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Show SE SE SE but with all my Care I had no better Succefs I have alfo found this to be an ex than before, not one of the Nuts making any Method to reftore Orange (or any othe tick) Trees, which havefuffer’d ae ait Paffage, in being too longoutof infomuch, that I recover’d two O; y towards fhooting. ; The Year following I had another Parcel of 5 given me, which confidering my formerill Succefs, I plantedin a different manner, as follows. Having a Hot-bed, which had been lately made with Tanner’s-Bark, and which was fill’d with Pots of Evxotick Plants, I remov’d two of the largeft Pots, which were plac’d in the Middle of the Bed; and opening the Tanner’s-Bark under the Place where t o Pots ftood, I plac’d the two Cocoa-Nut laying them fide-ways to prevent the Moitture (which might defcend from the Pots) from entring the Hole at the Bafeof the Fruit, and thereby rot the feminal Plant uponits firft germinating. I then cover’d the / over with the Bark twoorthree Inches thick, and plac’d the two Pots over them in their former Station. In this Place I let the Nuts remain for fix Weeks; when removing the two Pots, and uncovering the Nuts, I tound them both fhot from the Holein the Bafe of the Fruit an Inch in Length, and from the other End ofthe Fruit were feveral Fibres emitted two orthree Inc in Length. Jpon finding them in fuch a Forwardnefs, I took them out of the Bark, and planted themin large Pots, fill’d with oodfrefh Earth; plunging the Pots down to the Rims in Tanand covering the Surface of the rth in the Pots half an Inch with the fame; foon after which, the young Shoots were above two Inches long, and continu’d to thrive very well. I communicated this Method to fome of my Acquaintance, who have try’dit with the fame Succefs, and if the Nuts are frefh, f{carce any of them mifcarry. Phis led me to try, if the fame Method would fi cceed as well with other hard- fhell’d, which I could not, by any before try a Zet tO grow; /FUS OF nni, or s; and I have a fure and expeditious W ayto raife any Sort of hard-fhell’d F Y For the Heat and Moifture (which are abfolutely agnil to promote Vegetation) they here i ; which had been ten Months with Earth or Water. SEGMENT-LEAVES, A SEMINARY is a d-Plot, adapted orfet apart for the fowiring Thefe are ofdifferent Natures : according to the feveral Plants intended to be _rais’d_ therei If it be intended to raife Timber or Fruit-Trees, it muft be proportionably large to the ity of Trees. defign’d, and the Soil fhould beca efully adapte d to the various Sorts of Trees. Without fucha Place as this, every Cannesds obliged to Turn whatever the Reader to that Article. It is alfo as neceffary for the curious Flower-Garden, to have a S Groundfet apart for the fowingof all Sort Seeds of choice Flowers, in order to obtain new Varieties; which is the only Methodto have a fine Colleétion of valuable Flov alfo for the fowing of all Sorts of bien Plants, to fucceed thofe which decay in Flower-Garden ; fo that the Borders nm annually replenifh’d, which without fuch 2 Ser "y could not be fo well done. j s Seminary thould be fituated at fome Diftance from the Houfe, andbeintirely clos’d either with a Hedge, Wall, or Pale, that all Vermin may be kept out, and that it maynot be expos’d to all Comers and Goers, who n times do Mifchief before they are As to the Situation, Soil, a preparing the Ground, it has mention’d ander the Article the partic ular Account of Plant bei ng direéted under their { it would be needlefs to repeat it here. SEMIFISTUL/AR FLOWERS, a.s, when in the S to wax old, q.d. the old A containdi Leaf, and divided into me 1s becoming of a conical Figur 4 pecomes a Seed, 5 at which time, the Empale ment 1s make way for the Seeds to efcape. Species are; ECIO 3 minor, t mon Groundfel. i folio Boerh. Ind. Afric anle like Groundfel, with a ferrated