OV GAP RD BE NENG 
Oétob. not wantonly or ill-naturedly depreciate, yet 
' of the fame Soil, 
= when the Succefs of Gardening is at ftake we’ 
fhall not fpare. 
The Method to raife this Plant to its Per- 
fection is this. 
Procure Seeds from France or Holland, where 
the Plant ripens them well, or, if it can be 
conveniently done, from the Cape of Good Hope, 
where it is a Native. 
Sow thefe in Spring, upon a moderate hot 
Bed; and at the fame Time prepare for them 
the following artificial Soil. 
Lay in a Heap two Barrows of Mud from the 
Bottom of a Pond; 
Cow-Dung, and half a Barrow of common 
Earth, taken from under the Turf in a dry 
Pafture. | 3 | 
Sprinkle this Mixture with a little Brine, and 
let it lie to mellow. 
When the Plants are rifen, water them very 
carefully and gently at times; and when they 
have fome Strength, remove them into a fecond, 
and afterwards into a third hot Bed, according 
to the common Method in that Culture. 
When the Summer is advanced, and the 
Plants have good Strength, prepare fome Pots 
for them. 
Let thefe be large ; and put into them fome 
of the artificial Soil. 
Set in each Pot one Plant: fill up with more 
and fettle the Earth to its 
Roots by a gentle Watering, 
Set thefe Pots under a warm Wall, and draw — 
a Mat over them at a. iastaoi above the 
Plants. — 
Keep them fhaded till they have rooted well, 
and water them frequently. 
Then fet them in a warm and wiell fheltered 
Part of the Garden, among other Exoticks that 
bear Expofure. ee 
Many of the Plants will thus flower the firft | 
one Barrow of mellow | - 
Year, and all of them the fecond. 
They muft be conftantly watered while they 
ftand expofed, and particulatly when they are 
| about to flower. 
Toward the End of Septembér the Buds wil! 
appear, and good Watering will bring then 
quickly forward. 
At the Approach of Winter they muft be re- 
moved into the Greenhoufe ; and they mutt not 
be fhut up there too clofe. 
In the fucceeding Summer they are to be fet 
out with the dike Exoticks, and treated in al] _ 
Refpects like them. 
By this Means we can affure the Gardener he 
will obtain this Plant in all its Elegance; and 
gain a Reputation above others, who follow lefs 
proper Directions. 
Next to the Error of raifine the Plant Rai 
bad Cuttings, the Soil that is commonly ufed for 
it prevents its Growth. 
Mr. Mittrr, the beft Inftruétor the Gardeners 
have hitherto had, orders it to be planted in Pots 
filled with light fandy Earth* : but Nature and 
- Reafon direct exaétly the contrary ; and Expe- 
rience fhews this is a Soil in which it cannot 
thrive. ; 
Moft of the other Kinds of Sage grow naturally ~ 
ina dry and barren Soil, therefore they will thrive 
‘in it when planted; but ’tis otherwife with this. 
It is a Native of the Cape, and there stows 
by the Sides of Brooks that dry up in the Sum- 
mer+: in thefe Places it finds a rich and mellow 
Soil, and fuch we are to give it. 
Of. this Commeline, who writes its Hittory, in- 
forms us, and other Writers confirm it; 
true Culture : 
has fhut from him the Stores of Knowledge. 
4 ATHIOPIAN SHRUB TANZY. 
We have endeavoured on many ‘Occafions, 
atid fhall on many more, to introduce univer- 
fally into the Gardens of the Curious, Plants 
whofe Leaves have a peculiar Beauty, as well 
as thofe whofe Grace is in their F lowers. 
~ ds an Inftance. 
There is a pleafine Biibhtiess in the Flower, 
though it wants Dignity ; but the Value of the 
Piane lies in the fine Wildnefs of Form, and 
in the eafy Foldings and Divifions of the 
Leaves.. 
~ Authors have been divided what to call it. 
Van Royen rightly makes it a Species of ‘Tana- 
cetum. In Commeline it is alfo defcribed as one 
_ of the fame Genus, but others have named it an 
Ageratum, 
This Confufion has been owing to the un- 
certain Characters by which thofe feveral Genera | 
N° 6. 
This 
have been eftablithed ; for they have been ill 
chofen. Linnaeus has defined them better ; 
none has defcribed, fo well as that Author, thefe 
Genera; indeed fcarce any other has underftood 
them. 
Fie refers it to the Tanzy Kind, to which it 
evidently belongs, and calls it in his Species Plan- 
tarum, p. 884, Tanacetum foliis pinnatifidis laci- 
nits lanceolatis obtufiufculis integerrimis : Psnnatifid- 
leav’d Tanzy, with lanceolated, obtufe, and un- 
divided Segments. 
This Author had called it, Tanacerum foliis pin- 
natis, in his Hortus Cliffortiana , but farther Ob- 
fervation fhewed him that was lefs 4 proper, the 
Leaves not being compleatly pinnated, though 
refembling that CHaraéer in theit Divifion. 
It is a robutt and fpreading Shrub; the Root 
is divided, brown,’ fpreading, and full of Fibres. 
S The 
Oétob:; 
* Gardé. 
ners Dic- 
tionary; 
Article 
Salvia. 
+ Fuxta 
amniculos 
aftate fic- 
cos. COMM 
and Ib. 4.183. 
upon fuch Knowledge alone can be founded its 
but this needful Knowledge that 
Author could not attain, for Commeline wrote 
in Latin; and the Want of a liberal Education 
