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fubdivided and lefs comprehenfive, thefe Accidents 
would not occur in the Science. 
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Culture: of the Oniwras Prrstcarta. 
This Plant, ‘thee a Native of a hotter Climate, 
lives with us freely i in the open Air, and needs lit- 
but tho it requires little, our 
They are 
taught this by their common Inftruétor, who tells 
‘them, that. the Seeds are to be fuffer’d to fall of 
themfelves $0 Autumn, and that they will thus 
tle Care to raife it: 
Gardeners do amifs who give it none. 
5 produce much: finer Plants than when fow’d.. This, 
foliis lanceolatis obtufis caule fi frutefcente : 
if it were true, would not be much to the Credit 
of Gardening : but i it is not. 
Iti is Owing to this wild Way of. Sowing,” that 
the. Plant lofes . its lower Leaves. fo early; and,” 
with them,’ the greater Part of its natural Beauty. 
We hall direct a Method by which it will fucceed \ 
In a very different Manner. 
Yet the Seeds” be pather’d in. Offober, from 
fome fine large Heads of a flourifhing Plant, and 
Jet them be fcatter’d upon a paper’d “Shelf in an 
airy Room: ‘there let them lie ten Days. 
After this, feleét fuch Spots in the Ground as 
will be moft proper to receive the Plant, and, 
on each Spot fo chofen, feattér half a Dozen of 
the Seeds « at t five: or fix Inches Diftance fOr one : 
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with various Additions: a i 
Our Gardeners know. it by. dic? Name of Tre ree 
‘Polygala: and Linn EUS adds, . as its, Diftinétion, 
Shrub 
— Polygala, with lanceolate. but obtufe Leaves. 
Others have call °d it Polygala Myrtifolia ; 
Name given it firtt ‘by Commexine, but impro- 
perly ; ; the Leaves having no juft Refemblance to [3 
-thofe of Myrtle, | 
Tt is a Shrub of fix or eight Feet ey ; and 
fpreads, when the ata,” permits. it, with a 
very. pleafing Wildnefs. 
The Root is branched, and yellow = eg 
“The Stem ‘IS covered with a greyifh Bark, and. | 
the young Shoots. are Risen or fometimes of a 
‘purplith brown, Ee 
The Leaves hang. - a very aoreeable Free- 
, dom from all Parts of the young Shoots, and 
ufually are tufted toward the Top, They are 
oblong, and undivided at the Edges, blunt at the 
End, and of a pale but pleafing green, 
The Flowers are numerous, and a fully 
open they are very pretty; but when fhut, they 
are, in a general View, loft among the Leaves. 
Their Colour on the Outfide being a whitifh - 
green, though within they are of a moft delicate 
Purple. 
“another... 
ing of Mould, and thus leave them to! Nature. 
Pee the young. Plants grow to four backes 
Height, that you may perceive which is the faireft 
and ftouteft. Pull up the reft in’each Spot, and 
draw fome Mould about the Stalk of this. 
As it -rifes in Height, fuffer a Branch’ % 
grow, as. there naturally will, from the Bottom of | 
each Leaf; but if thefe ramble out too far in Length — 
afterwards, fhorten them. ‘This drawing fome Juices 
to the Part, will keep the Plant fupply’d at the 
Joint, and the Leaf will be frefh and vigorous ; 
which is a great Article. 
In this Manner | of Management there. will be, 
in each Spot, one Plant left, the fr ongeft of the , 
Parcel , and, this will, make its Growth without 
any Check ; for the common Method of letting : 
“them: fow themfelves at. random, ‘and afterwards 
‘removing them, always. hurt: them. 
wt Re: Plants, without any. farther. Care, ary 
STOW to their full I Height ; : and make much more‘, 
beautiful Appearance than as we ufually fee them, 
‘The others, if wanted, ‘may be planted’out’ in 
other Places; and jit will be feen, by the Differ- 
ence i them,. and fuch as remain in their ’ 
original Spot, how much this Method of Cul- 
ture is preferable to the beaten Tract prefcrib’d A 
Satialele over them a. ety flight Cover-: \ 
-according to the Number of the Filaments ; 
altho’ in other Cafes the Character of a Clafs being 
here only the Mark of a fubordinate DiftinGtion. 
and pected by others. - 
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To Boke the Clafs of the Shrub, _thefe mutt be 
- diftin@ly examined; and there i is in-them a Pretty-_ 
-nefs which will.render. this an. agrecable Labour. 
The Cup in which each ftands is of a fingular Fi- 
cure; three Leaves compofe it; and of thefe two 
ftand below the Flower, and one feparate above it. 
The Flower itfelf is form’d of three Petals, 
and decorated with a kind of Pencil at the Ver ee. 
oh tefembles, in fome Degree, the. Piapiliandcanas: ; 
_ Kinds, and has the Alz or Side- Petals large, and 
| the Carina, or lower-one, hollow’d and | decorated: 
‘in this fingular Manner, 
In the Centre of the Flower rife big Filaments; 
which are form’d into. two Bodies at the Bottom, but’ 
are all free at their Tops, and crown’d with round- 
uh Anthere, In the Midft of .thefe is plac’d the 
_ Rudiment of the rE ruit, and from this rifes thea es 
‘Style, .which is-fingle, | 
~The fucceeding Fruit is a dry Capfule. 
. i The Student, init now into the Lanit'z un: 
‘Syftem, will find no Difficulty to underftand to 
what Clafs this Shrub is tobe referr’d. The Se- 
venteenth in the Linn.#an Syftem comprehends 
thofe in whofe Flower the Filaments form two di- — 
{tinct Bodies; and: this is of their Number, 
This diadelpbous Clafs is divided into Sections, 
that 
The firft of thofe Divifions in the prefent Clafs, 
contain the Hemandria, and the fecond the Ofan- 
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