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the plants into the {love ; when thefe plants are re- 
moved into the dove", [.they {houkl be placed as near 
to the glades as poflible, that they may enjoy the full 
fun and jair; for when they are placed backward, the 
plants will draw up weak, and the flowers will drop with¬ 
out producing fruit. As the earth in the pots wili dry 
pretty fall when they (land upon the pavement of the 
hot-houfe, or on„flielves, the plants mud be duly watered ; 
but it mu ft be done with difcretion, and not too much 
given, which will be equally hurtful to them. If thefe 
plants are properly managed, they will produce ripe fruit 
in February, which is as early as mod people will chufe 
to eat them. When the fruit is all gathered from the 
plants, they fhould be turned out of the dove ; nor fliould 
thofe plants which are in the borders near the hot walls 
be left there after their fruit is gathered, but immedi¬ 
ately taken up, that they may rob the fruit-trees of their 
nourifliment as little as podible. 
Where there is no conveniency of doves, or hot-walls 
for this purpofe, the fruit may be ripened upon common 
hot-beds; and though they may not be quite fo early as 
with the other advantages, yet I have feen great crops of 
the fruit ripe in April, which were upon common hot¬ 
beds under frames, and executed at a fmall expenfe in 
the following manner. The plants were prepared in pots 
after the manner before directed, and were placed in a 
warm fituation the beginning of October; about Chrid- 
mas the hot-bed was made in the fame manner as for cu¬ 
cumbers, but not fo drong ; and as foon as the fird vio¬ 
lent deam of the dung w as over, fome old rotten dung 
laid over the hot-bed to keep down the heat, or where 
it can be eafily procured, neats dung is preferable for this 
purpofe; then the plants fhould be turned out of the 
pots, and placed upon the bed as clofe together as poffi- 
ble, filling up the interdices between the plants with 
earth, afterwards the plants mud have air admitted to 
them every day : and if the heat of the bed is too great, 
the plants fhould be raifed up, to prevent their roots be¬ 
ing fcorched ; and if the bed is too cold, the Tides of it 
fhould be lined with fome hot dung; this fird bed will 
bring the plants to flower by the end of February, or the 
beginning of March, by which time the heat of the bed 
will be fpent, therefore another hot-bed fliould be pre¬ 
pared to receive the plants, which need not be fo drong 
as the fird; but upon the hot dung fliould be laid fome 
neats dung about two inches thick, which fliould be 
equally fpread and fmoothed ; this will prevent the heat 
of the bed from injuring the roots of the plants, upon 
this fhould be laid two inches of a loamy foil ; when this 
has laid tw'o days to warm, the plants fhould be taken 
out of the fird hot-bed, and turned carefully out of the 
pots, preferving all the earth to their roots, and placed 
clofe together upon this new hot-bed, filling up the va¬ 
cuities between the bails with loamy earth ; the roots of 
the plants will foon drike out into this frefh earth, which 
will drengthen their flowers, and caufe their fruit to fet 
in plenty ; and if proper care is taken to admit frefh air 
to the plants, and fupply them properly with water, they 
will have plenty of ripe fruit in April, which will be full 
6wo months before their natural feafon. 
There are fome perfons fo curious as to raife the plants 
from feeds, by which they have greatly improved fome 
of the forts ; and if this were more pradlifed, it would be 
found of Angular fervice, where the faired of the fruit of 
each kind are chofen. The feeds fhould be immediately 
fown when the fruit is eaten ; the bed way is to fow the 
feed in pots, placing them in the fhade. In the fpring 
of the year 1724, there was fcarcely any rain from Febru¬ 
ary till about the middle of July, fo that mod of the 
itrawberries were burnt up ; but a copious rain falling in 
July, they recovered and put out abundance of flowers, 
which were fucceeded by fruit that ripened in Septem¬ 
ber, when the Londpn markets were fupplied with a 
great plenty. See Comarum, Potentilla, Sibbaldia, 
Tormentilla, and Melastoma. 
Vol. VII. No. 456. 
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FRA'GILE, adj. [fragile, Fr. fragilis, I.at,] Brittle ; 
eafily fnappedor broken.-—The ftalk of ivy is tough, and 
not fragile. Bacon. 
When fubtle wits have fpun their threads too fine, 
’Tis weak and fragile, like Arachne’s line. Denham, 
To eafe them of their griefs, 
Their pangs of love, and other incident throes, 
That nature’s fragile vefiel doth fuftain 
In life’s uncertain voyage. Shahefpeare. 
Weak; uncertain; eafily dedroyed. 
FR A'GILENESS, f. Brittlenefs; weaknefs. Scott ,— 
Not much ufed. 
FRAGI'LITY, ft Brittlenefs; eafiaefs to be broken. 
•—To make an induration with toughnefs, and iefs fragility, 
decodt bodies in water for two or three days. Bacon.'— 
Weaknefs ; uncertainty ; eafinefs to be dedroyed.—Fear 
the uncertainty of man’s fragility, the common chance of 
war, the violence of fortune. Knotlcs.— Frailty ; liablenefs 
to fault.—All could not be right, in fuch a date, in this 
lower age of fragility. Wotton. ■ 
FRAG'MENT, J'. [fragmentum, Lat.] A part broken 
from the whole; an imperfect piece.—Cowley, in his 
unfuMhzA fragment of the Davideis, has fliewn us this way 
to improvement. Watts. 
He who late a feeptre did command, 
Now grafps a floating fragment in his hand. Dryden. 
FRAG'MENTARY, adj. Compofed of fragments, 
A word not in ujc.: 
See, die is gone ; die’s gone : when thou know’d this, 
What fragmentary rtibbifh this world is. 
Thou know’d, and that it is not worth a thought ; 
He knows it too too much that thinks it nought. Donne. 
FRAGNI'NO, a towm of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, in the province of Pi incipato Ultra : eight miles 
north of Benevento. 
FRAGNITEL'LO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, in the province of Principato Ultra : fix miles 
north of Benevento. 
FRAGO'A DE ST. PEDRO, a town of Portugal, in 
the province of Beira: thirteen miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Lamego. 
FRAGO'AS, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Edremadura : two leagues north-wed of Santaren. 
FRA'GOR, f. [Latin.] A noife; a crack; a crafii. 
Net ufed: 
Purfu’d by hideousyk^ors, as before, 
The dames defeend, they in their breaches roar. Sandys. 
FRA'GRANCE,or Fragrancy,/. [fragrantia, Lat.J 
Sweetnefs of fmell ; pleafing feent ; grateful odour.—I 
am more pleas’d to furvey my rows of coleworts and cab¬ 
bages fpringing up in their full fragrancy and verdure, 
than to fee the tender plants of foreign countries kept 
alive by artificial heats. Addifon. 
Eve feparate lie fpies, 
Veil’d in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. 
Such was the wine ; to quench whofe fervent fleam 
Scarce twenty meafures from the living ftrenm 
To pool one cup fuffic’d : the goblet crown’d, 
Breath’d aromatic fragrancies around. Pope. 
FRA'GRANT, adj. [ fragrans , Lat.] Odorous; Tweet 
of fmell : 
Fragrant the fertile earth 
After foft fhow’rs; and fweet the coming on 
Of grateful evening mild. Milton. 
FRA'GRANTLY, aclv. With fweet Rent.—As the 
hops begin to change colour, and fmell fragrantly, you 
may conclude them ripe. Mortimer. 
FRA'GUIER (Claude-Francis,) an eminent writer, 
born at Paris in 1 666. He received his education among 
the Jefuits, who happily cultivated his difpofition for 
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