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Show ie A B There is but one Specie of this Plant, at prefent, knownin £ gl. es which is This Plant mufft be {ownearlyin the Spring upon a Hot-bed; and when come up, muft be planted into Pots of goodfrefh Earth, and fet into a frefh Hot-bed, in order to bring it forward ; and when grown too high to be contain’d under the Glafles, may be fet into the Green-houfe, orin fomewell--defended Part of theGarden, th ut itmay ripenits Seeds, There is no great Beautyin the Flower, but for the fi gular Appearance ofthe Plant, it may deierve a Place in all curious Collections of Plants. BASILICUM,or Balil iAppendix. Ocymum7 for the Ornament or Ufe of Gars, are made in divers Forms, fome round, long, oF oval, others iquare, o¢tanit their moft common Form is d, if the Ground will Reermit, the cy are, the better: and when "they size, they are called Pieces of Water, rrors, Fifh-ponds, Pools, and ng thefe, Care ought to be taken to avoid both the Extremes, and not to make them either too big or too little; that a Water-work may not take up the beft Part of a {mall Spot of Ground ; norto make too little a Bz/on in a large Spot. "This muft depend intirely on the Judgment of the Defigner of the Garden, ' So would have the Size of a Ba/on to be proportion’d to the Fer’ d’ Eau, that the Vater thrown up in the A Tt, may not, by be- in g blown bythe Air, becarryed beyond the of the Bafon, btit all fall down without Walk. oO again fay, That let the Spout rife to never fo little a Height, tho’ the Ba/fon be > Wind blow the Waterto 4 great and tho’ it bevery difasreeable to ream ina large on; anda igh Stream in a {mall Ba on; and tho’ fhould be as great an: Agreement as is e between the Stream of the Spout and 3 yet no precife Proop: rtion can be netween the Size of B v/ons and their S becaufe that cdepends upon theFall Force of their ater, or upon the Place utain is fituated. to the Depth of fafons, it is ufually ghteen to twenty Inches, or twenty-four {t: This Depth beings iu ficient to f fecure the Bottom of the B. fromFroft and to dip W pots. But i oo are to in, then they - four or deep, which will Beth henid Water enough, and be deep enough for the Fith to brec ain, andalfo to bear a Boat. r than this they need not be; and if they we 3€ deeper, they would be d ngerous as ti In making Ba/ons, great Care ought to be taken in ma them at firft; for the W ater always naturally endeavouring to Tun away, and by its Weight and Preflure ina B, af making its Way out at thek aft Cranny, ‘it2 will growcontt ntly bis if it be not well mad ser and » 10 that drowning of Perfons, who might chance This Cement has the Property to harden fo under Water, that it will be as hard as Stone or Marble, and the Body will be fo folid as Year, for they are fubjeét to degenerateina never to decay After the finifhing of the Bafon, the Plaiftering fhould be for four or five Days fucceffively anointed over wiith Oil or Bullock’s this being done, the Water fhould be let into b h or Lead; theyare moft ufually made font In making fuch, at the marki ng out ae Dimenfions, the Diameter ought to be four Feet bigger on each § de; yer the | safon will not be the wider, forit will be taken up with the Walls on each Side; and thc Clay which is tofill the Space betwee Depth ofthe Water is defign’d to be, becaufe is to belaid over eighteen Inches thick with » and fix Inches with Gravel and P. aving, The Clay otene to be well wroug ht with the Hands and Water, and when it is {pre d, fhould be trodden in with the naked F €t, that the Water of the Raion may not “di lute through it, nor the Roots of any Trees that may grow near, may not penetrate into the outward W all ; ich may be made of Shaies Rubble, orlines with Mortar made ofthenatural EB: arth, andis called the Groundwall, be aule “tis only made to refift the Pref fire! of the Ground about it. The inward aaall ie to be made with good Rub bleitones, that will nor {cale Fl hes in the Waies a =os “a Stones from theHills hich will ae ve rk. but wil ae Rubblele a 5 an ee ot to i ae 1 pugiit - ae pe belai d here and there Stones, the T} ‘nels of the Wall, to render it the more fubftantia i The Method of m as follows: After , Dirr BE Blood, to prevent it from cracking or flawing ; difficult to repair muft alio be dug two Feet deeper than the 3ASONS, or Fountains, €c. which ferve Be, A ; large ficient; and Bottom will be enou the Bafon as foon as may be. Thofe Ba/ons which are madeof Lead, are to be thus wrought: T he Out-lines ought to be inlarg’d one Foot ofa Side, ed half a Foot deeper than the Ba/on is to be. The Wall muft be made a Foot thick, that it maybe able to bear up againft the Earth lying againft it; but the Bottom will not reuire to be more than half a F‘oot thick, up andraife a¢ es c ut per) per dicularly a M q afonr A Foot tl which muft go to :1e Bottom, ae built with Shards