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Show QU fweer Wheat Straw in the Bottoms and round the Sides of the Baskets, to prevent their bruifing againft the Basket ; you fhould alfo obferve to put but one Sort of Fruit into a Basket, left by their different Fermentations, they fhould rot each other ; but if you have enough of one Sort to fill a Basket which holds two or three Bufhels, aS QU it will be ftill better. After you have fill’d the Baskets, you muft cover them over with Wheat Straw very clofe, and faften them down, then place thefe Baskets in a clofe Room, where they may be This Plant is very common in Famaicg Barbadoes, and the Caribbee Iands, where it climbs upon Buthes, Hedges, or whatever grows near it, and produces great Quantities Monfieur Tournefort hath feparated the better the Fruit will are come up, they muft be plantedeachinto a fmall Pot, fill’d with light fandy Earth, and and when the Plants plunged into a frefh Hot-bed, to bring the Plants forward : As the Plants advance in Heighth, fo they fhould be removed into larger Pots, and Sticks placed down by them, for ’emto climb upon; they mutt alfo be removed toa frefh Hot-bed, when the old oné has loft its Heat; and when the Plants are too high to be contain’d under Frames, they fhould be removed into the Stove, where,if they are plunged into a moderate Hot-bed of Tanners Bark, and not too much drawn, they frefh Air, whenever the Weather is mild, fup- will produce a great Quantity of beautiful Scar- pofing it very neceffary to preferve the Fruit ; but the contrary of this is found true, by thofe Perfons who havelarge Stocks of Fruit laid let Flowers, and ripen their Seeds very well ; but if they are expos’d to the open Air, they feldom flower in this Country. This Plant continues but one Year, the Root perifhing foon after the Seeds areripe. QUERCUS,[fo call’dof xépx, to make opened, the Fruit is always found plumper and rough ; becaufe of the Roughnefs ofits Bark.] The Oak-Tree. The Charaéfers are ; faction, and in order to prove this, that ho- lt hath Male Flowers (or Katkins) which which Places they remained found for feveral remote Diftances from thefe, on the fame Tree, did rot ina very fhort Time; which plainly fhews the Abfurdity of the common Method duced in hard, fealy Cups: To which may be added, the Leaves are finuated. nourable Perfon put Fruits of feveral Kinds into Glaffes where the Air was exhaufted, in Months, but upon being expos’d to the Air, now ufed to preferve Fruit. confift of a great Number of fmall finder Threads ; the Embryos, which are produced at do afterwards become Acorns, which are pro- The Species are ; of this Sort will produce 'T'rees of the fame Kind, I cannot determine. ‘The Sort with {trip’d Leaves was obtain’d by Accident, but may be propagated by budding or grafting it upon the common Oak; the Leaves of this are generally variegated with white in a moft beautiful Manner, and the Tree is efteem’d a great Curiofity by fuch as delight in variegated Plants. The fourth Kind defervesa Place in Wilderneffes, amongft other Sorts of ever-green Trees, where it will make a beautiful Appear- Oak with the Acorns on latifolia, perpetuo virens. The broad-leav’d ever-green Oak. ricata, Pluk. Phyt. The Virginian Scarlet Oak. 8. Quercus; Paftanee foliis, pum or, Virginia. Pluk. Phyt. Virginian V2™ with Chefnur Leaves. Ae 9. Quercus; alba, Virginia. Park. Theat. The white or iron Oakof Virginia. 10. QueERcus; ing them about two Inches thick, with the them uncovered, to entice the Vermin, which may, ina fhort Time, deftroy all the Seeds. In the Spring, when the Plants begin to appear, you muft carefully clear them from Weeds, and if the Seafon Proves dry, you fhould refrefh them now and then with a little Water, which will greatly promote their Growth. In thefe Beds the Plants fhould remain until the following Spring, (obferving conftantly to keep ’em clear from Weeds) at which Time you fhould prepare a Spot of good frefh Earth, (in Size proportionable to the Quantity of Plants) which fhould be well trenched and levelled ; then toward the Middle or latter End of March, you fhould carefully take up the Plants, fo as not to injure their Roots, and plant them out in Rows three Feet afunder, and eighteen Inches Diftance Plant from Plant, obferving never to fuffer the Plants to abide long out of the Ground, becaufe their Roots would dry and endanger the Growth of the Plants. ance, but the Timber is not near fo good as that of the commonSort. The fifth Kind was originally brought into England from .Spaiz, but is hardy enough to When they are planted you fhould lay a endure the Cold of our Winters very well: little Mulch upon the Surface of the Ground , This is preferved by fuch as are curious in near their Roots, to prevent the Earth from collecting the feveral Kinds of Trees. drying too faft; and if the Seafon be very The other Sorts have been brought from dry, you fhould give them little Water, to America, (where there are a Variety of diffe- fettle the Earth to their Roots. rent Oaks) and are very hardy: Many of If thefe Things are carefully obferved, them are of quicker Growth than the com- there will not fo manyof the Plants mifcarmon Sort, and although their Timber is not ry, as do generally in the common Method: fo good, yet they deferve a Place in large Wilderneffes, where theywill afford an agreeable Variety. As thefe Trees are propagated from