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gardens, where they are properly difpofed, they make 

 a fine appearance ; for as their fpikes of flowers 

 grow very tall, there will be a fucceflion of them on 

 the fame ftems, more than two months •, the flowers 

 on the lower part of the fpike appearing in July, and 

 as their ftalks advance, new flowers are produced till 

 near the end of September. When the plants are 

 planted in good ground, their ftalks often rife to 

 the height of eight or nine feet, lb that near fix feet 

 of each will be garnifhed with flowers -, which when 

 double, and of good colours, will make a fine appear- 

 ance, efpecially if the various colours are properly 

 intermixed. 



They arc propagated by feeds, which, as hath been 

 already obferved, fhould be carefully faved from thofc 

 plants whofe flowers are the moft double, and of the 

 beft colours. If thefe are preferved in their capfules 

 until fpring, the feeds will be better, provided they 

 are gathered very dry, and care be taken that no 

 damp comes to them in winter, which will caufe their 

 covers to be mouldy, and thereby fpoil the feeds. 

 The feeds fliould be fown on a bed of light earth, 

 about the middle of April, which muft be covered 

 about half an inch deep, with the fame light earth ; 

 fome perfons fow them in fhallow drills, and others 

 fcatter the feeds thinly over the whole bed. When 

 they are fown in the former method, the plants gene- 

 rally come up thick, fo will require to be tranfplanted 

 fooner than thofe which are fown in the latter. By 

 thefirft, the feeds may be more equally covered, and 

 kept clean with lefs trouble, becaufe the ground be- 

 tween the drills may be hoed. When the plants have 

 put out fix or eight leaves, they fhould be tranfplant- 

 ed into nurfery-beds, at a foot diftance from each 

 other, obferving to water them until they have taken 

 good root ; after which they will require no farther 

 care, but to keep them clean from weeds till Octo- 

 ber, when they fhould be tranfplanted where they are 

 to remain. 



Some perfons let their plants remain a year longer in 

 the nurfery-beds to fee their flowers, before they re- 

 move them to the iiower-garden ; but when this is 

 intended, the plants fhould be planted at a greater 

 diftance in the nurfery-beds, otherwife they will not 

 have room to grow. However, I have always chofen 

 to remove my plants the firft autumn, for young 

 plants more furely grow, than thofe which are older ; 

 and if the feeds are carefully faved, there will not be 

 one in ten of the plants come fingle or of bad colours. 

 LCHEMILLA, Ladies Mantle. 

 The Characters are, 



'The flower bath a permanent empalement of one leaf 



isfpread open at the brim^ and cut into eight feg 



ments. 



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tferted a longfiyle^ crowned with a globular ftig- 

 this is attended by four ereSl ftamina refling on the 

 of the empalement, and crowned with roundifh fum- 

 the germen afterwards turns to a fingle compreJJed 



Dr. Linnaeus ranges this genus in the firft feftion of his 

 fourth clafs of plants, entitled Tetrandria monogy- 

 nia, the flowers having four ftamina and one ftyle. 

 The Species are, 



Alchemilla (Vulgaris) foliis lobatis ferratis, feg- 

 mentis involucro acuto. The common Ladies Mantle, 



C B. P. 319. 



2. Alchemilla 



foliis lobatis fericeis acute ferratis. 



fegmentis involucro fubrotundis. Small ftl 

 Mantle with Mated leaves fharply ferrated, and the feg- 

 ments of the involucrum cut into roundifh figments. Al- 

 chemilla Alpina pubefcens minor. Tourn. Inft. R. 



H. 508. 



3. Alchemilla {Alpina) foliis digitatis ferratis. Flor. 

 Lapp. 61. Silvery Alpine Ladies Mantle with handed 

 leaves, Alchemilla perennis incana argentea five fe- 

 ricea fatinum provocans. Mor. Hift. 2. p. 195. 



