Jan. 
Generical Term, Hyacinth, adding for its Di- 
ftinction from the others, Orebioides Africanus 
bifolius maculatus major Das Sulphureo objoleto 
majore. | 
Linn &us gives it a fpecifick Title, fuffi- 
ciently diftinét in fewer Words, Hyacintbus Co- 
rollis ivregularibus Jexpartitis, Hyacinth with ir- 
regular Flowers, divided into fix Parts: 
"The Root is round, white, and full of a flimy 
Juice. 
The Leaves which rife from it are naturally 
two. 
vided at the Edges, and obtufe at the End. 
They envelope one another at the Bafe, and 
there cherifh and defend the Rudiment’ of the 
Stalk. Their Colour is a very beautiful green, 
and they are {potted with a a dufky, | blackith 
Purple. 
The Stalk is thick, round, and of a pale green; 
- fpotted in the Manner of the Leaves with brown ; 
and toward the Bafe a little ting’d with Purple ;__ 
it rifes between the two Leaves, furrounded a 
great Way up by their Bafes, pee grows to — 
Inches’ in Height. — 
There are no Leaves on this, but its Top is 
Thefe - 
decorated with a loofe Spike of Flowers. | 
are in the higheft Degree fingular as well as 
beautiful ; 
cinth kind. Their Colour is a deep yellow: 
dufky on the Outfide, and more bright within. 
deeply and irregularly into fix Segments. 
In the Centre rife fix Filaments; and in the : 
Midft of thefe is placed a fingle Style: | 
_ The Seed Veffel that follows each F ‘lower is — 
fhort, thick, and mark’d with three Furrows ; 
it is divided within into three Cells, 
numerous, very minute Seeds. 
Thefé Filaments and the fingle Style declare 
it to be one of the Hexandria Monogynia of — 
tion. 
OF GARD E-Nr & NoGs 
Brrynivs lience called it by its ‘anions 
They are long, confiderably broad, undi- | 
they ftand at a moderate Diftance, and — 
they are larger than the Generality of the Hya- | - 
| Weather intervene. ° 
and.contains 
Linnazus; the fixth Clafs, and its firft Sec-— 
LR SE EE OES AES eA Blowers will be POW. ahd ‘browns, 
Culture of oe Hyacinru. 
Tlie Plant is a Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope: it is found about the Sides. of Woods, 
where the Ground is rich and damp, and where 
the dead Leaves fhelter its Root in the colder 
Seafons: 
_ Breywnius was the firft Perfon who fay it in 
Europe; flowering in Mrs. de Flines’s Garden. 
Its natural. Soil directs us how to cultivate it ; 
| ind the beft Method will be by Roots brough; 
from the Spot where they are natural: if thefe be 
taken up when the Leaves fade, they will bear to 
be a long Time out of the Ground. After this 
it may + encreafed by Off-fets, 
_ For its Reception let the followirie Compoft 
be prepared, and mellow’d by Seaugne Turn- - 
ings.. 
Mix two Buthels of rich Meadow Earth, one 
Bufhel of Pond Mud, three Pecks of Mould from 
under a Wood Baer and one Peck of Marle: ; or 
if that cannot be had, of foft Chalk broke to 
pieces the fame Quantity. 
_ Put into the Bottom of as n many Pots.as you 
have Roots, feveral Pieces of loofe Gravel, to 
keep: open the Hole for difcharge of Water, and 
then fill them up within one Med of the is 
with the Compott. 
' In the Middle of each Pot lack: one Root: 
take Care the Bud be exactly upright, and cover 
AK three: Quarters of an Inch with the Mould; 
They appear gradually and flowly after one fifting it carefully upon it. 
another, which is a great Recommendation. | 
Each is form’d of a fingle Petal, divided very | - 
Set thefe Pots in a thady Place, atid once in 
five Days give them a little Water. — 
_ Let them remain there till the Bud begins 
to fhew itfelf above the Surface, unlefs - févere 
Then -place them in a 
more warm and open Situation ; 
‘Water them more Gooner than before, but a 
‘little at a. Time, and they will thus be baste to 
glow in all their Beauty. 
Lefs Heat and lefs Care will bring. them. to 
flower, but not in their proper Strength, and the 
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II. 
The Care and | Management of the Flower-Garden, Gren hopes and 
Stove. 
WET the Care of the Gardener, and his conftant 
Attention to the feveral Parts of his Ground, 
fave us the Tedioufnefs of Repetition, by going 
over his Borders in the fame Manner we have 
dire€ted in the preceding Weeks; but as the 
Froft may now be more dangerous than ever to 
his Seedling Plants, let him take redoubled Care 
to defend them. | 
The choiceft Kinds we have dire&ed him to 
fow in Boxes, arid thefe he fhould now fet in the 
‘Ground ; or otherwife thé Shelter he lays upon the 
Surface will not prevent the Effeét of Frofts thro” 
theit Sides. 
Let him -chufe the higheft and the diyeft Spot 
he can, and take Care that it be open to the 
South. Flere let him dig out a Piece of Ground 
capable 
] 
and. at the Ap- 
| proach of Winter bring them into the Stove. 
