GARDENING. 
Auguft. 
Their Culture is the fame with that ‘of the 
- firft-nam’d Species; and the great Art is to pre- 
vent their flowering the firft Year. 
done by Sowing late in the Spring 
too much Sun. 
The watering this Plant is an Article in which 
the common Writers will be apt to miflead the 
They order it to be done lareely 5 
This is to be 
, and not giving 
Gardener. 
if, as they direct, the Plant be frequently wates’d, Auguit, 
and fet ina warm Place, it will commonly flower 
the firft Year, which is what we have feen fhould 
be avoided.s:c Let it not be expos’d to too» much 
Sun, and it -will need -lefs Water: and being 
fhelter’d- from: Cold; it. will live-well. thro’ the 
firft, and flower the following Summer, 
a. Be Ges LEAV’D HIBISCUS, 
T his, is a Plant of diftinguifh’d Beauty; it 
does Honour to the Gardens of -France and 
Ho.ianp, and is worthy to be more frequent in. 
ourown, We fhall endeavour to promote this, by 
fhewing its Elegance and explaining its Culture. 
Its common Name is: Escutenr Matiow, 
the Fruit being eatable. Authors, in general, 
have called it a kind of Atcza ; but it is diftincly 
a Species of Hisiscus : its proper Name is Ht- 
Biscus foliis quinquepar tito pedatis calycibus intert- | 
oribus latere rumpentibus. Wipiscus, with Leaves 
divided in a Foot-like Manner, into five Parts 
and with the inner Cups burfting fide-ways. 
The Plant is four Foot high, robuft, branch’ d 
and fpreading ; its Leaves are large, and, in | 
the higheft Degree, pompous and elegant. 
The Root is fibrous, the Bonicher: are round 
and yellowifh, and often purple at the Joints. The : 
Leaves are numerous, and of a delicate ereen 5 
thofe near the Bottom are divided, in the Man- 
_ her of Fig-leaves, into five principal Parts; thofe 
toward the Top have only three Divifions, and 
-fometimes fcarce any. 
The Flowers are numerous and large, : their 
Ground Colour is a very pale but elegant yel- 
low, and they have ftreaks of purple. 
toward the Edge. 
Luckily for the Student, the Parts in this’ 
Flower are large, as well-as the whole: it will 
ferve therefore excellently to explain one of the 
moft abftrufe Claffes of Linnaeus. It is here {e- 
lected for that Purpofe. 
Thefe Flowers are {cattered at Diftances along 
the upper Branches, and each is furrounded at the 
Bottom by a double Cup. The Petals are five; 
they are very large, expanded, and lightly folded 
Of the two Cups, the outer 
one is compos’d of eight narrow Leaves, and 
remains with the Fruit: the inner one. 1S 
form’d of a fingle Leaf, divided lightly into 
five Parts, at the Rim, and it remains with the | 
other. The Seed-vefiel is large, pyramidal, and 
furrow’d upwards. i: 
In the Center of this Flower fade an obvious 
Arrangement of Antherw, or Buttons: the 
Threads of thefe do not rife fingly, as in 
many Flowers, but are united into a Body, and 
form a kind of Tube; from this grow the feveral 
Anthere, which ftand feparate and clear. Thus 
are the Male Parts difpofed in this F lower, and 
this determines its Clafs in the Linnaan. Sy- 
ftem. That Author has arrang’d together the 
Plants whofe Filaments thus unite into a fingle 
Body, in his fixteenth Clafs; the Title of which 
is Monaperpuia, ‘This is deriv’d from two 
_ Greek Words, and fignifies'Plants, the Threads in 
whofe F feet are united into one common Laem), 
ee 
Thus is the Student inform’d pint ly of 
this Diftinction, and of the Meaning of the 
Term, by the Examination of a male Flower, 
He will know, in Refpect of all éthe Inftances, 
that when ‘he fees a Flower, whofe Threads aré 
united into one Body, that-Plant is ‘ore’ of the 
Mowapetputa of Linneus. 
all Kinds give him Examples. 
— This: being the Difpofition of the Viale: Parts 
in the BEE: it remains: to enquire into that of | 
_ the Female. 
The Style tifes from a roundith 
Germen, and is longer than the Filaments; it is 
| divided at the Top into five Parts, each:of which 
| has its feparate Head. < 
~ Linnaeus has not fu Baividea this Clafs ac- 
cording to his ufual Cuftom, ftom the Form of 
the Style, there being ‘a sreater Object for this 
fubordinate Diftinétion; this is the Number of 
the Filaments or Anthere. Five is the {mallet 
Number found: in any of the Monaprzpuovs 
Flowers: the firft Se&tion therefore contains 
the MonapvretpHia PEnTANDRIAs; after this 
come thofe which. have ten DECANDRIA; and 
after them, -thofewhich have more; under the Title 
of Potyanpria: this Plant is one of thefe laft. 
Its Culture is eafy ; but being native of a warmer 
Climate, the Inpizs, it will Fit if neglected. 
The. Culture of the Hrsiscvus. 
- Let the Seeds be fown at the End of 
Marcu, upon a moderate hot Bed: When the 
Plants have three or four Leaves, let them be 
remov'd to another hot Bed: this will forward 
them finely againft the firft Months of Summer: 
When the Manathicr is fettled warm; and ‘cold 
Nights. are no longer. fear’d, let them. be ‘re- 
mov’d, ina fhowery Day, ‘into a-warm and-wel] 
fhelter’d Border, where there is Depth of good 
Earth, well broke = — and Sergei by 
rotten Dung. . 
Here let —_ be fhaded and gently water’d, 
| till they have taken Root; after which they 
muft be kept clear of Weeds; the Ground:about 
them often -broke by the Hoe, and their Stems 
ty’d up to fhort firm Stakes. They mutt be then 
well -water’d, and brought forward as much as 
poffible: by this repeated Care, one Plant will 
produce at a time fifty Flowers, and they will 
be ting’d more or lefs with purple: often they 
will have a flefhy red throughout. 
Let not the Reader fuppofe the Account of 
this Plant’s Culture too particular: it is not 
only deftin’d to this, but ferves for other of the. 
fame Species brought from the warmer Climates. 
Thus Comme in firft rais’d the Plant in the 
AMSTERDAM Garden, 1686. His Figure is not 
C : a good 
The sexes of . 
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