O&ob. but they are fo mix’d among the Leaves of the 
gee hC, 
Fig, 5. 
the Plant belongs to the Icofandria : 
Cup, and thofe are fo large and colour’d, that 
the Flower appears to confift of twice that 
| Noniber’ 
At the Bafe of every Petal there is plac’d a lit- 
_and thefe converging furround, at the 
tle Scale ; sing, 
Bottom, the Style. 
In the Centre of the Flower appears the Rudi- 
ment of the fucceeding Fruit : from this grows up 
the Style; and upon it are inferted alfo the Fila- 
ments. This is a Singular Difpofition ; 
Student muft Beck regard it; becaufe on this 
depends the claffing of a Shrub. 
Thefe F Haménts, are very numerous, and of the 
Length of the Petals, and they are crown’d with, 
roundifh Buttons. 
' The Rudiment of the Fruit, jut defcrib- 
ed, terminates a Columnar Receptacle, and from 
it rifes the Style, which is fingle, and of the 
rae of the F ilaments. 
The Sight of thefe Filaments might at firft per- 
plex the Student; but he will remember, that 
when’ they are thus numerous, the Clafs of the 
Plant is not to be found by counting them; but 
by obferving the Place of their Origination. : 
If they be inferted in the Infide of the Cup, 
if on the Re- 
ceptacle, it is of the Polyandrous Clafs,; but he 
will find in this they are not inferted on either, 
but rife from the Bafe of the Germen or Rudi- 
ment of the Fruit, which terminates the Recep- 
tacle. 
This is the Female Part of the Flower; and 
he will recolleét, that we have before acquainted 
him of the Gynandyia, the Twentieth of the Lrn- 
wean Clafits, whofe Charaéter is, that the Fila- 
ments grow on the Female Part. 
The Grewia is one of thefe; and there is no 
| Plant which better fhews that Charaéter, 
and the 
Culture of the GRewta. 
This Shrub is a Native of the Zaf and Wef- 
Indies, and of fome Parts of Africa; always in 
extreamly hot Climates. bs 
It loves a mellow Soil, and this we mutt give it 
here. The beft is made of equal Parts of Gar- 
den-Mould and River-Mud, with a {mall Sprink- 
ling of coarfe Sand; in this let it be planted with 
due Care, and it will not fail to flower under a 
right Degree of Warmth and Moifture. 
The belt Method of raifing it is from Seeds ; 
but it is much more eafily propagated by laying 
the Branches. 
If it be rais’d from ee they muft be fown 
in Spring, on a moderate Hot- Bed ; 
The Plants, when come up, muft have a little 
Water carefully given them; and being rais’d to 
fome Strength, they muft be cantata! into 
Pots of this prepar’d Soil. 
Thefe muft be fet up to ae Rim in a Bark- 
| Bed of moderate Heat, and fhaded till they are. 
well rooted. 
From this Bed, when they have gain’d fome 
Height, they muft be remov’d into aia hers firft 
planting them into larger Pots; and when they 
have been fhaded in this, and water’d till they 
have taken good Root, they muft be by Degrees 
inur’d to the Air. 
In the Height of Summer they may be expos’d 
among the eens houfe Plants; but before the 
Jeaft Approach of Cold, they saul be hous’d, 
firft taking them into the Green- houfe, and then 
into’ the Stove. 
The Way of laying the Branches has nothing 
in it particular, but they muft be laid into Pots 
of this Compoft; and when they have taken fuffi- 
cient Root, treated in all Refpeéts as the others. 
The Shrub will bear the open Air, with the 
| Green-houfe, a great Part of the Year; but it will 
never flower fo well as in the Stove. 
cc PENSE MYER AV iD OC ER AN IU M, 
We add here to the Geraniums, we have before 
recommended to the Gardener’s Attention, one 
whofe Beauty and Fragrance have already engag’d 
the general Attention; and which is worthy a Place 
in the beft Colleétions. | | 
Authors have nam’d it under the Title of Ge- 
ranium tuberofum vvitis folio, noéiu oleus. Lin- 
N@us, more diftinctly, Geranium calycibus mono- 
phyliis tubis longiffimis fubfeffilibus radice fubrotunda: 
Roundifh-rooted Geranium, with Cups form’d of a 
fingle Leaf, and very long Tubes on fhort Foot- 
ftalks. | | 
_ Jt is a very fpecious Kind, and fcarce inferior 
to any in Elegance. 
The Root is roundith, piece ‘and full of Fi- 
bres. 
The firft Leaves rife in Numbers, and are fup- 
ported on long thick hairy Foot-ftalks: thefe are 
fometimes purplifh, but naturally green; and the 
Leaves are alfo of a fine bright green. They are 
large, broad, divided deeply in feveral Places, 
and not unlike fomeKinds of Vine-leaves: and they 
are highly rib’d, and lightly hairy. 
Frequently at the Bafes of thefe there ftand one 
or two little Appendages, but this is not.con- 
ftant. 
In the Centre of this Tuft of Leaves rifes the 
Stalk, which fupports the Flowers. This is round, 
and on the 
thick, hairy, purplifh at the Bottom ; 
upper Part green. 
The Flowers fpread out in very glorious Tufts, 
and they are in themfelves large and beautiful. 
I Their 
and at the 
fame Time, the Soil, we have directed, muft be 
| prepar’d for their future Reception. » 
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