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Show OC oC and, if you don’t dig the Borders, you mutt gentlyftir the Surface of them, and rake *em over, which will render them handfomer all the Winter-feafon. Fri You have yet the Bi Peaches, Grapes, and Black late Plants now ing in the Pleafure-Garden, I Several Sorts of Starworts, Golden Rods and: ‘lowers; Saffron; two or three Sons I *5, Double Colchicum, Yellow 1 Narciffi Cyclamens, African and Spanifh ; fome others oflefs Note Marygold, Female Balfamine, Marvelof Eafe 5, ndian Scabious, Sweet Sultan, : la’s, Guernfey Lily, Hearts. fome Anemonies which were not taken up in Summer, phan Monthyoufhould lanting all the Sorts of Flower Roots Hardy T ; i 7 yacinths, nemonies, and fuch others whofe Roots have been preferv’d out of the Ground fince their Leaves have been decay’d. You mayalfo tranfplant Hollybocks, Camc Bells, French i, Real) 5s, Sweet. ums, Pinks, and moft other Fibroferooted Flowers, which fhould nowbe placed in the Borders of the Flower-Garden, where they are to remain for Flowering the fucceeding Year. Tranfplant all the hardy Sorts of Floweting Shrubs, that they may be well rooted before the Drought of the Spri which often deftroys thofe which planted late in the _You may alfo make Layers of all Flowering Trees and ubs at this Your Pots or Cafes of Seedling Flowers fhould now be removy’d into a Wat Situation, where they may be fhelter’d from cold Win but fhould be expos’d to the full Sun, and fcreen’d from violent Rains and Snow, by Mats, or fome fuch Covering. Such Seedling Bulbous-rooted Flowers that remain unremov’d s Seafon fhould be from Weeds, and fome frefh rich u ad over the Beds about an Inch hick, which will be of great Service to the Roots. Remove your choice Carnations under Cover, where they may be protected from great Rains, Snow, and fevere Froft: But let’em have much free Air as poffible when the Weatheris mild. Your Pots of choice Auricula’s fhould be da 1 down on oneSide, to prevent their receiving too much Wet, which will be apt to rot them: But they will endure the Cold extremely well. ranfplant F/ Peontes, Aconites » and other Knobby-rooted Flowers, which, if removd in the Spring, will be apt to decay. a enh all the Borders of the Pleafuri arden from Weeds, and cut down the Stalks of all fuch Flowers as have done blowing 5 3 on and Shrubs now in Flower. © beput into the Ground s Tulips, Crocus’s, Fonquils, fis I » Paffion F Monthly Rofe, Mufk / 15 Rofe, Cinquef OL OE with fome others. Plants now Flowering in the Green-houfe and Stove. s, Several Sorts of Geraniums and Ficoides’ Leonurus, Chryfanthemums, Double Nafturtiums Spanifo, Yellow Indian, Azorian, and Ilexleav’d Fafmines 5 Anemonofpermos, Perfian Cyclafis, mens, Canary Campanula, Cafia Babamen Senfitive and Humble Plants, Alaternoides erice feveral 5 s folio, Senecio folio retufo, Opuntia’ with Sorts of Alves, Eupborbium nerii folio, fome others. OCULUS CHRISTI; Sylveftre. OENANTHE, [oivavsy, and Zs a Flower. vide Horminum of otrn a Vine, The Antients call’d any time Plant OEnantbe that flower’d at the fame the with the Vine, or whofe Flowers had fame Odour.] Water Dropwott. The Charaéiers are 3 conTt is an umbelliferous Plant, whofe Flower fifts of many Heart-fhap’d Leaves, which expand in Form of a Rofe: The Ovary 1s fird to the Work to a Fruit Top of the Empalement, which turns gibbous composd of two oblong Seeds, that are other, and fireak’d on one Side, and plain on the At the Beginning ofd ending, as it were, in fome Prickles, the middlemoft carry your Ore Najfturtium ; Spanifh, and Ilex-leav'd ‘afmines, with other of the lefs-tender Exoticks, into the Green-houje, ob- ferving always to place them near the Windows at their being firft carry’d in, as alfa to let them have as muchAiras poffible until the Seafon grows colder, when the other hardier Kinds muft be brought in; until which Time you fhould never place the Plantsin Orderin the Hou " You fho alfo at this Time make freth Hot-beds of Tanners Bark in the Stove, into which the tendereft Exoticks fhould be plung’d for the Winter-feafon : But you fhould obferve to remove them in a fine warm Day; and fuch of them whofe Leaves are infeéted with Infects, or have contracted Filth, fhould now be wafh’d clean, otherwife the Infection will fpread to other Plants, and be of ill Confequence to them as Toward the Latter-end of the Mcnth, you find the Nights grow cold, you mutt begin to make Fires in the Stoves: But this muft be done with great Caution ; for if you make the Heat too great, it will caule the Plants to make an Attempt to fhoots when the Seafon being too far advanc’d to permit of which is ftronger than the reft. The Species are 5 1. OEnantue; cicut@ facie Lobelit. Park. Theat, Hemlock Dropwort. the Plants, and occafion their Fruit to be very {mall. Plants The Species are 5 1. Orga; fativa. C. B.P. The manur’d Olive. 