a 
day’s fun clofes them up ; we have obferved that the continuance 
of their expanfion is in proportion to the power of the fun, and 
that Jate-in the "autumn, or “in clondy, weather; they continue 
open moft of the day; we have obferved alfo, that a bed of 
thefe flowers communicates a delightful fragrance to a confi- 
derable diftance; to the tafte the whole plant is highly acri- 
monious, probably purgative, if net poifonous: it was once 
fuppofed that its roots produced the Jalap of the fhops, when 
that opinion was found to be erroneous, Linn 2us fhould have 
changed the trivial name of Falapa to that of peruviana, as it | 
now tends to miflead. = : 
The principal varieties in point of colour are the purple, 
the white, the yellow, the variegated purple and white, the 
variegated purple and’ yellow; each of thefe, contrary to the 
opinion entertained of varieties, is found to produce the fame. 
The ufual mode of raifing thefe plants .is from feed, which 
tey plentifully produce; your early-blowing plants muft be. 
raifed on a hot-bed, your late ones in the open ground, tranf- 
planting them when of a proper fize; or take up the roots of 
your plants as you do your potatoes, preferve them during 
winter in dry fand, and plant them in the fpring; thefe will 
make ftronger plants, and will blow earlier than feedlings, 
viz. in Auguft, and you will hereby be fure of continuing any 
Partigtiae for oe, Tot ghee. tient 
: Ure 
