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Show AR AR he beft Method of propagating thefe sis, by fowing their Seeds, which fhould be preferv *din dry Sand till March 5 at which Time you fhould fow them upona very moderate Hot-bed, h greatly promotes its station) covering it about a quarterof¢ with light th, and fcreening it a ch Bot apis apply to thofe Fi in Dif24étion ow on the Ground, 2 Frofts or great Rains: Toward the Middleor latter End of March your young Plants will in to appear; you mutt therefore m clear from Weeds, and give them fre- ns were without Seats, but of late t W aterings, as the Seafon may require ; and that not d if your Plants have done well, they will nn, about five orfix Inches high: ut ng them repair’d, the Leaves of the k, was, by the contiWant of free Air, deto rot the Wood (which if {to the Weather, would have ight in twoorthree 3 ally damp, and cover’dSeats or made of Latti Vood ‘or Iron, and cover’c a i > J amines, L o or with Cre fi of which aN anfwer the > ene Purpofe very well, if rightly manag’d. 5, ; raw-berry-Tree. lio ferrato ; flore obl : Pif’ Strawberryand Ege-fhap’d 3 [0:1 erre 3 I e, with an‘ble Flowers. This Tre | is its Name from the Refemblance the TI Fruit bears to that of a berry, but it is of uftere fowre T 3 tho’ I have been inform’d, pain’ where this Tree abounds, eaten. In Exelan to the Mark Cree, having fma Bunches of Blowers upon them, 2 jade Yofegays with other Flowers, and fo Sprigs of the Amomum Plinii, or W ry, which at that Seafon is ye 7 able, Trees are fu bye2 to receive Damage ranfplant thefe Trees, each into a fmall Pot ; Baein doing of this, be very careful to take them up with as much Earth to their Roots as poffible, for they are fearrooting Plants, and very fubject to mifcarry on being remov’d5 and’tis for this R n that I advife their being put into fmall Pots; for when they havefill’d the Pot with Roots, they may be turn’d out into large Pots, sn Ground, without any Hazard of their om When you have put your young Plantsinto when there are few Flowers to oe this Fruit being ripe, is in which Seafon the FE lowe rs are n \ fo that from Time of flower he riper of the F ruit, is one whole and made handfome Plants that Seafon. ARCUATION ; [of Arcus a Bow; of Arcuo, Lat. to bend or bow like an Arch.] The Raifing of Trees by Layers. The firft Thing that is to be done,-is, to procure large ftrong Mother Plants, which are ufually call’dStools. It is no matter whether the Trees be crooked, or otherwife deform’d ; and the larger they are, the better they are to be cut down clofe to the Ground. They are to be planted in a Border fix Feet wide, and in a ftrait Line fix Feet afunder. The Border muft be well trench’d, or dug clear from all Roots, Clods, Stones, or any other Obftructions. Thefe Trunks or Stools being planted in this Trench, will throw out twenty, thirty, forty or fifty Plants, which may be begun to be laid about the Michaelmas following ; at which Time, if the Stools have been carefully manag’d, they will have fhot five, fix, or more main Branches out of the Root, and on every one of thefe, as many Side or Collateral Branches. Thefe main Branches muft be bent downto the Ground ; and fome cut themhalf through, them Wat they may require: In this Bed it will be proper to let the Pots remain moft part of the Summer; forif the Pots are taken that they may bendtheeafier. When the main Branches are thus laid round the Stool, and pegg’d faft down, then the fmall ones may be pegg’d downtoo, if you pleafe; and thus the main Branches or Shoots will be cover’d all over, except the very Top, andall the /mall and fide Branches muit be cover’d two or three Inches thick out, and fet upon the Ground, the Smallnefs upon the Joints: of their Size — the fmall Pots, you fhould plunge them into another very moderate Hot-bed, to encourage their taking new Root, fhadine them from the Sun in the middle of the Day, and giving ARBUT TITAS as from Frofts, eipetially while they are young, therefore you muft hoop the Bed over, that en bad Weather comes, you may coverit with Mats and Strawto keep out the Froft. The Beginning of April following, you may let their Trees remain, found, that fcarce one in five hundredfail’d to come out again the next Summer, ccafion the Earth in them Some Perfons give the alive ; but if they are kept Branches