Nov. 
at 
Tagetes minor, and Flos Africanus minor, but | 
— the fpreading of the Stalks in this Kind, 
and their more erect Growth in the other, cal- 
led the 4frican Marigold, are much better Di- 
— ftinétion than the Size. 
The Root is formed of innumerable Fibres, 
joined to an oblong central Part. The Stalk is 
two Foot and a half i in Height, weak branched, 
brown and fpreading. 
The Leaves are large, of a deep Green, and 
beautifully pinnated ; the Pinnz being placed on 
flender Ribs, and in themfelves narrow, oblong, » 
ferrated fharply, and fharp-pointed. 
The Flowers rifing on fmall Stalks from the 
Bofoms of the Leaves, and terminating all the 
Branches, cover the Plant in vaft Profufion ; ; 
and if gathered before they fade, or fet for Seed, 
others will fucceed in greater Number, and the 
Plant continue flowering in all this Luftre, till 
the End of this late Month or longer, if Frofts 
fpare the Root. 
The Flower is large, and in its natural State 
fingle; nor is it then without its Beauty, the 
Colour being mixed of an extreme dark, pur- 
, plifh Brown, and a. gold Yellow; but in the 
P.XIV. 
Fig. 3. 
Hand of Culture the Variety is endlefs. 
: i becomes double, ftriped, and party-colour- 
ed: in fome Plants the Petals in thefe double 
Flowers roll themfelves into ams ; ; but this is 
not to be encouraged. 
It is the great Beauty of the African or larger 
Kind, Bees that has no great Variety of 
Colouring ; but in this the Gardener’s Art fhould 
be employed to ftreak and ftripe the Flowers; 
and not to twift up, but difplay the Petals flat 
or waved, to fhew that fingular Elegance. 
- To know the Clafs to which this Plant be- 
longs, one of the fingle Flowers muft be exa- | 
| the African Marygold, or upright Tagetes, next to 
mined. Inthe Linnzzan Method, this is de- 
‘termined by the Organs of Fructification, and 
thefe are in a great eats obliterated in the 
double. . 
The Flower thus chofen, will be found placed 
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in a plain and fimple Cup, formed of one Piece, Nov. 
and only dented in five Parts at the Edge; in —-—— 
this is placed the Flower, sie of Flofcules 
of a different Form. 
_ Thofe in the Centre are tubular, and thofe at 
the Edges flat or lioulated. The tubular are nu- 
merous, but the flat are naturally no more than 
five. 3 
_ The tubular Flofcules are divided into five 
Segments at the Rim; and within thefe are pla- 
ced the Male and Female Parts of Impregna- 
tion, defended by a Hairinefs on the Infide of 
the Segments. 
The flat Flofcules are narrow at the Bafe, but 
toward the End very broad, and thefe contain 
| only a Female Part, the Rudiment of the fuc- 
ceeding Seed. 
It is therefore in the tubular Flowers in the Cen- 
tre, the Student is to fearch the Chara@ters of 
the Clafs. Let him lay open one of thefe, and 
he will find in it five very fhort Filaments, on 
which are placed as many Buttons; thefe are ob- 
long, and they coalefce and form a Kind of 
Tube. a a 
This is the Character of the nineteenth Clafs in 
the Linn wan Syftem, thence called Syngenefia. 
Speaking of this before, we have explained 
the Diftinétion of the Polygamia neceffaria and 
Juperflua, the various Manners of Impregna- 
tion needed in fome ; and as it appears ufelefs 
in others. eee 
In the central Flowers there will be found to- 
ether with thefe male Parts, the Rudiment of the 
Fruit with its Style. This ripens its Seed ; as well 
as that in the Female Flower at the Verges; 
| therefore the Plant is one of the Polygamia fuper- 
fiua, under the general fyngenefious Tribe. 
The Culture of this is the fame with that of 
be defcribed; we fhall therefore avoid Repetition, 
| by delivering the Method of bringing both to 
Perfection under that fucceeding Head. 
3. AFRICAN MARYGOLD. 
This is as common in all Gardens as the for- 
mer; and in moft Things refembles it; differing 
- only as another Species of the fame Genus. 
The Diftin@ion of our common Names of 
African and French Marygold is very idle ; both 
are Natives of the fame Countries, Africa and 
South America; and they are better diftinguifhed 
by their Form of growing. 
Our Gardeners call this the African or Double A- 
frican. The earlier Writers, Caryophyllus Indicus,and 
Tanacetum indicum majus. 
jor. 
caule Simplict ereéto pedunculis nudis unifloris. Ta- 
getes with an upright fimple Stalk, and with the 
Flowers placed fingly on naked Foot-ftalks. 
It is an Annual, as the former, perifhing with 
Fibres. 
The latter Tagetes ma- 
Linn avs calls it more diftin@ly, Tagetes 
the Winter’s Froft, or fooner, if the Seed be 
fooner perfected. The Root has innumerable 
The Stalk is upright, frm, anda Yard 
high, and it does not {pread out into wild 
Branches as the other. 
The Leaves are large and pinnated: Their 
Colour is a dufky, eck not a dark Green; and 
the Pinne are oblong and fharp-pointed, fome- 
what bfoad and ferrated. 
The Flowers are large, numerous, natu- 
rally fingle, and of a pale Yellow. A richer 
Soil deepens their Colour; and the Advantages 
of farther Culture renders them double, in vari- 
ous Forms, and in various Tinges of their na- 
tural Dye. 
In Colour they vary from the paleft Lemon 
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