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pe In this the Seeds are to be fown in Pots, with | root well;. and: toward . Avan. Shey 1 auth be Nec. 
the Advantage of a Bark-bed, . to affiit their taken into. the Steve)! 
Shooting. They. mutt there’ nee very litle W ater ; ; and by, 
=. eae “Method is hicks they fucceed beft, this Means they will be brought to flower annually 
this: filla couple of Pots with the aan. Sin great Perfection. 
when it is dry and well mixed. Strew over the The commen-Cuftem-is, to a ae them: in the 
‘Surface, fome of the Seeds, and fift over them | Rubbifh of old Walls, with Sand: a ftrange, il!- 
a quarter of an Inch of the fame dry Mixture. chofen, and unnatural “Mixture! In this they 
Set thefe Pots up to: the- Rim in a Bark- bed; | -srow but faintly, and are fubject to rot in Win- 
and once in four Days fprinkle the Surface with | ter; but in the Compoft here directed, they will 
avery little Water from a fine nos’d Pot. a ae | ot, only oe, ‘but thrive, as in their paras 
ee ~ ‘When the PES appear, . fet then: be thiad, : | Country, © ona Sega 
Br si ‘fo. _as to leave onl. thet 
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et Re jour in a Pot; and | ~When vane. Plants appear in the Pots, about 
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a : ies ee me 2 Mors afew ail W aterings, arid, ie ae the Surface of che old ones, they always rife from | 
ee fallen : ‘Séeds : “they may be planted. into feparate 
6 ae = Tim 4 Pots in “the fame Manner we have here directed 
ay : ee ii Fe Saale with ereat Cure, | tor» y, Seedlings ; and “th ey will fave the Gar- 
: and the Plants by no Means bury’d in their lows | dener |. Trouble cf. > ywing, sland the Tediout- 
ae eft 5 leas, "eed Bets of nurfing up the “4 Onteidiia in that Man- 
| } = "They. mutt have. a . little Water ; ; and by: the ner. oo ae 
a a | Afliftance of Shading in th Bark-Bed, they wi qe sis: iy | 
A PEN CHR ATT UM te waa 
Plate The Botanical Writers became early acquainted | of a fingle Piece, hollow, narrowett. at the Bot- 
XVII. with this elegant Plant; but we are not toexpect that | tom, Progder to the Mouth, and at the Edge dis 
. Fig. 6. we fhall find them early calling it by a proper | vided into twelve irregular Segments. . The fix. 
oe Name. — The Student knows already, that in the | Petals are inferted into the Body of the Necta- 
Sec ir : Bulbous Clafs, all was, to the Time of Linnaus, | rium, near its Bafe, on.the outer Part, and they 
4 _ Confufion. | are long, “moderately broad, pointed, and-flat. . - ‘ 
| _ C. Bauuine has defcrib’d this Species The Seed-veffel which | follows the F lower, is " 
ve under the Name, Narciffus Maritimus, Sea Dat- | roundifh, but rais’d in thr ze Ridges, and contains 
oe fodil. , | many roundith Seeds, in three: difting Cells. 
: CLusivs. entitled it Flcguracaiis Valentines a ihe. Fularnenta; to the Flowet: are ie feng pee 
es | Name more honour’d by, the Obfervanee of After- of rted on the Edge of the Nearium, an 4 ath 
Writers. Seve x crown’d with oblong Buttons. The Style rifes in 
a Morison has made it one of the Lillio.nar iff | the Midit of the F sis, and is crown’d with an 
and Linnzvus, a Pancratium. That Author | 
_ obtufe Top. 
The general Colour. of the Flower is a Snow- 
white; ‘but this is very beautifully variegated with 
green. | | 
adds, as the Diftin@tion of the Species, /patha 
multiflora, petalis planis foliis lingulatis. 
The Root is an oblong Bulb, white within, 
— ‘covered with a blackifh Skin, and full of a thick 
~ Juice. 
a ne Leaves are numerous, of an oblong Fi- 
eure, moderately broad, flat, and of a Bfueith or 
a greyifh green. 
‘The Stalk is round, ce naked, of a whitith | 
green, and a Foot and half high. 
The Petals are more or lefs ting’d with a very 
pleafine green, from the Point downwards; and 
the Tip of the Nectarium is often touch’d in the 
fame Manner. ie = oa a e 
The Filaments are white as the Body of the 
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Flower, but their Buttons are yellow; and* this® 
- The Top is at fart ter EL eet by an oblong not a little adds to the Beauty of the Whole. 
Scabbard ;. - and that. burftirg difclofes feveral The Scent i is of the moft fragrant and delicate at 
Flowers, fix or more, and thofe diftinguifhed by Kind: it is the Sweet of the Lilly, but -yithout 
their Size and Fragrance, tho” without the Aa- | its Faintnefs. — ve 
. vantage of a gaudy Colouring. ; The: Clafs. to which this Plant beléfites’ in the. is 
_ Each is fupported on its feparate Footftalk, all | Linyaan Syftem, is’ read obvioully4i ‘inthe 
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Ass rifing from the fame } .ace, at the Flead of the | F lower. The Sixth, entitled the Hexandiia,. com- 
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\“~mnain Stem, and they iall gracefully into a large — prehends_ thofe whofe F laments are fix; and the 
« “Tuft.~ They have no, Cup. befide the common | Style .fhews it to be one ,of the firf. Seckion 
Scabbard : this feryes them. all; and when it has | under that Clafs the Monogyil fifne* fi le Sepod 
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Maman eolit, £0 give them Way, foon whee, | | dittle lef confpicy/fis ian aia Filaments. ar 
Each F Louie confiits off a wide expanded >. ¢¢- “3 
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cai ium, and ffx’ Petals. Hie Nectarium, refem- ia 
pres what i is cay a the, Qr; p in Daffodils, is form’d ae 
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