a Twit, in order to make them take Root the fooner. If they be mulfh’d, or fome ftrawy Dung belaid over them, it will be of growing all the Summer, they will be near a F ‘oot high by the next Autumn; but it will be have a large Pan made round themto hold advifeable to themfrom the Froft during the Water, in order to water. them the en- their Continua in Pots, -by plunging them into the Ground in a warm es » and cover- fuing Summer, which they will require at leaft two or three times a Week, -if the Weather be hot and dry. About the Middle of September following, they may be open’d and examin’d, to fee if to dry fo faft, t atering will fcarcely pre- ferve your Trees fc ing them with Mats in bad Weathe When your Treesare grownto bee three or four Foot |high, you may fhake them ou the Pots into the open Groundin the Places where they are to remain ; but this thou ild be done in April, that they mayhave en Root before the W iaa which would be to damage themif newly planted. Thefe Trees -Idom hurt, are tolerably ept in extream he therefore ver d your Trees may appear after a hard Winter, yet I would advife you to let them remaintill the fucc¢ and what are dead ; which expand in Form of a Rofe: Ihe Poi of the Flower becomes a large trigonical Vi which is divided into three Cells, contain’d many globular black Seeds. There is but one Species of this Plant known, whichis, ARGEMONE; Mexicana, Tourn. The Prickly Poppy. This is an annual Plant which is very common in moft Parts of the Weft-Indies, and is by the Spaniards call’d, Fico del Inferno, or the Devil’s Fig; there is no great Beauty nor Ufe in this Plant amongft us, that I knowof; but whoever hath a mind to cultivate it, fhould, at firft, fow it on a Hot-bed, and in June tranfplant it out into the natural Bord where, when once it has fhed its Seed, there will not want a Supply of Plants for feveral Years after. I have been informed that Gumbouge is made from the Juice ofthis Plant. ARGIL; [4rgilla, Lat. a fort of white Earth like Chalk, but morebrittle. ] Fotis Clay. ARIA THEOPHRASTI, TAGUS. a Cra- ARISARUM ; The Herb Friar’s Cowl. ARISTA, of Corn, is that fharp-pointed Needle that ftands out from the Husk or Hofe of the Grain; the Beard or Awn of Corn, which the French call, E@ Barbe du Blé. ARISTOLOCHIA ; [*Aesoroyia of adps@ beft, and asyre Purgations, which comeforth after the Birth; as tho’ it was the beft Herb to expel the After-Birth.] Birthwort. The Charaéfers are ; The Stalks are flexible; the Leaves are plac’d alternately on the Branches; the Flowers conjift of one Leaf, and are of an anomalous Figure, planted iin the Nurfery. _This may be done to the Dutch, Witch and lifh Elm, the Abeal, Lime, Alder, Plata- ARE A, is the internal Capacity, or Content of any given Boundary or Limits,’ of what Figureor~Shape foever it be. of flat Seeds. We have three orfour Species of this Plant in the curious Gardens of Botany; which are, 1. ARISTOLOCHIA, flore ex purpurd nigro. C.B. P. TVheround-rooted Birthwort. 2. ARISTOLOCHIA 3 ¢clematitis refta. C. B. P. The Climbing Birthwort. 3. ARISTOLOCHIA, Piflolochia difta. C.B.P. ing Summer has fufficiently demonfl living,. nated, or jagged; which are terminated + Spines: The Flower confifts of many Lea they have taken Root or not, whichit is very hollow'd like a Pipe, and foap’d like a Tongue, Peawey will have done; but if not, generally hooked: The Flower-Cup turns to a they muft be let alone to lie till the next membraneous, and, for the moft part, oval-/hap’d Spring, and then they are to be taken up and Fruit, which is Heide into five Cells, and full nus, and all Sorts of Sallows and Willows h many times kills the young and Branches, but rarely de t oys the are Ufe to keep them moift: They ought alfo to The Charaéters are 3 It hath an annual Root: The Leaves are for Winter Anno 1728-9. gave us Reafonto believe moft of the Trees of this Kind were deftroy’d, and many People were fo hafty, a5 to dig up, or cut down manyof their Trees whereas all thofe People who had Patience to 1 ARGEMONE, [of’Agyue, becaufe it purges away the Miftinefs of the Eyes:. It iscall’d the rnal Fig, becaufe the Capfule pretty much bles a Fig; and ei from its Afrity.] Pricckly Poppy Spanifh Birt : 4. ArisToLocuia, Piftolochia diita, Cretica, folio fmilacis Jempervirens. H. L. The Ever-green Birthwort from Crete, R The |
