Feb... the Places where the Leaves are inferted having 
Leaves being brownith. 
The Flowers are numerous, and of a very fin- 
eular Appearance: They rife from the Stalks 
by very fhort Pedicle’, and ate in Colour white, 
with a faint Tinge of Purple. This is  princi- 
pally feen on the Exttemities of the Petals, and 
on their under Side; and it goes off as the Flower 
attains its full Maturity. The Tinct is beft feen. 
‘on the Head of the Bud; and here it is ufually 
of a bright purplith Crimfon. 
No Flower demands moré than this the Atten- 
tion of the Botanical Student, or more deferves 
his Notice. 
The Cup is form’d F a fingle Piece, divided 
by five Cuts at the Edge. i 
The Petals, which compofe the Body of the 
Flower, are innumerable : they ftand in feveral 
diftinét Series, and are long, narrow, undulated, 
and fharp-pointed ; and on tracing them to the 
Bafe, their Bottoms are found to coalefce and unite 
into a kind of Ring; fo that they may, if the 
Student pleafe, be call’d fo many Segments of a 
monopetalous Flower. 
In the Centre ftand numerous Filaments, very 
- flender, and crown’d with incumbent Buttons : 
and in the Midft of them appear five Styles. 
'Thefe have their Origin from five obtufe An-_ 
eles, which terminate the Rudiment of the fuc-’ 
seeding Fruit, plac’d below the Receptacle of the 
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mark’d with five Rays, and containing numerous 
roundifh Seeds. 
Such is the Structure of this moft fingu- ) 
the Clafs is eafily determin’d from the 
lar Plant : 
Origination of the F ilaments : thefe we have feen 
are numerous, and they will be found to arife 
from the Infide of the Cup, not from the Recep- 
tacle: the Plant is therefore one of the Jco/andria; 
and the Number of the Styles refers it to the Pen: 
| tagynia. 
Culture of the Diamond MeseMBRYANTHEMUM. 
The Plant is a Native of Africa, and thrives 
there in a mellow and light Soil. This we fhould 
imitate, and then its Culture is eafy. 
It muft be nurs’d with Care in Spring, for the 
Colds elfe will kill it; but foon after Mid/ummer 
it may be brought out into the open Air, and 
- open Ground. ‘This laft is the frequent Practice of 
‘our Gardeners, but it is not what we advife:: the 
Plant that Way comes into Beauty with a Mul-— 
titude of others, and fades with the firft Frofts. 
We fhall propofe a Method by which it may’ con- 
_ tinue, thro’ Winter, an Ornament to the Green- 
houfe; the more valuable for the Time when 
there are fo few Things in Perfeétion. 
This is the Seafon for raifing it; and let ha 
Gardener take the following Method: | 
“The Seeds ripen freely with us when ma- 
nag’d properly; and thefe grow freely, The 
Plant is an Annual, and is to be rais’d from then 
on a Hot-Bed. . Let them be featter’d with Care 
a Tinge of Purple ; and the Tips of many of the 
ther, as the Heat declines: 
keeps up the whole Time thefe and fuch other 
Yhe Fruit is a round flefhy Capfule, with a Dent: | 
houfe’ Plants, and no otherwife. | 
upon fome rich Garden-Mould, laid four Inches 
thick upon a common Bed of Dung; and 
let a quarter of an Inch of the fame Mould be 
fifted over them. 
As foon as they are put into the Ground, let 
the following Compoft be made for the Plants : 
Mix a Bartow of rich Meadow-Earth, a Buthel 
of Pond-Mud, and a Peck of old Cow-dung: 
add to thefe a Peck and half of coarfe Sand; 
_and blending the Whole well together, throw it up 
in a Heap to the Weather. 
When the Plants rife let them be very gently 
-wateér’d; and as foon as it can be feen which are 
the ftrongeft, let the weaker be pull’d up, leaving 
only as many as are intended to be rais’d, at due 
Diftances. Here they may ftand to gather a little 
more Strength, and they muft then be remov’d 
into feparate Pots. | 
Let as many finall Pots be prepar’d as there are 
Plants; and let an Oyfter-fhell be laid over the 
Hole of each, to keep it open. 
be fill’d with the Compoft, and the Plants one by 
one taken ¢arefully up and fet in them. Give thenj 
a gentle Watering, and fet the Pots up to the 
Rim in a Bark-Bed, fhading them with Mats till 
they are thoroughly rooted. 
If there be not a Bark-Bed in Readinefs, a 
common Hot-Bed of Dune will do; but in this 
Cafe, the Pots muft be remov’d from one to ano- 
in the Bark-Bed i¢ 
Plants need be preferv’d in it; and this is the 
great Advantage Bark has over Dung. 
In this Bed they are to be-water’d at Times; 
and as the Seafon grows more mild they may be | 
inur’d to the Air. 
_ In the Beginning of Fauly they may be taken 
out of the Bed, and- ‘plac’d among the Green- 
houfe Plants. 
Here begins the various Management; and it 
will be proper to give them ae the Opportu- ‘ 
nities of Beauty and Excellence of which they are 
capable, by treating them in the different Man- 
ners. 
At this Time of: their ita from the Bed, 
let fome be kept for flowering, in the ufual Way; 
others planted for fpreading and fhewing the 
Beauty of their Leaves; and others ‘manag’d for 
living all the Winter. 
Let the firft Kind be treated as ilies eed. 
Then let thofe 
which are intended for {preading, be planted in a 
warm and well fhelter’d Place in the open Ground, 
allowing them a large Space to cover, and plant- 
ing them in fome of the Compoft, thrown into a 
Hole of the Bed for that Purpofe. 
While thofe treated in the ufual Manner 
flower abundantly, thefe will attain many times 
their Size, but produce few Flowers, or perhaps 
none. 
Thofe Plants Sseciadid for Winter muft be taken 
up, and fet -in fomewhat larger Pots, fhak- 
ing off a good Quantity of the Mould from their 
Roots. They muft be water’d and fhaded til! they: 
have taken Root; and this muft be repeated Once, 
in fixteen Days, 
At 
Then let them | 
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