OCR Text |
Show PO PO PO PO gin to. decay. ‘Thefe may be plac’d in a Nurfery for two or three Years, to get Strength, before they are planted out where they are POPULAGO: [This Plant is fo call’d, of defign’d to remain: But if youintend to proPopulus the Poplar-Zree, becaufe ir grows near pagate them from Cuttings, it is better to defer Banks and Ditches under the Poplar-Zree.} the doing of that until February; at which Marfh-Marygold. time you may plant Truncheonsof four orfive The Charaéfers are; Feet long, thrufting them about a Foot into The Flower confifts of feveral Leaves, which the Ground: Thefe will readily take Root, are plac’d circularly, and expand in Formof 4 and if the Soil be moift in which they are Rofe, in the Middle of which rifes the Pointal, planted, will arrive to a confiderable Bulk ina which afterwards becomes a membranaceous few Years. Fruit, in which there are feveral Cells (which The black Poplar is not fo apt to take Root are for the moft part bent downwards) collett d from large Truncheons, therefore ’tis the better into little Heads, and are full of oblong Seeds. Method, to plant Cuttings about a Foot and an The Species are ; half in Length, thrufting them a Foot deep into 1. Popurago; flore majore. Tourn. Marth the Ground: Theie will take Root veryfreely, Marygold, with a larger Flower. and maybe afterwards traniplanted where they 2, Poputaco ; flore minore. Tourn. Marfh- areto remain. ‘This Sort will grow upon alMarygold, with a imaller Flower. moft any Soil, but will thrive beft in moift 3, Poputaco; flore pleno. Journ. Marth- Places, Marygold with a double Flower, I have planted Cuttings of this Tree, which The two firft Sorts are very common on in four Years, have been bigger in the Trunk boggy and watry Places in divers Parts of than a Man’s Thigh, and near twenty Feet in England, and are feldom cultivated in Gar- Height, and this upon a very indifferent Soil ; dens: But the third Sort, which is a Variety but in a moift Soil, it is common for thefe from the fecond, is prefery’d in Gardens for Trees to fhoot twelve or fourteen Feet in a its fine double Flowers. Seafon: So that where a Perfon hath a mind This Plant is propagated byparting of the to make a Shelter in a few Years, there is Roots in Autumn, and mutt be planted ona fcarce any Tree fo proper for that Purpofe as moift Soil, otherwife the Flowers will not be this: But they fhould not be planted too near near fo fair, nor will the Plants thrive. ‘Chefe the Pleafure-Garden, becaufe the Down which are very proper to place in very wet Parts of falls from thefe Trees will make a prodigious the Garden, where fewother Plants will thrive, Litter. and will afford an agreeable Variety during The White Sorts, as alfo the A/pen-Tree, their Seafon of Flowering, which is from the do alfo caufe a great Litter in the Spring, Middle of Apri/ until the latter End of May ; when their Downfalls off; and their Roots fo that they are worthy of a Place in every being very apt to produce a large Quantity of curious Flower-Garden. Suckers, renders them unfit to be planted POMEGRANATE; vide Punica, The Species are ; 1. Porycata; major, carulea, Tabern. is divided into feveral Segments ; the Ovary which is Situated in the Center of the Pioen becomes a foft globular Fruit, Containing roundi hb Greater blue Milkwort. 2. Porycata; major, alba. Zabery. Greater Seeds. The Species are ; white Milkwort. 3. Porycata; vulgaris. C. B. P. Common 1.Potyconatum; /atifolium, vulgare.C.B.P, Milkwort, with a blue Flower. Common Broad-leay’d Solomon’s-Seal. z. Potyconartum; Jatifolium, vulgare, cay4 Porycara; alba. Laber White comlibus rubentibus. H. L. Commonbroad-leay’d mon Milkwort. 5. Porycara; Africana frutefcens, folio buxi, Solomon’s Seal, with red Stalks. flore maximo. Oldent. Sbrubby African Milk3. Poryconaru ; Jatifolium, minus, flore wort, with a Box-leaf, and a verylarge Flower. majore. C. B. P. Leffer broad-leav’d SoloThe four firft Species are found wild in moift mon’s-Seal, with a larger Flower. Meadows in divers Parts of England, and are 4. Potyconarum; Jatifolium, flore duplici never preferv’d in Gardens, except for the odoro. H. R. Par. Broad-leay’d Solomon’s Sake of Variety: However, I thought proper Seal, with a double {weet-fmelling Flower. to infert them in this Place, to introduce the Thereare feveral other Species of this Plant, fifth Sort, which is a beautiful Plant, and is which are preferv’d in Botanick Gardens for worthyto be preferv’d in all curious Collec- Variety ; but thofe here mention’d are the tions of rare Plants. principal Sorts cultivated in England. This is propagated by Seeds, which fhould Thefe Plants are eafily propagated by partbe fown upon a moderate Hot-bed in the ing of their Roots in the Spring before they Spring ; and when the Plants are come up, begin to fhoot, obferving alwaysto preferve a they fhould be prick’d into fmall Pots, fill’d Bud to each Off-fet: They fhould beplanted with light rich Earth, and plung’d into another in a frefh light Earth, where theywill thrive Hot-bed, where they fhould be fhaded until exceedingly ; but if it be over rich, it will they have taken Root, and often refrefh’d with deftroy their Roots. The firft Sort is the moft Nater ; after which they muft have Air given common in England, and is what the College them in Proportion to the Warmth ofthe has directed for Medicinal Ufe. Seafon, and