OF GARDENING 
Jan. 
‘Plate 
| the Petals : 
Part of the Rudiment; 
XX. 
This confifts of Scales, equal in Number to 
one rifing from the Bafe of each Di- 
vifion of the Rudiment. They are nip’d at the 
End, 
The Student who purfues by the true Path the 
Road of Science, when he has obferv’d thefe, 
which he will underftand to be a proper Part of 
the Generical Charaéter, will look among the Fi- 
laments for the Claffical Mark. Thefe he will 
find in Number five; fhort, upright, annext to 
the Bafe of the narrow Bottoms of the Petals, 
and terminated, each by its fimple Button. 
Five Styles rife in the Midft, one from each 
and the Fruit which fuc- 
ceeds, is compos’d of five Capfules. | 
_ The five Filaments in this Flower fhew the 
Plant to be one of the Pestandria; and the five 
Styles determine in the fame Manner that it is one 
of the Pentagynia, the fifth Sub-divifion of that 
Clafs. 
Culiure. of this Crassuta. 
Its. 4 Native of the Cape of Good Hope, and 
of other Parts of Africa, but will bear the open 
~ Air with us. in Summer Months, and live thro” 
the worft Winters in the Shelter of a Green- 
houfe. | ! 
The beft Methods of propagating it is by Seeds: ; 
and the fitteft Compoft is one Part Pafture- 
Ground, and one fourth rotted Cow-dung. | 
Early in Spring let a Pot be fill’d with this, 
and fcatter over the Surface a Dozen of the Seeds. 
into the Greenhoufe. 
Sift upon thefe a Quarter of an Inch of she fame 
Compoft, and fprinkle it with a very little Water. 
Set this Pot up to the Rim in a Bark-Bed of 
moderate Heat, and once in two Days give it 
- again a very flight Sprinkling of Water, 
The Plants will thus appear: they mutt 
be every Evening very gently water’d; and in the 
Middle of the Day fome Air mutt be of si 
When they have thus been nurs’d up to fome 
little Height, let as many fmall Pots as there are 
good Plants, except one, be fill’d with the fame 
Compoft. Let the feveral young Plants be taken 
up with Care, only leaving the one which ftands 
neareft the Middle, and which muft be left alone in 
the original Pot. Plant the reft with great Care, 
and fet the Pots in the Bark-Bed up to their Rim. 
Give them a very gentle Watering ; and cover the 
Glaffes with a Mat during the Heat of the. 
Day. 
Let them be thus manag’d till they are well 
rooted; then by Degrees harden them to the 
Air. 3 
After this they will only require ta be fhifted 
into larger Pots, as they grow too big for the 
firft; and to be by Degrees inur’d fo far to the 
Air, as to bear it in the moft favourable Sea-. 
fons. They mutt then be fet out for the Sum- 
mer among the Exotics which bear that Expo- 
fure; and at the Approach of Winter remov’d 
zy ROUND.«LEAV'D CYCLAMEN. 
This is a common Ornament of our Gardens ; 
and added to the pleafing Colour of its Leaves, 
and Beauty of its Flowers, it has no fmall Recom- 
mendation from the Seafon in which they are pro- 
duc’d: this is a Time when few can be had to grace 
_ the open Ground, and thofe few therefore have a 
double Value. - 
A Plant fo confpicuous, and native of many 
Parts of Europe, as well as univerfal in Gardens, 
could not eafily efcape the Notice of any who have - 
ftudy’d Botany. It ftands under the fame general 
*Name, Cyclamen, in all of them; but we meet 
with various Additions to this generical and uni- 
verfal Term, according to the Changes the Plant 
receives from Accident or Cultura 
The moft proper Addition to the Name in the | 
old Writers, is that of Caspar BavHINE; Orbi- | 
culato folio, inferne purpurafcente : Cyclamen, with 
a rounded Leaf, Purple underneath. 
Linn aus, who fufpects the Form of the Leaf 
to be capable of great Variation, and therefore 
too uncertain for a diftinétive Character, adds, 
corolla retroflexa.: Cyclamen, with a retroflex 
Flower ; | uniting the fancy’d Species of others 
under that common Name as only Varietics,. 
The Root is large and tuberous. 
There is°no common Stalk for Leaves and 
Flowers, as in the Generality of Plants; but 
each Leaf and each Flower rifes directly Satis the 
Root upon its proper Footftalk. 
_ Thofe of the Leaves are purplith, long, weak, 
and flender. 
The Leaf itfelf approaches to round ; tale it 
is deeply divided for the Reception of the Stalk, 
which adheres in the common Way to an indented 
Fdge, not as in fome round Leaves, to the 
Centre. 
Befide this Indenting, which, tho’ it opens lit- 
tle, takes fram the regular Roundnefs of the Leaf, 
it is terminated at the oppofite Part by a {mall 
Point. 
‘The Colour is, on the upper Side, a fine deep 
green blotch’d with white ; and on the under Side 
a deep red, between Purple and Crimfon. The 
Veins are large and confpicuous;, and they are — 
throughout of a pale Crimfon. 
The Footftalks of the Flowers exceed thofe of 
the Leaves in Length, and are ufually more ereét, 
They are as flender as the others ; and their Co- 
Jour, which is red at the Bottom, becomes to- 
ward 
They will here bloom from, 
Fuly to the very End of Winter, if rightly ma- 
nag’d; fuffering no F lower to ftand to Seed; and 
at Times repeating gentle Waterings, 
Jan. 
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