after. 
fade, without ‘letting them ftand to feed, new 
Stalks will continually fhoot, and a Succeffion of 
‘them appear throughout the Winter. 
When i Flowers appear, it will be ealy to 
Nov. 
% : 
“The Mallow kind is very, numerous, and 
there are few belonging to it, but may claim a 
Place in our Collections either for Singularity” or 
Beauty. Agee | 
This has Toute Clan « on both Accounts, and 
deferves to be received into any Collection. 
The Characters of the Genus are fo thoroughly 
P.XIII. ° 
Fig: 6. 
exprefied i in its F lower, that none has called it by | 
any but the proper Name Malva. 
‘Linn aus adds to diftinguifh the Species, fo- 
a9 _fubcordatis. laciniatis glabris, caule arborefcen- 
~The Mallow with fmooth, jagged and fome- 
ee heart- fathioned Leaves. Others have cal- 
led it Malva Grofularie folio, and our Garde- 
ners thence the Goofberry Mallow. | | 
It is a Shrub of regular and handfome Grog 
with large and graceful Leaves, and with = 
| SP Yicy Flowers. ae ae 
The Roots woody, Pecdiggand full of Fibres. 
The Stem is s firm, thick, brown, ai g itge 
hairy. : 3 
‘4 The Branches are numerous, and the Leaves 
on thefe ftand frequent: They have long brown 
_ Foot-ftalks; and they are broad, eatat and 
Sn indented at the Edges, and of a greyifh Green. 
The Flowers. rife. from ‘the Bofoms of. the 
2 Fe and grace not only the Top of the 
e Plant, but in a Manner the whole. , They are 
large and of | an elegant bright Red with Purple 
Bottoms. : KN 
"We have acquainted the Student already with 
the general Diftin@ions of the Plants of this. 
Kind, by which they are referred to the Monadel- 
phous Tribe ; and they are in none ftronger, than 
in this Flower. 
‘When examined carefully, it will be found 
compofed of five Petals, which are united at 
their Bafes: It ftands in a double Cup, the outer 
one confifting of three Leaves, and the inner 
of one divided at the End into five Seg- 
“ments. | 
In its Centre ftand numerous. F ilaments, free 
, and loofe at their Tops, but at the Bottom uni- 
A COMPLEAT 
if the “Flowers ate cut off when they | 
6 PURPLE AFRICAN SHR UB- MALLOW. oe 
| by Degrees hardened a little to the Air: 
B OD ze 
feparate the indifferent from the fineft Biahts’, 
let thefe laft alone be retained in the Stove, and - 
after this, let new Sets be annual] y. obtained by 
-pagne the Roots. 
ASOT. 
ted intoa ‘@itinddr, ) Me Ag 
This thews'the Clafs the Monadelphia : ; tai the 
ereat Number of the Filaments declares it to be 
ef the Section, called. from that Circumftance, 
Me | 
» The Fruit fucceeding each: Flower, is com- 
bled of numerous Cells, arranged: in. an orbi- 
‘cular flatted Form round a columnal — 
each = one Seed. 
Gulture of the Porrie SHRUB Matiow. 
The Plant is a Native af Africa ; and thrives 
there among Rocks where there is little Mould, 
| and that dry and barren. 
This points out its proper Culture. Te will 
need fome artificial Heat ; and will fucceed beft 
potted, and ina Soil not too rich. 
Let a Compoft be made for it, of a Barrow 
of Earth-from’ a Common, with a Bufhel of 
| Pond Mud, and. a Peck of Sand. Sieweo? 
Mix thefe at the prefent Seafon. 
Early in Spring let fome good Seeds bigs fowii 
in a Hot-bed. The Plants will come up freely, 
and they are to- be from this. tranfplanted into 
another. : 
When they have Rxcited fome Strength in the 
fecond Bed, they muft be removed into Pots of 
a middling Size, filled with this Compoft; and 
: thefe, when the Plants ate fettled in them with a 
gentle Watering, are to be fet in a Bark-bed, . 
burying the Pots half-way in the Tan. 
Let \them be fhaded at firft, and afterwards 
When 
the Glaffes have been removed once or twice in 
the middie of the Day, let the Pots be taken 
out of the Tan and fet among the Exoticks, 
which at that Seafon enjoy the free Air. 
There let them ftand the Summer, and in the 
Autumn be removed with the reft into the Shel- 
ter of the Green-houfe. They will flower the fe- 
cond, if not the firft Year. 
ff, 
1 GL Lee eee Seep seca De Be oe Doce ea ec ee eaten eee ist ae 
Cee A ps I oy, 
The Care and Management of the Flower-Garden, for this Weck. 
ROSTS generally fet. in fo fharp at this 
Time, that unlefs there come the Chance of 
a milder Day, little is to be done, or'little enjoy- 
ed in- the Garden. 
ry 
Ad 
There will be always fomething to employ a 
careful Gardener in the worft Weather, and we 
fhall direct him to make the beft Ufe both of 
fuch, and of the more favourable. } 
‘ We 
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