in Fu/y they may be removdinto the open Air, placing them in a warm SituaPOLYPODIUM; of mav< many, and ais tion, where they maybefhelter’d from ftrong a Foot, q. d. many Feet. ‘This kind of Plant Winds, and indry Weather they muft beoften {trikes its Roots into every Part that it can lay refrefh'd with Water: In this Place they may hold of, whether it be Stone, Earth, or Tree, remain until Offober, when the Nights begin it is the fame thing, efpecially if it be a Tree to be frofty ; then you fhould remove them of the Oak kind} Polypody. into the Green-houfe, placing them where they The Charaéfers are ; mayhave the Advantageof the free Air, when It is a Capillary Plant, with oblong jagged the Weather is favourable enoughto admit of L a middle Rib, which joins them the Glaffes being open’d, for they only require ks running through each Divifion. to be protected from Froft: During the Wuter The Species are ; Seafon, they fhould often be refrefh’d with 1. Potypopium; vulgare. C.B. P, ComWater, but it fhould not be given to them in mon Polypody. large Quantities, which will injure their Roots: 2. Potypopium ; majus Jerrato folio. Bart. In Summer, they may be expos’d with Myrtles, Icon, Greater Polypody, with a ferrated Leaf. Geraniums, &c. in a Situation where they are 3. Potypopium; Cambro-Brit. Ui, pilldefended from ftrong Winds; and as their nulis ad margiues laciniatis, Raii. Syn, Welh Roots increafe, fo the Size of their Pots fhould Polypody, with laciniated Leaves. be inlarg’d ; but you muft be very cautious There are feveral other Species of this Plant, not to over-pot them, whichis injurious to all which are preferv'd in fome curious Bo k forts of Exotick Plants. Gardens for Variety ; but as theyarerarely The Earth in which thefe Plants are fet, cultivated in other Gardens, fo it is not worth fhould berich, frefh, and light, in which they while to enumerate them in this Place. will thrive exceedingly, and continue in Flower The firft Sort is that which is usd in Me¢imoft part of the Year, which renders it very cine, and is found growing upon old Walls id valuable, and if the Seafon proves favourable, fhady Banks in divers Parts of Eng the Seeds will ripen very well ; but you muft ond feems to be only a V be careful to gather them whenripe, other- which differs therefrom in being | wife they will drop off and be loft. having ferrated Leaves. The third Sort wa brought from 177 where it mon’s-Seal. ; The Charaéfers are 5 The Flower confifts of one Leaf, is tuberof and expands at the Top in Shape ; chiefly delight y sun, theywill not thrive: to grow out of Walls, and old B found expos’d tot near an Houfe or Garden ; but when theyare POPULUS; the Poplar-Tree. interfpers’d with other Trees in large Planta- The Charaéfers are ; The Leaves are broad, and for the moft part tions, they afford an agreeable Variety ; their angular ; the Male Trees produce amentaceous Flowers, which have many little Leaves and Apices, but are barren: The Female Trees pro- Leaves being very white on their Underfides, which when blown with the Wind, are turn’d to Sight. A confiderable Advantage may be obtain’d duce membranaceous Pods, which open into two by planting thefe Trees upon moift bogg Parts, containing many Seeds, which have a Soils, where few other Trees will thrive: Many large Quantity of Down adbering to them, and fuch Places there are in England, which do are collected into Spikes. not, at prefent, bring in much Moneyto their The Species are; Owners; whereas if they were planted with 1. Popurus; alba, minoribus foliis. C.B.P. thefe Trees, they would, in a very fewYears, White Poplar, with {maller Leaves. over-purchafe the Ground, clear of all Expence: 2. Popurus ; alba, majoribus foliis. C. B.P. But there are many Perfons in England, who White Poplar, with large Leaves, commonly think nothing, except Corn, worth cultivating : cal'd The Abele-Tree. or, if they plant Timber, it muft be Ozh, 3 Poputus ; tremula. C. B. P. The or Elm; and if their Land be not prop Trembling Poplar or Afpen-Tree. either of thefe, it isdeem’d little worth ; where4. Poputus; nigra. CB. P. The Black as if the Nature of the Soils was examin’d, ou Tree, by fome falfly call’d The Cottonree, 5: Poputus ; alba, folio minore, variegato. The white Poplar, with ftrip’d Leaves. POLYGONATUM; [f0 call’d of aad Plenty, andis the moft beautiful of al many, and 7.v a Knee, becaufe it has many Thefe Plants may be propagated by pa little Knees, for the Root is very knotty : It is g before the ir Roots in the alfo call’d Solomon’s-Seal, becaufe the Knots of d be planted in a very poor the Root fomewhat refemble a Seal} Solounder the Shade of a Wall, for > POMUM ADAMI; vide Aurantium. i Thefe Trees may be propagated either from Layers or Cuttings, which will readily take Root, as alfo from Suckers, which the White Poplars fend up from their Roots in great Plenty. ‘The beft Time for tran{planting thefe Suckers, is in O¢fober, when their Leaves be- and proper Sorts of Plants adapted to them, there might be very great Advantage made of feveral large Parcels of Land, which at this time lie neglected. : The Wood of thefe Trees, efpecially of the Abele, is very goodtolayfor Floors, where it will laft many Years; and forits exceeding Whitenefs, is, by many Perfons, preferr’d to Oak; it is alfo very proper for Wainfcotingof Rooms, being lefs fubject to fwell or fhrink 6 P than |