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abundance, where they thrive tolerably. The 
Time for planting thefe, is the Middle of Ful. 
They muft be taken off with great Care 
from the Mother Plant, and laid two Days up- 
‘on a Shelf, in a cool airy Place to harden. Af- 
ter this one muft be planted in each Pot in this 
Compoft, and that with all poffible Care. 
When they are all planted, let the Pots have 
avery gentle Watering, and fet them in a warm 
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fhady Place. 
Here let them ftand another EF ort- 
— without any farther Care. 
‘Then bring them to.a Bark-bed, which has a 
very drodedeares ‘Heat, and’ fet in the Pots two 
Thirds of their Height in the Bark: drawa Mat 
over the Glafs, and thus let them ftand all Day. 
In the Middle of the next Day, raife the Glal- 
fes a little, by a notched Stick. 
The Variety of African Geraniums, is equal 
to their Beauty. This is a Species, fingular 
and elegant in the higheft Degree ; ‘and ore, a 
Place in the beft Collection. 
The Leaves are not lefs peculiar in their 
Form than the Flowers 3 and from thefe mofthave 
named the Plant. Hrrman calls it, Geranium 
anemones ;oll0. 
bidis folio. Linn vs forming a more certain 
Diftinction, by taking in alfo the Structure of 
the Flower, names it Geranium calycibus monophillis | 
corollis papilionaceis vexillo dipetalo foliis bipinnatis. 
Geranium with bipinnated Leaves, with the Flow- | 
-er-Cup of one Leaf, and -the Flower papilina- 
ceous, with two Leaves in the Vexillum. | 
Ee Root is tuberous and brown ; round, and 
of the Shape and Bignefs of a. Turnep.. 
The Leaves that rife firft from it, are large, 
and very beautifully divided; they have long, 
hairy, redifh Foot-ftalks, and they are cut into 
“numerous narrow Segments . their Colour is an 
elegant pale green. 
In the Centre of a large Tuft of thefe, 
rifes the Stalk, which fupports the Flowers ; 
“¢ is united with fome of the inner Ones ateits. ~ 
Bafe; but all the Way from thence it is naked ; 
it is purplifh at the Bottom, of a whitifh green 
toward the Top, and hairy. 
The Flowers terminate this in a Kind of 
Umbell, and they are very large, and of an e- 
legant pale Crimfon: they ftand on long and 
' tended Foot-ftalks, a Part of their Petals hale 
ing down,’ and the Remainder ftanding cat 
each Flower has the Afpect of the papiliona- 
ceous. Kind. 
In the Centre appears the Tops of the Style, 
which is alfo of a fine Crimfon, and adds not a 
little to the Ele@ance of the Flower. 
The Seed-vefiels which follow, refemble the 
Beak of a Crane, as in all the other Geraniums. 
The more diftintly the Flower is examin- 
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_ the Water having ftood there four 
ty Hours, to bring it to the ‘Temper of the Place. 
‘In this Manner Jet them be kept in the 
Bed three Weeks, and then by Degrees more and 
more hardened ,; 
ken quite off in the Middle of a warm Day. 
till at length the Glaffes are ta- 
After this, they may be removed into the 
Greenhoule, and from thence into the Stove. 
This is the Method of: bringing them to 
eee ereateft Perfection. 
T Hey muft be frequently watered in the Stove; 
and twen- 
Under this Management, they will grow a 
- great deal during the Winter; andin S 
be ina fine F étwabdnets towards fowering. They 
are fingular in the higheft Degree, even in the 
Leaf, and a great Ornament to the Place. 
spring will 
: ; Z, Crimfon Papilionaceos Flowered GE R AN IU M., 
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ed the more it pleafes. The Cup in which it 
ftands, is formed of a fingle Leaf, and divided 
into five Segments. The Body of the Flower is. 
compoted of five Petals, and of thefe, three are 
turned up in the fame Manner we have men-: 
tioned, and the other two hang down. This gives 
the Air of Singularity to the Flower. 
We defcribe it in the moft perfect State, men- 
tioning the Colour to be throughout Crimfon, for 
it is Feaeictenely white; but even in that Cafe it is. 
_ hot without its Beauty; for at the Part. where. 
the lower Petals droop, it is ftained with two 
~ large and elegant Spots of Crimfon. 
Some Authors have confidered it in this State, 
as a diftinét Species; but it is no more than a 
Variety of the other, as Linnzus has more 
accurately determined. : 
To what Clafs the Geraniums are to be refer’d, 
we have explained at large before. 
The Student who fees their Filaments united 
into one Body at the Bottom, and counts the: 
Number to be ten, will not fail to know the Plant 
belongs to the Monodelphia Decandria. 
Culture of the PaptLionaczous Geranium. 
The Plant isa Native of //rica, where it fpreads 
its Leaves over the dry Earth, by the Sides of 
Forefts, in a pleafing Luxuriancy. 
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The Soil in thefe Places is a light fandy - 
Loam, enriched by the rotted Branches of the 
Trees. ‘This points out naturally the Compoft 
that is to be given it in our Gardens. 
For this Purpofe, bring in a Barrow of light 
fandy Earth from under ‘de Turf in a common 
Pafture; mix with it a Bufhel of Earth, from 
under an old Wood-pile, and add a Peck of 
coarfeft Sand. 
This refembles its natural Shit: and in this I 
lave raifed the Plant to its moft perfect Splen- 
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Let this be prepared feveral Months before 
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