the river Iris or Cafal- 
mack ; and was anciently the reftdence of the kings of 
Cappadocia. Lat. 39.33. N. Ion. 36. 10. E. 
Amasia, the name of the northern divifion of Lefler 
Afia, lying on the fouth fliore of the Euxine Sea in Nato¬ 
lia. It takes its name from Amafta the capital, mentioned, 
in tlie preceding article. 
To AMA'SS, v. a. \_amajfer, Fr.J To collect together 
in one heap or mafs.—When we would think of infinite 
fpace, or duration, we, at firft ftep, ufually make fome 
very large idea, as perhaps of millions of ages, or miles, 
which poffibly we double and multiply feveral times. All 
that we thus amafs together in our thoughts, is pofi- 
tive, and the aflemblage of a great number of pofitive 
ideas of fpace or duration. Locke. —In a figurative fenfe, 
to add one thing to another, generally with fome (hare of 
reproach, either of eagernefs or indiferimination.'—Do 
not content yourfelves with mere words, left your improve¬ 
ments only amafs a heap of unintelligible phrafes. Watts. 
Amass, f. [amas, Fr.] An aflemblage ; an accumula¬ 
tion.—This pillar is but a medley or amafs of all the pre¬ 
cedent ornaments, making a new kind by Health. Wotton. 
Amassment , f. [from amafs.~\ Aheap; an accumu¬ 
lation ; a collection.—What is now, is but an amajfment of 
imaginary conceptions, prejudices, ungrounded opinions, 
and infinite impoftures. Glanville. 
AMASO'NIA,yi [from Amafon, a traveller into Ame¬ 
rica]. In botany, a genus of the didynamia angiofpermia 
clafs. The generic characters are—Calyx: perianthium 
one-leafed, bell-fhaped, femiquinquefid, acute, equal, per¬ 
manent. Corolla : one-petalled, tubulous, longer than the 
calyx: border quinquefid, lubequal, fpreading, fmall. 
Stamina : filaments four, at the upper fide of the corolla 
