ee 
Oétab. come in fome particular Care, otherwife, though 
——-— they will live, they will not have their natural 
Beauty. | ; | 
Let a Mixture be made of equal Parts, Pond 
Mud, coarfe Sand, and the Earth from under 
a Wood Pile; with this fill three or four Pots, 
and let them be large ones. Ii the Centre of 
each Pot, atthe Time of planting out the com- 
mon Annuals, place one of thefe. Settle the 
Earth well to the Root, water it, fhade it, and_ 
when it has got Strength from the fetting, place 
it in the free Air, among the Greenhoufe Plants. 
‘There ufually break out fome very fine Flowers 
upon it the firftYear; but this is a {mall Confide- 
ration. In the May following Buds will appear 
in great Numbers, and it muf then be watered 
frequently: This will fet it in for good flow- 
ering. 
As the Flowers fade let their Stalks be cut off; 
and it will thus be loaded with a freth Succeffion, 
almoft without Stop or End. 
2 BLUE UMBELLATED CRINUM. 
PL. Vil, This isa Plant of very noble Afpeét, and of | 
oo Fig. 2. confummate Beauty. The Number and Difpo- 
Re eee er ee ee 
fition of the Flowers, for they form a vaft and 
regular Head, is a great Recommendation to its 
Culture, .as well as their’ Form and Colour 
tikes a dake ha eee | 
The firft Writers who defcribed the Plant 
called it a Hyacinth ; but this was-an irregular 
Manner of Expreffion ; for the leaft Attention 
would fhew it does not belong to that Kind. 
‘Van Royven calls it a Polyanthus ; and Lin- 
nus, in his earlier Works, has exprefled it by 
the fame Name} but in his later and more cor- 
rect T'reatifes, he makes it a Species of Crinum. 
Its proper Name is, Crinum foliis Jublanceolatis 
planis, Corollis obtufis : Obtufe flowered Crinum, 
with plain and fublanceolated Leaves, 
~The Root is large, irregular, tuberous, and — 
roundifh ; its Colour yellow, and its Subftance | ~ 
: juicy. From its Top run feveral thick white Fi- 
bres, which at their Ends part into many fmaller, | 
and lofe themfelves among the Mould... 
_ The Leaves are numerous, and not without | 
+ their Beauty; they rife in a round ‘Tuft, and they 
bright and lively green. : 
In the Centre of thefe rifes a fingle Stalk: this | pai 
is round, thick, upright, hollow, naked, and two | 
Foot high. - | ek * 
The Flowers grow in a great rounded Head 
or Clufter,. at the Top of the Stalk, and they are | - 
extremely elegant. . | POC SET MDs, 
Their Colour is a fine lively blue, and the Fila- 
ments within them are long and white, and 
crowned with Buttons of a gold yellow. ~ 
The Flowers have their’ feparate flender Foot- 
ftalks, which all rife together from one Point at 
the Head of the main Stalk : and they are there fur- 
rounded ‘by a kind of foliaceous Cafe, ferving in 
the Place of a Cup. This is form’d of two ob- 
long Leaves, and they turn back after the Time 
of flowering. Hotigl oD 
Fach Flower is form’d of a fingle Petal, tubu- 
lar at the Bafe, and divided deeply into fix oblong 
obtufe Segments. In the Centre rife fix F ila 
ments. ‘Thefe are equal in Length and Difpofi- 
tion : they therefore mark the Cla of the Plant, 
- proper Culture. 
declaring it to be one of the Hexandyia, the Sixth 
of Linn avs. | 
In the Centre is feen a fingle Style, rifing from 
the Rudiment of the Fruit; and this thews it to _ 
be one of the Monogynia: it is therefore of the 
fixth Clafs and firit Section. | Le 
The Seed-veffel is of an oblong F ieure, and 
contains numerous large Seeds in three feparate — 
Cells. aes iy as 
It is a Native of Africa, and there rifes wild in’ 
Places where the Soil is little better than a naked 
Sand, 
‘Tis an Obfervation that the Flowers there aré 
_ always moft numerous and beft colour’d when the 
Plant grows within the Influence of Salt-Water. 
This, and the natural Soil and Place, declare its 
Culture of the blue umbellated Cr iw Me 
The Method to obtain the F lowers of this Plane 
in their ‘full Perfection, is to ‘nurfé it with due 
Heat and Moifture in a proper Soil. sak , 
} 23 In February throw into a Heap one Barrow-full 
are long, narrow, thick, Juicy, and of a very | of light Mould, from under the Turf of 
of ufing it: this muft be the Beginning of Sune.” 
Prepare twovor three moderate Pots. Firft lay 
in the Pieces of Tile, that the Hole may not be 
choak’d up: then put in about one half the Pot- 
full of Earth. — os ae 
On this, place’ carefully one of the Roots “ob- 
tain’d from Africa, or an Off-fet from fome other 
Garden; pour in more of the Soil to it; fettle 
the Whole carefully, and well about it, and let it 
“be-covered-half an Inch deep» 
Give it a very gentle Watering, and fet it in a 
warm fhelter’d Place; but in the open Air. Here 
give it now and: then a gentle Watering, and 
| let. it continue till the Beginning of Autumn. 
_ Then remove the Pots into a Place where the Sun - 
has full Power, and continue watering them fre- 
quently and moderately. 
The Danger of Decay will be now over, and 
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