O&ob. to him one in which it is confpicuous, and fami- 
—————~ jiarly difcovered. | 
Let him take off a Flower of Marvel of Peru, 
and he will find it elegantly form’d of 4 fingle Pe- 
tal. Its Cup is fmall, and compos’d ‘of five little 
Leaves. The Flower is tubular and flender at the 
Bafe, and fpreads out into a broad folded Rim, 
where it is divided lightly into five blunt: ‘Segments. 
‘There is a Nefarium, but it is fingularly placd — 
below the Petal. In the Center rife five F ilaments, 
each crown’d with its proper Anthéra. ‘Thefe thew 
the Plant to be of the Fifth Clafs of Linn aus, 
the Pentandria: and the Style which rifes fingle 
among them, fhews alfo that it is one of the Mono- 
| ‘ gyuia. 
else i the Manver oF Perv. 
| ‘This beautiful Plant is a Native of the Fa/ and 
 Weft-Indies and, with us, being rais’d upon a 
Hot-Bed in fom ‘in the Manner of the tender 
annual Plants, it will, like them, bear the open 
Air of Summer, and flower very finely. — 
We fhall not fwell thefe Sheets, or rrefpat ori 
Oétob, 
Cette 
the Reader’s Patience, by repeating liere at large © 
the Culture of our tender annual Plants, which 
we have given at Jarge in the preceding Nurh- 
bers, and which every Gardener knows. - 
- Inftead of this dull Repetition, we fhall re- 
mind the curious Raifer of this Plant of two 
Things; the firit is, that the Soil be prepar’d for 
them, by mixing Cow-Dung and Coal-A fhes with 
the common Mould; the other, that they have 
every Day twice a little Water during the Time of 
their flowering. — 
Thefe Cautions will make the Flowers much. 
larger than in the common Way; and will keep 
up a Succeffion of them, till Frofts deftroy the 
Buds: then the Stalk fhould be cut down, and 
} the Root foon after taken up, and Kept in Sand 
till Spring. 
6: YEE ow PHLOMIS. 
HIS, like the former, is a Plant fo well 
eftablifh’d already in our Gardens, that we 
need not write to recommend it. 
our Labours therefore to the explaining the Struc- 
ture of the Flower, and improving the prefent 
Method of Culture. 
_. Its vulgar Name is the Sage Tree; and by fome 
it is call’d Sage Mullein: the common Writers 
call it, in the fame Manner, Verbafcum falvie foliis. 
The Writers of more Accuracy, Phlomis. It is of 
PL. VIL 
- Fig. 6, 
a Clafs altogether different from Verbafcum, and 
by this we fee how idly they nam’d Plants, who 
had not regularly ftudy’d Method. 
Linn us calls it Phlomis folus fubrotundis. to- 
mentofis crenatis involucris lanceolatis: Pbhlomis, 
with roundifh, woolly, crenated Leaves, and 
pointed Involucra. CR. 
It is a Shrub of five Foot high: irregular in 
Growth; but diftinguifhed by the peculiar white- 
nefs of its Leaves; and by i its great round syns 
of Flowers. | 
The Root is divided and fpreading. ‘The Stalks 
‘are numerous, woody, and brown. The Leaves 
toward the lower Part, are fhort, broad and round- 
ifh: thofe toward the Top are broad alfo, but 
fomewhat oblong: they are irregularly wav’d and 
_crenated lightly at the Edges; and they are by 
in Colour, and foft to the Touch. 
The Flowers grow in an elegant Manner at the 
Tops of the Branches, in large round Tufts, and 
We fhall direé&t — 
they are of a fine gold yellow, and of the labiated 
- Form. 
The upper Lip is very large and arched, and 
the lower is {mall and divided into three Parts. 
When the Flowers are fallen, four flaked Seeds _ . 
appear in the Place of each. 
To know the Clafs to which this Plant belongs, 
the Student muft tear open a Flower; he will find 
in it four Filaments lodg’d under Covert of the 
upper Lip; and, of thefe, two are longer than the 
others : thefe are more efficacious in the Impreg- 
nation of the Seeds, and from them the Clafs is 
determined. © | . 
_ Putomis ‘is one of the Didywamia, that Term 
expreffing thofe Plants which have two Filaments 
more efficacious than the reft. 
The Plants of this Clafs are arranged by ea 
NUS under two Sections; and of thefe the one 
is compos’d of thofe which have the Seeds naked, 
and this is call’d Gymnofpermia, the other of fuch 
as have them in a Capfule, and this is called Angio- 
{permia. Putomis is one of the Gymno/permous. 
Its Culture is by Cuttings, and they fhould be 
planted in the Beginning of Summer. The next 
Spring they muft be remov’d into their allotted 
Places; and their thriving will depend upon the 
Drynefs of the Soil: one third Sand, and a little 
{mall Gravel, fhould be mix’d with mao Mould 
for rhs ; Purpofe. 
4 ALP; 
Tl. 
The Management of the Flower-Garden, for the Beginuing of O&ober. 
HE Flower-Garden being the Seat of A- 
mufement, and affording fomething to de- 
light the Eye at all Seafons, the Gardener muft 
_ have two Points in View at this Time; the pre- 
paring the feveral Borders, for iriakiniee their beft 
| Shew in the fucceeding Months of a 3 and 
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