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Show It hath Leaves conjifting of many Lobes like The Species are 5 1. Cucursita ; longa, fo molli, flore with a foft The long Leaf, and a white Flower. 2. Cucursira ; fe hap’'d Gourd, albo. C. B. The lore with a foft Leaf, and a white Flower. 3. Cucursita; Jatior, folio molli, albo. F. B. Flat Gourd, cuCc URBITII becaufe it bears a Squathes. 4. Cucursita; Jagen of Burnet: The fmall Flowers, which i of many Petals, are collected inte a round t having a hard R The Petals (or Flower-Leaves) are ich of thee Flowers are fucceeded by foft moift Pulp incompat nase > There whichis, iftillum j molli. C. B. Bottle-fhap’d Gourd, with a foft Leaf, and a white Flower. There is but one 5} There are feveral other Varicties of this Plant, which are annually brought from Ame- fent in FZ rica, where are numberlefs Varieties of thee, The Calabath-Tree. and of Pumkins and Calabajhes. Theymay beall propagated by fowing their ch on a Hot-bed ; and when the Plants come up, they fhould be tran{planted on another moderate Bed, where they fhould va Anwons Ameritana Bon, This Tree grows to a confiderable Height in the warmer Parts of America, where it pro- ces a very > Fruit ; the outer Coat of ch becomes very hard, and, as it were, of have a great deal of Air to ftrengthen them ; a Woody Subftance, and is of and when they have got fouror five Leaves, they fhould be tranfplanted into Holes made the Inhabitants for Bowls, Cups, and many other Purpofes in Life: but whether theInfide great Ufe upon an old Dung-hill, or fome fuch Place, or Pulp ofthe Fruit is of any Ule to them, I ing them a great deal of Koom torun; can’t fay. {ome of the Sorts will {pread to a great This Tree being a Native of the warmer {tance: I have meafur’d a fingle Plant, Countries, muft, with us, be kept ina Stove, tich had run upwards offorty Feet from the with Guava’s, &c. which Stove fhould be kept Hole, and had produc’d a great Number of to the temperate Heat, as mark’d on Mr. Side-Branches ; fo that if the Plant had been encourag’d, and all the Side-Branches permi to remain, Idare fay it would have fairly over{pread twenty Rods of Ground. Which, to fome People, may feem like a Romance: yet I can affirm it to be Fa@. Bur \ is this to the Account printed in the Fowler's Lhermometers, with which Heat I find they fucceed better than in a greater. This Tree requires frequent Waterings, anda light fandy Soil, and in Summer mult havea great Quantity of free Air; for if it be kept too clofe in that Seafon, the Leaves are apt to be infefted by a great Number of Infects ; Lranfacitons of the Royal Society, which was communicated to them by Paws Dudley, Ef{q; zom New England, wherein Mention is made of a fingle Plant of this Kind, which, without which greatly deface the ‘Tree, and retardits Growth. 'To remedythis, whenever you fee them firft begin to attack the Lez mutt carefully wath them off with a Woollen any Culture, {pread over a large Spot of Ground, and from which Plant were gather’d Rag; and “then expofe the Plant Gfin Summer-time) to the open Air, or fet it in l'wo Hundred and Sixty Fruits, each, one fome cooler Place in Winter. ‘This Plant may with another, as big as an Half-Peck! Thete Fruits by fome People gather’d be propagated by planting Cuttings in any of the Summer Months, which fhould be put young, andboil'd; afterwards{tripping into Pots filld with good frefh Earth, and the outer Cover and buttering them, they plung’dinto a moderate Bed of Tanners Bark, oath Piece rae ail by fome People obferving to water and fhade themin eh Ww hich i eran ty Ge the by ee = oe Ate ey ae Kind I have {c ale Frni nik hal ne ee a aan lingle Fruit upwards of fix se ME oe ae perfectly well. pee of this Tree, if brought oS me ee heard oftheir being ae ote - : — This Sore ‘rec ue : su r ountries : quires to be fown early in the Shei and brought forward under Bell or a -Glaffes, otherwife they feldomarrive to half their Maturity, . yess aenat ePeXe SS Beate: Repetition, tes choi _ Theie Plants requiring fo much Room to Spread, and their Fruit being verylittle valu’d A ; nd, hath oceafion’d their not being } i. a h i the Fruit, will grow, if fown on a He t-be, and manag’das was directed for the 4 CULMIFEROUS PLANTS [are focall of Culmus, Lat. Straw or H. | are fuch as have a {inooth, jointed Stalk, and ufuallybo low, and at each Joint wrapp’d about — fingle, narrow, fharp-pointed Leaves; @m their Seeds are contain’d in chaffy Husks, 4 Planescmonet uss wewhich havingarefo greatly many Wheat, Barley, €c. as cots, or Fruits, KeTaagente Rishi: Cork CuMNoIDes, (otsins at0,6 » Where Provifions are not ina fo hie grea ec or fo great Variety, ee lari may be very acceptable. one Species of CUMINOIDES 3 v4 ments : Leaf, and a white Flower, Seeds in The Charaéters are ; The Characters are 5 —$——— 0. 