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’ Head, the idence: 
Word, he adds formofifima, moft handfome. 
The Root is a large round Bulb. Its outer Coat 
is black. 
The Leaves are long, broad, of a oon Sub: ; 
~ ftance, and of a deep green, 
The Stalk, which’rifes on one Side of — is 
round, but a little flatted, of a delicate“ pale red, 
_ and naked. On its Top appears an oblong filmy 
Scabbard, pointed ‘at the Top, and oF a fome- 
what deeper red than the stalk. * *F* 
When the Stem has reach’d a Foot i in ‘Hehe, a 
this Scabbard burfts fideways, and difclofes the 
wonderful Flower, whofe Petals fpread in their | 
own Way, three déooping, . two above them hori- 
_ zontal, and one erect, 
Their Colour is the a perfedt Scarlet and 
in Form they refemble the broad Swords our 
Heralds draw in Armour. 
Within this Flower, defended by the three ices | 
Petals, appear fix F ilaments and a fingle Style. 
The Filaments are Crimtfon, ani have Pelle 
Buttons. , hs : 
The Style is of a aie Colour, fiefhy, ch 
{plit into three Parts at the Top. 
next it, for more than, a third of its Length; 
and as thefe turn downward, the F Pose bend 
upward. 
The. Seed-veffel diets Soll is of an oval 
Form, and in three Cells contains numerous 
Seeds. 
The Clafs of the Plant is very confpicuous in this 
Structure of the internal Part of the Flower. The 
the fingle Style to the firft sands ia wader that 
| of rotted Cow-dung. 
als, I have found. aie the Plant preferably to 
be done, the former is vaftly preferable. 
_ Flower rais’d from ‘an American Root, in the 
_ Compoft here directed, exceeds the common Kind, 
fix Filaments refer it plainly to the Hexandria; and | 48 there are Roots ; 
- thef@ with Care, and cover’d ‘an Inch and half 
_{ above the Top. Thefe Pots fhould be plac’dina_. 
: ie Ih ware fhelter’d Part of the Garden, and once in 
depend entirely upon the fuiting our Warmth to 
- its Climate. 
Let a Compoft be. lita: rd thus ; 
Mix ‘equal Parts. of Pond- Mud, Wood:Pile 
Earth, and Mould, from under the Turf in a 
rich Meadow. ‘To ‘three Barrows of » this Mix- 
ture, add two \Buthels of coarfe Sand, and one 
This, after repeated Try- 
any other natural Soil or Mixture, 
The Method of propagating it, is by Roots 
obtain’d from America, or by Off fets from thofe 
in our own Gardens; but of thefe, when it can 
A 
beyond all that an Racy goad d Imagination 
cou’d conceive. 
We have faid that the Heat we allow the Plant 
muft be proportion’d to that of its natural Cli- 
Thoufands of thefe Roots have been - 
 preferv’d ‘when there were no Stoves; but they 
mate. 
flower weakly. . The regulated Heat of a Stove 
alone’ comes near that of the common Air in 
The very Period of flowering may be alter’d by 
and to this alone we can owe 
In 
Nature it throws up the Flower-ftalk very irregu- 
larly ; and this Way we take the full a of 
her Wildnefies. 
‘The Seafon for planting OFF Rts | is in the End 
_ of Fuly. 
As many Pots mutt be Alla with ifs Compoft 
and they muft be plac’d in 
: | four Days gently water’d. 
Culture of the JacopaN AMARYLLIS: |. 
The Plant is a Native of South America, whence 
we receiv’d the firft Account of it. from Srmon 
pE Tovar; who, from the Refemblance of the 
Petals to the pidur’d Swords on Habits of the | 
Jacobean Knights, gave at this Name the ye 
cobean Lully. 
In its native Glindte. the Plant thrives bett and 
flowers moft boldly where there is a rich Earth 
with fome Moifture,‘and with enough Sand to 
make it always free and loofe, This muft be our 
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When the Shoot appears, they thould be fer 
among the Greenhoufe Plants, then in the open, 
_ Ait, and water’d every other Evening, After 
_ this they muft be remov’d early into the Green- 
; houfe ; and thence, at the i ae of Winter, 
_ into the Stove. 
This. is. the Management ‘ the full-grown 
Roots brought from America, as well as of the 
Off-fets rais’d here; and thus after having fent 
up. a Flower-ftalk on one. Side of the Root, in 
. September, they will fhoot out another, atthe End 
| of November, from the other Side, and flower in 
the dead eh Winter i in full Glory. . | 
yg. WINTER 
‘Soe 
ahha Middle cliesch-alia’ thicediteer Petals bate South America, and the Plant will never rife to its 
rounds them half their Length ; and this Petal is in - Perfeétion otherwife. 
the fame Manner furrounded by the two which are | 
: _ this Management ; 
fo glorious a Flower at fo dead a Seafon. 