L 3. SENECIO; Vi plicis fol Par. Bat. Tree, with an Orach L.ez if 4. peNP eae 4 arborejcens, folio ficoidis. Com. Pred. African Groundfel-Tree, with a Ficoides Leaf. The firft Sort here mention’d is one of the moft common Weeds upon Du Is, old Walls, and Gz 3, that we havein land; fo that inftead of cultivating it, it requires fome Pains to deftroy it in Gardens: forif it 1 to feed ina Garden, (which it foon will do if permitted to ftand, it will be very xtirpate it. This is fometimes ne, but its chief Ufe in £ The third Sort doth woodyShrub, about te but is he rdly to be Figure, for the Bran gularly,: that it makes gur in aPease but ed by ft I - Curious in arious Sorts of hardy Pla Chis may be propagated by : taken fi re oe the fucceeding Sprin they fhould be tranfplanted either Places were they are defigned to into a Nurf ry, Where they may be trained up another Seafon ; though it is the bet Way to plant them wherethey are to rem: they are taken from the Bed where they v raifed, becaufe thefe Plants are with Dar removed when theyare grown very woody, The beft Time to remove them is in the Beginning of April, juft before they fhoot; and they“thould be placed ina light Soil and a warm Situation, where they will endure the Cold of our ordinary Winters without any Shelter, but in very { Winters they are fometimes deftroy’d. This Shrub produces its Flowers in Ofober, which altho’ not very beautiful, yet are efteemed by fomefortheir fo late in the Seafon. The fourth Sort is a v beautiful fueculent Plant; the Leaves, which are long, thick, and juicy, are cover’d over with a glaucous Flew, fomewhat like Plums 5 and thefe bein broken, do emit a {trong ae peae Odlour, which has occafioned fome ignorant Perfons to give it the Name of Ba Ww Tree This Plant is eafily nd Sort grows to a Shrub offeven eet high, Cand produces its Flowers, ‘ and . mn, at the Extremityof Branches, in B nches; which tho’ of no et ferves to add to the Variety ants in the Green-houfe. This opagated | by planting any of the j *frefh, rich Earth, obferving y have taken Root, them until t no ther Care from Wee n up cared with light ady Situation r which the y tender Wood, of the Year, oblerving to we e the m until they have taken Roc which they mutt be carefully kept cles WwW eeds, which is all the Mannageme Cuttings of it during propagated: byplanting any of the Summer Months, (which fhould be taken from the old Plants at leaft a Fortnight before the y are planted, and laid in a dry Place fortheir Wound s to heal over, otherwife they will be rot) then planted in Pots of light, ind placed in a Situation where ey may enjoy t forning Sun, obf rving V iter, refh them tly, as the “arth in the Pots dries: In this e they may eight or ten Da I after which the I i moderate Hor ilitate their taking After tl rooted, they may be expofed to tl Air, placing them and other exotick 1elter’d Situation, of EAVES, aretwo pl , that firft fhoo fall fown See ent from thofé fhoot in 4 n’d, the Heads of old Men. whofe up in’d from 1 in a common Hot- bed, > work a aw he j his Orchard, Wildernefs, or ger Plantations ; fo that the Neceflity of fuch a Spot of Groundwill ea fily be perceiv *d by everyone. But as I haveal:ready given Direétions forthe preparing the Soil, and fowir g the Seeds in fuch a Sts y, under the Article of Nurfér I fhall not repeat it in this Place, bu kept under Lock and Key, ards reprefe It is alfo called Evigeron, of ie he Spring, becaufe it flourifhes in/ eG become-s old in the Spring. Itis alfo called Herba Pappa, becaufeits Seeds are very downy. | Groundfel. The Charaéfers are baa fale Aas Hof are want to repair the Loffes he [fo call’d of Senefcere,, Lat. ufe in a hot Climate or Weather it foon flourifhes, and grows old, and the Seed and vege, Plants divided or cut into many Sh buy at every SENECIO ; e remoy’d into in the coldeft to befhel- d fom Air As |