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Show LO “LO LO withering. or dying of many of their top The Characters are ; The Leaves are like thofe of the Fern, but Branches ; or if the Wet enters at any Knot: the Pinnule are ear'd at their Bafe: Ibe Fruit or they are anywife hollow, or difcolour’d . if they make but poor Shoots; ao is like that of the Fern. or if Wood. Peckers make any Holes in them. The Species are ; All Sorts of Refinous Trees, or fach as 1. Loncuit1s; a/pera. Ger. Rough Spleenabound with a Milky Juice, fhould be lop’d wort. 2, Loneurtis ; afpera, major, Ger. Emac. very {paringly ; for they are fubject to decay when often cut. The beft Seafonfor Lopping Greater Rough Spleen-wort, ; The firft of theie Plants is very commonin thefe Trees is foon after Bartholomew-tide, at fhady Woods, by the Sides of{mall Rivulets which Time they{eldom bleed much, and the in divers Parts of England: But the fecond Sort Wound is commonlyheal’d over before the is not quite fo common, and has been brought cold Weather comes on. into feveral curious Botanick Gardens from the Mountains in Wales. There are alfo great LOTUS : Birds-foot 'Trefoil. Variety of thefe Plants in America, which The Charaéters are ; at prefent are Strangers in the European GarIt hath a papilionaceous Flower ; the Ovary dens. They are feldom cultivated but in which rifes out of the Flower-cup, afterwards Botanick Gardens, for the fake of Variety, becomes a Pod, fometimes diftinguife'd as it were where they muft have a moift Soil, and a into Cells, by tranfverfe Partitions, which are fhady Situation. full of Seeds, for the moft part roundifh; to which may be added, the Leaves grow by Trees, LONGITUDINAL VESSELS inPlants, but have two Wings or little Leaves at the are fuch as are extended in Length through Origin of their Foot-ftalks. the woody Parts of Trees and Plants, into The Species are ; which the Air is fuppos’d to enter and mix 1. Lorus ; villofus, altiffimus, flore glomewith the Juices of the Plant and thereby rato. Tourn. The talleit hairy Birds-foot augment its Bulk. Trefoil, with a glomerated Flower. ; 2. Lorus ; pentaphyllus filiquofus, villofus. LOPPING: It is very obfervable, that C.8 P. Upright hoary Birds-foot Trefoil. moft old Trees are hollow within; which 3. Lotus; seavuntcar@, frute/cens, Cretica, does not proceed from the Nature of the Trees, but is the Fault of Thofe who have the Management of them, who fuffer the Tops to grow large before they Jop them, as the Alp, Elim, Horn-beam, &c, and perfuade themfelves that they may have the more great Wood; but, in the mean time, don’t confider that the cutting off great Tops do endanger the Life of a Tree, or, at beft, wound it fo that many Trees decay more yearly in their Bodies, than the yearly Tops come to; and at the fame Time that theyfurnifh themfelyes with more great Wood, they do it at the Lofs of the Owner. And, indeed, though the Horn-beam and Elm will bear great Tops when the Bodyis little more than a Shell, yet the Afo, if it comes to take Wet at the Head, very rarely bears more Top after the Body of the Tree decays : Therefore, if once thefe Trees decay much in the Middle, they will be worthlittle but for the Fire ; fo that if you find a Timber Tree decay, it fhould ar down in Time, that the Timber be not olt, The Lopping of young Trees, that is, at ten or twelve Years old at moft, will preferve them much longer, and will occafion the Shoots to gtowmore into Woodin one Year, than they doin old Tops at two or three. Great Boughs ill taken off, often fpoils many a Tree; for which Reafon they fhould always be taken off clofe and fmooth, and not parallel to the Hotizon; and cover the Wound with Loam and lorfe-dung mix’d, to prevent the Wet from entring the Body of the Tree. M hen ‘Trees are at their full Growth, there are feveral Signs of their Decay; as, the rgentea, filiquis longiffimis propendentibus rectis. Mor, Hift. Shrubby Silver Birds-foot Trefoil of Crete, with long ftrait hanging Pods. 4. Lorus ; hemor lalis, bumilior & can didior. To Lo and whiter Hemorthoidale Birds-foot Trefoil. 3. Lorus ; anguftifolius, flore luteo purpured, ex infula fantti Facobi. Hort. Amp. Nartowleav’d Birds-foot Trefoil from the Ifland of St. ‘Fames, with a purple yellow Flower. 6. Lotus; ruber, filiqua angulosa. C. B.P. Red. fquare-codded Birds-foot Trefoil, com mouly call’d Winged Peas. ee 4. Lorus; ruber, filiqua angulosa, folio variegato. Boerb. Ind. Red {quar codded Birds-foot Trefoil, with a variegated Leaf. 8. Lotus ; filiquis ornitbopodii. C. B. P. Birds-foot Trefoil, with Pods like a Birdsfoot. a The firft of thefe Plants is by fome fuppofed to be the Cyti/us of Virgil 5 but with how much Juftnef§ I will not pretend to determine, fince it is very difficult to afcertain manyof ‘ly Plants; for the greateft Part ofthemare only tranflated from Thescritus’s Greek into L fo that it may juftly be fuppofed that First himfelf did not know the Plants of which be wrote ; and whoever has a Curiofity to a what the Plants there mention’ are, thou diligently fearch for themin Sicily w here 7 bee critus lived, and it is very probable mz them areftill to be found. a . This Plant dies to the Ground withuse Winter, and rifes again the fucceeding »P and when the Roots are ftrong, the Sno will be four or five Feet high, and’ produce in great Plenty : If it be cut while young, the Cows are very fond of it ; but Hor/es will not eat it unlefs they are very hungry. The