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Thefe plants I choTe to fow on a hot-bed early in the 

 fpring ; and when the plants were four inches high, I 

 tranfplanted them into pots filled with frelh fandy earth, 

 fhading them until they had taken new root. In winter I 

 put them into an open glafs-cafe, covering them from 

 froft ; and the enfuing fpring, planted them by a warm 

 wall in the open border, where they produced many fine 

 fcarlet flowers, and perfefled their feed very well : I al- 

 io obferved to tye their flalks to flicks, to prevent the 

 winds from breaking tlieir tender branches, by which 

 their beauty would have been iofl: : I alfo obferved never 

 to put them into a green-houfe, for in that fituation 

 they would have been drawn up too much, to the great 

 prejudice of the plant. 



85, 86, 87, 88. Are all feminal varieties of th&Cbon~ 

 drjliai or Gum fuccory : There is little beauty in thefe 

 plants, and they fliould be fown in the fpring upon an 

 open border, vi^here they will flower and feed very well. 



89. Conyza foliis argenteis, "J. B. Flea-bane with filver 

 leaves. 



90. Conyza foliis aureis, C. B. Flea-bane with vellow 

 leaves. 



Thofe may he fown in the fpring in a dry foil, virhere 

 if kept clear of Aveeds, they will thrive well; fome of 

 them I chofe to fow in pots. 



91. Confolida AngUca (lore alhoy is the Symphitwn, or 

 Confolida major fcsmina^ flore albo, C. B. P. The Greater 

 Female Comfrey with a white flower. 



92. Confolida Anglica, fore caruleo, is the Symphitum 

 crientale, folio fiibroiiindof afpero, fore C(truleo odoratifjl- 

 nio, Tourn. Coir. Eafern Comfrey with a rough roundilh 

 leaf, and a very fweet-fmelling blue flower. 



93. Seminal variety of the 92d fort. 



94. Symphitum Creticnm echii folio anguflo, I'illis i'on- 

 giffmis borridis, flore croceo, Tourn. Coir. Candy Comfrey t 

 with a narrow V:per''s Buglofs Leaf, covered with very 

 long hairs, and a faflfron coloured flower. 



95. A feminal variegation of the former plant. 



96. Symphitum echii' folio ampliore, flore alho Infl. 

 R. H. Comfrey, with a large Bugbf Leaf and a whitifh 

 flower. 



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