a 50 
Nov. 
A GCOMPLEAT, BODY 
Flowers, of the beft Kinds in our Gardens. Let 
them be gently harden’d, by fpreading upon a_ 
Shelf in an airy Room ; and | afterwards put by 
till Spring. — 
Early in the Seafon, let them be fown upon a 
good Hot-Bed; and brought forward with the 
ufual Care. 
Where they rife very thick, let a few of the 
weakeft be pull’d up; and when the reft by. gen- 
tle Waterings have been brought to due Strength 
for removing, let them be tranfplanted to another — 
—Hot-Bed. 
On this they are to be brought forward by the 
fame Care, fhading and watering gently, till they 
have taken Root; and afterwards encouraging 
them by fome Sun and Air. | 
F rom this fecond they are to be remov’d to a 
third Hot-Bed, and treated in the fame Manner as 
in the former, till they fhall be well rooted: then 
they mutt have, by Degrees, more Air; and 
when they grow fo as to fill the Frame, they mutt 
be planted « out before they are ftunted ey, the 
Covers. 
The Summer will, by this Time, be fo well 
‘advanced, that they may, without Danger, be al- 
low’d the full Air. : bee Soe 
Let’ Holes be open’d for them in proper Parts 
of the Border, where the Mould is very fine: 
and let them be carefully brought thither with a 
large Ball of the Hot-Bed Mould about their 
Roots. — 
In each of the Places where one Plant is in- 
tended to ftand for flowering, let two Holes be 
Open’d at a {mall Diftance from one another ; 3 and 
one Plant from the Hot-Bed fet in each. 
~ Let thefe be planted with good Care, and from 
‘Time to Time water’d in an Evening. a 
Ina few Weeks they will begin to thew their 
Buds for flowering; and let the Gardener care- 
fully watch their firft Opening. 
- The Seeds of double F lowers do not oroaibe 
all double-flower’d Plants, tho’ it is a good 
Chance there will be many. 
Let Provifion be made at this Time for fuch as 
are fingle, and alfo for one of the two when both 
appear double ; for only one is intended to remain 
~ Ina Place. 
P-XIIL. 
Fig 5. 
To this Purpofe, let Holes be open’d at proper ’ 
Diftances in fome of the wildeft Parts of the Gar- 
den, among Thickets,; and in the Borders of a 
the Places juft nam’d; 
Court- Yard; ‘aa let fome Pots be All'd. with the Nov. 
richeft of the Garden Soil. 
When one of the two Plants appears t to Reece 
fingle Flowers, let it be carefully taken up, and 
planted in the Holes open’d for that Purpofe, in 
and where both are dou- 
ble, let one of them be taken up with the utmoft 
Care, and planted i in a Pot. 
They will now begin to flower, and there will 
be three diftine Setts of Plants, tho’ from the 
. fame Seeds. 
Thofe an: the. wild Places will grow to a great 
| Bignefs, and fpread every Way in a pleafing Irre- 
gularity. Their Flowers will be extremely nu- 
merous, and of a fine ftrong Colour. 
In thefe the Botanift will trace the Characters of 
the Plant, for they will be obliterated in the dou- 
ble; and thefe Plants will have a wild Beauty, 
which to the Eye of a true a equals at aot 
the beft of the others. 
‘The fecond Kind will be thofe which remain in 
the Borders : thefe will be large, and very finely 
cover’d with double Flowers; fome of the quill’d 
and others of the plainer Kind. 
The third Sort will be thofe in Pots. Thefe 
will differ from the others, in that they will be 
finaller ; but they will naturally have more and 
larger Flowers. . Thefe may alfo be preferv’d 
longer, by being brought into Shelter; and thus 
will be obtain’d the very fineft Kinds. ~ : 
Let the Seeds for a fucceeding Year, be fav’d 
from the fineft and beft of thefe, the largeft Flowers 
of the quill’d Kind; and there will niced! no farther 
Care about them. | | 
Thefe being fown in Time, in the suits will 
afford a Succeffion of Flowers at Autumn ;’ and 
' | the Return of the Growth will confirm wha the 
firft: fhew’d, and what we have fo carefully in- 
culcated, that the fame Seeds produce fome fingle 
and fome double Flowers; and of the laft all the 
various Kinds: therefore that thefe are all ‘no more 
than Varieties ; the Species continuing untatcerably 
the fame. | 
This Courfe of Thought uniting Botany and 
Gardening, illuftrates the one Study, while it enno- 
bles the other: Gardening, without that Science, is 
the Amufement of a Child; but thus connegted 
with it, becomes itfelf a great Part of a very no- 
ble. Science, uniting experimental with natural 
Philofophy. 
5) NARROW-LEAV’D ETHIOPIAN CALENDUDA. 
We here propofe to the Student a Plant mi- 
ftaken by too many who have written on it; for 
hitherto the Botanift and Gardener have been di- 
funct: nor muft he, who wrote the Dictionary of 
this Art, fo long in Reputation, fuppofe he did 
any thing toward uniting the two Charaéters, when 
he tranflated the Miftakes of TourNnEFrort, and 
plac’d phem at the Head of his Rules. for Cul- 
ture. 
The candid Reader will not be offended at our _ 
fo often naming this Perfon with Cenfure : we write 
for the Improvement of the Art: that Improve- 
ment can no Way be made but by the Affiftance 
of this Science; nor can that be ufefully join’d to 
it, or the Art brought to its Perfection, while Er- 
rors are permitted to give Reputation. 
This Plant ftands as an Inftance of the Necef- 
fitys ; asit hasbeen call’d by various Names ; and, in. 
Con- 
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