2, Orza; Africana, folio longo, lat atroviridi fplendente, infra pallidé viri. Ind. African Olive, with a broad long Leaf, of a fhining dark-green Colour on the upperfide, but of a paler-green underneath. 3. Orza; Africana, folio Bi r viridi, lucido, cortice alvo, [cabro. Boe The African Box-leav’d Of minor, Lucenfis, frucdu odorato: 4. Orea; Tourn. The Luca Olive. 5. Oxea; fruciu majort, carne crafja. Tourn, live, with a larger Fruit; having a thicker Pulp. 6. Oza; Sylveftris, folio molli incano. C.B. P. Thefe five firft Sorts are preferv’d in the Gardens of the Curious, where they are planted but fome of which are Natives of England; asthey are not at prefent ufeful, nor of any Beauty, I fhall omit enumerating themin this Place. The farft of thofe here mention’d is very common by the Side of the Thames on each Side London, as alfo by the Sides of large d: Ditches and Rivers in divers Parts of Englan Leaves. either in Pots or Cafes, and remov’dinto the Green-houfe in the Winter, with Oranges, Myrtles, &c. but they are moft of them hardy enough to endure the Cold of our ordinary Winters in the open Air, provided they are planted upon a dry Soil, and in a warmSituation; tho? in fevere Winters they are often demolifh’d, or at leaft lofe their Heads, or are This Plant commonly grows four or five Feet kill’d to the Surface s but this is what theyare with ftrong-jointed Stalks, which being high broke, do emit a yellowith foetid Juice: The comLeaves are fomewhat like thofe of the mon Hemlock, but are of a lighter-green five or Colour: The Roots divide into four large taper ones, which, when feparated, have [nips 5 for which fome Refemblance to boil’d fome ignorant Perfons have taken and them, whereby Themfelves and Family have been poifon’d. The poifonous Quality of this Plant hath twenty-four Hours 10 Mi their Fibres to grow dry, it will greatly rae ing with a fat Liquor, enclofing a hard rough Stone. Dropwort. Plant, There are feveral other Species ofthis ery common in moift Sides of Rivers in divers sd: This is not fuppos’d to be poing as the firft, but is of a that hath ftood cup, becomes an Oval, foft, pulpy Fruit, abound- The Oleafter or Wild Olive, with foft hoary led fome Perfons to believe it is the Cicuta 0 , according to Wef the Antients : i facie of Lobel is what the Stove, fo as to acquire a Heat proportion. to the Air of the Houfe; for if you Pe! OLEA, [of ’Enats.] The Olive. The Charaéiers are ; The Leaves are, for the moft part, oblong and ever-green , the Flower conjifts of one Leafs the lower Part of which is hollow’d, but tbe upper Part is divided into four Parts; the Ovary, which is fix’din the Center ofthe Flower: Water 2, OEnanTue; aquatica, C. B, P. them, their Leaves will, many times, decay and fall off. The Anana Plants muft now be removed out of the Bark-beds into the Stove, placing them near the Fire, that they mayenjoy © greateft Share of Heat: But you fhould not with W ae forget to refrefh thempretty often foon after they are ripe in Autumn, upon a moift Soil, where they will come up, and thrive exceedingly the following Summer, and require no farther Care but to clear themfrom Weeds. ts do naturally fo t whoever hath fhould fowtheir Seeds liable to in the South Parts of France, in which Country thefe Trees abound ; and yet in very fharp Winters are moft of them deftroy’d. growing There was a Parcel of thefe Trees Kenfing in the Gardens of Cambden-Houfe near or ton a few Years fince, which were feven did eight Feet high, and in fome good Seafons planted produce very ood Fruit: Thefe were to againft a South Nall, but were permitted to faftening or pruning, grow up rude without the Wall, (which they do by no means and during the Time they were below for); very well; the Top of the Wall, they throve their Heads were gotten above the but every ufually did North-Winds eatly prejudice them, and Ib d Winter [1709.] did inti re Jatt demolifh the ted bylaying Thefe P (in the mandown of tl fhould ner practis’d for other Trees) which time remain undifturb’d two Years; in which then be they will have taken Root, and may Th |