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done with ever fo much Care: therefore the Me- 
——— thod I have practis” d has been the fame I men- 
tion’d on a preceding Occafion, of planting two 
where I intend one to remain. By this Means 
I have been able to fhew fuch Flowers, even in 
this common Plant, as have furpriz’d 1 thofe moft 
‘us’d to Gardening. — 
To proceed in this ‘Method, as foon as the 7 
Plants are ready for Removal, open Holes in the 
Borders where they are to ftand, throwing off the 
Mould, not laying it up at the Edge. 
~ Make two of thefe Holes, in each Place, near 
one another ; and bringing in two of the Plants, fet 
them upright, one in each Hole, and fill up with 
the Compott inftead of the common Mould, draw- 
ing a little of the common Mould over it, that 
the Border may be all of one Colour. 
“At the fame Time have ready ten or a dozen 
Pots; and adding to the remaining Compoft a . 
good Quantity of Sand, and a little common 
Salt, ftir all together, 
Water the Plants carefully, and they will foon 
be well rooted, and make their Shoot for flower- 
ing. Le 
Notwithftanding the Seed were all from double’ 
Flowers, there will be many fingle ; let thefe be 
pul?’d up and thrown away. 
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This is a bad Name for a very beautiful and J 
ufeful Plant, but the Gardeners know it. by no 
other. We have reprefented it in the Fi igure ‘in 
its fingle and double State, at once to explain its ~ 
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Conftruction in the natural F lower; 
extreme Beauty it receives from Culture. 
Not the Vulgar alone have mif-call’d this Plant. 
BauHINE, a Name of eftablith’d and merited 
Reputation, ftands to the fame Title; and others 
~ have call’d it varioufly. 
Herman has nam/d it Viola inodora, FAVILL, 
‘Cardamindum, and Borruaave, Acriviola. 
‘The Name now receiv’d is Tropcolum, and 
Linwaus adds, as a Diftinétion of the Spe- 
cies, foliis peltatis orbiculatis: Tropeolum, with 
rounded and peltated Leaves. | 
"This Term expreflés thofe Leaves in which 
the Foot-ftalk is not inferted at the Edge, but 3 in 
the Middle, fo that they 1 refemble a Shield. 
It ‘is a wild, rambling, and climbing Plant, 
and naturally i is of great Beauty. 
The Root is Hous: the Stalks are round, 
weak, and of a pale green, and they fpread out’ 
varioufly ; into Branches ; but unlefs Lepper ed they 
cannot attain any Height. 
The Leaves are very beautiful: they are of a 
rounded Figure, wav’d a little at the Kidges, and 
of a pale and pleafing green. 
the Petals ‘are extremely numerous, 
. here by their proper Bates ; 
In the Centre, on 
Where one of the two Plants ina Placé is fin- 
ele, and the other double, the’ fingle one’ being 
taken up, there remains the other for flowering ; 
and. no more T roub leis requir’d,. 
Where they are both fingle, ‘both rath sine 
‘ pull’d up; and.one, from fome Place where both 
were double, planted i in its Room. 
There will {till remain fome Places where’ both 
the Plants are cf the double Kinds: one from 
thefe muft be potted. Fill the Pots with the 
Jaft-nam’d Compoft, and plant in each one of thefe 
fuperfluous double Plants. 
All. being thus difpos’d, let the Gardener go 
his Rounds, and carefully thruft into the Ground, 
near each, a fhort firm Stake. Let it ftand above 
‘the Ground half the Height of the Plant; and, 
tying the Stalk carefully to it, let it remain co- 
vered by the Leaves. i 
Let this be done in the Pots, as well as to. thofe 
planted in the Borders 5. and thus they will be ic 
‘cured from the Winds. 
After this, let all the Plants be water’d every 
other Day, toward Evening, and they will flower 
in full Perfeftion. Thofe in the Pots will be the 
fmalleft Plants, but they will often produce the 
fineft Flowers. 
INDIAN NASTURTIUM 
_ The Flowers cover the Plant in great Profufion, 
rifing from various. Parts of the Stalks and 
aes: 3 and they are in the fingle or common | 
State very beautiful : their Size Bake confider- 
able, and their Colour a fine yellow. 
‘When double, they become yet more beautiful: 
and finely . 
tino’d with yellow, and with Orange-Colour. 
To know the Clafs of the Plant, . the fingle 
Flower muft be examined : it ftands in a Cup di- 
vided into five irregular Segments; and is itfelf 
compos’d of five Petals, with a Spur : thefe are 
broad and fhort, and are inferted into the five 
Segments of the Cup. . The two upper ones ad- 
have long narrow Bottoms annex’d, and thefe are 
bearded in a beautiful Manner. 
In the Centre of the Flower ftand eight fhort | 
F ilaments, in a declining Pofture ; and upon each 
of thefe is plac’d an ‘oplong Button, of four 
Cells. Amidft thefe rifes a fle Style, which 
has three Divifions at the Top; and the fucceed- 
ing Fruit is compos’d of three irregular-fhap’d 
ftriated Berries, each containing, three {triated 
Seeds. | i 
The Singularity ey this Flower perplex 
earlier Writers where to place it; but 1 
ay 
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the upper Part, is feen the Place of Infertion of LInNzZAN Syftem there occurs no Difficulty on 
the Foot-ftalk below; and from thence run the 
Fibres. 
that Head: the eight Filaments declare it tor be 
one of that Author’s eighth Clafs, the O 
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