364 'i'he Gardener's New Director. 

 cond year; and fhould that work be performed at Adi- 

 chaelmas, it is doubted if thefe young plants would out- 

 live a fevere winter, 



24. JJler Chincnfis magna, Flore cceruJeo. 



25. flore alho magno. 



* 6 . ■ jlo re p urp ureo. 



07. minor f.cre albo. 



But their botanical names are, Af^er annuus caule villofoi 

 put purafcente Eryngii fol'to, fiore maxima purpurea, pul- 

 chcrrimo, Jefnine violaceo, Kian-fita, Sitteiifts JcffieUi H. R. 

 P. Annual Star-wort from China, with purple hairy- 

 llaiks, eryngo leaves, and a beautiful large purple flower, 

 and violct-coloureil feed. There are alfo fome of them 

 with blue, large white, and fmall whitifli coloured flow- 

 ers ; and one kind, the feed of which I had lately fent 

 me, whofe flower leaves are white, and mofl elegantly 

 flriped with a bright fcarlet colour. 



Thefe are all vaft pretty ornaments to the flower-gar- 

 den in autumn; they fhould be fown upon a rich fandy 

 border in the middle of March, and when they are two 

 inches high, {iiould be tranlplanted into a nurfery-bed of 

 the fame foil, and be well watered and fhaded from the 

 rays of the fun, until you perceive them to be taking 

 new root: Some of the ftrongefl may be lifted and 

 planted in pots, filled with the fame foil, to adorn court- 

 yards and parlours, where they will make a mofl hand- 

 fome appearance: They flower in Augujl, Septetrber and 

 OSiober, and fome of them ripen their feeds. I have rai- 

 fed many feminal varieties, befides thofe mentioned in 

 the Dw/i'^ catlogues, from feed of my own faving; to 

 ]irocure which, I ufed two methods: In J«/t, 1 iov/ed 

 lome of their feed in pots, and during the winter, gave 

 them fhelter, either in tht- green-houfe, or under a fiame, 

 to keep them from the froft, which would entirely ruin 

 ihem: By tliis metliod, my plants were ftrong, fit to 

 plant out in April, and flowered in May and June; 

 arid I had from thefe plants as fine ripe feed in Sep- 

 trmler, as any which came from abroad ; from which, 

 r.iuio 1749, I'raifed many extraordinary beautiful, femi- 

 n.il varieties of pink, deep carnation, blue, white, and 

 ] urple colours, and one in particular with a flriped blue 



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