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Show * =a tact tas a co a and is feldom cultivated in Gardens : It is It biennial Piant, being fown in the Spring : flowers the fecond Year, and after producing Seeds it decays. The fecond Sort grows on boggy Places, or where the Water has ftood all the Winter, in manyParts of England : It may be propagated in a Garden by fowing the Seeds foon after Time ET to be eight or ten Feet high, with ftrong wood confifts of five Leaves: The Flower bath five Leaves, which expand in Form of a Rolfe: The Stems, id produce ve beautiful Scar] Flowers, but never prod any Seeds in an Gardens, as I can hear of. may be raisd by fowing are brought from « their Seeds, come up: The young Plants fhould, when they they are ripe. This Plant is an Annual, and are five or fix Inches high, be carefully trantnever continues above one Year. This is the planted into Pots of light frefh Earth, and plung’d into a Hot-bed, obferving to fhade Species which is fometimes us’d in Medicine. "The third Sort is very commonin, Barbadoes, them from the Heat of the Sun, until they and manyother Parts of America ; it very have takenfrefh Root ; after which theyfhould often comes up in great Plenty in the Barth have Air given them, byraifing upthe Glafles that is brought from thence. ‘This is an annual in the Day-time when the Weatheris warm ; Plant, and muft be fown in a Hot-bed, and and in fxly and Auguft, they fhould have a managed as hath beendirected for the Bal/a- greater Share of Air, in order to harden them before Winter ; and in September, theyfhould mina, to which I refer the Reader. The fourth Sort is faid to grow in great be remov'd into the Stove, and during the Plenty about Montpelier : ‘This is fomewhat Winter-feafon fhould have but little Water like the firft Sort, and may be propagated by given them, for they commonly caft their fowing the Seeds foonafter they are ripe, which Leaves in Winter, and pufh them out freth will fowerthe fucceeding Summer, and after the fucceeding Spring. Thefe Plants may alfo te propagated by perfecting its Seeds decays. The fifth Sort is an abiding Plant, which planting Cuttings in any of the Summer with us feldom rifes above eighteen Inches Months, which fhould be put into Pots filld high, but hath woody Branches ; the Leaves with frefh light Earth, and plung’d into a are very white and foft, which renders them moderate Hot-bed of Tanner's Bark, obferving very agreeable whenintermix’d with different to fhade the Glaffes in the Heat of the Day, colour’d Plants in large Borders; but the and to give them gentle Refrefhings with Flowers have no great Beauty in them. This Water, asthe Earth in the Pots is found to Plant is very hardy, and will endure our dry. Intwo Months time thefe Cuttings will fevereft Cold in the open Borders, and may have fufficient Roots to tranfplant ; at which be propagated by planting Cuttings in any of time they muft be put each into a fingle Pot, and plung’d again into the Hot-bed, and mathe Summer Months. nag'd as was directed for the Seedling Plants. CONSERVATORY; vide Green-houfe. In four or five Years Time thefe Plants will CONVAL-LILY ; vide Lilium Conval- produce Flowers, if they are preferv’d in a moderate Warmth all the Winter ; forif they lium, are-kept too warm, they are fubjeét to grow CORALLODENDRON 5 ofKoe¢awor, Co- all the Winter, and the Shoots will be thereby val; and Sede, Gr. a Free} The Coral- drawn too weak to produce Flowers ; and if ‘Free. they are kept too cold, theyare liable to lofé The Charaéfers are ; their tender Buds which fhould produce the It hath the Appearance of a Tree: The Flowers: Therefore if they are kept up to the Leaves, for the moft part, confit of three Lobes: temperate Point mark’d on Mr. Fowler's TherThe Flowers are papilionaceous : The Standard mometer during the Winter Seafon, theywill (or Vexillium) is long, and foapd like a Sword: fucceed verywell. Lhe Wings on each Side, and the Keel (or The third Sort was rais’d from Seeds which Carina) are very foort : The Flowers are {uc- were fent from Carolina by Mr. Cateshy, Anno seeded by knobbed bivalve Pods, which contain 1724. This Plant feldom rifes above three al Kiduey-fbap’d Seeds. Feet high with us, and hath large knobbed The Species are ; Roots; the Flowers are produc’d in Spikes 1, ConnaLLopENpRon ; tryphillon, Ameri- upon the Branches, in the Summer Seafon, pinofum, flore ruberrimo. Tourn. The whenthe Plant is almoft deftitute: of Leaves, -leav’d American Coral-tree, with decp but never produces ripe Seeds with usred Flowers, commonly call’d in America the This Plant is fomewhat hardier than the Bean-tree, other two Species, and may be kept in a lefler 2. ConRALLODENDRON ; Americanum, non Degree of Heat in Winter, and be exposd to Spinefum, foliis magis acuminatis flore longiore : the open Air during the Months of Fane, July n, Coral arbor non [pinofa, flore longiore €3 magis fo. Sloan. Bes oe oe Gay tree without Spines, having fharp-p ointed Leaves and long Flowers, 3 Corn aLLopeNnpRon 3 Carolinianum, flo- ribus [picatis coccineis vadice craffiffimd. 