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fame countries. When they are too high to remain un¬ 
der the glafles of the hot-bed, they fhould be turned out 
of the pots and planted in the ftove, in the manner be¬ 
fore-mentioned. As thefe plants do not often perfect 
their feeds here, they may be propagated by laying down 
their branches ; which if done in April, they will put 
out roots by the middle of Auguft, when they may be 
feparated from the old plants, and either planted in pots 
to get ftrength, or into the border of the ftove, where 
they are to remain. 
Some of thefe forts may alfo be propagated by cut¬ 
tings; thefe fhould be planted into pots about the mid¬ 
dle or latter end of March, and plunged into a moderate 
liot-bed, obferving to fcreen them from the fun, and re- 
frefh them with water gently as often as the earth may 
require it; and in about two months, or ten weeks, they 
will put out roots, and may then be treated as the feed- 
ling plants. 
The yellow paftion-flower (N° 29.) may be propagated 
by its creeping roots, parted in April, and planted 
where they are to remain. This lived many years in a 
fouth-weft border in the Chelfea garden ; but in the year 
1740 all the plants were killed by the froft. 
N° 45 is ufually propagated by feeds which are brought 
from America, for the feeds do not often ripen in Eng¬ 
land. The feeds fhould be fown upon a moderate hot¬ 
bed, which will bring up the plants much fooner than 
when they are fown in the open air, fo that they will 
have more time to get ftrength before winter. When 
the plants are two or three inches high, they fhould be 
carefully taken up, and each planted in a feparate fmall 
pot filled with good kitchen-garden earth, and plunged 
into a moderate hot-bed to forward their taking new 
root ; after which they fhould be gradually inured to 
bear the open air, to which they fhould be expofed in 
fummer, but in the autumn they mufl be placed under a 
garden-frame to fcreen them from the froft; but they 
ihould have the free air at all times in mild weather. 
Thefpring following fome of thefe plants may be turned 
out of the pots, and planted in a warm border, where, if 
they are covered with tanner’s bark every winter to keep 
out the froft, they will live feveral years, their ftalks de¬ 
caying in the autumn, and new onesarifmgin the fpring, 
which in warm feafons will flower very well. If thofe 
plants which are continued in pots are plunged into a 
tan-bed, fome of them may produce fruit; and, if the 
ftalks of thefe are laid down in the beginning of June, 
into pots of earth plunged near them, they will take root 
by the end of Auguft. 
The common or blue paftion-flower may alfo be propa¬ 
gated by feeds, which fhould be fown in the fame man¬ 
ner as thofe of the 45th fort, and the plants treated in 
the fame way till the following fpring, when they fhould 
be turned out of the pots, and planted againft a good- 
afpedled wall, where they may have height for their 
fhoots to extend, otherwise they will hang about and en¬ 
tangle with each other, fo as to make but an indifferent 
appearance ; but, where buildings are to be covered, this 
plant is very proper for the purpofe. After they have 
taken good root in their new' quarters, the only care they 
will require, is to train their fhoots up againft the wall, 
as they extend in length, to prevent their hanging about; 
and, if the winter proves fevere, the furface of the ground 
about their roots fhould be covered with mulch to keep 
the froft from penetrating the ground ; and, if the ftalks 
and branches are covered with mats, peafe-haulm, ftraw, 
or any foch light covering, it will protect them in win¬ 
ter againft fevere frofts ; but this covering muft be taken 
off in mild weather, otherwife it will caufe the branches 
to grow mouldy, which will be more injurious to them 
than the cold. In the fpring the plants fhould be 
trimmed, when all the fmall weak fhoots fhould be en¬ 
tirely cut off, and the ftrong ones fhortened to about 
four or five feet long, which will caufe them to put out 
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ftrong fhoots for flowering the following year. This 
plant is alio propagated by laying down the branches, 
which in one year will be well rooted, may be taken off 
from the old plants, and tranfplanted where they are de- 
figned to remain. The cuttings of this will alfo take 
root, if they are planted in a loamy foil not too ftiff, in 
the fpring, before they begin to fhoot. If thefe are co¬ 
vered with bell or hand glafles to exclude the air, they 
will fucceed much better than when they are otherwife 
treated ; but, when the cuttings put out fhoots, the air 
fhould be admitted to them, otherwife they will draw up 
weak, and fpoil, and they muft be afterwards treated as 
the layers. Thofe plants which are propagated by layers 
or cuttings, do not produce fruit fo plentifully as the 
feedling plants. If in very fevere winters the ftalks of 
thefe plants are killed to the ground, the roots often put 
out new ftalks the following fummer, therefore they 
fhould not be difturbed : and, where there is mulch laid 
on the ground about their roots, there will be little dan¬ 
ger of their being killed, although all the ftalks fhould be 
deftroyed. 
PASSIGNA'NO, a town of Italy, in the Perugiano, 
on the north fide of the lake: twenty-two miles north- 
weft of Perugia, and eight fouth-eaft of Cortona. 
PASS'ING, part. adj. [from pafs.'] Supreme; furpaf- 
fing others ; eminent: 
No ftrength of arms fhall win this noble fort. 
Or fhake this puiflant wall, fuch faffing might 
Have fpells and charms, if they be laid aright. Faitfax. 
It is ufed adverbially to enforce the meaning of another 
word. Exceeding.—Oberon is faffing fell and wroth. 
Shakefpeare. 
She was not only faffing fair, 
But was withal difcreet and debonair. Dryden. 
PASS'ING-BELL, f. The bell which was wrung or 
tolled at the hour of departure, to obtain prayers for the 
palling foul : it is now' ufed for the bell which rings im¬ 
mediately after death.—When any chriftian bodie is faf¬ 
fing, that the bell be tolled, and that the curate be lpe- 
ciallie called for to comforte the ficke perfon ; and, after 
the time of his pafling, to ring no more but one fliort 
peale ; and one before buriall, and another fliort peale 
after the buriall. Advert. Jor due Order, ^c. in the 7th 
year of queen Elizabeth. —The learned phyfician Smith 
thus diftinguifhes the ceremony while the perfon is dying, 
and after he is dead.—The tolling of a paffing-bell may 
put him and all his friends in mind, that he is fhortly 
going the way of all flefh : the Hinting of the pafjing-be!/, 
or rather the ringing out of the knell, gives notice unto 
all that he is gone. K. Solomon's Portr. of Old Age. 1666. 
Before the paffing-bell begun, 
The news through half the town was run. Swift. 
PASS'ING MEASURES, f. A flow Spanifh dance.— 
Pry’thee fit ftill; thou muft dance nothing but the paj- 
fing-meafures. Brewer's Lingua. 
PASS'ING NOTES, or Transient Notes, /; in mu- 
fic, are thofe which pafs between the effential notes of 
the fundamental harmony. Pafling-notes proceed either 
gradually or by fkips ; and are either accented or unac¬ 
cented. In the different parts of a movement, or in the 
divifions of a bar, the uneven numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 
imply accented, and the even numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 
unaccented, notes ; thus of two equal notes the ift is 
accented, and the 2d unaccented ; of four equal notes 
the ift and 3d are accented, and the 2d and 4th unac¬ 
cented. Difcords introduced in this way, are not Ab¬ 
ject to the ufual treatment of other dilcords, but are 
brought in without preparation. 
The molt beautiful melodies in modern mufic are 
formed by the intermixture of effential and paffing notes 
on a Ample ground bafs. See Tranftion, in the article 
Music, vol, xvii. p. 334. 
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