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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    —k—w ANNUAL FLOWERS. 59 foliis pinnatis etc tipula tis lanceolatis obtufis> foribui corollatis. Cafpar Bauhine calls it, Nafturtium pratenfe, flore parvo ; and Morifon, Najlurtium pratenfe, flcfadis minimis. It grows naturally in fields, meadows, and paftures in England, and molt countries of Europe. fffixdus- 4* Hairy Lady-Smock is titled, Cardamine fo- -f-CL. ids pinnatis, fioribus tetrandris. Cafpar Bauhine calls it, Nafturtium aquaticum minus * Camrriera- rius, Sifymbrium aquaticum alter uni \ and Ray, Cardamine impatiens altera hirfutior. It grows na¬ turally in fields, gardens, paftures, and fhady places in England, and molt parts of Europe. CHAP. LXVIt. , CARDIOSPERMUM, HEART-SEED, or HEART-PEA. Species. Indian Heart- feed defcri bed. Varieties. Brafilian Heart- feed deferibed Culture. THERE are two fpecies of this genus, called, i. Indian Heart-feed. 2. Bafilian Heart-feed. i. Indian Heart-feed. The ftalks are {lender, channelled, climbing, and by' the afliftance of their tendrils, which come out under the divifions of the footftalks of the flowers, will arrive at the height of four or five feet. The leaves fome- times confift of three and fometimes of five lobes, which are lmooth, oblong, deeply cut on the edges, and fharp-pointed. The leaves have long footftalks, and the ftalks which lupport the flowers are long, but they divide into three fhorter, each lupporting a Angle flower. Their colour is white •, each of them has four petals, which are alternately larger *, they come out ear¬ lier or later in the fummer, according as the plants have been brought forward in the fpring i and they are fucceeded by a large, inflated cap¬ fuls, containing the feeds, which is marked with the fhape of a heart at the bafe. There are two or three varieties of this fpecies, but their difference confifts chiefly in the fize of the ftalks, leaves, and fruit, fome of them being larger than the others. 2. Brafilian Heart-feed. The ftalks are hairy, and by help of the tendrils will grow to be feven or eight feet high. The leaves are divided into five parts, which are ufually divided again into three others •, they are obtule, indented, downy underneath, and grow on fhort footftalks. The flowers are produced in the fame manner as the former, but often more of them grow together on a footftaik ; each confifts of four petals, which, when fallen, are fucceeded by inflated, downy capfules, containing the feeds, which are ftamped with the figure of a heart at the bafe. In order to bring theie Annuals to flower early, and perfeeft their Jeeds, a moderate hotbed fhould be in readinefs by the firft week in March, which fhould be covered over with five inches depth of any common garden-mould. The feeds muft be then Town in frnall pots filled with light, landy, frefh earth, and the pots then plunged up to the rims in the mould of the hotbed. The glaffes muft be then let down, and all the laws relating to the good management of a hotbed muft be obferved until the plants come up. When they make their appearance, the greateft nicety muft be obferved in giving them air; for if they have it too freely, it will kill them ; and if they are kept too clofe, they will grow weak, be¬ come yellow, unhealthy, and perhaps die, or be hardly ever made to fhew thcmfelves in any degree of beauty. The method therefore to be obferved with refpebt to this is, the plants muft be {haded with mats in the heat of the day, and now and then a fprinkling of water muft be af¬ forded them, which fhould be given them in mornings. When the heat of this bed is abated, thev muft be removed to another bed prepared in the like manner •, then the plants fhould be fhifted into pots of a fize larger, filled with the like kind of frelh, light earth, In doing of this, preferve a ball of earth to the roots, that they may not be difturbed, which would other- wife caufe a great check in their growth. When they are thus removed into thefe larger- fized pots, they ihould be plunged up to the rims in the mould of this fecond hotbed. In this fituation more air muft be given the plants, the waterings muft be more frequent, a greater quantity at a time, and the glaffes muft be fhaded always in the hot fun. Sticks muft be thruft by the Tides of the plants for their fupport •, and as they advance in height, the frames muft be raifed, or the multiplying-frame uled. If the pots in which they now grow are moderately large, the plants need not be fhifted into others j but if they are rather frnall in proportion to the plant, they fhould have larger, in order to give free room for their roots to grow. At the third {Lifting, it will be highly proper to plunge the pots up to the rims in the mould of a third hotbed, pre¬ pared for the purpofe *, and here they may ftand, having a frame of fufficient depth, until they flower, which will be in July, and their feeds will ripen in September. 1. Indian Heart-feed is titled, Cardiofpcrmum foliis Uvibus. Cafpar Bauhine calls it, Pifum veji- carium, fruShi nigro: albci macula nolato•, Rhum-i phius, Halicacabum \ JDodonaeiis, IJaluacabus pc- -cafstinr*u regrinus •, and Tournefort, Corindum ampliore folio, fru&u maximo •, alio, Corindum fruilu & folio minore. It grows naturally in both the Indies. 2. Brafilian Heart-feed is, Cardiofpermum fo’iis fubtus tomentofis. Hounfton calls it, Corindum cauls ip foliis pubefeentibus ; Miller, Cardiofpcrmum vil-