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Show F I and drop their Leaves. You muft alfo obferve to pick off all decay *d Leaves as often as they appear, which, if fuffer’d to remain upon the Plants, would communicate a Diftemper to them, and be very apt to rot them. You fhould alfo give them frequent Waterings i mild Weather, efpecially {uch of ’em Woody: but do not give ‘em too once ; for vente the Earth, in Pots w placed in the Houfe, is too ie with Moifture, it will not dry the Winter- feafon, for want ofthe Be the Sun and Air, which are the two ftruments in diffipating Gea oa; andthis is often the intire DeftruGion of the Plant: whilft onthe other hand, fomePeople, out of too grea Care to thefe Plants, let them fuer for want c aa fa Ty Ficus ; fativa, fruélu The Flowers of this Plant are of no great Beauty ; but the Oddnefs of the whole Plant pea it worthy of a Place in everycurious Tourn. f va, ¢ Plants of little r ies but in intus The rift, ad, and feen flower, alt! of each Kind in divers Ga Plant Wife Sort which Jordera t was fet very thick with Buds in every part of the Plant, late esnt z fudden, fl _ee Ww h10) e P of Water andfree Air in Winter, under a No- 18 1Vas patient of the leaft Cold or Moifture: whereas frutlu magno, ‘Tot ndo, W bite ”Tur key F ig, with dee } 16. Ficvs, leviter aiat fativa, frutu ferotino. Tourn. white Pulp. Cretica, fol io non divifo, T. Cor. The Cand i a warm Border for two or three Winters which prov’d mild ; and fuch ofthefe Plants assh 1 thus enduredthe Cold, produc *d a muchgrea er Quantity of Flowers, than thofe w hich hyd been preferv'd in a Stove with great Care: in Flower: but their is ging themtenderly in Winter, that we annually loft fo manyofthem; for fince I hay trea- from chief Seafon April to § ihe) produce good Seeds : but 4 eldomfail ted ‘em ina different Manner, I have rarely to take Root, fothey ed by Seeds in England. loft a fingle Plant. The three laft-mention’d Sorts are Annuals, and require to be fown every Year. The 38th Sort is a very beautiful Plant, being all over fet very th ick with tranfparent Cryftal-like Drops, as if cover’d with fmall Ificles ; from whence it is by fome call’d the Frofty Ficoides fandy Earth, and plung’d into another Hotbed ; and as that Hot-bed declines its Heat, they fhould be remov’d into a third Hot-bed 2 whichwill bring them forwardtowards Flo ering ; and in Guly thefe Plants may beexposd to the open Air by degrees, by which pune their Flowers will appear,and be hereby ender'd age:and capable to producee good Sie: but youfhould always confinein {mall Pots fuch BiJants as you defign for Seed, never {uffering them to root through the Hole in the Bottom ofthe Pot into the Ground, which would occafion their growing to be much larger and ftronger Plants: but then their Strength would be diverted from the SeedVeflelsto nourifh and produce ftrong Shoots : fo that it feldom Beppcns that the.{trongeft lants produce good Seeds. But if you would have fome ofthefe Plants of a1large Growth, he se) edof ee out ef ae Pots iinto an Roscana te nners Bar K, where ‘their ave er ee i sat rege to a confiderth toch 2 Bell whe ea one of thefe Plants » which has fpread above a Yard the open Air Culture or Managen I be obferv'd, is, to eut out a ing Branc more= Ttree other, that the Middle be too much crowded beft Seafon for this Work ] Fruit is for the moft part t andglobular, 01 of an Oval Shape, is “oy, you fhould alfo diveft th j r Crop ofFi God ‘Tree Sorts are cultivated in their Fruits, which are tho’ y they are often xpos d, where few other ¢ gland