a and R ubble- Ronee laid larain itones Mortar of Lime and Sand. When the \ all is finit h’d round the Circum= ference, then the ] tom is to be wrought a Foot thick with the{ fame Materials and then the folid Work or L inin g aS d up againft the \W of Ce i t "be alls nine TaichesGH inc eae the Ale ieing and inward Surface. tto made of ll Flints, laid in Bedss ofMortar made fma of Time Cement, made of Lime and uehen this Solid js eigh t Inches t ou at to be plaifter’g over the whole Surf u on ace a with Cement well fifted bette fhould to @ with Lime; and with this it Trowel, © wrought over fimooth with the The Proportion of this Ceement fhould be two Thirds of Cen ent or powder’d Tile to one Third of Lime, This a W‘indlor, “which is moft ijt to ‘be Ihe Cold of any of the Kinds. Thefe Beansfhould have an open and require to be planted ata than the two early Kinds ; for planted in fhady Places, or too clofe / grow to a great Height, but feldom produce many Beans, The ufual Diftancefor thefe (if in an open Situation) is two Beans being har ufually planted 3ut Ba/ons of Lead are not much in Ufe, becaufe oftheir great Charge in making, and the Danger of the Lead being ftolen. Great care ought to be taken to keep the upper E dge and Superficies of a Ba/on upon a eve hat the Water may coverall the Walls ec at the ly. s for the wafte Pipes of Bafons, whether BottomorSuperficies, they ought not to be made too {mall, left they fhould bechoak’ d, notw'th{tanding the Caulsthat are drawn be- fore them. When this wafte Wateris only to be loft in Sinks and common Sewers,it is carry’d away in Drains or Earthen Pipes; but when it ferves to play the Ba/onsthat lie below it, it mutt pafs through LeadenPipes. BEANS There are four Sorts of Beans commonly planted in Gardens, viz. The fmall Lisbon, the Spanifb, the Sandwich and Wind/or Beans. The firft and fecond Sorts are ufually planted in Offober and November, under warm Walls or Hedges, to have them early ; where, if they ftand through the Winter, they ill produce Beans early in the Spring: Or they may an rounded with Hedges, Walls, ortall " the Diftance muft be will eat the Lead ; and then the Lead muft be laid on the Walls and Bottom, and be feam’d with Solder. Foot and half Row from Row, and four Inches the Rows; but if the Place is clofel; Thefe Walls muft be built with Rubbje laid in Mortar all of Plaifter, becaufe the Lime BAY; vide Laurus, This being done, The ia then bethree Foot youin- Inches, j be fuf Depth deeper at the few Yeaars in England, not in Goodr nefs, but only in their Eatlinel3 greater; the Rows t Inches diftant in the the forward C ops ;; prefent but inlittle Requeft, ferviceable, being plenti little inferior eithe the Wind/or. In the Middle of is open and good, Tan pl Weather lant your firft Crop of Windfor Be ans, which wilII tug Sandwich, and every three Week Plantation until the middle of y, inire. to preferve a Succeffion shots the C Indeed there are fome People who y fond. of Beans, which plant even in une, but unlefs the Soil is very itrong and moift, or the Seafonproves wet or cold, ‘they feldom fucceed well; for in hot dry Weather Gwhich commonly happens in 7 ily) the Infeétsinfeft thefe Plants very much, andoften deftroy them quite, fo that I have known large Quarters of Beans to dye aw ay without producing one fingle Bean. There are others whoadvife the cutting downof Beans, in order to caufethem to produce freth Shoot s from the Bottom for alate Crop; but this feldom anfwers the Trouble, for they are liable to the abovementioned Inconveniencies much more thana frefh-planted Crop. There is an Error very commonin moft Gardners, which I cant help mentioning, that is their planting of Beaus in the Allies oftheir be planted clofe in Beds, in fome Piece of Afparagus- Beds, which damages the two outer Ground that is well defended from the North Rows of the 4/paragus much more than the and Haft Winds; andbeing arch’d over with Value of the Beaus. Hoops or Withies, may be cover’d, in very 1 Frofts, with Matsand Straw; andin the Kipney or Frencu BEANS ; vide PhaSpring thefe Plants may be tranfplanted into feolus. warmBorders, by which means yourCropwill ecur’dfrom Injuries chinots andif Carebe in tranfplanting them, not to break their BEAN-TREFOIL; vide Cytiffus. BEAR’s-EAR; vide Auricula. Roots, and alfo to water them, if the Seafon BEAR’s EAR SANICLE ; vide Verbafproves dry, until they have taken frefh Root, cum. theywill bear as plentiful aCrop as thofe which BEAR’s-FOOT ; vide Helleborus. ain’d where they were at firft planted, with this Difference, that they will be a Fortnight BECABUNGA; or Brook-lime. r. The Lisbon Beanis chieflypreferr’ dto This is a Sort of Veronica or Water-Speed/o ; and the beft way is to procure wel ; of whichthere are two Sorts; one with efh Seeds from Abroad, at leaft every other a long Leaf, and the other round: ‘Theyare Aa both |