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Show — i HY HO tender Exotick Plants or Fruits, which require an even Degree of Warmth to be continu'd an equal Diftance from the Glaffes , but al appear much handfomer to the Sight: And although many People make their Frames for feveral Months; which is what cannot be effetted by Horle-du he Manner of deeper than what I have allotted, yet ] am fully perfwaded, that wherethere is but making thefe Beds is as follows: Heicht You mutt dig a Trenchin the Earth about enough to contain the Plants, without bruifine three Feet deep, if the Ground be dry ; but their Leaves, it is much better than to allow if wet, it muft not be above a Foot deep at a larger Space; for the deeper the Frame js moft, and muft be rais'd two Feet above- made, the lefs will be the Heat ofthe Air in. ground. The Length muft be proportion’d clos'd therein, there being no artificial Warmth to the Frames intended to cover it; bue that but what the Bark affords, which will Not heat fhould newer be lefs than eleven or twelve a large Space of Air; and as the Pine-Ap ple Feet, and the Width not lefs than fix, which requires to be conftantly kept very warm, in is but a fufficient Body to continue the Heat. order to ripen the Fruit well, fo ir will be found, This Trench fhould be brick’d up round the Sides to the above-mentioned Size of three Feet, and fhould be fill’d in the Spring with upon Trial, that the Depth I Jow’d will anfwer that Purpofé better haye al. than a greater, But if the Bed be intendedfor taller Plants then the Frame muft be made in Depth proportionable thereto: But ifjt be for fowing of fhould be laid in a round Heap for three or Seeds, the Frame need not be above fourteen four Days before it is put into the Trench, Inches high at the Back, and feven Inches that the Moifture maythe better drain out of deep in the Front, by which Means the Heat it, which, if detain’d in too great a Quantity, il be much greater: will prevent its Fermentation ; then put it the Proportion allow’ Andthis is commonly d to the Frames ufually into the Trench, and gently beat it down made ufe of in the Kitchen-Gardens. Asto equally with a Dung-fork: But it muft not their Length , that is generally according to be trodden, which would ‘alfo prevent its the Fancyof the Owner, but they commonly heating, byfettling too clofe: Then you mutt contain three Lights each, which is in the put on the Frame over the Bed, covering it Whole abouteleven Feet in Length, though with the Glaffes, and in about ten Days ora fometi mes they are made to contain four Fortnight it will begin to heat, at which Time vights, but this is too great a Length ; the you mayplunge your Pots of Plants or Seeds Frames thus made are not {0 handyto remove into it, obferving not to tread down the Bark as when they are fhorter, and are more fubject in doing of it. to decay at their Corners. Some, indeed, have A Bed thus prepar’d (if the Bark be new, them to contain but two Lights, whichis very and not ground too fimall) will continue in handyfo a r raifing Cucumber and Melon Plants good Temper of Warmth for fix Months; and while young ; but this is too fhort for a Barkwhen you find the Heat decline, if you ftir up bed, as not allowing Room fora proper Quanthe Bark again pretty deep, and mix a Load tity of Bark to continue a Warmth or two of frefh Bark amongft the for any old, it will confiderable Time, as was before mention ’d; caufeit to heat again, and preferye its Warmth but for the other Purpofés, one or two fuch two or three Months longer: There are Frames are very convenient, People who lay fome hot Horfe-Dung man in the Asto thofe Frames which are