Si FLORA HISTORICA. 



The single sorts are easily propagated by 

 seed, which should be sown in the autumn, upon 

 a bed of light fresh earth, covering them over 

 with the same soil about half an inch in depth. 

 In this bed they should remain two years before 

 they are transplanted, observing to cover them 

 with an additional inch of mould in the autumn. 

 These were formerly much cultivated for medici- 

 nal purposes, and even the modern practice has 

 not been without advocates, for this root in some 

 cases, particularly in that formidable disease the 

 epilepsy, in the night-mare, vertigoes, and le- 

 thargy. It has been commended by some as a 

 most efficacious remedy in obstructions of the 

 liver, and many extraordinary cases of this de- 

 scription have been recorded by respectable phy- 

 sicians, without alluding to curious accounts 

 handed down from Galen and other ancient me- 

 dical sources. 



CHINESE TREE P^EONY. Pwonia Moulan. 



The Chinese have ever been celebrated for their 

 love of flowers, and attention to the cultivation 

 of plants, and it appears to have been the only 



