Nov. to the deepeft Orange, taking in all the Degrees 
of Yellow. a, 
In fine, the Petals which are multiplied in- 
numerably by the Gardener’s Art, are rendered 
from their plain natural Form, waved, curled, 
andtubular. This laft is their moft beautiful 
Appearance; and in this Species it is greatly to 
be encouraged; for as we have not here the 
Variety in Stripes in the preceding, this beau- 
tiful Form is to be confulted; and we fhall tell 
the Gardener how to procure it in the fulleft 
Perfection. | 
To the Difgrace of Botany, Tournerort 
enumerates all thefe Varieties of this and the for- 
mer: Kind, under diftinét Names, as Species; 
and in Confequence they are tranfcribed in the 
fame Manner into the Gardener’s Dictionary, ta- 
ken from that Book in all that concerns this Part 
of the Study. ’ 
- The Sulphur coloured, and the Orange colour- 
ed Yagetes, are there with numerous others of 
the fame Kind, ranged and numbered as diftin@ 
Species by that Writer; who could not but know 
better, becaufe he muft have feen one Seed pro-~ 
duce them. | 
Let the Student be no longer deceived by 
thefe Miftakes: He knows that under whatfo- — 
ever Difference Herbs will appear, which rife 
from the fame Seed, they are Varieties and not 
Species. | sia its 
To know the Place and Clafs of this Plant in 
the Linn aan Syftem, a fingle Flower muft. be 
examined. This will be found in all Refpeéts to 
anfwer the Defcription we have given of the Con- 
{tru@tion in the preceding Kind, for they are 
Species of the fame Genus. 
We thall not repeat thofe Characters, but refer 
to them; and having obferved that the Plant is by 
them referredto the fyngenefious, polygamous, | 
fuperfluous Tribe, we fhall proceed to the Culture 
fuited to this and to the preceding; for the 
fame Management agrees with them. 
Culture of the Arrican and Frencu Mary- 
GOLD. — 
Every Spring thefe Plants are to be railed 
from Seed, for every Autumn the Roots die. 
This muft be begun early for two obvious Rea- 
fons; the bringing the Plants fooner to flower, 
and the keeping them alive to ripen their Seeds. 
Let this be confidered in the whole’ Manage- 
ment of the Plants, as the next Years Supply 
perfectly depends upon it. 
The procuring Seeds is the firft Article, and 
this muft be done with great Care. ; 
Let the Gardener go round his Plants 
when in full Bloom, and mark by Sticks thofe 
which are the fineft in their feveral Kinds. | The 
beft ftriped of the Frewb Marygold, and the 
largeft and moft quilled of the African. 
When a few fine Flowers of thefe have been 
fixed upon for Seed, let all the reft be cut off in » 
the Bud, that the Strength of the Plant be not 
~ exhaufted to feed them; but all be carried to 
the perfecting the Seeds in the others. 
Ne, 14. | 
OF GARDENING 
them to Perfection, 
Every Day two Hours before Sun-fet, let thefe 
Plants be watered; and let them be carefully 
tied up to Stakes that the Wind may not rock 
them at the Root. 
Double Flowers in general do not well pro- 
duce Seeds, but- this is a Method of bringing 
With this Care they will be well filled 
) ; {trong, 
and full of the Principle of Vegetation. 
When the Seeds are more ripened, forbear the 
-Waterings; and let them harden upon the Plant 
as the Root decays. After this in the Middle of 
a dry Day cut the Heads carefully off; and lay 
them upon a papered Shelf in an airy Room, as 
we directed on a preceding Occafion, 
There let them lie till Spring: And in the 
Jaft Week in February let them be fowed upon a 
_Hot-bed: This muft be of a moderate Heat, 
and well covered with rich Garden Mould. 
‘When the Seeds are fown, make the follow- 
ing Compoft for the choiceft of the Plants. Mix 
equal Parts of Earth from under the Turf in arich 
Pafture, and good mellow Garden Mould - Aga. 
a {mall Quantity of well-rotted Dung, and to a | 
Load of this put two Buthels of coarfe Sang 2). 
Let this be mixed together, and lie ready. 
_ When the Plants come up, let them by 
Degrees be hardened to the Air; and when 
they have grown to a Finger’s Length in 
¥ 
Height, let another Hot-bed be prepared for 
them, 
Let this be made in fome fheltered Part of the 
Ground, and not covered with Frames ; but let 
Hoops be placed over it at finall Diftances 
that a Mat or Cloth may be drawn over. 
Cover this feven Inches deep with the Com- 
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—poft; and then drawing Lines leneth-way and 
crofs-way at eight Inches Diftance ; open a Hole 
in the Centre of every Square, and carefully fee 
in one Plant. | 
Water thefe well, and draw a Mat over the 
Hoops, letting it fall clofe at the Ends. Thus 
let them ftand at firft till rooted, then by Degrees 
raife the Mat in the middle of the Day, and har- 
den them gradually. 
The common Errors of our Gardeners, is, that 
they keep thefe Plants too clofe: T hey by this 
Means draw them up inan ill Shape, and fubject 
them to be ftunted when brought oyt into the 
open Air; the Change being too violent. . 
In this Method they will go on gradually, and 
become inured to their proper Situation, with- 
out any Violence; the Heat of this Bed will 
-decreafe as they growup; and they will be Day 
by Day more and more expofed, till in the middle 
of a warm cloudy Day, the Mats are wholly to 
be taken off, and put on no more. 
From this Hot-bed they are to be removed 
into the Places where they muft remain. 
; The’ common Practice is to plant them from 
this Hot-bed into the Nurfery: And fo the 
common Writers direct. From thence they are 
to be brought into the Garden, as foon as it is 
difcovered which will have double Flowers. 
This Removal at the Time of flowering, I _ 
have found always hurts the Plants greatly, tho’ 
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