made very Bottom of the Trench under the Bark, to deep, itis much the better Way to have them caufe it to heat, but this is what 1 would never made to take afunder at the four Corners , {0 practife, unlefs I wanted the Bed fooner than that they may be remov’d with Eale, otherwife the Bark would heat of its felf, and then I it will be very difficul t to take the Frame off would put but a {mall Quantity of Dung at whenthere is Occafion to put in new Bark, of cae Hee to make it heat too take out the old. The Manner of making y, and y cafion its lofing the Heat thefe Frames is generally known, or maybe fooner than ordinary, and there will never be much better conceiv’d any Danger of the Bark’s heating, by feeing than if it be new can be exprefi'd in Writing, therefothem re I {hall and not put into the Trench too wet, though forbear faying any thing moreon frefh Tanners Bark, @. ¢. fuch as the Tanners have lately drawn out of their Vats, after they have us‘d it for tanning Leather) which (ib dha Ali Ja TS Ry than otherwife it would be. For deftroying of Weeds: Secondly, Becaulé nefs, and addeth a Vigour Be oe eae be three Feet the Trees, whole high, Fruit by that means becomestobetter condition aa i eet ing to thelr Ween ee ently Pe accord~ 5 is usd, HYACINTHUS; [‘Yaxiw'G., Gr.] Hya- 12, Hvacinruus, Orientalis, flove pleno, caruleo-purpurco, clavo longo, petalis modice reflexis. Boerb. Ind. Double blue Oriental Facinth, with a long Style, and the Plants moderately reflex’d, commonly call’d 'The Double Cardinal. 13. Hyacintuus, Orientalis, flore pleni- fimo, albo, intus eleganter rofeo, clavo conito, obtufo, petalis valde reflexis. Bo The moft double Oriental Facinth, with a white Flower of an elegant Rofe-colour in the Middle, and the Petals greatlyreflex’d, commonly call’ The King ofGreat Britain, 14. Hyactnruus, Orientalis, fore pleni[= fimo, candidiffimo toto & intus, clavo con £05 obtufo, petalis valde reflexis. Boerb. Ind. The moft double Oriental Facinth, with a pure white Flower, and the Perals greatlyreflex’d, commonly call’d ‘The QueenofGreat Britain. 15. Hyacintuus Orientalis, flore pleno, latteo, lituris carneis, clavis longis. Boerb. Ind. Double Oriental Facinth, with a Milk-colour’d Flower ftreak’d with a pale Red, commonly calVd Claudius Albinus, cinth or Jacinth. The Charaéters are ; It hath a bulbous Root ; the Leaves are long 16. Hyactnruus, Orientalis, and narrow; the Stalk is upright and naked, fimo carneo, lituris rofeis, clavo conico Io the Flowers growing on the upper Part in a intus rofeo, petalis valde reflexis. Boer Spike; the Flowers confift each ofone Leaf, are The moft double Oriental Facinth, with a naked, tubulofe, and cut into fix Divifions at Flefh-colour’d Flower ftreak’d with a Rofethe Brim, which are reflex’d; the Ovary becomes colour, and the Petals greatly refex’d, coma roundifo Fruit with three Angles, which is monly call'd Apollo. divided into three Cells that are fill’d with 17. Hyacintuus, Orientalis flore pleno roundifo Seeds. {quallide candido, clavo ad bafin utriculato, The Species are ; longo, petalis valde reflexis. Boerb. Ind. Double 1. Hyacintuus, Anglicus, flore ceruleo. Oriental Facinth, with a dirty white Flower Ger. Blue Englifh Hair-bells. and reflex’d Petals, commonly cali’d Agaath 2. Hyactnruus, Auglicus, flore albo, Ger. Mignon. White Englifh Hair-bells. 18. Hyactntuus, Orientalis, flore plenif3. Hyactnruvus, Anglicus, flore incarnate. fimo, albo, pauxillo carnei admifto, cl on Flefh-colour’d Englifh Hair-bells, angulofo, plano, ore ampliffimo. Boerb. Ind 4. Hyacinraus, Orientalis, brumalis, pra- Double Oriental Facinth, with a Flower intercociffimus, flore albo. Boerb. Ind. 