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Show AC AC tered from the Northern Winds: This Shrub makes an agreeable Variety, in {mall Quarters of Ever-Greens or Flowering Shrubs; the hoary Leaves, which continue all the Year frefh, ftrike the Eye at a great Diftance, anc havea good Effectin diverfifying the Profpect: This Shrub is eafily rail fed from Cuttings, of the Summer Months, (unplanted in der a Hedge ‘or Wall) where they may have only the Morning Sun; and being frequently - lee take Root in a Month or fix Weeks Time, when they maybe remov’dto any Places where they are defign’d to remain bferving in this (as in many other Shrubs and Plants which are Natives of a warmer Climate) to place them in a dry Situation: Wet, efpecially in Winter, is the moft deftruétive to all thefe Sorts of Plants. a fweetifh There are a great Variety of thefe Trees cultiv ated in the Gardens of England and Holwhich have been brought from Africa America; and are fome of them hardy enough to endure our Winters Abroad cially fuch as are Natives of North others are very tender, and are on kept in the warmeft Stoves. I down the Names of fuch as are with in the English rdens, and fome Account of their Culture. (efpe- The Species of this Tree are Acacia A AC yet appear’d in Engla fo that I can give no Account howthis differs in that Particular from the firft. The third Sort is the Tree from whence the true Succus Acacia is taken3 which altho’ mention’d as a Native of Egypt, yet is alfo found in divers Parts of America, from whence the Seeds of this Tree have beenfent into England, which Ihave beenrais’d in feveral Gardens neat in the Middle of cach of thefe Pots, giving them a gentle Wat ring to fettle. the Earthto London. The fourth Sort is the moft common Kind in famaica, Barbadoes, and the other warm Parts of America; and hath, for the Sweetnefs of its Flowers, been difpers’d thro’ moft Parts of Ewrope; which alt ho’ a Native of the warmer Parts of the been madefamiliar to the Italian is cultivated in great Plenty in or the all’'d,. The Locutft ’ ABUTILON, [the Name is Arab low Mallow. AC yet hath lens, and Portugal and Sanz he fifth Sort is, at prefent, very rare in tdens. This Tree produces its Spines by Pairs, which are extFeam large and crooked, and ofa whitifh Colour; but [don’t remember ever to have feen this Flower. The fixth id. Acacta Indica 2 t was brought from the / y Mr. Catesby, Seeds. of this Anno 1726. The Plant (which are flat, and one half of a beautifi red Colour, the other half a deep Black) grow in Be twifted Pods; whic awhen the 2, Open on one make a very ag ablei Prof -&: The Leaves of this Tree branch out and divide into many Ramifications ; e s,obes are placed in a very reg have n a Painting done the ; fee mi to be , and twifted ACACIA 3 b roundifh, and r Ord er: The Flowers f a 1, but from 1 the Country, and is growingin ‘the "Phy| This hath fourlarge Lobes ees Leaf ; the Spines are fhort, ftiff, and crooked, and the Seeds grow in twifted Poc Is. This. eficariis merican Aby pendulous Fruit, whofe Seed- Vek {well’d Bladder. There are feveral other Varieties mention’d by Plu uae his Catalogue of American Plants; but as thefe Plants have little Beauty, and are chiefly preferv ed in the Gardens ofthofe only that are curious in Botany, I fhall pafs them over with bare naming, and only beg Leave to obferve, That Mr. Brapitzy, Pro- Fessorn of Botany at CAMBRIDGE, is greatly miftaken, in faying it grows wildin E; but it plain he imew not the Plantfe For he takes it for the Althea, or Marfh Mallow. hie ACIA, Egyptian Thorn, or Binding an Tree. [Azania i.e. fharp, of axnila, Gr. eiaheeaer The Charaéers of this Tree are, b ramofe or branching Leaves; the adbere clofely, and form a kind of or Globe 5th qua or Pods are hard eral Seeds, which are areated by tranfuerfe Diaphragms from each Thefirft of thefe Acac : tions to have been rais’d in the Garden of the i Ml, about the Time it hath been t Plenty in feveral Gardens r re there are feveral very larce Trees. Sort hath produced Flowers in the Phy Gardenat Chelfea, which are very minute, and an herbaceous Colour; and the laft Year, i duno 1729. it producedripe Fruit in the G rdens of ‘the Hithop of London The Seedsofthis Treeare frequently br over from and Carolina, by the Nai of Locyift, which, I fuppofe, is a general Nat for moft Trees which produce Pods, in whi : are contained a fweetifh Pulp furroundingth The fecondSort is nearly allied to the firft, but hath very few Thorns; the Shoot s are greener, and the Tree is of quicker Grow I The Seeds of this Tree etere fent from lina Anno 172 4, by Mr. Catesby, by the N of Water Acacia, as being an iat wet Soils. The Flowers ofthis 7 the Glaffes, from the Heat of the Sun until they have taken Root; after which Time you muit give them Air, by raifing the Glaffes, in proportionto the Heatofthe "Weather, or to the Conftitution ofthe Plants, The firft and fecond Sortbeising very hardy, mayhave a greater Proportion of Air, and by Midjummer ‘thould have the Glaffes intirely takenof, ao maybe hardenedto endure the open Air by degrees: Thefe, the firft and — Winter, ‘thould be theelter di nacommon ot bed Frame, until they are grown woody; ifter which Nae (in the Spr ) they maybeturn rd on of the Pots into the open Ground, where they are main; land, and only to be found in fome curious 1 0 Water Acacia with very few Spines. 3. Acacia vera, their Roots; aac feeeehtne them with Mats over well deferib’d in Sir Hans Sloan’s Natura t was brought firft into , and is probably a Na 1 lat tis an E er-green, s, Which is peculiar to this ters; or Clumps of Trees, where they may be fhelter’d from the Fury of violent Winds, otherwile they will be very fubjeét to befplit thereby Whenthefe Trees havearifen to the Height of 8 or 10 Feet, they will then make very {trong and vigorous Shoots; which fhould be annually fhortned, that the ads of the Trees may be clofer, and their anches bythis Means, Winds, t will “ stich lefs liable to bi sak with when they are perr 1 to re- main at full]Length and the Trees will be much the handfome Phe fourth, fifth, and eighth en and fhould be kept in the Hot-be july, when they may be expofed to tl rees, tho’ the Gl ] remov’d from them the fir ec be fet ina Stove the a“ and while he ing, as being [ when theyare ¢“rownWoo ly, good Green- houfe veery well, a poted iin Summer-time, with O &e. Thefe, if kept in a Green-h quire but little W in Winter, efpeci thofe which fhed their Leaves, as be Seafon incapable of difcharging a Redunda of Moiftur their Leaves, which greateft Inftruments in throw Moitture whole ” y Perfpiration, being g feems to remain for a certain isime e Flowers of this Tree I have ty th, and feventh Sorts (efpecially while you Hot-bed all propagated by fowing aa Bed in th in a fhort Time : e g of the rakove you fhould prepare another which if intended for fuch 1 7 tender, fhould be ty h as are brought from nded tor which fhould be in Wildernefs Quar- never£ bad to open mufr } the,y tl them toobig P. as to Ora of in Bulk |