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Show AL AL is in Winter in which you keep them, the more Water they will require: Andif they are well manag’din this Heat, they will grow very much in Winter, therefore great ‘Care mutt be taken in the fevere Cold, that it doth not enter the Honfe, northat the Heat beat that Time leffen’d ; as alfo how you begin to give them Airin the Spring, for the extream Parts of the Plants will be rendred verytender, by their growing freely in Winter, and gentle Waterings, and fhould Year, taking off all the Su Roots, which, if fuffer’d to greatly retard the Growth of the r fhould be planted abroad u wall, where it will thrive fatter than if kept in Pots, much ftronger Flowers, How : I bY Off-fets, which fhould ‘t the Mother Plant, at the is veryoften their Deftruction. are fhifted, and mutt be| Aboorks ashe of Fune, moft Peopl (in England) fet their Pots of Aloes out of Pots, filled with the fame the Houfe ; but, if this be done, they fhould rected for the old Plants; be fet underthe Shelter of tes or Trees, the Suckers off, you obferve tnat to fereen them fromthe Violence of the open join’d to the Mother Root to be moiit, Sun and Wind, which, in a few Days, will muft let them lie out of the Ground in ; otherwife change their Colour, and very dry Place two or three Days to Iry bef ver y much diminifh their Beauty, and very often are planted, otherwife they 0 rot. eat Rains which fall in Fune and Fuly, } After planting, le rot, or fillthem with fo much Moifture, Place (as befe er, to be liable to Deftruction eaft Cold; therefore, upon the old Plants) for a } Whole, it is much more advifeable to keep remove ther them moft Part of the Year in the Houfe (as plunging the P is the conftant Practice in Holland) giving facilicate their them, in good Weather, as much free Gpen to fhadethe Gl:afis sin th thele . Check to their Growthat that Seafon, r as is poflible, and fcreening them with ts, Shutters, or Tarpawlinsoverthe Glaffe from the great Heat of the Sun in the Mid of the Day. In the Middle of 7 ) is a very proper Seafon to fhift thefe Plants; at which Time you maytake them out of the Pots, and with your J open the Roots, and fhake outas much of the Earth as poffible, taking off all dead or mouldy Roots, but do not wound orbreak the young frefh ones: Then fill the Pot about three Parts full of the above-mention’d Earth (puttiing a few Stones in the Bottom of the to drain off the Moifture; ) andafter the Roots of the Plant in fuch a Man- to prevent their interfering too much with each other, eS in as much of the fame Earth, as to fill the Pot almoft to the Rim, n ferve to hake the Plant, fo as to let the Earth in between the Roots, and then with your Hand fettle it clofe to the Roots of the t, to keep it fleady in the Pots then r them gently, and fet them abroad in a dy Place, where they may remain for three reeks, giving them gentle Wate rings, if the er prove s hot anddry. Towardthe latter End of Aygy ff, ina dry y, removetheminto the Houfe again, obferving to give them as muchfree open Air as_pofiible, Rail the Weatherholds: warm; but, if the Nights are cool, you muft fhut up the Glaffes, and give them Air only in the Day; and, as the Coldincreafes, you muft de- creafe opening the Glaffes, but obferrve to give them gentle W aterings often, till the Middle of Oéfober,When you ‘mutt abate them, accord- ing to the Heat of the Houfe in which they are kept. ; The firft Sort maybe fet abroad in the Bening of May and remain fo till Ofobe infie Weather, muft haye frequent, bu thofe of the large Sort. I can’t here forbear taking Notice of a vulgar Error or two relating The Charadfers are ; It is in all refpetts like the Mallow ; bat the to the large American Aloe, whichis, that it never flowers until it is an hundred Years old, which isa Miftake ; fince we have hadfeveral of them flower in England, fome of which were known not to exceed fifty Years ae and others, which flower’d many Years ag cannot be fuppos'd to have been in £7fead fo long as to arrive at that Age, fince“they were thought too tender for our Climate at that Time, when Green-houfes were not known; as may be feen by looking into Gerard’s and Pai Herbals, Leaves of thefe are generally more [oft and woolly. There are feveral Kinds of this Plant, fomé toa fiifficis nt Size, which is and feldom more than the Year, after planting fr American Alses (whi produce their Flow the Center of the they are ofa conf: leral once during the Life of the the Flowerftem ee u Middle ofthe Plant (which, for is of a large Size, and growsto a gt it draws all the Moilture and Nourifhn from the Leaves, fo that, as that ad Leaves decay ; and whenthe Fl blown, fearce any of the Le but wheneverthis happens, theold Ro forth a numerous Quantity of Off-fet creafe ; andit is not till this Time, that { of thefe Sorts can beincreas’d, elpeciglly