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Show MU form’d the fooner, and fpreads over all the y concomes arts, and the Stock trength nected with the Root and Vigour to the Root, and likewife facilitates it, Mummy: 'The fame Author di¢ this as follows : Fill a large Kettle or earthen Pot about a third Part ful them off the Fire, and let them ftand ‘till they have done fmoaking, and when cool you may, with a Bru fh, plaifter the Inci fions which are madefor Inoculation, Graft- t Foreft Mu : The fame Author directs the makingit as follows :: Take three Pounds of common Turpentine, and four Pounds of common Pitch, melt the Turpentine over the Fire, and ha beaten the Pitch to a Powder, throw it in ; when they are well mix’d together, and grown pretty thick it off and| it for Ufe. This Compofition may be either made up intolittle Sticks, like thofe of Sealing-Wax, tobe made ufe ofonlittle Trees, or it may be kept in little Pots, and melted over a flow Fire, when there is Occafion to ufe it; a 1 ov Half-moon Shield, and f Brufh in it you may plaifter edts little narrow-pointed The Calix paffes into a cucumber uit, that is foft, flefoy, covered with The Speciesare ; ove SACs ff cucumerino , Longiort, Pluwm. Nov. Gen. 'ThePlantain-tree, vilgs, Nios 3 candice masulato, fruttu recto, Jo, breviore, odorato, Sloan, Cat. Banana-tree, p whenae Ope on is to beserbosthd, is in the the Year, yet thofe Months are proper Seafons for it. The only hefays, is, what is | November, Time of t moft ference, ed in tl will fhoot out in F , and what is is ple anted mn comes not forth ’till the Month of April, The aforefaid Author mentions great Performances byuffingg thele Mummies ; thof who have a Mind to be fatisfied may perufe his Treatife, : MUSA: 'The Plaintain-Tree. The Charaéters are; Mofais a kind of Plant with a polypetalous. > anom‘alo us Flower 5 the upper Pet c Aoar @ little Boat, and sien at the Summ anySoil or Situation, but beft in that which is warm and dry. greatly coveted by way of Defert, being fofter and more lufcious to the Tafte, but is not fo Theyare carefully cultivated by the Planters in the Weft-Indies, who plant *em in low, rich Ground, bythe Sides of Gul- Thefe Plants do rife to be fifteen or twenty they produce Fruit moft Parts of Year. In England theyare only preferved as Curiofities, where they muft be conftantly kept ina Bark-Stove ; for though they may be kept alive in another warm Stove, yet they will makevery little Progrefs therein, and do not appearhalf fo beautiful, their chief Ornament being the Largenefs of their Leaves, which are fometimes four Feet long, and near two Feet broad ; but as thefe Plants take up a great deal of Roomin the Stove, efpecially when theyarrive to a confiderable Size, fo it are of the quickeft Growth of any Vegetable yet known. PpUSCA RI: Musk, or Grape Hyacinth ; a he It bath p into fix Segments vbich are rees a triangular Fruit, Summer Seafon thefe Plants 1; arvenfe, juncifolinm, minus, light. Common lefler blue Grape- but in the Winter they mutt the Plants, for their Roots generally extend pretty far ; and the Earth {fhould berick A and ‘I he Degree of Heat with which thefe Plants thrive beft, is much the fame withh the 5 or Pine fe, in whichI have feen this Plant feven or eight Feet high, but nevet could obferve any Tendency to produc e Fruit, nor do I believeit pee to bring the Fruit of this Plant to any tolerable Perfection in England, the Plant requiring a great dca more Room and Height than our Stoves 4 prefent will admit, as alfo a greater Share 0 Air than can be given to ’emin Wit 1 Country. Thefe Plantsare eafily fpropagated, byecu ting off an old Plant near the Ground, will occafion their fhoot out fev a al y ones from the Root wvhich is the| they are propagated in the hot Cou that after a Spot of Groundis once with ’em, they will continue fev the old Plant producing one f Fruit from the Center, when and cut off, th ral young one The third Sort is a very defpicable Flower, to Appearance, but is chiefly prefery’d for its minus. arvenfe, juncifolium, exal4. Leffer whitifh Grape- gg or Mufcary. Mus ARI; obfoletiore flore, ex purpu . Musk Hyacinth or Grape- ae, of a worn out purple-greenifh Colour. 