Acorns, fo thofe Perfons who are defiTous to cultivate *°em, fhould endeavourto obtain the Acorns frefh from America, which muft be put up in Sand, to preferve them during their Paflage; and when theyarrive in England, they fhould be put into the Ground immediately, otherwife they do feldom grow. Befides the Sorts of Oaks here-mentioned, thefe are not to be found in anyof our Englifh lantations at prefent ; though, when I was at Leyden in Holland, in the Year 1724, I faw above forty Sorts of Ozks, in the curious C.B.P. 5. Quercus; calice echinato, glande maO'Bincweed. [it is an Indian Name] jore. C.B.P. Oak with large Acorns having Bindweed. prickly Cups. Y The Charaffers are ; 6. Quercus; humilis, Gailis binis, 1 The Flower con/ifts of one Leaf, foaped like a aut pluribus fimul junétis, C. B. P. Dwatt Funnel, anid divided at the Lop into feveral Seg- Oak, vulezé. : ments + from the Flower-cup rifes the Pointal, 7- Quercus 5 Virginiana, rubris venis = SwenWie commonly called in Barbadoes, ‘The Chinquapin diculo eff. 4. Quercus 3 which is, Quamocirr 3 foliis tenuiter incifis &F pennatis. Tourn, Quamaclit with very fine, cut, Almag. The twofirft Sorts are commonin England, but the Sore whofe Acorns grow on fhort there are divers others which are produced in feveral Parts of Europe, and differ in the C.B.P. feveral oblong Seeds. € have but one Species of this Plant in England, Pluk. Oak. 1. Quercus ; latifolia. Park. Theat. The common Oak, i 2. Quercus 5. latifolia, mas, qua brevi prfhort Footftalks. 7 3. Quercus ; latifolia, foliis ex albo eleganier variegatis. The ftrip’d Oak. : which afterwards becomes a roundifo Fruit, inclofing fame frefh Earth, obferying to leave none of volvulus, it from that Genus. The Seeds ofthis Plant are generally brought into Englandevery Spring, from the Weft-Indies: They thouldbe fownon Jet into the Room, Boyle obferves, the Air is the Caufe of Putre- 11. Quercus ; pulmilis, Caftanee folio, Vir- willow-leav’d Oak. Footftalks, is lefs frequent than the other, I have feen feveral Trees of that Kind near Dulwich in Surrey, but whether the Acorns Tube being muchlarger, and the Seeds bein of a different Figure from thofe of the Coy, Keep: It will be veryneceffary to fix a Label to each Basket, denoting the Sort of Fruit therein contained, whichwill fave the Trouble of opening them, whenever you want to know the Sorts of Fruit 5 befides, they ought not to be openedbefore their Seafon to be eaten, for the oftner they are opened and expofed to the Air, the worfe they will keep. I don’t doubt but this will be objeéted to by many, who imagine Fruit can’t be laid too thin, for which Reafon they make Shelves to difpofe them fingly upon, and are very fond of admitting founder than any of thofe Fruits which were preferved fingly upon Shelves. For, as Mr. light and dry ; in thefe Beds youfhould place the Acorns about two Inches afunder, cover- ginienfis. a Hot-bed in March, up in their Store-Houfes in London, which re- Virginian of beautiful Scarlet Flowers, almoft of the Figure of a {mall Convolvulus Flower, byt the kept dry, and from Froft, but the lefs Airis main clofely fhut up for feveral Months, in the Manner before related ; and when thefe are to. Quercus; Virginiana, falicis longiore folio, fructu minimo. Pluk. Amalth. Shape and Size of their Leaves and Fruit; but For few Perfons confider either the proper Method or Seafonfor removing thefe Trees ; moft People imagining it may be perform’d with equal Succefs, anytime after the Leaves Opi begin to decay : but this isa very wrong nion; for, from feveral Experiments wl have made, in tranfplanting of thefe Trees in various Seafons, I find they always fucceed beft when they are tranfplanted juft before they begin to fhoot; at which Seafon there will very fewfail, provided they are removed with Care. When the Plants have taken Root in this Nurfery, they will require little more Care than to keep ’em clear from Weeds, and dig the Ground between the Rows every Spring ; in doing of which you fhould cut off fuch Roots as extend very far from the Trunk of Garden of the learned Dr. Boerhaave, near the Trees, which will render them better for that Climate two or three Years, in the open fuch Side-Branches as do extend themf{elves very far, and would retard the upright Shoot, Leyden, moft of which were in a very profpeTous Condition, and had endured the Cold of Air; fo that if thefe were procured in England, they would be equally as hardyas the CommonSort, and add to the Variety of our lantations, Allthe Sorts of Oaks are propagated from Acorns, which fhould be fown as foonas pof- fible, when they are ripe; for if they are Kept long out ofthe Ground, they feldom grow. The Manner of fowing thefe Acorns Cif defigned for a finall Plantation, to be re- Moved) is, to prepare a Bed or twoof fiefh Earth, neither too {trong and heavy, nor too tranfplanting again : You fhouldalfo prune off but you fhould by no means cut offall the {malllateral Branches, fome of which are abfolutely neceflary to be left on, to detain the Sap for the Augmentation of the Trunk ; for I have often obferved, where Trees have been thus clofely pruned, that their Heads have over-grown their Bodies, fo that they have bent downward, and become crooked. When thefe Trees have remain’d in the Nurferythree or four Years, they will then be large enough to tran{plant tothe Places where they are to remain; for it is not proper to 6X les |