Nov. 
4 
OF GARDENING, 
and the fingle Style fhews it alfo to come: under 
the firft Section, the Monogynia. 
Culture of the gi ngle and double InDian Nastur- 
‘TIUM. 
The Management of thefe differs greatly ; the 
common or fingle Kind requiring little Care ; 
the other, to brian it to Perfection, a great deal. 
For the fingle Sort no more is needful than to © 
fele€t a warm Border, where there is a dry rich Soil, 
and to ‘fupport the Plants as they rife in Height. 
No Hot-Bed is required to raife them , fir tho” 
Natives of South America, they will grow on the - 
common Ground. 
The Seeds fhould be fown the aft Week in” 
April, and the Plants will flower in fuly, with no 
more Care than the keeping them clear from . 
Weeds, and giving them Sticks to climb upon. 
In this Manner they will flower throughout | 
and . 
the Summer, and ‘continue till F rofts is the’ | 
Root. 
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This is a Plant that has long been confpicuous 
in our Gardens ; and, for its Stature and Singula- 
rity, very well deferves to retain its Place. 
All the Authors who have ‘written of it, when 
firt known in’ Europe, call'it a Perficaria, to 
which the*common Addition,’ by way ‘of diftin- 
guifhine the Species, is Orientalis Nicotiane folio: 
Oniental Perficaria, with a ost like that of To- 
bacco. 
LInN2£Us joins under oné Head the Perf fcarias 
and. Polygonums, retaining the Jatter” ‘Name :° to 
which he ‘adds, for diftinguifhing’ this Species, 
floribus bepiandris digynis foliis ovatis, caule erecto, 
 flipulis birtis: Polygonum, with an upright Stalk, 
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Filaments and two Styles in the ee 
Tt isan ereét and very noble Plant: © | 
The Root is fibrous: The: Stalk is green, 2 
round, jointed, at Diftances, in a confpicuous | 
Manner, and ten Foot in Height. Toward the © 
Top it divides into: numerous Branches; and, 
with good Management, forms a handfome 
The Leaves are large and‘ very beautiful; 
they have fhort Foot-ftalks rifing from the Joints, — 
under the Covert of fome flishe: rough’ Films 3: 
and they are of an oblone Fictite, earl approach yy 
Broadefe at “the: Baie, “and© ‘fer this Plant-to the feventh Clafs, the Heptandria 
‘of LINN £US,” 
fomewhat to. oval ; 
fmaller to the Point. They are of a’ fine green,” 
and they are wav’d at the Edges.’ | | 
The Flowers grow in long: Spilees from the 
Tops of the Branches, and-alfo from the Bofoms 
of the Leaves. 
the Spike they are very confpicuous’: this, before 
the “Flowers open; is of a lively red, with a 
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‘The double Kind, -which’t is ‘a Plant of extreme 
; ’ Beauty, was Art rais’d from Seeds brought from © 
: Peru; but it rarely ripens them: here, ana mutt: 
_ Tinge of Crimfon. 
the Petal, 
oval Leaves and rough Stipulze 5, ‘and with pk of 4 ; | flefhy ; ; and the F lower adhering to this, is form’d 
~-They are feparately fmall, but ‘in -}~ 
be propagated ‘by Cuttings. 
For this Purpofe prepare. the ¢ following Com: 
pott : 
Mix of fine Mould, from 2° dry. Pafture;\.three 
Bufhels ; of Wood-Pile Earth one Buthel ; and 
of coarfe Rivér-Sand half a Buthet’- 
turn’d {everal Times’ to mellow with the Air; and 
then’ put into Pots. 
“Let the Pots be of a middling Size and Ail as 
many of them as you intend to raile Plants. In 
the Beginning of Fune take off 2 as many Cuttings 3 
as you have: Pots, from a vigorous Plant: fet 
one ‘carefully in each Pot, and fet the Pot in a” 
Bark-Bed of a moderate Heat, to promote chet 
Rooting: water and fhade them till well fix’d, 
then harden them by Deerees to the Air, and fet 
them among the aneh. houfe Plants. 
into the Stove, and continue to water them at 
oe. > 
They will grow vigoroufly, dnd‘ the ‘next Yeat 
will flower in ‘ear Profufion. 
Tefs Heat will preferve them alive; but it i> 
thus they will have all the natural Beauty of the | 
Flowers, which are inferior to few of any Kind.» 
_& GREAT ORIENTAL PERSICARIA. 
When they are open’d, the 
Whole looks confiderably paler ; ; the Buds being 
much more ftrongly colour’d than the Infides bf 
the Flowers. 
To know the Claf t to which this Plant belongs, | 
let the Student take off a fingle Flower. Nature 
‘has oddly united the Cup and ‘the Body. of the 
Flower in. this and others of the fame Genus : 
they grow into one another, forming a fingle eet 
~ ftance ; hence fome have call’d the Whole a Cup, 
and ‘others 4 Flower. ? 
Together, they make one ‘Subflance , 
diftin&: Account is this: The Cup, uniting’ ‘with: 
forms the lower Part behind, and is 
of a fingle Petal, divided into five Segments, 
which are very lafting, and it is tub ular, and 
imperforate at the vate, ; 
let theie be 
At the 
firft Approach of cold Nights bring ‘thefe’ Pots ' 
but. ce 
In the Centre rife feven Filaments! 5 they’ a are 
‘fhort but regular in Difpofition, and are crown’d 
by round Bier: 
| Fruit rife two fhort and flender Styles ; 
From the Rudiment of the 
thefe are fallen, the Flower, Jofing its Colour, 
and ‘aft tore 
performs the Office of a Capfule, as the Cup does” 
in fome other Kinds, ee on,” “and defending 
‘from Injuries: a finele Seed. 
From the feven Filaments the Student will re-_ iD 
‘and’ he will! do right, altho? the 
Author himflf ‘has not plactd’ it there.” oat 
‘ftands’ in his Work atnong the O Oftandria, under | 
“the Generical Name Polygonum. 
Y 
This wé are oblig’ @'to inform the Student, ‘thae® 
he may'not be at ‘a Lofs where to find the Plartt : 
byt we cannot approve it. If the Genera were 
fub- 
