39^ The Gardener's New Director, 



262. Necanthemum ; the name given this plant is fuch 

 as I have not heard of betore in any botanical author ; I 

 do not know to what genius to apply this heteroclife name, 

 of which I know no meaning ; and it was to coireft thefe 

 blunders in the Dutch catalogues, which induced me to 

 undertake this wcrk, however unfuccersfu! I may have 

 been ; for when I fov/ed the {c^d of tjiis odd named 

 plant for two years, and once more in a hot bed, it did 

 rot come up, io I know nothing of the plant either by 

 its name or appearance. 



263. Nicotiana mojrr la^'folia, C. B. P. Greater broad 

 leaved Tobacco. ' 



264. Nicotiajm major rotiincJj folia ^ C.B. P. Greater round 

 leaved Tobacco. Their culture is in Marchj to prepare a 

 hot-bed of dung, fow them upon it, as foon as you per- 

 ceive the violent heat of it is over ; and when the plants 

 are two or three inches high, tranfplant them into ano- 

 ther moderate hot-bed, where let them continue until 

 thdir leaves are meeting, at which time plant them in 

 a heap of your richeft compoff, or fuch earth as is pre- 

 pared my melons, and cucumbers, three feet, row 

 from rov/, and two feet, plant from plant, lifting them 

 ■with large balls of earth ; while they were in the hot- bed, 

 I inured them to the open air, and gave them plenty of 

 water when they required it : IwAuguJi they prepared to 

 fiower, at which time cut off their tops that their leaves 

 might be better nourifiied ; and by the end of that month 

 cut them quite down for ufe, otherwife their leaves 

 would have failed and the crop been lofl. 



265. Nigella ftore rnimre albo pleno, C. B. P. Fennel 

 Flcvuer, with a fn:all white double flower. 



266. Nigella Jiore 7najore caruleo pleno, C. B. P. Double 

 blue Fennel Floiver, or Devil in a Bufi. 



Thefe plants fliould be fdwn in patches, where they 

 are to remain in the borders of the flov;er-garden in 

 March, and watered and kept clear from weeds, which 

 is all the culture they require. 



267. Ochrns folio integro caprcolos cmittnn'e, femine 

 piiilo, C. B. P. Winged Pea with an entire leaf, fending 

 forth tendrils andji brown feed. 



This plant ihouid l)e fov-n in drills, very thin in the 

 rows, three feet rcw from row, and fhould be hoed up 



