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Show Om N I and may be propagated by fowing, their Seeds in March upon a Bedof light Earth, where they will come up, and may be tran{planted into any part of the Garden, they require. Fuly theywill produce Flowers, and their Seeds will ripenin J when they fhould be gather’d, and dry’d; then rub out each Sort feparately, and ‘preferve them in a dry Place. . The Seafon for fowing thefe Seeds is in NIGELLA; [fo call’d, as though Nigrella, from the Colour ofits Seed, becaufe the Seeds March, but if you fow fome of them in Ayguj of this Plant are for the moft part black. It foonafter they are ripe, upon a dry $ vil,and is alfo call’d Melanthium, of uéa@- black, and in a warm Situation, they will abide the altho’ the Winter, and flowerftrong the fucceeding Year; q. d. black ari@ a Flow by which Method they may be eodtingd Flower is not black. It is alfo call’d AZ mum, Of ubaas black, and omtpua Seed.) Fennel in Beauty moft part of the Summer. The fifth Sort is that which is moft comFlower, or Devil in a Bufh, monly cultivated in England, the Seeds of ers are; The Ch which are fold in the Seed Shops, but the up confifts of five Leaves, The Flo and branch out into other Sorts do deferve to be preferv’d as much spand in Formof a the Flower as that; for the various Sorts, when rightly all cularly, and intermix’d, do afford an agreeable Variety, y Leaves ‘orm of a Rofe, having many fhort Theyare all annual Plants, which perifh foon of after they have perfeéted their Seeds; which the Ce in ing the Ovary bh Ovary becomes a membrana- if permitted to {catter upon the Borders, will ing of feveral Cells, which come up without any farther Care. The with Horns on the Iop, and are Plants commonly grow about a Foot high, and if they have a goodSoil will fend forth many Branches, each of which terminates in a ies are 5 1. NicEtta; arvenfis cornuta. C..B. P. Flower. Wild horned Fennel-Flower. 2. Nicetra; latifolia, flore majore, fimplici etrtulea, C.B.P. Broad-leav’d Fennel-Flower, with a large fingle blue Flower. 3. NiceLta; anguftifolia, flore majore fimplicit eeruleo. C. B. P. Narrow-leav’d Fennel‘lower, with a large fingle blue Flower. 4. Niceria 5 angujtifolia, flore majore fim- NIGELLASTRUM ; vide Lychnis fegetum major. NIGHT-SHADE ; vide Solanum. NIL ; vide Anil. NISSOLIA; Crimfon Grafs-Vetch; vulgé. The Charaffers are ; It bath a papilionaceous Flower, like the Lant agrees in every re 5. Nicetta; fore majore, pleno ceruleo, thyrus, to which this in ie are C.B. P. Double blue Nigella, or Fennel- Jpett, excepting the Leaves, which produc’d fingly, and are not terminated by ClafpFlower. i albo. C.B.P, Narrow-leav’d Fennel- Flower, with a large fingle white Flower. 6. NicELias; flore minore, fimplici candido. C.B. P. Fennel Flower, with a fmall white fingle Flower. 7. NicEtta; flore minore, pleno & albo. C.B. P. Fennel-Flower, witha fmall double white Flower. 8. Nicerra; Orientalis, flore flavo, femine alato plano. T. Cor. Oriental Fennel-Flower, ers. There is but one Species of this Plant, whichis, § Nissoria 3 vulgaris. Tourn. Common Crim- fon Grafs-Vetch. 5 This Plant is found wild in feveral Parts i. © Sides England, growing commonly by the with a yellow Flower, and a flat-wing’d Foot-Paths, but is not very common near beLondon: I have gather’d it in a Field juft Seed. g. Nicetta ; hand Side of the Road, under the Hedge Park. Theat. Cretica, latifolia, Broad-leav’d, odorata. Sweet-{cented, Candy Fennel-flower. There are fome other Varieties of this Plant which are preferv’d in fome curious Botanick Gardens, but thofe here mention’d are what I have obferv’d cultivated in the Engli/h Gardens at prefent. All thefe Plants may be propagated by fow- ing their Seeds upon a Bed of light Earth, where they are to remain (for they feldom fueceed well if tranfplanted) ; therefore in order to have them intermix’d amoneft other annual Flowers, in the Borders of the Flower- Garden, the Seeds fhould be fown in Patches at proper Diftances; and when the Plants come up, you mutt pull up thofe which grow too clole, leaving but three or four of them in each Patch, obferving alfo to keep them clear from Weeds, which is all the Culture fore you come to Putaey- Common, on the Left- : which parts the Field from the Road. | This Plant may be cultivated by fowing the Seeds in Auguft, foon after they are Ben a dry Soil, and in a warm Situation, 4aad they will rife foon after, and endure oF a. of our Climate very well, and flower ee fucceeding Spring; but if you fow Had in the Spring, the Plants commonly decay a fore they come to flower, as I have ae times experienc’d: therefore you need on ie ale Jet the Seedsfall upon the Ground are ripe, andthey will grow without aa ther Trouble, but only to keep them clear Weeds. i ler than The Flowers of this Plant are fma he fame t st thofe of the Sweet Pea, but are much vue in Shape, andof a fine fcarlet Colour, being intermix’d in large Borders ae ey PF thefe and other annual Plants, it pusher arleltys Variety, and deferves a Place in every good Garden. ; NITRE is a kind of Salt impregnated with abundance of Spirits out of the Air, which renders it