'The earlieft mix’d with very little Fleth-colour’d Spots, White Oriental Hyacinth, commonly calfd commonly cali'd Claudius Civilis. Januarius, 19. Hyactnruus, Orientali 5. Hyacinruvs, Orientalis, brumalis, flore pallidé ceruleo. Boerb, Ind. Oriental Facinth, with a pale blue Flower, commonly cai?'d The Imperial. 6. Hyactntuvus, Orientalis, albus primus. petalis maxime reflexis. rh. Tne riental Facinth, witha very double, red Coral-colour’d pure white Flower, and the Bottom ofthe een: Dat i teen Inches, which will be fo that by other Things it will noc ftick to; but it may be calf'd a moift Liquor in refpect to Gold, Lead or Tin, to the Surfaces of which it will prefently adhere. _ Nay, Water it felf, that wets almoft every thing, and is the great Standard of Humidity or Moifture, is not capable of wetting every thing, for it ftands, and runs eafily off in globular Drops on the Leaves of Cabbages, and manyother Plants, and will not wet the Feathers of Ducks, Swans, and other Water-Fowl. And it is very plain, that it is only the Texture that may caufe the Fluid to be humid, becaufe neither Qusck/ilver alone, nor Bifmuth will ftick upon Glafs; yet being mix’d together, they will form a MafS that will ftick on it, as is very well known in the foliating of Looking-glaffes, in which fuch a Compofition commonly call’d The Pulchra. HOUGHING or HOEING, is neceffary it difpofes the Groundthe better to imbib Night Dews, and keep it in a conftant Frefh- the Thus Quickfilver is not a moift Liquor, in re{pect to our Hands or Cloaths, and many 11. Hyacinruvs, Orientalis, multiplici flore pallidé incarnatus. H. L. Double Oriental Facinth, with a pale Fleth-colour’d Flower, and beneficial to Plants, fortwo Things, Fin, this Head. The Frames which coverthefe Beds, fhould be Proportion d to the feyeral Plants they are defign’d to contain 3 for Example, if they are to cer the Ayana or Pine-Apple, the back willabooteh the Backfide Plants ther pe igh €nough an to contain Sider be ont i Fruit, and the lower cular Bodies as it is capable of adhering to. Flower, and the Petals greatlyreflex’d, commonly call'd Coralline, C. B. Common Oriental Facinth, with a 20. Hyacinruvus, Or White Flower, i fimo, candidiffimo, in fundo ori 7. Hyacinruus, Orientalis, major, pracox, Jud. Oriental Facinth, with a very double it may fometimes be a Fortnight or more ee foreit acquires a fufficient Warmth, b ut then the Heat will be more equal and lafting Congruity of the component Particles of any Liquor to the Pores or Surfaces of fuch parti- Hwy HUMIDITY, is the Qyality commonly call’d Moifiure, or the Power ofwetting others, which Quality fome Liquors and Fluids are endow'd with, and it differs very much from eignt, they will not only have Fluidity, in that it depends altogether on the Congruity ( s Zimbul Indi. Park. Par. 'The Great Oriental Facinth, commonly cal’d Zimbul Indi. 8. Hyactnruus, Orientalis, maximus, flore 5 polyanthus. H.R. P. The aftern ‘Facinsh, with many Flowers € of afine blue Colour. f YACINTHUs, Orientalis, flore pleno cael purpuro-violaceo. Park. Par. The double blue Oriental Facinth, lo. Hyacinruus, Orientalis, candidiffimus, Park. Par. The whitith double Rim of a Rofe-colour, commonly call'd The Queenof Flowers, 21. Hyactntruus, Orientalis, fimo candidiffimo, petalis anguftis &9 mi UtiS. Oriental Facinth, with a very dou pure white Flower, withnarrowfharp-pointed Petals, commonly call’d The King of Flowers. 22. Hyacinruus, Orientalis, flore plen fimo, candidiffime, toto, clavo conico, petalis maxime reflexis, caule 8 flore maximis Boerb. Ind. Oriental Facinth, with a very double white Flower, and the Petals very much re- flex’d, |