'Thickrooted Carolina Coral-tree, with Scarlet I lowers growing in Spikes, The firft and fecond Species do grow with us and Auguft. Pointal of the Flower becomes a cylindrical Fruit, pard together, thoughI receiv’d the Seeds of whichis dividedinto five Cells which are fil'd this Kind from the Leyden Garden. with angular Seeds. , in a Hot-bed in the Spring of the Year, which will veryeafily Ihave not been able yet topro- pagate this Plant by Cuttings, but there is n° Doubtofits fucceeding as well as the other two Sorts. Thefe Plants are propagated by The Species are ; 1. Corcuorus ; five Melochia. FB. Common Jews Mallow. 2. Concuorus ; Americana, Carpini foliis, The Characters are ; a The Leaves are produced alternately at 1? Joints of the Stalks: The Cup of the Fixe conpiyts fowing their Seeds early in the Spring, in an openSituation ina Bed of good freth Earth i and whenthe Plants are come up, theyfhould be hoed out to about four Inches Diftance every fextuplici capfula pralongd, Pluk. American Jews Mallow, with Leaveslike the Hornbeam, with long Pods, 3. Corcuorus ; Americana pralongis foliis, capfula firiata {ubrotunda brevi. Pluk. American Jews Mallow, with long Leaves and fhort roundifh furrow’d Pods. 4. Corcuorus ; Orientalis, brevioribus foliis, flore flavo, frutiu Caryophilloide longiori. Pluk. Eaftern Jews Mallow, with fhort Leaves and long Pods fhap’d like a Clove. The firft Species, Rauwolffays, is fown in great Plenty about /eppo as a Pot-herb 3; the Fews boiling the Leaves of this Plant to eat with their Meat: This he fuppofes tobe the Olus Fudaicum of Avicenna, and the Corchorum of Pliny. The Varieties of this Plant are preferv’'d in curious Botanick Gardens to add to their Numberof Plants, but it being of no great CORINDUM ; [ of Cor the Heart, becaufe this Seed has a bright Spot refembling a Heart; and J) » becaufe it is brought from India. 'T nt is faid to be a very high Cardiac. It is alfo call'd E of xixnap@- a Veffel, becaufe the Fruit of t Plant refemblesa Kettle.] Heart-Peas. The Charaéfers are ; It hath a trailing Stalk, emitting Cli whereby it fafens it [elf to wh: ~ PI it ftands near : The Calyx (or Flower-cup) conSits o ce Leaves: The F f eight Le Zhe Os Biadder, dedinto thre Beauty or Ufe with us, is feldom propagated are conta in other Gardens. Theyareall of them Annual, and muft be fown on a Hot-bed early in the Spring, and afterward treated as the Female Bal/amine ; to Wayclearing them from Weeds; by which Management thefe Plants will grow {trong. and produce a greater Quantity of good Seeds, have frequent Waterings in dry Weather. Their Flowers are produced in ‘uve and 1 Seeds in The Species are ; 1. CorrnpuM ; folio am which I fhall refer the Reader for their Cul- jore. Tourn, ture. Theydelight in a rich Soil, and muft and Fruit. frutiu maz Heart-Pea ‘ta rge Leaves ; 2. Contnvuo; folio &frudtu minore Heart-pea, with {mall Leaves and Fruit, Fuly, and their Seeds ripen in September. by the Inbabitants of the Weft CORIANDRUM: [Koeidyt, of Kee, a : ae Gr. a Wood-loufe ; fo called, either.becaufe ithas Parfley. 3. Cortnpum; 3folio ampliffimo, fr GUEEES Je yore. Heart-pea, with very large Leaves, and the Scent of this Infeét, or, as others fay, be- fimall Fruit caufe itdrives away or kills them 3; and "Aphis, Gr. the J/fle where it grew plentifully.} Co- riander. Indies, ; : Thefe Plants are very common in Fan Barbad és, and moft ofthe other warm If] ands in the Wet Indies, where their Seeds are {cat- The Charatters are ; . It hath a fibrofe annual Root: The lower Leaves are broad, but the upper Leaves are deeply cut into fine Segments: The Petals of the Flower are unequal, and foap'd like a Heart: The Fruit is compos’d of two bemifpherical Cand ter’d and become Weeds all over the Country. They may be cultivated in Engic fowing their Seeds on a Hot-bed in J ) and whenthe Plants come up, they muft tranfplanted into a freth Hot-bed, where they may remainuntil the Middle of May ; at which Lometimes Spherical) Seeds, Time they maybe tran{planted into Pots or ‘The Species are ; Borders, and expos'd tothe open Air. Thefe 1, Cortanprum ; majus. C.B. Greater Plants will require Sticks to fupport them ; Coriander. 2. Conranprum3 minus, tefticulatum. C. B. otherwife their Branches will trail upon the Ground, and be apt to rot, (efpecially in a ' % Cortanpruom ; [ylvefire, fotidiffimum. dee eter, ao feaend ee ee ¥ the moft comoe lich is cultivated in the European ardens and Fields for the Seeds, which are Be onedict The fecondSort is lefs i n the firft, and is feldom foun this Plant ; it is chiefly preferved as a Rarity in the Gardens_of the Curious. It produces its Flowers in June, and the Seeds are perfected in Auguf. Smaller tefticulated Coriander. nae reneLean in thefe Parts of CORCHORUS ; Jews Mallow. Leyden Garden, is fo like the firft, that I could find no Difference between them when com- ee irg Ort as mention’d in Coe ee Pinax, and cited by the cerhaave, in his Catalogue of the wet Seafon.) ‘There is no great Beauty in CORK-TREE; vide Suber. CORN-FLAG; vide Gladiolus. rea t CORNICULATE PLANTS, [Plante Corniculate, or fuch as after each Flower produce |