346 The Gardener's New Director. 

 from them only we can have the different forts of every 

 fpecies ; from feed the famous Black Dutch Tulip was 

 raifed, and the firfl: Double Hyacinth : and though I may 

 defcend to the loweft of our flowers, yet, fhould a double 

 one appear, the acquifition would not be trifling. 



Winter Aconite. 



TH E Chrijlmas Rofe is fucceeded by the Winter Aco- 

 nitct botanically called Aconitum Hyemale. It hath 

 a yellow flower ; its leaves, which are of a vivid green 

 colour, are deeply cut, and from the centre of the leaves 

 arife the flowers, which expand in Jammry, even when 

 frofl:s and fnow are upojj^the ground, and are then of a 

 more beautiful colour, than in milder feafons; the feeds 

 of this plant are ripe the beginning of April, and, fo 

 foon as you gather them, they ought to be fown in 

 a good rich light foil, in pots or in boxes, to be ex- 

 pofed to the morning fun only. They will come up the 

 following December, and, after their leaves are decay- 

 ed, it will be proper to lay two inches of the fame 

 mould upon the pots or boxes, which will flrengthen 

 the young roots, and in three years after fowing, they 

 will fhow their bloffoms ; obferve not to tranfplant 

 them from this feed-bed, until they are three years old; 

 for neither the old roots, nor the feedlings, agree with 

 being tranfplanted oftner than every third year. This 

 •work ought to be performed before their leaves are en- 

 tirely faded ; their roots, which are fliaped fomewhat 

 like an Anemone, but Imailer, being of a dark earthy co- 

 lour, and of confequence difficult to find, after their 

 leaves are quite faded. 



They make a very agreeable appearance when they 

 are planted in clumps, in long borbers, intermixed with 

 double and fingle Snow -drops, Hepaticas, Donfoly, the 

 Perftan Iris, and Vernal Colchicums, of which I fhall treat 

 under their refpe£live names. 



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