Roots when ftrong, will admit of the Shoots being cut three or four times in a Summer, for they put out again foon after they are cut, and grow very ftrongin a fhort time ; but this Plant does not come up before 4prii in our Country, and commonlydies downin O¢fober, fo that if it were the beft Fodder for Cattle, it could only be obtained in Summer, for I am afraid it will hardly be of any ufe when dried. It may be propagated from the Seeds, which are generally produced in great Plenty, and muft be fown very thin in Rows, at about under, the Beginning of ; and in May, when the Plants wiil be come up, the Ground fhould be hoe'd between the Rows, in order to deftroy the Weeds, and the Plants cut up, where they are too thick (for they fhould be eight or ten Inches apart in the Rows at leaft) for though theywill appear but weak at their firft coming up, yet when their Roots have taken faft hold of the Ground, theywillincreafe their Strength greatly, for I have had a fingle Root of this Plant which has been a Foot diameter over the Crown, and hath produced above a Hundred Shoots at one time. You muft alfo continuing hoeing the Ground from time to time as the Weeds are produced, which if permitted to over-grow the Plants while they are young, will certainly deftroy them ; fo that the firft Seafon they muft be managedwith great Care, but afterwards when the Plants have obtain’d more Strength, they will be capable of encountering the Weeds ; though then the Ground between the Rows LO Air, where they muft be placedin fome wellfhelter’d Situation, amongft other exotick Plants, in which Place they may remain until the Middle or End of O following, when they muft be removedinto the Green-houfe, obferving to place them where they mayhave as much free Air as poffible in mild Weather, for if they are kept too clofely fhut up, or ftand under the Branches of other Trees or Plants, they are very apt to draw very weak, and decay {oonafter ; they mutt alfo be often refrefh’d with Water, but it fhould not be given them in Winter in too great Quantities, for that will rot their Roots, efpecially of the fifth Sort, which, as I before faid, is the tendereft: In the Spring they fhould be inured very early to the open Air, into which they fhould always be remov'd at the Beginning of May, or earlier, according as the Seaton proves favourable. Thefe mayalfo be propagated by planting Cuttings, in any of the Summer Months, into a Bed oflight Earth, obferving to water and fhade themuntil they have taken Root ; after which they may be planted into Pots fill’d with light frefh Earth, and muft be managed as was directed for the Seedling all produce their Flowers in /une, Auguft, and moft of them ripen t very well in England: But the fifth Sort, which is the moft r. and produces the handfomelt Flowers, feldom perfects Seeds with us, {o that it muft be always propagated from Cuttings; and in Winter mutt be placed fomewhat warmerthan the other Sorts, tho” not too near other Plants ; and fhould be every Year renew’d from Cuttings; for the old Plants are very fubjeét to decay in Win~ ter. The fixth Sort is an annual Plant, which, by manyPeople, is fown here and there, upon fhould be ftirr’d with a Breaft-ploughafter the the Borders of the Flower-Garden, with other Cropis cut down, which will greatly promote fmall Annuals, amongft which it makes a its Growth. pretty Variety. This Plant delights in a dry, barren, graThe Flowers of this Plant (which are in velly Soil, on whichit will refift the fevereft Form of a Pea-bloffom) are of a deep-red Cold of our Climate, and abide manyYears. Colour, and are fucceeded by Pods with four It may alfo be propagated byplanting Cut- Angles or Wings (which occafion’d their be~ tings orSlips taken from the old Plants in uly, when they have acquired a Hardnefs, which fhould be planted ina moift, cloudy Seafon, or water’d and fhaded, and in a fhort time y will take Root; butas this is difficult to perform when a Quantityis defign’d, fo the etter wayis to propagate it by Seeds. The fecond, third, fourth and fifth Sorts are preferved in Gardens as Curiofities ; thefe are impatient of much cold, and muft therefore be planted in Pots, and houfed in Winter, twife they are often deftroy’d in our Country, efpecially the fifth, which is much the tendereft Plant of all the Sorts: Thefe maybeall propagated by fowing their Seeds upon a moderate Hot-bed in the Spring, and when the Plants are come up, they muft be tranfplanted either upon another moderate Hotbed, or into Pots, and plung’d into a Hotbed, to promote their taking Root, after which in May they thould be removed into the open y ing cal’d Wing’d Peas) containing feveral hard round Seeds, It is eafily propagated by fowing the Seeds in March or April upon the Borders where they are to remain; for they donot thrive fo well when tran{planted : And theywill require no farther Care than only to keep them clear from Weeds. In June they will begin to flower, and continue *till uguj?, when their Seeds will ripen foonafter. The feventh Sort is only a Variety of the fixth, from which it differs in having a variegated Leaf; this Difference it commonly retains from Seeds, which is what few other Plants will do. ‘This may be propagated as the former. The eighth Sort is only preferv’d in fome Gardens, more for the Oddnets of its Pods, (which very much refemble a Bird’s Foot) than for any particular Beauty of the Plant : But in a large Garden it may be admitted, for the |