AVGOMPHi RAT BOD Y 
Nov. 
four Bufhels of under Turf Earth, from a rich 
low Meadow, one Bufhel of Cow Dung, and half | 
a Bufhel of Pond Mud. Let thefe be laid toge- 
ther at the prefent Seafon of the Year, and they 
will be a when wanted. 
Early in Spring let the Seeds be fown upon a 
Hot-bed covered with good Garden Mould. 
When the Plants are three Inches high, let 
the beft of them be feleéted for raifing, and 
“planted each in a fmall Pot, filled with the Com- 
 “poft juft defcribed. 
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Let thefe be fet ina bat ta sig fhaded 
and watered till they have taken Root; then let. 
_ them be gradually hardened to the Air. 
As they grow large, let larger Pots be provid- 
ed for them. Let alittle of the Compoft be put 
in each of thefe, and let the whole Lump of Nov. 
Earth be taken out of the {mall Pot with the --—— | 
Plant. : 
Set this upright in the larger Pot, then fill 
round with more of the Compoit ; give a gentle 
Watering, and fet them on the ‘Tan-bed again, 
till well fixed, and hardened, _by opening the 
Glaffes carefully. 
After they are thus raifed to a due Height and 
Strength, let them be fet out in the middle of a 
warm cloudy Day ; and placed among the Exo- 
4905; 
At the Approach of Winter, let fome of them 
be taken into the Green- houfe, and fome into 
the Stove; they will flower longeft and fulleft in 
the latter Place. 
OA Ae es EES LO WER. 
_ There is not a more beautiful Plant than this, 
if we take in the Confideration of all its Parts, 
in the Campanula kind ; and {carce its fuperior in = 
any other. 
The Difpofition of the Leaves as well as their 
Form, attract the Eye; andthe Figure, Place, 
and Afpect of the Flowers fill it with Satisfaction. 
- Theearlier Writers were not acquainted with this 
Species, but among the later, {carceany have omit- | 
and the Characters of the Genus - 
ted to name it; 
are fo ftrongly impreffed upon it, that all have 
agreed to call it by the fame Name, Campanula. 
“datis, capfulis quinque locularibus. 
f{pear-pointed and dentated Litdves placed oppo- 
To this Linnavus adds, as a DiftinCtion of 
the Species, Foliis haftatis dentatis oppofitis petio- 
Campanula with 
fite on Foot-ftalks, and with five Cells in the 
Seed Vefiel. 
~ Our Gardeners call it univerfally from the 
Place of its natural Growth, Canary Campanula. 
Paha they have got it, though the Engl 
be ever fo familiar. 
two Beards at the Bottom: 
They do not chufe to part with a Latin Name 
one 
The Root is tuberous and hung about with Fibres. 
The Stalk is round, upright, and fix or eight 
Feet high, purplifh at the Bottom, and of a 
‘pale Green upwards. 
~The Leaves rife fometimes two, fuih ffi, 
three at a Joint. Thefe are very diftant: and 
from their Bofoms generally fhoot up fome 
young Stalks, which give a very beautiful tufted 
“Appearance to the Pair uf’ the’ Plane “where they 
are fituated. 
The Leaves have long, 
Foot-ftalks : 
Green, and of the Shape of a Spear Point, with 
they are fharp- 
‘pointed and ferrated at the Edges. 
The Flowers are large and elegant, they hang 
‘drooping, and they are of the perfect Bell Shape, 
flender, and reddith 
and of a bright flaming Yellow, tinged with Red. 
The Seed Veffel is large and contains nume- 
cous Seeds. 
they are of a beautiful greyifh 
The Flower mutft be laid open to difcover thofe 
{mall Parts, on which the Charactens of the Clals 
are impreffed. 
It is hollow, deep, broad and ieipen hs at the 
Bafe; and at the Edge is divided into five Seg- 
ments. When thus torn open, there appears in 
the Centre of the Bafe its Nectarium. This mutt 
be firft obferved, becaufe the Filaments rife from 
it. It is compofed of five {mall pointed and 
convergent Scales. 
Upon the Tops of thefe are placed the Fila- 
‘ments, which are therefore alfo five; they are 
very fmall, and they have long and flatted But- 
tons, 
In their Centre appears the Style, which is longer 
than thefe Filaments, and has a Crown upon its 
Top of an oblong Shape, divided into three hay 
which when mature turn back. 
The Number of the Filaments as they ftand 
regularly, fhews the Clafs of the Plant: it is one 
of the Pentandria, the fifth of Linnaus; and 
its finele Style fhews it one of the Monogynia. 
Culture of the Canary Betu-Frowzr. 
We have given the Gardener his everlaftine 
Rule, to find the Soil moft proper for his Plants 
by enquiring in what kind they naturally are 
found in their proper Country. 
This is ufually to be learned in the more accu- 
rate Botanical Writers. With refpect to the 
prefent Species in the Canaries, it is always found 
in a dry fandy Ground, and notwithftanding that 
Difadvantage rifes to twelve Feet in Fisiont 
This fhould be our Rule for the Compoft fuit- 
ed to it, and upon this I have experienced with 
Succefs the following Mixture. 
Take two Bufhels of Upland Pafture Ground, | 
one Bufhel of Wood-Earth, and half a Buthel 
of Sand. Mix all thefe well together ; and let 
them be expofed to the Air from November to 
Midfummer. 
The Plant is in fo many Gardens, that it may 
always 
