Jan. és a H aad green. They unite’ at their ‘Bates and | | found very fuccefsful, is fo cheap and ‘eal ly ob- Jane 
————— rife white to the Surface; “and in’ the Centre of - ns none fhould deny it to them. — 
‘this Clutter appears the Seed-veffel, ‘which does a a Load of black Mould from a tich Mea- 
hot acquire its = Maturity till after the Middle | ie ‘two Buthels of rotted Cow- dung, and one 
oF Summer.” ver 4 Bufhel. of Pigeons Dung: let ‘thefe | re all the 
hee ‘ca require ‘no great, Att ot Indattry to | Winter, and be often turn’d: in. Spring throw 
raife in Gardens the fingle Colchicum, which is a over them half a Load of Pond- Mud ; and mix- 
wild Plant. in. our Fields ; but the double Kind. ing ‘them well afterward age ‘the ‘Beginning of 
demands and deferves fome farther Attention. Auguft make up a Border i in fome cool and moitt 
s The Seeds of the double Flowers do not always Part of the Garden. es — 
come to Perfeétion 5 for which Reafon it is beft to Draw Lines lengthway and a- -crofs, at ‘the Di- | 
propagate the Plant by the Off-fets from the old - ftance of eight Inches ; and in the Centre of each 
Roots. Thefe it produces in great Number, and » _ Square place one good Root. : 3 
they are eafily manag’d. They require no Stove | Thefe Roots fhould be taken up in the Begin- 
or Greert-houfé for their Protection, in the com- | ning of Fune, and parted : after this they are to 
mon ‘Method of Management ; but it will be pro- } be kept ‘out of the Ground till the Time juft 
3 ‘pet to, pot 4 few of them, planting them later mention’d; and being then carefully planted, and -- — 
be the reft,, for flowering at this dead Seafon. | cover’d two Inches with the fame Compoft, they 
- The Warmth: there is ina good Greenhoufe, | will:flower in all their Beauty: ~~ : | 
a fupply. all they require for their fhooting; | © Thofe intended for Potting are to be taken up | 
and they may thus be brought to their Perfection, | at ‘the fame Time, and planed a F ortnight or a 
when, the Dearth of other F lowers - seal them | three Weeks after, in’ the fame Manner. They 
apaminenakWaltie: wicq .bUA, edi Mo Tags i: | muft be fet in a fhady cool Part of the Garden | 
_ The great Care in raifing. them, sebtther: in the «till the Beginning of Odzober, and then brought. | 
open. Ground: or Pots, ‘is to give them a proper | into the Greenhoufe; where, as the Flower iiks, 
Soil. The common Mould of a. Garden 1 is too | they muft be gently water’d ; and they will ‘heré’ 
much. enfich’d by Dung. | hold in Beauty longer than in the open Air. 
op Aes Sompelt I have of late Years ue, and 
tatort od iB ky, VARIEGATED COLCHICUM. 
Plate ° Phe Student, whorn we have oiaehe to confider | of a deep green, perfeCly diftingt. agi thofe ae 4 
XVII. a Difference’ in Colour of Flowets of the fame | our Colchicum: but the great Singularity isinthe | 
Fig. 5. Mame,.as a Mark of accidental Variety, not a 
Diftin@tion of Species, will ftand furpriz’d to fee 
us introduce a Colchicum, under the Name of Va- 
_ -vegated, to his Notice, as a diftinét Species. 
. «Wet are worael! him, that altho’ the Variegation of 
the Flower, which is _ permanent and certain, be 
the moft obvious Mark of Diftin@ion in this 
Plant, the Leaves alfo have their peculiar Form 
-and Appearance; that it is an abfolutely diftinct 
- Species; native of another Part of ‘the World, 
_and will require a different Care and Culture. 
‘Tho’ a Native of the Eaf, it came early into 
the European Gardens; and it is too confpicuous: 
and elegant to have been overlook’d by any who | 
wrote upon thefe Subjeéts: all fince that Time 
have nam’d it; and under the fame general and 
proper Title. Cornutus calls it Colchicum variega- 
tum, a Name tranflated for the common Gar- 
dear’. 
cum; the Variegation of the Flowers refembling 
that of the Frisillary: and’ others, from its 
| ‘Country, Colchicum Chionenfe. 
~ Linn £us, 
that real Bitiedion in the Leaves, which deter- 
mines it a feparate Species," calls it Colchicum foliis 
undulatis patentibus : 
bate: Leaves: 
The Reot is oblone and a little flatted. 
oe The Leaves are broad, fhort, undulated, “and 
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_ Flower. 
- ftances, long before they appear ; 
‘refembles that. of the other Kind. 
Part is long, and angulated; white .at the Sur- - 
face of the Earth, and thence ane clouded 
_ with a little red. : 
Others have -call’d it Colchicum Fritillari- 
| middle Vein is very confpicuous, and_ the, 
forming his fecific Name upon 
Colchicum, with undulated | 
of the Plant, but to its 
This rifes. naked, as in the other In-- 
and in Form it 
Its tubular. 
At the Top ftands. the Body of the Flower, 
form’d of fix. long and very beautiful Segments, 
colour’d in fo fingular and elegant a Manner, that 
no Eye ever pafs’d it unobierv’d. 
The ,Ground-Colour, or that diffus’d over the. 
, Body of the Flower, is a pale flefhy Crimfon. 
sie 
Upon, this are plac’d innumerable {mall . fquare 
Spots of the moft lively yet deep Blood-ted ; and 
along the Centre of each Leaf runs a Rib of white. 
The Spots are difpos’d with great Regularity in 
fome Flowers, fo as to mark a kind of Lattice 
Work; but in thefe they are ufually blackith. 
The ,moft perfect State of the Flower is what 
we have reprefented” in the Figure; in which the 
Spots 
are innumerable, but.difpos’d with lefs Regularity. 
In the Centre of this Flower ftand fix Fila- 
ments, as in the other; and there are, in the fame 
Manner, three Styles. Thefe Parts, refer it. to the 
fame Clafs with the former, as all Species of the fame 
Genus muftbe: but inthe Culture there is an effential 
Difference. “That is not to be fuited to the Clafs 
natural Clime:and Soil, 
