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tlie capital of Cochinchina, in rocky places near 
dreams. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants may be eafily 
produced from the feeds taken out of the fruit, (pro¬ 
vided they are frefli,) fown in pots filled with light 
rich earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanner’s bark, 
which (hould be kept in a moderate temperature of heat, 
and the earth frequently refrefhed with water. When 
the plants are come up, they fhould be each planted into a 
feparate fmall pot, filled with the fame light rich earth, 
and plunged into a hot-bed again, obferving to refrefh 
them with water, as alfo to let them have air in propor¬ 
tion to the warmth of the feafon, and the bed in which 
they are placed. During the fummer they fitould remain 
in the fame hot-bed ; but in the beginning of Auguft let 
them have a great (hare of air to harden them againft the 
approach of winter; for, if they are too much forced, 
they will be fo tender as not to be preferved through the 
winter without much difficulty, efpecially if you have not 
the conveniency of a bark-dove to keep them in. At 
the beginning of October remove the plants into the 
dove, placing them where they may have a moderate 
fhare of heat, (thefe being fomewhat tenderer, while 
young, than after they have acquired fome drength ;) 
though indeed they may be fometimes preferved alive in 
a cooler fituation, yet their progrefs would be fo much 
retarded as not to recover their vigour the fucceeding 
fummer. Nor is it worth the trouble of railing thefe 
plants from feeds, where a perfon has not the con veniency 
of a dove to forward their growth ; for, where this is 
wanting, they will not grow to any tolerable fize in 
twenty years. 
Whenever thefe plants are removed, (which fhould be 
done once a-year,) be very careful not to cut or injure 
their large roots, which is very hurtful to them; but 
clear off all the fmall fibres which are inclinable to 
mouldinef?, for, if thefe are left on, they will in time 
decay, and hinder thefrefh fibres from coming out, which 
will greatly retard the growth of the plants. 
The foil in which thefe plants fhould be placed, mud 
be compofed in the following manner; viz. half of light 
frefh earth taken from a padure-ground, the other half 
fea-fand and rotten dung or tanner’s bark in equal pro¬ 
portion ; thefe diould be carefully mixed, and laid in a 
heap three or four months at lead before it is ufed, but 
fhould be often turned over to prevent tire growth of 
weeds, and to fweeten the earth. 
You fhould alfo obferve to allow them pots propor¬ 
tionable to the fizes of the plants; but you mud never let 
them be too large, which is of worfe confequence than if 
they are too fmall. During the fummer feafon they fhould 
be frequently refrefhed with water, but you mud be care¬ 
ful not to give it in too great quantities ; and in winter 
they mud be now and then refrelhed, efpecially if they 
are placed in a warm dove, otherwife they will require 
very little water at that feafon. 
Thefe plants are very flow growers, even in their native 
countries, notwithdanding they arrive to a great magni¬ 
tude ; for it has been often obferved by feveral of the old in¬ 
habitants of thofe countries, that the plants of fome of 
thefe kinds have not advanced two feet in height in ten 
years; fo that, when they are brought into thefe coun¬ 
tries, it cannot be expefled they diould advance very fad, 
efpecially where there is not due care taken to preferve 
them warm in winter. But, however dow of growth 
thefe plants are in their native countries, yet they may 
be with us greatly forwarded by placing the pots in a 
liot-bed of tanner’s bark, which diould be renewed as 
often as is necefifury, and the plants always preferved 
therein both winter and fummer, obferving to diift them 
into larger pots as they advance in growth, as alfo 
to fupply them with water properly ; with whidi manage¬ 
ment feveral of them have come on very fad; for the 
roots of thefe plants are very apt to root into the bark, 
if their pots remain a confiderable time without fhifting, 
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where they meet with a general warmth, and the moidure 
arifing from the fermentation of the bark preferves their 
fibres plump and vigorous; but, although the leaves 
grow tall in a few years with this management, yet it is 
long before the plants come to have any Hems. There 
are plants in the Chelfea garden, whofe leaves are feven 
feet long, which were raifed from feeds more than 
twenty years ago, and their dems are not two feet high, 
fome of which have produced fmall bunches of male 
flowers. See Andropogon and Poa. 