4. Alchemilla {P ent aphylla) foliis quinatis multifidis 



Mantle^ cut into many fegm 



Smooth fi 



Alchemilla Alpina I 



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pentaphyllea minima lobls fimbnatis. Socc. Mufc. r 

 p. 18. 



The firft fort grows naturally in moift meadows in 

 feveral parts of England, but is not ^/cry common 

 near London : the roots are compoled of many thick 

 fibres,^ v/hich fpread greatly when they are in a pro- 

 per foil ; the leaves rile immediately from the root, 

 fuftained by long foot-ftalks ; they are roundifh, and 

 fcalloped round the borders into feven or eio-ht lolx-s, 

 fhaped Ibmewhat like the Ladies fcalloped "^Mantles] 

 from whence it had its name. The flowcr-ftems arile 

 between the leaves about a foot high, which divide 

 into many branches, and are at each joint garnilhed 

 with one fmall leaf, ftaped like thofc below ; the 

 flowers are compofed of an herbaceous empalement, 

 in the center of which is the ftyle attended by four 

 ftamina, crowned with yellow fummits ; fo that the 

 only beauty of this plant is in the leaves, which are 

 ufed in medicine, and are efteemed to be vulnerary, 

 drying and^ binding, and of great force to ftop in- 

 w^ard bleeding. 



The fecond fort is much fmaller than the firft, the 

 leaves are much v/hiter and appear filky ; the fiower- 

 ftems do not branch out fo much, nor are the flowers 

 produced in fo large clufters : their empalement is 

 broader, and the fegm.ents more obtufe than thofe of 

 the firft fort. 



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Sweden and Denmark, the Alps, and other cold parts 

 of Europe, and is admitted into gardens for the fake 

 of variety. The leaves of this fort are very white, 

 and deeply cut into five parts like a hand ; the flower- 

 ftems feldom rife more than fix inches high, nor do 

 the flowers make a better appearance than the other 

 forts. 



The fourth fort grows naturally in Sweden, Lapland, 

 and other cold countries, fo is only to be found in 

 fome few curious botanic gardens in this country. 

 Thefe are all abiding plants, which have perennial 

 roots and annual ftalks, which perifh in autumn. 

 They may be propagated by parting their roots; the 

 beft time for doing this is in the autumn, that their 

 roots may be eftabliftied before the drying winds of 

 the fpring come on. They fhould have a moift foil 

 and a fhady fituation, otherwife they will not thrive 

 in the fouthern parts of England. When they are 

 propagated by feeds, they fhould be fown in the au- 

 tumn i for when they are fown in the fpring, they 

 feldom grow the firft year. They fhould be town on 

 a fhady moift border, and when the plants come up, 



they will require no other care but to be kept clean 

 from weeds. 



A L D E R-T REE. See Alnus. 

 ALETRIS. 



The Characters are. 



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cut into fix figments at the brim, and are perma 

 it hath fix awl-fhaped ftamina the length of the co 

 whofe bafe are infirted in the figments ; thefe ar 

 'J by oblong ere5l fummits, and an oval germen fup 



'l-Jhaped ftyle the length of the ftamina, crown 



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by a trifidftigma 

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 feeds 



The germen afterward bi 



ipfule with three cells, filled 



This genus of plants is ranged in Linnasus's firft kc- 

 tion of his fixth clafs, the flowers having fix ftamina 

 and one flyle. 



The Species are, 

 Aletris [Farinofa) acaulis, foliis lanceolatis mem- 

 branaceis, floribus alternis. Lin. Sp. 456. Aletris 



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ftalks, fpear-fh 



Hyacinthus caule nodo, fo- 



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liis linguiformibus acuminatis dentatis, Flor. Virg. 3 8^ 



Aletris {Capenfis) acaulis, foliis lanceolatis undula- 



tis, fpica ovata, floribus nutantibus. Lin. Sp. 456. 



without ftdk ', waved fpear-ft:^ 

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