a OF GARDENING 
v. a Bark-bed of gentle Heat up to the Rim of the 
Pas . 
Shade them carefully, and water them every 
other Day. Let them have all this A ffiftance of 
Warmth, Shade, and Moifture to make them 
take Root, and after they have fhot, admit the 
entire, place this with its 
larger Pot, 
Mould: 
This will ftrengthen tl 
:. | by raifing the Glafies, 
1€M to bear the open Air 
and when well eftablifhed, 
they muft be brought out in the middle 
and when they have ftood fome time fonger ‘in | wafm cloudy Day, and fet amone the Fxce: of a 
\ thefe {mall Pots, let fome larger be filled up one 2 2 FOE ar, 
Fourth with the fame Compoft; 
there are thriving Plants. 
Pl. XII. = This for the Beauty of its Flower and hand- 
Fig. 3- fome Growth, deferves its Place in any Collec- 
ions ae | 
The Generality of late Authors have been ac- 
quainted with the Plant ,; but it is one of the nu- 
merous Inftances how ill the. DiftinGtions in Botany 
were eftablifhed, till Linnaeus. 
Piukenet, and Bocconz, join to call it an 
Althea. The firft Mthea Carpini folio ---The 
latter Althea Virginiana Bidens.—Comm ELINE Calls 
olio.—And Ditienius, a Malvinda. 
. Linn us and Van Royen nameit a Sida, and 
4 add to diftinguifh the Species, Foliis cordato ova- 
iss ferratis, ‘Stipulis fetaceis, axulis fub/pinofis. Sida 
with ferrated, oval and heart-fhaped Leaves, 
with briftly Films, and the Infertions of the 
Branches | fomewhat prickly. 
The Root is white, large and divided. ae 
Plant is two Foot and a half high. 
The Stalks are round, upright, and. varioufly 
divided into Branches. | gee 
- Qn thefe the Leaves are placed with a becom- 
ing Wildnefs. They are of a handfome Figure, 
long, elegantly indented at the Edges, fharp- 
pointed, and at the Bafe where they are broadeft, 
they ‘are indented in a heart-like Manner for the 
Stalk. | ve a eo a 
From the Bofoms of thefe rife fmall Stalks 
and Branches, for the Support of the Flowers; 
and with them filmy Subftances and a kind of 
harmlefs Prickles in the Place where they join 
the main Stalk. . 
The Colour of the Leaves on thefe fmaller 
Branches, is a pale greyifh Green. . | 
Thofe on the main Stalk are of a deeper 
Green, but fcattered over with a filvery Down, 
which gives them a Palenefs to the Eye, and 
makes them foft and velvety to the Touch. © 
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Bae 
The.Flowers are large, elegant, and nume- 
rous; they are fcattered in a manner all over the 
Plant. Some rife with fimple Foot Stalks from 
the Bofoms of the Leaves; and others are placed. 
at the Extremities of the fmaller Branches. _ ? 
They are of a pale ‘but very. elegant Yellow, 
1 
Ye a nr Se ee 
Ae ain, rat on SE Iris a) is Pica 
as many as 
Loofen with a thin-bladed Knife, the Earth 
from the Sides of the fall Pots, and get it out 
; : it an Alcea or Vervain Mallow, Alcea Carpini fe 
_ After this they require no particular Treat- 
ment: ‘They muft only be managed as the reft, 
and atthe Approach of Winter be taken into 
Shelter. : 
3. YELLOW “INDIAN sIDa. 
fomething deeper than Lemon-peel: and they 
have yellower Buttons in great Number in the 
Centre. : . 
To know the Clafs to which the Sida belongs, | 
let a fingle Flower be examined carefully ; its 
Cup is form’d of one Piece, wide at the 
Mouth, and indented in five Places round the 
Rim. ea Oo ae 
_ The Body of the Flower is compofed of five 
difting& Petals uniting at their Bafe; thefe are 
broad, obtufe at the End, and very narrow at 
the Bafe. ts : 7 
The Centre of the Flower is occupied by a tu- 
bular Body, formed of numerous united Fila- 
ments. Thefe at the Top feparate again, and 
‘ftand free fome Part of their eight, and have 
at their Tops rounded Buttons. | 
The Style is fhort and fingle : the F lower be- 
ing fallen, appears a Fruit, in the whole of a 
roundifh pointed Form, but compofed of nume- 
rous Cells joined: one to another, which when 
they feparate appear horned. ae 
- The Conftruétion and Arrangement of the Fi- 
laments in this Flower, being fingular, are the 
Characters of its Clafs and not their’ Number 5 _ 
we have made the Reader acquainted with the fix- 
teenth in the Linnaan Syftem, the Monadelpbia. 
Its Characters he has feen,. is, that the Filaments 
coalefce at their Bottoms; this Charaéter he 
reads in the prefent Flower, and he is therefore 
to refer the Plant to which it belongs to that 
Claas: | a bye 
The third Section or Subdivifion under it, 
containing the Polyandria, the Number of Fila- - 
ments and their Difpofitions here, very plainly 
difcover.that it is alfo of that Divifion. 
a 
. Culture of the Yeruow Siva. 
’ This Plant is a Native of the Za/? and Weft-In- 
| dies.s and in both is found in the fame Soil, which 
a deep and rich black Mould, at fome {mall Di- 
ftance from Water, or near the Foot of a Hill. 
This is to be our Rule for its Culture; and lec 
a Compoft be thus made for it. Mix together 
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