PHCE'NIX, foil of Amyntor king of Argos by Cleo- 
hule or Hippodamia, was preceptor to Achilles. His 
father having proved faithlefs to his wife, through fond,- 
nefs for a concubine called Clytia, Cleobule, who was 
jealous of him, perfuaded her foil Phcenix to ingratiate 
himfelf with his father’s midrefs. Phcenix eafily fucceeded; 
but Amyntor, difcovering his intrigues, drew a curie 
upon him, and the foil was foon after deprived of his 
fight by divine vengeance. Some fay that Amyntor 
himfelf put out his fon’s eyes, which fo cruelly provoked 
him, that he meditated the death of his father. Reafou 
and piety, however, prevailed over paflion ; and, that he 
might not become a parricide, Phoenix fled from Argos 
to the court of Peleus king of Phthia. Here he was treated 
with tendernefs; Peleus carried him to Chiron, who 
redored his eyefight; foon after which he was made pre¬ 
ceptor to Achilles, his benefactor’s foil. He was alfo pre- 
fented with the government of many cities, and made 
king of the Dolopes. He went with his pupil to the 
Trojan war; and Achilles was ever grateful for the in- 
druCtions and precepts which he had received from him. 
After the death of Achilles, Phcenix, with others, was 
commiflioned by the Greeks to return into Greece, to 
bring to the war young Pyrrhus. This commilfion he 
fuccefsfully performed; and, after the fall of Troy, here- 
turned with Pyrrhus, and died in Thrace. He was 
buried, according to Strabo, near Trachinia, where a 
fmall river in the neighbourhood received the name of 
Phcenix. 
There was another Phcenix, fon of Agenor, by a nymph 
who was called Telephafla, according to Apol!odoru3 
and Mofchus, or, according to others, Epimedufa, Peri- 
meda, or Agriope. He was, like his brother Cadmus, 
and Cilix, fent by his father in purfuit of his filter Europa, 
whom Jupiter had carried away under the form of a bull; 
and, when his inquiries proved unfuccefsful, he fettled in 
a country, which, according to fome, w as from him called 
Phoenicia. 
PHCE'NIX, in ancient geography, a port of Afia Mi¬ 
nor, on thecoaft ofLycia.—Alfo, a mountain of Afia, in 
the Doride.—Alfo, a town of Italy, according to Appian. 
—Alfo, a river of Greece, in Theflaly, which ran into 
the Apidanus.—Alfo, a river of the Peloponnefus, in 
Achaia, which had its mouth fouth-weft of the gulf of 
Corinth. 
PHO'GOR,in ancient geography, a mountain of Palef- 
tine, on the other fide of Jordan.—A town of Paleltine, 
in the tribe of Judah, near Bethlehem.—Another town 
north-eaft of the Dead Sea and of Livias. 
PHOKWA'RAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore: 
fifty miles ealt of Suitanpour. 
PHO'LAS, /'. [Gr. i. e. dwelling in a den.] The 
Borer, or Piddock ; in helminthology, a genus of tefta- 
ceous worms. Generic characters—Animal an afcidia 3 
fliell bivalve, divaricate, with feveral dilferently-fhaped 
accelTory ones at the hinge ; the hinge recurved, united 
by a cartilage; in the infide, beneath the hinge, is an 
incurved tooth. The worms of this genus all perforate 
clay, fpongy ftones, and wood, while in the younger ftate ; 
and, as they increafe in fize, they enlarge their habitation 
within, and thus become imprifoned. They contain a 
kind of phofphoric liquor, of great brilliancy in the dark, 
which illuminates whatever it happens to fall on. There 
are twelve fpecies. 
1. Pholas daftylus: fliell oblong, with reticulate fub- 
4. E fpinous 