Fruit, compard no the South1 aa Italyy abo hopd that in a few with moft of their ct ve fee yearly, that gre come to relifh ’em. ent to the Propagation of 1e Unskilfulnefs of the Exg heir Culture and Manage1 with an Account Pruning of The Species are; Ficus ; fativa, ae intus rubente. Tourn. violaced, ‘Thelong BlueFig. The early White Fig, by Jom . arfeilles Fig. Ficus; fativa, fruftu globofo, To and my i€if, { we fou which weredivefted fon, remain d perfe Fruit in Plenty the ft nches ofthe fa Fruit were left, were almoft deftroy’d in the Winter, The Reafon for my making choice of this Seafon, that time they are not fo fubj and the Wounds then made {mooth, will heal over in a ft 5 it muft be done early in the Aut the Froftty Weather comes on, be very Wounds were mac next treat of the Methods Ficus; fativa, fruétu oblongo, albo me Tourn. Thelong WhiteFig a . Ficus ; fativa, frutlu pracott, ane Tourn. to remain upon Froft, r tender made by a of a fweet Tafte The great round White F . Ficus ; fativa, oh ulin parvo, ies Tbtirn. The {mall Brown F Ficus; fativa, fruétu long inigro, ints purpurafcente. Tourn. longblack Fig. a Ficus ; fativMay fru lobofo, ente. The Branteice Fig. 8. Ficus;3 fativa, fruftu tundo, albido, firiato, itu as little un desbond, not only in Eng land, and moft oth eee Num ; lg in Tubs ot Winter preferv’d in Green Ges, LlMyrtles &c. This indeed maybe< good Method to obtain early F they are rightly manag’d; which, can hardly be done, if ir 1ix’d witl Kinds of Tre Br apt to mould and cient Quantityoffree ae fhould always have in open fides, the Fruit will be Ver} in the Seafon, efpecially Houle kept warm whereby they will be li to many Accidents in the Spring of the So that, upon the whol I would never advife this Praétice i d, unlefs in fuch Places where ean open airy Gla{s—Cale, im which there are no other Sorts of Plants Therefore the fureft Method is, to pl ‘em againft warm Walls, and upona dry Mi mm i rome u this is w Plants, v more fubje& gain, than thofe rais’d lich are byfar the beft rooted anc Plants :, Therefore I wo choice of the latter Method, I are very fy to be for if you lay down it to ch is becat apt to be Winter fhould moilt into which Roundifh White- ftrip’d Fig. 9. Ficus; Sativa, fruilu u: culo infidente. Tourn. The Green’ Fi aea {tony Bottom, ho’ a ftrong 10. Ficus ; fativa, frufu parvo, Jeromn? a prodigious Size. eaves and a Brar anches were of albido, intus rofeo, mellifi facera. The Marfeilles F will not be in fuch fqua re. and the Le il the Leaves be gin to de every Col~ Ie&ion of Pl as are all he Dwarffucculent Sorts, for their Oddnels; and fomeof them producebeautiful Flowers, tho’ not in fuch Plenty as the former. Thee are, fome or other of their Sorts, andit hath been chiefly owing to our mana- TheSeeds of this Plant fhould be fown very early in the Spring upon a good Hot-bed ; and whenthe Plants are come up, they muft be plantedinto {mall Pots fill'dwith frefh light Trees whi ards with undivided Leaves, falfely cal in fa, they are very ee and are feldom deftroy’d with lefs Cold than hard Froft ; for I have had fome Sorts endure the open Air in "Situ ation; not und magis diffeétis. arp e great cana, latiovi folio ve nofo, The Broad-leav’d tionof their being fo very tender,as to beim- ¥ On a poor and dry Soil. Trees fhould alway. iolaceo, Ficus; fativa, frutiu magno, rotundo, fpadiceo, circa umbilicum dehifcente, fuave rubei Garid. The Rofe Fi; 14 pe$3 of the 2 jruitu majori, Great long Violet Garde The 39th iand goth Sorts Beauty, and Plenty, nor fo well tafted,| ee flavef The Yellow Ree |