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Fig. 4. 
Dik. 
Let not the Reader, in this or other Inftances 
of a like Nature, fuppofe, when we recommend 
the placing Plants in a Stove, we mean they will 
not live out of that Heat. 
The common Rivina will keep alive many 
Years in open Ground: and tho’ the whole Plant 
perifh ‘to the Surface in Winter, the next Spring 
fends new Shoots from the Root. 
We mention thofe Methods by which all the 
Plants we name will grow to their higheft Perfec- 
tion. Thofe who have Stoves will not fail thus 
to bring them in all the Beauty we defcribe : 
_and of thofe which remain, few w7) 
But this. 
Way it has not half its natural Beauty; nor will 
~a Green-houfe keep it in Perfection. | 
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For fuch as do not entér into that expenfivé Part of Nov. 
Gardening, ’tis eafy to raife this, and many more 
of the Stove-Plants, in conimon Flot-Beds; and 
‘tis worth the Trouble They muft be planted 
where there is moft Sun and Shelter, and then 
take their Chance : a Part will be lof inevitably ; 
ill retain their 
full and natural Luftre: but in whatfoever Degree 
of Vigour they live, they will be an Article cf 
CBiainient and Variety to the Garden. 
Some there are Natives of watm Climates, 
which will fucceed much better this W ay than in 
the Stove itfelf, becaufe, if able to endure the 
“Seafon, they have there more Air. 
Aun CACM Dy: CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
This. tho’ a Native of a much warmer Cli- 
mate, lives freely in the open Ground with US ; 
and, whether in the double or the fingle State, is 
beautiful. 
Fafhion prevails for the admitting only eaiisle ; 
Flowers into Gardens ; but tho’ the common Wri- 
ters direct tearing up the fingle, and throwing 
them away, we fhall thew their Ufe, and advife a 
better Practice. 
This is an old eftablifh’d Plant in our Gardens ; 
the earlier as well as later Writers name it, 
_and all under its proper Generical Title; too 
ftrongly imprefs’d upon the Flower to be miftaken 
or overlook’d by any. 
Ciusivs figur’d it under the anes Chryfan- 
_themum Creticum;, Crete being the Place whence it © 
was firft receiv’d: 
and Morison and Ray, and 
our Englifb Writers, have taken the fame Title. 
CC. Bauuine calls it Chryfanthemum foliis Ma- 
tricarié , and Linnus, always diftinct, expref- 
five, and perfect in his Charaéters of Species in 
their Names, Chry/anthemum foliis pinnatifidis incifis 
extrorfum latioribus : | 
divided in the pinnate Manner, and cut, and broader 
at the outer Part. 
Species, with Certainty even without ‘the Affiftance 
of the Flower. 
The Root is long, white, and faaa with 
“numerous thick Fibres. 
The Stalk is round, firm, upright, of a eke : 
green, broke into many Branches, and lightly . 
hollow in the Centre. 
The Leaves ftand without eas in great Num- | 
bers, and they are very beautiful. Their Colour 
is a greyifh Green; and they are divided in a moft 
elegant Manner into numerous ferrated Segments. 
The Flowers, in vaft Number, terminate the 
Branches, and rife on {mall leafy Stalks from the 
Bofom of the Leaves: they are of a deep yellow 
when they firft open, which by Degrees grows 
paler; and they have in the Centre a yellow 
This is the natural and fimple State of se 
Flower; and the Plant, fuffer’d to grow luxuri- 
ant in its wild Freedom, and cover’d with thefe, 
has a very fine and elegant Afpect. 
~N? 13. 
_Chryfanthemum, with Leaves — 
This Charaéter rifes as the > 
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Culture will make them double in various Forms, 
and quill the Leaves, as in the beft F lowers of Afri- 
‘can Marygolds. In thefe States Authors (and tho’ 
_we blufh to fay it, fome of Credit) have defcrib’d 
the Plant as if of various Species. Hence ‘the 
Ghryfanthemum flore luteo pleno, and Chryfanthemum 
Greticum petalis florum fiftulofis. 
Thefe Errors are tranfcrib’d with faithful Dili 
gence into the Gardener’s Dictionary , and ’tis for 
redreffing them, and telling the Student a double 
and a fingle Flower of the fame Kind, make the 
Plant differ as a Variety only, not as a Species, 
that the great Linn aus ftands cenfur’d and ac- 
cus’d of Errors by that Author. 
Let our Reader remember on all Occafions, 
that adding by good Culture to the Number of 
Petals in a Flower, does not change the Species 
of the Plant: that no Culture can do this; that 
Nature is too fix’d and certain in her Works; and 
Man’s Art bounded within narrow Limits. 
This Truth let him eftablifh, in Contempt of 
little Writers; and having confirm’d in his Mind 
what thefe double Flowers and quill’d Flowers of 
this, the 4frican Marygold, and others are, let him 
not reject, but confider in what Manner to im- 
prove, and when and how to ufe them. 
This is ‘the Bufinefs of the Gardener, inferior 
to the Study of Botany as much as Art to Sci« 
yet far from deferving Neglect. 
Let him be careful that thefe Varieties, thus 
plac’d in a higher Rank than they demand by 
Writers, do not impofe upon his Underftanding ; 
and then let him indulge his Fancy in their Cul- 
ture. This is the Path of Science; clear in itfelf, 
and only made perplex’d by foolifh Guides. 
Culture of the CanpDY CHRYSANTHEMUM... 
It is an Annual, and to be rais’d from Seeds ; 
for when they are perfected Nature has done her 
Bufinefs, and the Root dies. 
In its native Countries it is found conftantly in 
a loofe, mellow, ‘and’ rich Soil: our Garden- 
Mould anfwers very well to this Purpofe ; and no 
Compoft need be prepar’d for it. 
Let good Seeds be fav’d from quill’d or double 
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