Culture of this Pancrativum. - 
a: 
Lefs Care and Trouble are requir’d to raife this 
than moit of the Pancratiums we have nam’d 
before: they were Natives of Africa; this is wild 
in Spain, and other of the warm Parts of Europe. 
“It grows naturally within the Infldence of the 
Seas and where there falls to its Share a mellow 
Bank, with fome Sand among the richer Mould, 
it always fucceeds beft. This indicates its Cul- 
ture ; and the natural Climate fhews what we owe 
to it in Point of Warmth. | 
The beft and readieft Way of propagating it, 
is by Roots; and thefe may be either obtain’d 
from its native Countries, or parted from larger 
here. ‘The latter Method is the flower, but it is 
the moft certain. © | 
The Seafon of taking up the Roots is in Sum- 
mer, after the Leaves are decay’d. Thefe may 
be kept fome Months out of the Ground; fo 
that there is no Difficulty in receiving them good 
| to be the fame. 
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d. whethe: they ‘be procur’d Dec. 
from. Abroad - 
this Way, or rais’d from Off-fets, the Method is 
and Part of Summer; and toward the Time of 
Planting, which fhould be in Fue, fill as many 
Pots as you intend to raife Roots, 
_. Plant one carefully in each, and fet it in a 
fhelter’d warm Place, but not under the Drip of 
Trees. Once in four Days give ihefe a little 
Water 3 and when the Shoot appears for flowering, 
bring them into a warmer and more open Pica 
At the Approach of Autumn remove them 
into the Green-houfe, and they will flower in all - 
their Glory. 
The later the Roots are planted, the later they 
will flower; and by this Method fome may be 
kept -back, for a Seafon when. the Scarcity ot 
1 other Flowers gives them an additional Value. 
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- The Management of the Flower- Garden, pepe ae and Stove. 
| UR Directions in the preceding Weeks 
have left little to add with Refpect to the 
open Ground, for the prefent ; but there remains 
. fomething for the Care of thofe Plants which are |. 
thelter’d and preferv’d by artificial Warmth. 
All that need employ the Attention of the 
Gardener, in the open Ground, is the Care of his 
Flower-Beds ,; and what they require we have told’ 
him already, directing the covering them up, or 
giving them Air, as the Seafon, changing from 
more to lefs fevere, fhews neceflary. - - | 
- Let him look with a careful Eye over his 
Greenhoufe and Stove-Plants. The Clofenefs of 
the Greenhoufe, efpecially if he have been too 
free in Watering, will occafion Mouldinefs on - 
fome of the more tender Plants. © This will 
fpread. It is a Growth of the Vegetable Kind, © 
and none fo quick in its Increafe. 
The Microfcope difcovers that all this Cruft is _ 
compos’d of minute Plants, whofe Seeds. were 
firft brought by the Air; and are eafily f{cattered 
through the whole Building in the. fame. Man- 
ner. | : 
Thefe are as quick in their Growth, as minute 
in their Proportions; and of the moft common 
Kind in a Greenhoufe, which has a globular 
ragoed Head upon a pellucid Stalk, I have feen 
Plants rife to Maturity, and fhed Seeds: fit for 
Propagation, in the Compafs of one Day, upon 
a Place before uninfected. 
SAIN? 17, 
~The Gardener thus underftanding what Moul- 
dinefs is, will know the Neceflity of guarding 
again{t it; and the Manner. : 
Thefe Seeds of thefe minute Plants float every 
where in the Air; but they do not ftrike, unlefs 
where there is Heat and Moitfture. 
Therefore to prevent the quick Growth from 
accidental Seeds, let him take Care not to moi- 
. ften the clofe Air, by too free a Watering of the 
Plants; and to deftroy the Principle of Propaga- 
j tion in the particular Spot, let him carefully rub 
off the Mouldinefs wherever it appears. As it 
is apt to rife again, in Places where it has been 
‘wip’d off, the moft effectual Method 1. have 
found- of preventing ‘this, is, by wiping with 
a Flannel, “wetted with a flight Brine. This 
done with Care, I have never once “known to 
fail; nor ever faw any bad Confequence from it 
to the Plant. | | ) ; 
- The next Care ‘muft be, that the fame damp 
Air which gave Rife to the Mouldinefs, have not 
in any Part infected the Plants. 
If Leaves appear faded, let them be taken off, 
when it is feen they can’t recover; and let. them 
not be thrown about in the Greenhoufe, but taken 
away as foon.as pick’d off, for they will elfe in- 
fe&the Air in the fame Manner, | 
. Let this be the Practice alfo in the Stove; and 
let the careful Gardener, who fees the Extent of 
the Mifchief, and knows its two Caufes to be 
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