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the PLEASURE-GARDEN: 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Beauty. 
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HE Asters decorate our Gardens in 
wes great Numbers: but this is a Species lefs 
univerfal than it deferves to be; exceed- 
Fig. 1. ing moft of them in Beauty. 
- The White Shrub After is its Englifh Name ; and 
tho’ the Colour of the Flower is not to be limit- 
ed by that Term, ’tis not altogether improper. 
‘The Plant is a Native of Africa and America; | 
and in the latter Country it produces white Flow- — 
ers, tho’ in the other, they are ftain’d with a live- 
ly Purple. 
The firft Plants of it rais’d in England, were 
from American Seeds, and they retain’d the origi- 
nal Character; the Flowers being white: but, 
from the more burning and more batren African 
Soil, it glows with a very lively Colour. 
PLUKENET, acquainted only with the American 
Kind, has call’d it Afer Maritimus fruticofus Hy- 
fopi foliis confertis flore albo: 
Linnaeus diftinguifhes it from the reft of 
that numerous Tribe, by the Name, Aer foliis 
linearibus fafciculatis punélatis; pedunculis unifloris 
nudis, caule fruticofo rugofo: Rough fhrubby- 
ftalk’d Afer, with narrow, clufter’d, and puncta= | 
ted Leaves, and with fingle Flowers on naked 
Foot-ftalks. 
We recommend to the Gardener to get his Seeds 
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WHITE SHRUB ASTER. 
from Africa; ot to raife the Shriib from Seeds or Novi 
Cuttings, obtain’d frorn Plants in our own Gar- 
dens, that have been of African Origin; for the 
Difference is vaft in their Beauty: 
It is a low, tho’ fhrubby Plant: : 
In its native Climate it does not rife to more 
than three Foot ; and, with good Management, we 
may. bring it to the fame Size here. . 
The Root is woody, brown, and terrhinated by 
white Fibres. 
The Stem is covered with rough grey Bark, 
and it fpreads out into numerous fcatttred funhe, 
whofe Twigs are purplith. | 
The Leaves are narrow; numerous, and of a 
frefh green: eight or more of them ufually rife 
at the fame Joint; and of among thefe the Foot- 
ftalk of a Flower. This is naked, and an Inch 
and half long. 
On its Top ftands a fingle, latge, arid very 
beautiful Flower, white in the American, with a 
pale ftraw-colour’d Difk; but in the glowing 4- 
frican Kind, the Rays are purple, and the central 
Part of a gold yellow: ‘This it keeps, fo far as I 
have feen, always in the Seedling Plants, as well 
as thofe rais’d from Cuttings. 
The Flowers, at Evening, have a faint Sweetnefs 5 
