Volume 2

A complete body of planting and gardening. Containing the natural history, culture, and management of deciduous and evergreen forest-trees ... also instructions for laying-out and disposing of pleasure and flower-gardens ... likewise ... rules for the management of a kitchen-garden ... to which is added the manner of planting and cultivating fruit-gardens and orchards. The whole forming a complete history of timber-trees ... as well as a general system of the present practice of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens / By William Hanbury.

  • Hanbury, William, 1725-1778.
Date:
1770-1771
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Credit: A complete body of planting and gardening. Containing the natural history, culture, and management of deciduous and evergreen forest-trees ... also instructions for laying-out and disposing of pleasure and flower-gardens ... likewise ... rules for the management of a kitchen-garden ... to which is added the manner of planting and cultivating fruit-gardens and orchards. The whole forming a complete history of timber-trees ... as well as a general system of the present practice of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens / By William Hanbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the rain, ic will be neceflary to let a plant or two ot each fort remain undifturbed in the hotbed, taking the glafies off, and expoflng them to the open air. Such plants will grow to near twice the fize of the removed ones, and being very ftrong, and flowering earlier, will be pretty lure of producing ripe feeds, let the weather be what it will. Titles. t 1 • Common Thorn Apple, or Stramonium, is r, . titled, Datura pericarpiis fpinofis ereblis ovatis, IroArvCriivt foliis ovatis glabris. Cafpar Bauhine calls it, -terrt-. Solanum foctidum, porno fpinofo oblongo, jiore albo; Tournefort. Stramonium frubiu fpinofo oblongo, fore albo \ and Kay, Solanum porno fpinofo oblongo, fore calathoide, Stramonium vulgb dliblum. It was brought originally from America, and now grows very common in England, and moft parts of Eu¬ rope. ,2' Chinefe Thorn Apple is, Datura pericarpiis fpinofis ereblis ovatis : fpinis fupremis maximis con- vergentibus. Zanoni calls it, Datura cochinenfis fpinofijfima Herman, Stramonium, five Datura feroxy como craffioribus aculeis robuftioribus ; Boc- cone, Stramonium ferox\ and Barrelier, Stramo¬ nium longioribus aculeis. It grows naturally in China. 3- Great Purple Stramonium is. Datura pericar¬ piis fpinofis ere bits ovatis yfoliis cor datis glabris den- tatis. Cafpar Bauhine calls it, Solanum fativum, porno fpinofo oblongo^ f ore albo \ and Ray, Stramo¬ nium majus purpureum. The place of its natural refidence is not known. MtMU 4* African Thorn Apple, or Meteila Nut, is. Datura pericarpiis fpinofis nutantibus glcbofs, foliis cordatis fubintegris pubefeentibus. Rumphuis calls it. Datura alba \ and Cafpar Bauhine, Solanum, porno fpinofo rotundo, fore longo. It grows natu • rally in Africa and Alia. . ■ cf r 5. ^Egyptian Thorn Apple is, Datura pericar- piis tuber culatis nutantibus glob ofj, foliis Uvibus. . Kumphius calls it. Datura rubra ; Cafpar Bau¬ hine, Solanum foetidum, frubtu fpinofo rotundo, fe- minepallido'y alfo, Solanum JEgypticv.m fore plcno ; Cammerarius, Nux meteila ; and 1 ournefort. Stramonium frubiu fpinofo rotundo, fore duplici tri- plicive. It grows naturally in AEgypt. Datura is of the clafs and order Pentandria £|afs Monogynia ; and the characters are, and order 1. Calyx is a monophyllous, oblong, tubu-in the lar, ventricofe, five-cornered perianthium, in- Ji,D£an jj-r Syftem. dented in five parts. cha- 2. Corolla is one infundibuliformepetal. The rafters. ‘ tube is cylindrical, and longer than the calyx. The limb is eredt, fpreading, pofiefied of five angles, folded in five parts, nearly entire, but rifing at the angles into acute points. 3. Stamina are five awl-fhaped filaments the length of the calyx, having oblong, comprefled, obtule anthene. 4. Pistillum confifts of an oval germen, a ftraight, filiforme ftyle, and a thickifh, obtule, biiamellated ftigma. 4. Pericarpium is an oval capfule, formed of four valves, and containing two cells. The receptacles are large, convex, pundbated, and affixed ro the diflepiment. 6. Semina. The feeds are numerous, and kidney-ftiaped. CHAP. CXXVI. D A U C U S, CARROT. Species. Defcrip- tion of the Great Spanifli, Tooth¬ pick, OUR collection may be thought incomplete if we wholly pafs by the Daucus ; for altho’ the fpecies are of no very great beauty, and rarely propagated, except the common Carrot for ufe; yet there are lome who are boundlefs in their curiofity, and would chufe a few plants of every fort: Such as thefe may take in, 1. The Great Spaniffi Carrot. 2. The Tooth-pick Carrot. 3. The Shining Sea Carrot. 4. The Prickly-feeded Carrot. 1. The Great Spaniffi Carrot rifes with a large, rough ftalk, to a yard or better in height. The leaves are like our Common Carrot, but their footftalks are ftreaked with white veins. The umbel is exceedingly large, and the flowers are of a darkiffi-purple colour. It is an Annual j and if the feeds are fown in the autumn, it will flower early in the fummer, and perfedt the feeds foon after. 2. The Tooth-pick Carrot. This plant will grow to about a yard high. The ftalk is upright, frnooth, channelled, and branching. The leaves are frnooth, finely divided, and compofed of a mul¬ titude of narrow fegments, like Fennel; on this account alone this plant fhould not be omitted, where there are any pretenfions to a good Col- ledhon. The flowers terminate the (talks in laro-e, compound umbels-, the footftalks that fupport the fmall umbels are long and ftiff, and are ufed by the Spaniards for Tooth-picks. Hence the name Vifnaga, or Tooth-pick, has been given by them to this plant. ' 1 The feeds fliould always be fown in the au¬ tumn,. and they will flower earlier the lummer following, -and be furer of growing 3. Shining Sea Carrot. The ftalk is upright, Ski.i»g lmooth, and branching. The leaves are a little Sea, like thofe of the Common Carrot, but the fee- ments are broader, and of a (hining-green co¬ lour. The flowers terminate the (talks*3in large compound umbels and to have them early in die ' fummer, the feeds fliould be fown in the autumn before. 4. Prickly-feeded Carrot. This rifes with an and upright, branching ftalk, to the height of about rr'ck!y* a yard The leaves are hairy, and compofed of cw a multitude ot fmall parts, like thofe of the Common