In Pots they have not Room to fpread; and Sept. 
few know how far.the Roots of Plants extend for ——-—~ 
Nourifhment : neither have they in that Cafe the 
Benefit of Steams from the Earth, or other com- 
mon Advantages of Nature. 
From what we have feen from Experience, we 
advife the Gardener always to place fome Plants 
in the natural Ground. If the Pleafure of the 
Proprietor requires that others be in Pots; it 
will be feen that there is a vaft Difference in 
Favour of thofe raifed Abroad. The Method 
muft be this. | | | 
~ Let him chufe a warm and well expofed Spot 
of the Garden, fheltered from the cold Winds, 
while it is open.to fome Air and Dews; here let 
him dig the Earth a Spade and half deep, ap 
work in a little very rotten Dung. 
» Let his Bed be prepared a F ortnight datoneel it 
is wanted; and about the laft Week in May let — 
the Plants.be removed into it.. They muft be _ 
carefully taken up from the hot Bed with ‘as 
much Earth as will hang to their Roots, and 
placed at two Foot Diftance every Way in the. 
new Border, in Holes opened deep: enough and 
large enough to receive them with their. Roots 
ang Earth. 
Here they muft be watered and fhaded, ell 
they have recovered the Check of their moving 
and after that kept free from Weeds, and ; at 
times alfo watered. 7 f: 
When the Fruit appears they muft be watered 
more plentifully ; not with a Deluge at once, but 
by a moderate Quantity often repeated. _ 
The Bignefs of the Fruit is the Pride of the : 
Gardener; and this depends oreatly upon the due 
Degree and equal Quantity of Moifture. 
I have brought the Fruit of this Plant to the. 
Size of a Goofe-Egg, only by a good Soil, pro- 
per Diftance, and gentle watering three Times 
a Day, as it was growing to its Bignefs. 
It is not peculiar to this Species of Night-. 
_foade to have fo large Fruit. The Barbadoes 
Batchelor’s Pear is another Inftance which we 
-fhall give in our next Number; and there are of 
this Kind, called Melongena, fome Varieties: one 
with the Fruit of a fine Violet Colour. But the - 
Beauty of this does not come up to the Singularity | 
of the other, whofe Refemblance of an ‘Ego, 
from its white Hue, is very pleafing. 
Sept. . The Number and Difpofition of thefe Fila- 
ments, fhews the Clafs of the Plant to be the 
fifth of Linnasus, the Pentandria: and as the . 
Style rifes fingle among thefe: Filaments, that 
fhews it belongs to the “fir Section., The Me- | 
longena, or Egg Night/bade, is therefore one of — 
the Pentandria- Monogynia of Linn avs. 
It is an Annual, and is to be raifed from 
Seeds by the Affiftance of hot Beds, in the Man- 
ner of other Plants of that Kind. It will re- 
quire two hot Beds, and may, after that, be left 
to its Fortune in the natural Earth. | | 
Let Seeds be faved from fome large Fruit 
crowing on a ftrong and vigorous Plant. Let — 
thefe be carefully died and preferved thro’ Win-— 
ter: and in the Middle of March let them be 
fown on a Hot Bed of a moderate Degree of Heat, 
covered with very rich common Mould. _ | 
_. When the Plants are up, the Gardener mutt 
‘prepare a fecond Hot Bed ; which thould have a 
Covering of Mould alfo five Inches deep. 
As foon as they have three or four Leaves a- 
piece, let him tranfplant them into this fecond | 
‘Hot Bed, making {mall Openings for them at | 
five Inches Ditarice every Way, and fetting them — 
with the utmoft Care. | 
Let them have a gentle watering as foon as 
they are planted, and keep them well thaded, 
till they have recovered the Check from remov- 
ing, and look frefh again and lively: then his 
Care muft be to give them as much Air as they 
‘can endure. He muft not throw off the Cover 
of the Frames, nor raife them very high at im- 
proper Times, but in the Middle of the Day, 
and when the Air is warmeft, he muft raife up 
the Cover a little at a time, and thus prepare 
them as they gather Strength, and the Seafon 
grows warmer, to be fully Said. 3 | 
All this Time they muft be watered occa- 
fionally ; not largely, but frequently; and they | 
_ will thus, by the latter End of May, grow too 
big to be longer confined in the Frame. 
Then is the Time of planting them out; and 
here’ the Gardener has his Choice, to put them. 
into Pots or open Borders. The moft ufual 
Method is to pot them, becaufe they can fo be , 
removed when the Fruit is ripe, and fet in con- 
{picuous Places; but the beft Method i is to plant _ 
them in the natural Ground. | 
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Tle GLORIOSA, called te SUPERB LILLY. 
PLIW,  This:is.a Plant. not only of extream Beauty, 
Fig. 4. but of a Singularity, which, had it lefs Elegance, | Name, Gloriofa No. Terms of DiftinGtion are 
could not fail to recommend it to the Notice of added, becaufe it ftands fingle, and has no like 
the Curious... It is an Unick among Vegetables, | Species from which to be diftinguifhed. © 
a Plant /ui generis, and not to be referred to any It is a perennial rooted Plant, and where fup- 
other. Kind. ported rifes to eight Foot high, if Culture fa- 
Its moft ufual Name is the Superb Lilly: its | vour it. The Root is oblong, thick, flatted, 
Indian Name, .Mendoni. Comme.tn gave it the | and covered with a brown Bark, bet white 
Name, Lilium Zeylanicum Superbum, the Superb | within. ‘The Stalk is round, green, weak and 
Gerlon Lilly. Herman calls it Methonica,; and | branched. | 
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