7. B. CyrY CY cu Form; becaufe (by reafon of its Likenelst0 it) many Authors have confounded it wit?wit { Cummin.) Wild Cummin, e. : Tourn. y this Plant, It hath a fquamofe hairy Calin: The Disk of the Flower is almoft plain , but the Outer Florets round the Border are large, tubulous, and deeply cut-in: Thefe Outer Florets are always barren; but the Inner Florets have a Jingle naked Seed fucceeding cach. The Species are ; 1. Cyanus 3 montanus, latifolius, v Common fculum cyanoides. C. B. The greater broad-leav’d Blue-bottle, commonly call’d Globe-Flower. Wild Cummin. 2. Cyanus ; anguftiore folio & longiore, This Plant is preferved in curious Botanick Gardens, for the fake of Variety : But it being Belgicus. H. R. Par. The greater narrowof no great Beauty or Ufe, is very feldom leav’d Blue-bottle, or Globe-Flower. 3. Cyanus floridus, odoratus, Turcicus cultivated in other Gardens. The Seeds of e Orientalis, major, flore purpureo. Park. this Plant fhould be fown foon after ripe; he purple fw Sultan ; vulgé. for if kept until Spring, they feldom fuc4. CYANUS; lus, odoratus, Turcicus, ceed fo well. It loves a light dry Soil: and Orientalis, major, flore alto, H.R. Par. if the Seeds are permitted to fcatter upon the Jive Ground, they will come up again, andrequire Thewhite fweet Sultan ; valgé. 5. Cyanus; fleridus, odoratus, Turcicus, no farther Culture. five Orientalis, major, flore inca Sweet Sultan, with a pale Flower. CUMINUM, [Kuumor, of xvév, Gr. to 0 6. Cyanus ; floridus, odoratus, 9 bh; becaufe it is faid to be very efficacious Orientalis, major, flore luteo. H, L. againft Barrennefs.] Cummin. ow fweet Sultan. The Ch fers are 3 7. Crvanus; fegetum, flore ceruleo. C. B. The Root is nual : eaves are like @ of Fennel: The Seeds il, long, Corn Blue-bottle 8. Cyanus; fegetum, flore albo. C. B. Cornrrow, and crooked; two of which fucceed each bottle, with a white Flower. r, as in the other Umbelliferous Plants. g. Cyanus ; fegetum, flore variegato. CornThere is but one Species of this Plant at bottle, with a vari , prefent knownin £ gland, which is, The firft and fecond Species are abiding Cuminum. Mor. Umb. Cummin. This Plant is propagated for Sale in the Plants, whieh increafe greatly by their creepIfland of Malta, where it is call’d Cumino ing Roots. Thefirft is very common in moft feldom pre1 amin. But Anife, which they of the old Country Gardens, but is alfo propagate in no lefs ¢ ity, they call ferved in curious Flower-Gardens, becaufeit is fo apt to overfpre’ ver Plants grow Cumino dolce, i. ©. , Cummin. So that it: however, it may havea Placein large many ofthe old Botanifts were miftaken, when und “rees, or in Wilderneffes, where they made two Species of Cummin, viz, acre, it will thrive very well: And 10? it isa and dulce. The Seeds ofthis Plant are us’d in Medicine, Flower oflittle Beauty ; yet, for its Variety which are brought from the above-mention’d and long Continuance to flower, it deferves to The Place ; for the Plant is too tender to becul- be propagated in very large Gardens. tivated to any Advantage in England: I have fecond is at prefent lefs commonin Z bei ly to be found but in Botanick Gz fown the Seeds feveral times in the Phy/i Garden, which have come up very well, and dens: Thefe grown to be four or five ig have conftantly decay’d, t rodu any goodSeeds. any Perfon inclin’d to cultivate a little of this Plant for Curiofity, the beft Method is, to fow the Seeds early upon a very moderate ELot-bed ; and when the Plants are come up pretty ftrong, they maybe tranfplantedinto a light Soil, at about four or five Inches Diftance, where they may fets from the old Roots (which they furnith great Plenty) either in Spring or Autumn, will grow anySoil or Situation. 1, fourth, fifth, and fixth Sorts are commonly fown on a Hot-bed, and treated < the Balfamine, or Mai f Peru: but thefe will flower full as well if they fown ona Border of good light Earth, in a warm Pofition, (except the fixth Sort, which fhould probably produce goodSeeds, CURRANT-TRE ide Ribes. SPIDATED PLANTS, [are fo call’d, 5, Lat. the Point of a Spear,| are fuch » the Leaves of which are pointed like CUSTARD-APPLE ; vide Anona. CYANUS, [Kvere@, Gr. fo call’d on Account of its Blue or Azure Colour.] Flower. Bottle- are multiply’d by taking Of- have a Hot-bed) ; and when the Plants cor up, they may be prick’d out upon ther Bed of good Earthfix Inches apart each Way, where they mayr in until they are ftrong enough to be tranfplanted where they e to flower; which may be either in Pots or in Borders amongft other Annuals: in doing of which, you muft becareful not to fhake the Earth from their Roots ; and when they are planted, they fhould be water’dand fhaded until they have taken new Root. In July thefe Plants will begin to flower, and continue until the Froft prevents them. But you fhould obferve Bbb to |