feventh Sort, which never produces a Plants until it $, at which Flower-ftem is befet with fmall Hea Bottom to Top, which bei planted, will grow as well as Si Roots. fel Phis Aloe, which, with us, dom mal very large Plant, hath yet produced j ] ftems ofa confiderable Size, and fif in Height. The F of which rife to the Height of eight or ten Feet, and become woody: Thefe are proper Ornaments for Quarters of Wildernefs-work, to intermix with flowering Shrubs and Trees: They begin to flower toward the latrer End of May, and continue till October Cf the Weather proves good): Their long Continuance in nyc together with their great Variety of foft woolly Leaves, renders them worthy of a Place in the belt Gardens of Another commonErroris, that when the Flowering-" l'rees. Flower opens, it makes a Report like that of The different Species of thefe known in ; Attusa, frutefcens, folio acnto, parvo flore. C B. Phe thrubby Marfi-mallow, with fharp-pointed Leaves, and {mall Flowers. 2. ALTHAA, frute/ce 5, Lufitanica, folio ampliore, minus incano. Zourn, The Portugal fhrubby Marfh-mallow, with large, and lefs hoary Leaves. 3. Artuaa, frutefcens, Lufitanica, folio rotundiori undulato, Tourn. ‘The Po a fhrubby Marfi-mallow, with rounder and undulated Leaves, 4. Artuma, frute(cens, folio bryonia: C. B. The fhrubby Mar/b-mallow, with briony Leaves. Arruma, flore ma re, CB. The large Flower'd Marfb mallow, 6. Arruaa, Diofcoridis &.Plinii. C. B. The Common Marfb-mallow. Avruas, folio rotundiori aut minus acuminato. Suther. ‘The Rounder-leav’'d Mar/bmallor firing a Gun: This is fufficiently confuted by England are, all thofe who have been where thefe Plants have flower’d ; but I fuppofe the Rife ofthis Story might procced from fome Perfons faying, when one of thefe Plants flower’d, it made a great Noife ; meaning thereby, that whenever one of them flower’d in England, it was {pread abroad as an uncommon Thing, and occafion’d a great Noife amongft the neighbouring Inhabitants ; moft of whomufuallyrepairto fee it, g that rarely happeis, and as a great and to give them ag Towardthe End of / thefe young Plants, by in good Weather, and by times with Bricks, that the enter the Bed, which for their Growth, and remov’d into the H toward the End of before direétec Mott ofthe z AL, AL frican Aloes do, for the moft part, afford Plenty of Suckers, by which they are increafed ; but thofe few that do not, may be moft of them propagated, bytaking off fome of the under Leaves, laying them to dry for three or four Days, as was directed for the Off-fets ; then plant them in the fame Soil as was directed for them, putting that Part of the Leaf which did adhere to the old Plant, about an Inch or an Inch andhalf(according to the Size of the Leaf) into the Earth, giving them a little Water to fettle the Earth about them ; then plunge the Pots into a moderate Hot-bed, obferving to fcreen thern from the Violence of the Sun, and give themgentle Refrefhings with Water: The beft Seafon for Thefe Plants are all eafily raifed from Seeds which muft be fown in March, inalight dry Soil, and in two Months Time they will be fit to tranfplant in the Places where theyare to remain for good, or put into Pots; that when they are remov'd, the Earth maybe this is in Zune, that they may pufh out Heads turn’d out of the Pots, without difturbing the before Winter. Roots, for thefe Shrubs will not bear a Re» move (when grown to any confiderable Sta» ALOIDES ; [Of ‘Aaci and 64@-, form.] ture) ; the Roots being for the moft part com= Boerb, Ind. Stratiotes foliis Aloes femine longo. pos’d of {trong woody Parts, and have very Rai Syn. The Water Aloe, or Frefh- few fmall Fibres, fo that the Earth is fubjeét to fall intirely off, upon removing them ; and This Plant is found in large ftanding Waters if ic {o happen to grown Plants, they rarely in the Ifle of Ely, andin Lincoln-/hire, but are made to grow afterwards. will not grow in a Garden: But if young The fecond Year thefe Shrubs begin ta Plants be put into an open Canal in the Spring, flower, and one fingle Plant Cif fuffer’d to theywill thrive and propagatetherein. feed) will produce enough to raife many. hundred Plants: They are impatient of Wet in ALOPECUROS, [Gr *Aromdaue@ , |} Fox- Winter, therefore fhould be planted in a dry tail; a kind of Grafs. rubbifhyor fandy Soil, where theywill ftand much better than ina ftrong rich Earth ; but |; wide they are feldom longer-liv’d than five orfix Years (with us), efpecially if{uffer’d to flower and feed plentifully every Year ; therefore the beft Way to preferve them is, to cut off the ALSINE, (Gr. *Aacim,] Chick-weed. extreme Parts of the Branches in Fuly, that ALTHAA, [‘sadaia of “AaSG, a Medica- they may make frefh Shoots before Winter ; this will alfo make their Heads more regular; ment; or \adaivew, Greek >» to heal] Marfhmallo thanif ie were fuffered to grow rude, They |
