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fleshy tubers, sending ouL nuvny fibres on every side; from ^vlnch 

 conie out some large cut leaves shaped like those of iIk> turnep, but 

 smooth : the llower-slalk slender, a foot and half high, sustaining at 

 tho lop a few vellow flowers. It is a native of the East Indies. 



The third has a herbaceous perennial slalk, branching out at the 

 bottom, and rising abovit two feet and a half high ; having narrow 

 leaves at l)oltom, seven or eiglit inches long: the upper leaves are 

 small(>r, and embracing; they are very clammy: the upper part ot the 

 stalk divides into several very long peduncles, each sustaining one 

 yellow flower. It is a native of llu> Cape, flowering most part ol ill 



summer. 



The fourth species is an annual plant, having many herbaceous 

 branching stalks, near three feet high : the flowers are produced in 

 bunches on the lop of the stalks; are large, the ray ot a beautiful 

 purple colour, and the disk yellow. It is a native ot the Cape, flow- 

 orino- from June or July till the beginning of autumnal frosts. 



There are varieties will, very double purple, and with equally 

 dovible white flowers. The former is now chiefly cultivated. 



There are many other species that may be cultivated for 



'^^''cultin-c -'i'hc first and Iwo Insi sorts are readily increased by 

 planting cullings of the branches m pols fdled with fine mould in the 

 summer season, slrading them l.U ihey have taken root; and, as the 

 ^vinter approaches, removing them under ihv protection ol the green- 

 house, where they should remain l.l! May, when they may be planted 

 out in the borders or clumps. 



Tliey mav likewise be raised from seed, which should be sown m 

 Uie sprmg inputs, andplaced in a gentle hot-bed. _ . 



The second sort should ix) more carefully attended, being raised 

 fromoff-sels, wlueli should be planted in pots in the spring season, 

 ,,„a plunged m ihe hol-bed of ihe slove, where ihc planls should be 



eonslantlv kept. , , 



Tlie first and two last sorts afford variely in borders, and among 

 polled pianls; and ihe second in slove collections. 



