10 A GCOMPLEAT Boob 
Augutt. the Covering be lifted off during the Night, and rich Mould for every one, and think there can Augutt. 
Plate I 
Fig. 6. has not, that I know, been brought into the — 
Plate I. 
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- when there are Showers; and kore kept on 
againft the Sun, and parching Wands. - 
The third Week. in July, bring as many large | 
Pots as there are Plants in the Bed. Take up— 
fome of the Soil, and fill them to the Depth 
of fix Inches; then carefully take up the Plants 
with as much Mould as can be made to hang to 
them. Set them even in the Pots, and fill up 
carefully with the fame Mould: after this, ma- 
nage them as the Gzraniums, and they will rife 
to their full Perfection. 
One Reafon why the Flowers and Green-houfe 
Plants of England, are inferior to thofe of the 
neighbouring Countries, is, that too many of our. 
Gardeners plant them all in the fame Soil : thofe 
who {bould inform them, are more deficient in 
this than in moft other ‘Articles ; “— order good — 
be nothing better. Nothing can be more con- ° 
tradiGiory to Reafon. Let them look out into the 
Fields of our own Country, and they will fee 
fome Plants on one kind of Soil, and others on 
another. Remove them interchangeably, and 
they will pine and languith. *Tis fo in other 
Countries; and thofe who have written beft upon 
the Subjects tell us fo. We fhall trace, in their 
Accounts, what is the natural Soil of each Plant, 
and form fuch a one by Art for its Reception 
here. When we have feen the Refult of this 
Practice at Home, or received certain Accounts 
of it from Correfpondents in other Countries, 
we fhall acquaint the Reader with that Autho- 
rity; in other Cafes, we fhall propofe what 
feems agreeable to Reafon upon the fame Prin- 
ipl and recommend to him the Tryal. 
P ; ae ST TE TR ~ 9 - 
6. CODAGA P Ada. 
This is a Shrub of the Nerium Kind, which 
European Gardens, but very well deferves a Place, 
not only for its Beauty, but its Virtues. The 
Bark of it is the famous Codaga Pala or Conefii, 
newly introduc’d into our Praétice, and found 
fovereign in Dyfenteries. Writers on Medicine 
call it by thefe Indian Names : its proper one is 
Nerium foliis ovatis acuminatis petiolatis; RoszE- 
7. . Great flowerd JASMINE. 
We admire, with Reafon, the common Jas- 
MINE Of our Gardens; but this Shrub deferves 
much greater Regard, having all its Perfections 
in a fuperior Degree: a more beautiful Leaf, a 
better Form of Growth, and a larger, fairer, 
and more fragrant Flower. The Gardeners call 
it Catalonian ‘fafmine. The common’ Writers, 
Fafminum minus. Its proper Name is hae 
- humilius magno flore. 
It is a low but elegantly fpreading Shrub. 
The Stem is woody, and covered with a grey 
Bark. The young Shoots are tender and green. 
The Leaves are pinnated, and of a lively green: 
three or more Pairs of Pinnz ftand on each. 
Rib, and there is an odd one at the End. 
The Flowers cover the Surface of the Shrub 
in fcattered Bunches, four or five together, and 
they are large and elegant; their Colour is white 
on the Surface, but purple underneath, and 
they have often fome purple on the Edge, and 
fometimes a little yellow. 
‘The Buds are wonderfully elegant, the pur- 
ple fhewing itfelf on them in its full Luftre. 
To learn to what Clafs in the Linn zan Sy- 
_ ftem this elegant Shrub belongs, the Student is 
to examine carefully the Flower. He finds this 
- form’d of a fingle Petal, and plac’d in a little 
Cup. The Cup is made of one Piece, as the 
Flower, and is divided at the Edge into five 
Segments. The Flower has for its Bottom a 
long Tube, which at the upper Part breaks into 
five vaft fpreading Segments, refembling fo many 
feparate Petals. Within the tubular Part of the 
Flower are plac’d the Filaments: they are only 
two; and from the Rudiment of the Fruit rifes. 
a fingle Style of the fame Length with them, 
BAY, with ovated, pointed Leaves plac’d on : 
F oot-ftalks. 
~The Trunk ‘is firm and woody, and the 
Branches fpread: the Leaves are broad, and of 
a whitifh green, and the Flowers are white and’ 
fragrant. It is a Native of Malabar and Ceylon, 
and it may be preferved here, as other Plants, — 
from that Part of the World. We fhall hereafter 
sive the Method, under proper Inftances. 
and it is fplit at the Top. The Fruit fucceeding 
is a Berry. 
The Student is now fenfible that the Number 
of Threads in a Flower, determines its Arrange- 
ment in the Linna@an Method. His fecond 
Clafs comprehends Plants whofe Flower has only 
two Filaments ; and its Title is Dranpria. 
The Name is form’d of two Greek Words, and 
| expreffes Plants whofe Flower has only two Male 
_ Parts, 
_thofe of the firft Section of that Clafs; and’the 
The Style being fingle, places it among 
Student, without more Information, knows that 
this is one of the Dianpria Monoeynia, as are 
_alfo the other Jafmines; and all Plants elfe of 
the fame Charaéter. 
The beft Method of Propagation, is to bud 
| this upon the common Jafmine; it lofes nothing 
_ of its Beauty by that Praétice, and it bacémes 
more hardy. This Method we fhall defcribe at 
large in a fucceeding Number. 
We have here, in thefe few fille ces. led the 
Student a fair Advance in the Linnean. ‘Sy- 
ftem; and inform’d the Gardener in the true 
Culture of fo many Plants: not by Rote, or by 
_tranfcribing from preceding Authors, but from 
Experience and Reafon. “We have now a few: 
Rules to add refpeéting the Care of the Flower-. 
Ground, the Seminary, the Kitchen and F rite. 
| Guiaen: for this Seafon. 
The Work of Summer is over, and that_ of. 
Autumn is not yet begun, therefore lefs is res 
quired in thefe feveral Parts than at other Times :. 
we'are happy that’ this Circumftance gave us 
Opportunity to enter fomewhat at large on the. 
more curious Part of our Work here, at the fet- 
ting out. 7 
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