ET 
Feb. 
Plate 
XV. 
Fig. 2. 
YOR 
At every Time of tranfplanting; thofe Branches 
which have Flower-Buds upon them mutt be taken 
off; and by this Means the Plants will be put | it will come oh 
backward more and more at every Plantation. 
- At the Approach of Winter they mutt be taken 
ARDENING 
into the Greenhoufe; and tranfplanted no more: Feb: 
they will then fettle themfelves for flowering: but 
flowly ; and they may be kept 
all Winter. | 
2 PROLIFEROUS DATURA: 
° 
Beauty and Singularity tinite in the Flower of | an oblong Shape, tubular, and form’d of a fingle 
this Plant, and both in 4 very great Degree. 
We admite the Two-in-a-hofe Cowflip, and with 
Reafon, for there is great Prettynefs in it; but 
with how fuperior an Attention fhould we tegard 
* ni 
more than forty times its Bignels: 
this, which, with a Colour vaftly preferable; is. 
‘Let not the Botanical Reader fuppofe it d Varie- : 
ty of the common Thorh-Apple : the Flower of | 
that is white, and its F ruit Oblong: this is indeed 
a Variety, but of another and much more ele- 
gant Species, whofe Flower is purple; and its Fruit 
round. | : Gee 
Baunine and the old Writers defcribe this in 
the fingle State of the Flower, under the Name 
of Solanum pomo~ fpinofo rotundo, oblongo flore. 
Some, Stramonium frutiu rotundo. In the ele- 
gant Variation of which we write here: Aipinis 
and Vesuincius call it Datura. This Name 
Linn us adopts for the Genus, and adds, as its 
Diftinétion in this Species, | pericarpiis fpinofis nu- 
ing Fruit. 
The Root is long, 
of an ill Smell. | ott 
The Stalk is robuft and up ight, but divided in 
a very beautiful Manner into Branches. | 
It will grow, with good Culture, to five Foot 
in Height; and {preading its Branches every Way 
will form a rourid and regular bithy Head; 
which, when cover’d with its moft elegant Flow- 
thick, divided, reddith, and 
_ ers, difputes the Prize of Elegance with moft of 
the Vegetable Kind. si | 
_ The Colour of the Stalk is naturally purple at 
the Bottom; and upwards alfo, and throughout the 
whole Courfe of the Branches, its natural 
green has a purplifh T inge: | 
The Leaves are numerous, fingular, and not 
without their Beauty. They have robuft Foot. 
{talks : they are oblong, and sharply ferrated. 
Their Colour is a blackith green; and they have 
purplith Veins. = | 
The Flower’ are very large and elegant; they 
rife one within another, and are on the Outfide of 
a glowing Purple, mix’d with Crimfon; and 
within of a pure and perfect fhowy Whitenefs. 
This Rife of one F lower in another is a Luxuri- 
ance of Nature; but ’tig not; as in many Cafes, 
the mete Effect of Culture, : , 
ye Plant is wild about the Cape of Good Hope 
in this elegant and confpicuous State, and is 
figur’d fo in the Hortus Malabaricus. 
A Cup receives the Bottom of this Flower, of 
other, - 
pale : 
Piece, fwoln at the Bottom, mark’d with five 
rifing Angles upwards, and at the Rim divided 
into as many Segments. ’Tis peculiar in this Cup, 
that it is neither permanent, nor deciduous en. 
tirely. It falls, as if cut off horizontally near the _ 
Bafe; leaving a rounded Piece behind, 
have figur’d adhering to the Fruit. ie teas 
The Body of the Flower is form’d of a fingle 
Petal, and is of thé Funnel Shape: it is a Term 
us’d by the Botanical Writets for many Flowers; 
but there is not one with which it agrees {0 well 
as this. It is narrow at the Bafe where receiy’d 
into the Cup, and ftom this Part it fwells out 
into a vaft Hollow. ; 
Thete tun feveradl Ribs along the Body of the 
Flower. Five are moft confpicuous ; and at the 
Rim it if cut in five Places, ot whei luxuriant 
into many mere, but five ate principal, The 
Segments grow narrow to the Point, and end in g 
which we 
‘ _kind of crooked Tails, _ 
tantibus globofis: Datura, with round prickly droop- } 
_, This is the fimple Flower é arid the ariety of 
Purple and Snow-white in this; give it enough of 
Beauty ; but in the moft elegant State it is proli- 
ferous : another Flower rifes from within the Hol- 
low of this; as this from the Hollow of the’ 
Cup : and in Shape is perfectly the fame with the 
_ Nature; when the thus becomes wariton! 
y pro- 
fufe; fixes herfelf no certain Bounds : 
two, three; 
or four Flowers will fometiines rife from one Cup’ 
thus one within another, 
gance, | , | | 
_ To know the Clafs of the Plant, its Parts of 
Fruétification muft be examined ; and thefe are 
always moft diftiné&t in the fimpleft Flower, Let 
the Student chufe fuch a one; and tearing it open’ 
he will find within, five pointed F ilaments, termi- 
nated by oblong, obtufe, and comprefs’d Buttons ; 
and among thefe a fingle Styley with a Top 
form’d of two Plates. aye 
The five Filaments fhew the Plant one of the 
Pentandria 3; and its fingle Style declares it one of 
and add ftill to thé Ele- 
the Monogynia: the fifth Clafy of Lanna vs 
and its firft Se@ion: ‘ : 
Culture of this Darura: 
It is a Native of Afvica, and of the Ka/ff- Indies: 
The Seeds. ripen freely, and it muft be rais’d 
from them ih a Compoft fuited to it; in 
‘Comparifon of that Soil wherein it thrives beft in 
a State of Nature. It is found in low Grounds, 
in a rich black Soil, where fotted Leaves have — 
made 
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