; Auguft, 
Time of its Publication : 
— troduce. 
not without its Beauty. 
~of a pale green. 
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“OF GARDENING 
; ms SECTION I 
FLORA; 
This being a Time in which little is needful to be done in the Kitchin Ground, we 
or the Pleafure Garden. 
Joall devote the Lreater 
Part of the prefent Number to the Flower Garden: and in the fame Manner we fbail reduce that Article 
in Jome of the fucceeding Numbers ta are full Direttions for the others. 
NTERING in this Place, on the Confi- — 
,deration of curious Plants, we begin in the 
preateft and moft perfect Part of the Study, 
has been called the moft difficult: . but me 
Purpofe of this Work is to render it ealy. 
Hand through all its Meanders and fuppofed 
Perplexities. 
There is but one Syitem now received in 
the World: this is that of the celebrated Lin- 
waeus. Not only the Diftinctions and Terms of 
the Science are. taken from him, but the very 
Names of Plants: Many of our late Acquifitions 
having been new named by him, and fome of the 
moft curious by no other Asc, This is the 
Path all, at the prefent Time, purfue in the 
Study, and this has not been named or intro- 
duced in any Work of Gardening hitherto pub- 
lifhed. 
of moft Books on this Subject, and (with Mo- 
: defty be it fpoken by the Authors of this) it 
It 
is above the Reach of thofe who have written 
| the others. A Knowledge of the Greex Language 
| is needful to underftand the very Meaning of the 
A Knowledge of Botany is what every one, con- | Words, for they are all derived from it; and to 
verfant at all in thefe Things, is defirous to at-_ 
tain; and we fhall here point out the certain | 
Path ; introducing the Student at his firft: Step in- — 
to the Road of Stlences ; and leading him by the — 
comprehend the Characters annexed to them re- 
quires a Search into Nature’s Bofom, which few 
fuch have Application or Capacity to perform. 
Let it not feem too affuming, that we pro- 
pofe heré to explain this abftrufe Syftem. The 
Greex, though no Gardener’s Tongue, is not 
an unknown Language; nor are the Depths of 
Nature unfathomable. The Want of a Work 
on Gardening, in which this Method fhould. be 
explained, was the principal Occafion of the 
prefent Undertaking; and we propofe in it to 
make this Swede fpeak Encuisny, and to deliver 
his Method in fuch a Manner, that all may 
| comprehend it; andthe moft flightStudent fmile 
at thofe, who, when they allow its Ufe, lament 
| its Difficulty. 
{t has been invented fince the Writing | , 
2H ICICI III NRORHOHOHOIOI IIHR I HORHOR HONOR 
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Firowers and curious Prants now in their Per fection. 
: 
HE fucceeding Numbers of this Work f — 
will have the fame Divifion with the prefent: 
In each we fhall treat of the Flowers and curi- 
ous Plants which are in their full Beauty at the 
one Number cannot 
contain all of them, becaufé the whole 
would be then employed on that Head alone, 
and the-other Sections over-looked or flighted 3 
but the principal fhall have Preference each 
Week; thofe which are moft confpicuous and 
mott worthy of their Place, and thofe it would 
be an Honour to the judicious Gardener to in- 
Of others we fhall fpeak hereafter. 
I. 
This is a Plant of great Sinoularity, and is 
~The Vulgar call it 
_ Frowerine Reep, and Inpian Reep; the 
common Writers, CanNacorus VuLcaris, and 
Arunpo Froripa. Its proper Naime is Canna 
- foliis ovatis utrinque acuminatis nervofis. Canna with 
oval Leaves, {mall at each End, and nervous. 
Its Root is tuberous, thick, and irregu- 
lar; the Stalk is round and jointed; the 
Leaves are large and broad; they are {mall 
at the Bafe, fharp-pointed, deeply rib’d, and 
They are very numerous, and 
I 
As we fhall not inftancé in this Place all the 
Genera, neither fhall we enumerate all the Spe- 
cies under each: but to keep up the due Pro- 
| portion in the feveral Parts of our Work, 
we fhall felect a proper Number out of thofe 
which offer ; and under every Article chufe 
fuch as will beft ferve the Purpofes of Knowledge 
and of Praétice to the Reader: we thall fix our 
Choice on thofe particular Plants, which will be 
moft proper to illuftrate the Syftem of Linn aus 
to the Gentleman; and molt ferviceable to explain — 
their Culture to the practical Gardener. | 
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§.C ARLE T: CANNA 
at their firft Appearance: are twifted up like 
Horns. The Plant isa Yard high. | 
The Flowers are long and flender, and they ftand 
with their Cups upon ‘the Rudiment of the Fruit. 
Ten or a Dozen of them appear at once upon 
the Top of the Stalk; and their Colour is a 
pelo and beautiful Scarlet. 
Each is compos’d of a finele Petal, divi- 
ded into fix long flender Parts, one of which 
turns down. Its Bottom is furrounded by a 
Cup form’d of three little Leaves; and in its 
Centre there is a fingle Filament, at the Top of 
which 
