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Flowers and Curious, Plants now in their Perfection, 
I. &THIOPTAN MARYGOLD. 
HIS is an elegant and Gnerdl ar; per- 
ennial. Plant. It claims a Place in the 
ColleGtions of the Curious, for the | 
Beauty of its Flowers, and more for the Dura- 
tion of that Beauty: for with the Culture we 
fhall recommend it will continue inBloom all the 
Year; and the Variety. of its Flowers in Co- 
lour under their feveral States and Appearances, 
and according to their different Situations on the 
Plant, adds greatly to its Value. — 
Upon the whole, it is one of thofe Plants 
which every Garden fhould. have, ‘and every | 
Writer on Gardening fhould recommend; for. 
e: Profufion of Flowers, | 
lafting Beauty, and an eafy Culture. But we | 
are fallen into a Way of being content with a 
few common Things; and none advifes us to 
Bogruaave, who raifed this in-the Leyden 
Garden, called it African Caliha. COoMMELINE, 
from fome faint external Refemblance with the 
Daify Kind, has named it the cut-leaved Bellis: 
but it is properly a Marygold; and its difting@ 
Name Calendula foliis lanceolatis finuato dentatis 
Numb, VII, 
| caule.nudo: naked ftalked cada with mPOA Ogtob. 
pointed and deep cut Leaves. 
The Root, is brown and fibrous ; - it ipcegts 
under the Surface, and lafts many Years. 
The Leaves rife from this in regular thick 
Tufts ; and have themfelves a great deal of 
Beauty : they are four Inches long, and mode-.- 
rately broad, . fmalleft at the Balas larger. to 
the End, deeply finuated, and fharp-pointed as 
a Spear. They are of a flefhy Subftance, and 7 
of a fine green Colour, — 
- Among. thefe rife the Stalks: they are nume- 
rous, upright, naked, and of a bright pale green, 
Each fuftains a fingle Flower; and as the Plant is 
ufually decorated with ten or a dozen of them at 
once of various Heights and Degrees of Maturity, 
the Sight is: wonderfully pretty. One Flower 
ftands on the Summit of each Stalk, and ir is 
very large and beautiful. 
It confifts of a central Difk, and radiated 
Edge ; and in each Part there is great Elegance 
and Variety. 
The Rays, or long Petals of the Edge arg 
Snow white within, and of a bloody purple on 
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