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| | Let it-be flit through in two Places with a Nov, 
“Nov 
~ Flower, whofe Place is on the Germen. 
- for its Prefervation ; ; the fecond Article is the | 
_ proper Soil : 
mellow Land. This therefore muft be imitated : 
A COMPLEAT BODY 
‘tion a that Clafs. . 
In the Female-Flowers appears this Rudiment 
of the Fruit, crowned with a Rim of twelve 
‘regular Points : | 
Petals 
there properly are none; for the fine Purple Part, 
is but a coloured Cup. 
Piece, fpread out at the Rim and divided into 
fix {mall Segments. The Fruit is a {mall three 
cornered Capfule. . 
‘We have named the native Country of this 
Shrub, and that will inform the Gardener in a 
general Manner of the Degree of Heat requifite 
in America it grows in rich and 
here. 
Culture of the Puviiantavs. 
In Autumn let the Gardenef mix together, 
one Barrow of rich Mould from under the Turf 
in a Meadow, half a Barrow of Pond Mud, 
a Peck of Wood Earth, and the fame of Marle : ‘ 
_ and if the Marle cannot be had, a Peck more 
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of the Mud, and two Pounds of Chalk. 
Let thefe be well mixed and aren once a | 
Week ; then fill proper Boxes with the Compofi- 
tion, and bring them into the Stove, where the 
Plant is preferved. 
edc on a fmall Treffel; and let one which will | 
— with little Force be brought down to each 
Ox. | 
This is the Nectarium of the 
It is formed of a fingle - 
fharp Penknife; and twifta Piece of Wire a 
| above thefe Slits. 
Bring it into the Mould, that the wounded — 
Part may be covered three Inches deep; then ; 
faften it down with Pegs or Strings, and cover- 
ing it up carefully with the Mould, give it a 
gentle Watering. Repeat this as Occafion re- 
quires; obferving when the Earth grows dry: 
And let the Water be always fuch, as has ftood 
four and twenty Hours in the Stove. 
In this Manner the Layers will root freély, 
and the Shoots from thém will grow during the 
Winter in the Stove. About the ie a Marcl 
they will be fitto refheve. | 
Then fill as many Pots as dic are Layers, 
with the reft-of the Compoft which haslain out al] 
Winter: into each Pot place with Care one of 
the Layers cut from the Mother-Plant, with as 
much of its own Earth, as will hang about it ; 
- give thefe a gentle Watering; and fet the Pots 
up to the Edge ina Bark-bed. Shade and water 
them till well rooted in the Pots, and then by 
Degrees harden them by admitting free Air. 
In the hotteft Months, they may be fet out 
among the Greenhoufe Plants, and they mutt 
then be managed like the reft, watering them oc- 
cafionally, picking off dead Leaves, and ftirring 
the Earth at the Surface from Time to Time. 
They will make’ a very handfome Figure the 
fecond Year, and they will flower the fourth. It 
may alfo be raifed from Seeds, but that is tedious. 
(2 VIOLET FLOWERED 
Tn the formerPlant, the Situation of the F lowers’ 
Fig, 2, claimed the Attention of the Curious and, in 
this their Beauty. It is not eafy to conceive any 
Thing more noble than their full Luftre, or to. 
name a Plant which more deferves the Notice of 
_ this Age of Curiofity. 
Mucrone refo. 
Many of the late Writers have named it, and 
moft of them with peculiar Praife of its Beauty. | 
Aculeofa Mauritanica Erica 
PLukenet Calls it, 
foliis, Commrnine and SEBA, name it as a 
Campanula; and fome others have diftinguifhed it 
under the fame Title, with various Additions. 
Linn us, names it a Roella, a Genus diftingt 
from the Campanula, though, allied to it; and 
adds as a DiftinGtion of the Species, Folits ciliatis 
Roella with ftrait- “pointed and 
ciliated Leaves. 
It is a fhrubby Plant, t but of no great Height. 
The Root is whitifh, large and divided; and it 
fendstoagreat Diftance a Number of thick Fibres. 
The Stem is woody, and covered with a 
brown Bark ; it divides almoft from the Greund 
« into- innumerable Branches, and forms a wild 
Buth of very pleafing Afpect. 
The Leaves are fmall, but very fingular i in. 
They rife inordinately. 
Form and Conftruction. 
bs 
aT HYIOPIAN ROEL LA. 
all over the hey and saath no adioad. ftalkes 
they are oblong, narrow, fharp- -pointed and. of 
| .a very firm Subftance. 
Their Colour is.a lively 
Green, and they are on each Side edged. with 
Rows of fine Hairs, refembling weak Thorns. 
_Thisfingular Kindof Hairinefs of a Leaf, is what 
Loneus exprefies on this and other Occafions, 
.by the Term ciliated, refembling Eye-Lathes. 
_The Flowers terminate the Branches, and they 
are large and very beautiful, each formed is of a 
vat fingle Petal irregularly divided into four, 
five, or fix great Segments at. the Edge. The 
Colour of thefe Segments is a deep and glowing 
Purple, and in the Centre the Flower becomes 
paler, and almoft White. 
This is the Colouring when the Plant i is alt 
~managed, but otherwife the whole will be of an 
oitleew, Sie Flefh-colour, and fometimes white. 
In this Cafe, the Plant is robb’d of half its 
Beauty. 
After the Flowers come Seed-veflels, divided 
into three Parts, and &ll’d with minute Seeds. 
To know the Clafs to which this Plant be- 
longs, and fee for what Reafon and with what 
Juftice Linn aus has feparated it from the Cam. 
panula, let the Flower be carefully examined. 
“The 
