AES GARDENING. 
Feb. Pinnz are plac’d alternately, not in oppofite Pairs, | 
There are from. eighteen to two and. twenty of 
thefe on the two Sides, and an odd. one- at the 
End. ve es 
Their Colour is alight cheexfal: oreen y. and 
they are oblong, narrow, and:obtufe.. 
uniform: the little Footftalk of the latter rifing 
at a {mall Diftance above that of the Leaf. 
The Flowers are numerous, large, and very 
and they are of confiderable Duration. 
Each has its little Cup: this is form’d of five 
_ fall yellowifh pointed Leaves, united at their 
ates... f : 
_ The Body of the Flower has five Petiles t ‘dete 
are oblong, and rounded at the Ends; two are 
plac’d more diftinét than the others, at the Bot- 
tom; and the reft ftanding more clofe the 
_ whole Flower has a fingular Afpect. ‘Thefe two | naturally in the fame kind of damp, rich, and 
- mellow. Soil. 
lower Petals are alfo fomewhat Ae than the 
others. we 
. In the Centre rife ten thick F ilaments, which 
make a very confpicuous Part of the Flower when 
it is fully open: they are bent downwards; and 
are of a fine pale green on the under Pach but, 
from the Bending to the Top; yellow.’ They are 
unlike in Length; and, ‘in their terminating But- 
others; and three more ftand “ase upwards, 
and are fhorter. mon 
The Buttons upon thefe are finall and incon- 
fiderable : thofe on the three under-ones ‘are very 
large, of.a hooked Form, and terminated by a 
kind of Beak; thofe on ee four eure are large, 
but they want this Beak. . 
In the Midit -rifes a fingle Sls Fran 
sedliediensee of the Fruit, ‘fupported on a ante 
Footftalk. 
The Seed-vefiel is a Pod sefeteilNGi clio 6g have taken Root ; «after. this, the Warerings are to’ 
the leguminous Kind, but, divided. by crofs Par- | be 
titions.. The Seeds are ‘large, and. black. |The -Noon' when the Weather. favours. > 
Pod itfelf, is green at firft; and, as it ripens, be- | 
comes brown, with a Tingé.of red; and at. daft 
~ nearly black. 
. The Flowers is-as full, of - Beauty as Sinpulany ; ; 
ments, which’ being common to many Genera, 
and invariable in all, become the proper Diftinc- 
tions of Claffes: fuch are the two longer in the 
Didynamia ; ; and the four longer in the’ T. etvadyna- 
miaof the Linn aan Syftem : but this Singula- 
_| tity in the Caffia being peculiar to that: Kind, does 
In the natural Growth the Films and Glandules 3 
about the Bafes of the Leaves, are conftant and | 
not become the Mark of a Clafs, but very juftly 
fupports the Linw#an Method, in joining un- 
~ one Generical Name all the Plants which have 
' The fingle Style fhews this alfo to be one 
: of the Monogyia. 
beautiful; they are of an elegant gold yellow, | 
Culture of this Cassta. 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of America ; 
_and with. us will never attain its full mhwy and 
PerfeCtion but in a Stove. ait 
“Tis to be rais’d from Seed; and the fame 
_Compoft we direGted to be made for the laft men- 
tioned Plant, will very well fuit this; for it grows 
Early in Spring let a Couple x Pots be aia 
with this Compoft, and about twelve of the Seeds 
laid at regular Diftances on the Surface of each. 
Let a quarter of an Inch of the fame Mould be 
‘fifted over them; then let them have> a gentle. 
| Watering: then. fee sani up to the nine ina a Bark- 
Bed. » 
tons:. three ftand lower, and are longer than the | 
| When the young Plants appear, let them every 
other Evening be gently water’d, with Water that 
has ftood all Night in the Bed’; and at: Noon, 
when the Days. ate mild, let them have a little 
Air.» When the Nights are cold, “let them’ be de- 
fended, ‘by laying Mats over the Glafles.” 
~ Thus Jet the: young Plants be manap’d till they 
are three Fingers Breadth high, and they mutt 
then be" remoy’d ‘each into a feparate’ Pot,’ and’ 
_ plac’d. sa at in the ‘Bed, watering them every 
| Eveningyand cafefully fhading then till they” 
be repeated once in two Days; and. you Day at 
ol'The Beds “muft® have Air, by “opening the 
Glafies ; but let the Gardener Temember thefe ‘are 
'| Natives ofa hot Climate, and impatient of fevere 
Cold. ; - Therefore'let the Beds be covered at Sun-fer 
Sn the Colour of the. Body’ of. the Remk is» —_— with: Mats or Cloths, and uncovered at’ Hour and’ 
_ fect gold, and their Bottoms are purple. -» 
| ralfiafeée: Sun-rife, till: the ‘Summer is well ad-! 
The Student will know, in the Midft nf al he! ‘vanced; and the cold Nights are! over. 
Sineutasicies he finds in the Body of, the Flower, : 2 
thar the Number of the Filafmients is to denote the 
After this, as: they: grow larger, a8) grid be: 
‘fhifted into bigger Pots; and when they reach the 
Clafs of the Plant; and confequently that;itiis one: | Glaffes. of the Frame, they mult be brought i into- 
of the Decandrias the. fan in she Lismean | the ‘Bark-Bed: in’ sary ‘Stoves 
mn oo) | flower: all ‘Winter. 
There .are Variations sin: th Length of File = 
Syftem. 
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The Management of the Flower- Garden, Greenboufe and § tove. 
HIS Wreck let re Gardener pot his Carna- 
taQoers him. sii for this Purpok es one of our 
tions, from which he expeéts a Shew of | light rich Compofts; or in Time make one pur- 
Flowers, and let it be done with Care. 
pofely, with good Pafture-Earth, Pond-Mud, old 
Cow-. 
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