4 Muscart; ce@ruleum, majus. Tourn. Greater blue Mu/cary or Grape-flower. §. Muscarr; arvenfe, Jatifolium, purpu- 5. is alfo increas’d as the former, and produces its Flowers much about the fame Seafon. The fourth, fifth, and fix Sorts are alfo preferved in curious ‘Gardens for Viariety, bu neither of thefe have much Sweetnefsin their Flowers ; thefe are alfo propagated by Off-fets as the former, but produce their Flowers later in the Seafon, The proper Seafon for taking up the Roots of thefe Flowersis in Fume, whentheir Leaves are decay'’d; at which Timethey fhould be {pread upon Mats, ina dryPlace, for a Fortnight, until their Bulbs be dry’d, when they maybe laid up, each Sort byit felf, until the Beginning of Oéfober, which is the Seafon for Planting moft of thofe bulbous-rooted Flowers ; Roots fhould never be permitted to remain longer than two Years unremoved, for they multiply fo faft, that the Number oftheir Off-fets Confumption of Moifture, byPerfpiration, in The Pots in which thefe Plants are placed fhould belarge, in proportion to the Siz¢ of common Hyacinth, and will thrive in almoft and the various Sorts of thefe maythenbe intermix’d amongft other Flowers of the fame Growth, where, in the Seafon of their FlowerPitcher, ing, theyafford an agreeable Variety. Thefe is not convenient to keep more than onePlant hot Weather Sir Hans Sloane fays, one may almoft fee them grow; he cuta young Tree even at the Top with a Knife, which immediately grew up difcernably, and in an Hour’s Time the middle Leaves, which were wrapped up within the others, were advanced above them half an Inch. pul Vis firft, and is preferved by fuch who are curious in Flowers, though it isa Plant of no great uncommon Sweetnefs ; this muchefteem’d for Food. produce their Fruit, and then decay: They be water'd more {paringly, though at that Seafon they muft be often refrefh’d, but it mutt not be given em in fuch Quantities. Months of Seg A er, and though it may facceed well at any is by the Inhabitants greatly preferr’d to the other, which is accounted a very pleafant Fruit, when ripe, and is by many Perfons and /Vef-Indies, as alfo in moft hot Countries e Part of the Aloes ; when thefe arewell mix’d, into fi e R ale , or Plaifters, or ducing a much larger Bunch of Fruit, Beauty ; this is propagated by Off-fets, as the It is the firft of thefe Species which is chiefly cultivated in the /Ve/?-Indies, that pro- Feet high in the Wef-Indies, to which Height mutt beplenti fully water’d, for the Surface of their Leaves being large, occafions a great then addto it half a Pound of Virand half an O of pounded June. The fecond Sort is lefs common than the they generally arrive in about ten Months from their firft planting, foon after which they of the World. duces its Flowers in April and May, and if permitted to remain, will produceripe Seeds in rious Size and Age, which produce their Fruit fucceffively, in like manner. Thefe Plants are very commoninthe Haf pure Pitc n, fuch as is > Virgin Pitch, and add to ood Turpentine ; put ot, and fet them entine may evaporate, otherwife it would be very prejudicial to Trees and Roots: Prove it as you did the former, to know when it is which being produced one after another, fucceflively, affords the Inhabitants Plants of va- 'The of each kind During the , or G t two a Skin, divided, as it were, into three Locy. laments, in which there appear, as it were, fome Rudliments of Seeds. of comme yn Black Pitch, and add to it a little fine Rofin, or fulphurated nh, and a € i ae Wz melt thefe her “till they become liquid, then take ing, &e. G rd one pellated, or in the Zourn. Broad-leavd Mu/car ', with a purplifh Flower. panicula, comofa, purpuroThefeather’ d Hyacinth ; would greatly weaken the blowing Roots, and caufe their Flowers to be very fmall; and the firft Sort, which increafes fo plentiful ly, would fill the Borders with Off-fets, fo as not to beclear’d out again. MUSCIPULA ; vide Lychnis. MUSCOSE, MUSCOSUS; abounding with Mof. Moffy, or MUSCOSITY ; Moffinefs. MUSCUS ; Mofs. Thefe, though formerly fuppos’d to be only Excrefcencies produced from the Earth, Trees, €&c. yet are no lefs perfect Plants than thofe ofgreater Magnitude, having Roots, Branches, Flowers, and Seeds, but yet cannot be propa- gated from the latter by any Art. The Boranifts diftingufh thefe into feveral ‘a, under each of which are feveral Spe90. There are fome other Varieties of this Plant cies; but as they are Plants of no Ufe or ch are preferv’d in the curious Flower- Beauty, fo it would be to no purpofeto enuGardens in Holland but thofe here mention are what I have obfervd in merate them in this Place. Thefe Plants chiefly flourifh in cold Countries, and in the Winter Seafon, and are many times veLY, injurious, to Fruit- trees, which uglifb Gardens. firft Sort is very commonin moft old 1s, where, byits plentiful Increafe, it growuponcold, barren Soils, a where theyare thefree Accefs of become fo troublefome as to renderit little fo clofe planted as to exclude {teem’d ; for when once thefe Roots have Air: The only Remedy in fuch Cafes is to cut 1 Poffeffion of a Garden, theyare fcarcely down Part of the Trees, and plough up the cated afterward; the fmalleft Off- Ground between thofe left remaining, and in wing, althou gh they are buried a Foot the Spring of the Year, in moift Weather, the Surface of t und. ‘Thispro- you fhould, with an ircaa Inftrument made a 5 Tr little |