volatile. Monfieur Le Clerc gives us the following NO It is obfervable, how all Salts are wrought upon by Moifiure ; how eafily they liquidate and run with it: And when thefe are drawn off, and have deferted the Lumps wherewith they were incorporated, thofe muft moulder immediately, andfall afunder of courfe. The hardeft Stone, if it has any Salt mix’d Account of it: with the Sand of whichit confifts, upon being expos’d to an humid Air, in a Short time diffolves and crumbles all to pieces; and much of Knots and Stones. more will clodded Earth or Clay, whichis not Tt is made almoft in the manner that Salt is of near fo compact and folid a Conftitution as made, but only that they ufe Sea-water in their Stone is. Salt-works, and the Water of Nile about their If the Earth be never fo good, and fit for Nitre. the Produétion of Vegetables, little will come When the Wile retires, their Nitre-Pits ofit, unlefs the Parts of it be feparated and ftand foaking for forty Days together ; but as loofe ; and for this Reafon is the Ground digthe Ni/re is grown firm, they are in hafte to ged, ploughed, and harrowed, and the Clods carry it off, left ict fhould melt again in the broken : And it is this Way that Nitre, SeaPits: They pile itup in Heaps, and it keeps Jalt and other Salts promote Vegetation. very well. A certain Gentleman has given a Relation, The Me an Nitre grows ftrong, and That he dwelling in the Country, neara Peterthere are feveral Pits of Stone thereabouts : houfe, where fuch Salt-peter, as is brought Out of thefe they make Veffels, and fome they from abroad, is boil’d and refin’d to make melt down with Sulphur among their Coals. Gunpowder ; this being fo near as to commuThis fame Nitre they ufe alfo about fuch nicate the Steam of the Nive to the greateft Things as they would have to laft a long Part of the Orchard and Garden: And tho’ time. fome were of Opinion, that it injured his The Proof of the Goodnefs of Nitreis, that Trees and Plants, yet he found that it had a it be very light, very friable, and very near contrary Influence upon his Orchard, &e. in of a purple Colour. that it never fail’d to bring him a plentiful There is but little Difference between the Crop of Fruit every Year, although thofe natural and artificial Nitre; that the one about him had but very little, or fcarce any, refines itfelf, and the other is refined by Art, notwithftanding his Orchard, &c. was not lefs as Salt; and, indeed, all Nitre isa kind of expos’d to blighting Winds byits natural SituSalt, and hardly differs from Salt, properly fo ation than the other Orchards in the fame call’d, farther t.an in thefe refpeéts; that Town. From whence he judg’d, that the well-refin’d NVitve is more acid and lighter than nitrous Vapour which mixes with the Air that Salt, and eafily takes Fire. furrounds his Orchard, prevents Blights, and The Reafon of which Difference, he fays, is noxious to the Caterpillars. feems to be, The Lord Bacon, in his Natural Hijftory, 1. That the Angles at both Ends of the commends the Ufe of Nitre, for the Prefervaoblong Particles of Nitre are fhorter than the tion of Health in human Bodies ; and many Angles of the faline Particles. skilful Botaniffs have given it no lefs a Cha2. That the Particles of Nifre are finer and racter for the Prefervation of Vegetables, if fuller of Pores; which when the Particles of its Quantity be rightly proportion’d. Fire get in, they foonput the nitrous Particles That the Atmofphere does abound with into a Hurry, till they break to Pieces, and Jaline Particles, is moft certain ; for being fill’d turn to Flame. continually with Effuvia from Earth and Sea, 3. Nitre exceeds Salt in Lightnefs, becaufe it muft needs have from both a great Quantity the faline Particles contain more homogeneous of faline Corpufcles; and thefe will be of difMatter in the fame Compafs than the zi- ferent Kinds, according to the Variety of thofe trous do. Salts from whence they are deriv’d. In Egypt they make a great Quantity of it, but it is not fo good, for itis dusky, andfull _ Dr. Lifter tells us, He has view’d the Particles of Nitre through a Microfcope, and found them to have fix Angles, Parallelogram-fides, andpointed like a Pyramid at one End. some Authors are of Opiniion, That the 5 Salts feem to be affign’d by Natur fly for the Growth of Plants. Others differ from them in Opinion, and y, That when Nitre is contiguous to Plants, it rather deftroys than nourifhes them: But yet they allow, that Nitre and other Salts do certainly loofen the Earth, and feparate the concreted Parts of it, and by that means, fit anddifpofe them to be affum’d by Water, and Carry’d up into the Seed or Plants, forits Formation and Augment. NOLI ME TANGERE; vide Balfamina Mas. NONSUCH, or FLOWER OFBRI- STOL; vide Lychnis. NORTHERN ASPECT istheleaft favour able of any in England, as having very little Benefit from the Sun, even in the Height of Summer, therefore can be of little Ufe, whatever may have been advanc’d to the contrary ; for although many Sorts ofFruit-trees will thrive and produce Fruit in fiich Pofitions, yet fuch Fruit can beof little Worth, fi they are depriv’d of the kindly Warmth of the Sun to 5 z correct |