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For the Latter End of February and Beginning of March. 
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- Flowers and curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
rt, DOUBLE VIOLET. 
x E enter now upon the Flowers: of’ 
| Spring.- The Violet is one of the firtt, 
and tho’ a very humble Plant, one of | 
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the moft confiderable in the Fields: fometime 
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in March it ufually flowers in fhelter’d Places ; 
and has thence the Name March Violet ; in Gar- 
dens, with good Management, we bring it fome- 
what earlier ; and there are Seafons fo favourable, 
that it blows the firft Days of that Month. 
We treat of it here under that elegant Ap- 
| Nees it makes in the double Form: but this 
the Rost knows makes no Diftinétion in the 
Species: the Seeds of the fingle Violet will, by 
good Management, raife this double Flower ; 
and it is therefore the fame original Plant. 
In the fingle State the common. Authors call 
it, Viola martia, viola purpurea, and viola ado- 
rata. | a4 | 
In this elegant Condition, when the Flower 
is enlarg’d, and clufter’d- with: numerous Petals, 
they call it, Viola duplex, and Viola martia mul. \ 
hiplici fore... ! | 
Linn &us confiders this only as.a Variation 
from Culture, and. calls the Plant, Viola acaulis 
_ folits cordatis, ftolonibus reptantibus, Creeping Vio- 
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let, with heart fhap’d ‘Leaves, : 
Stalksii Lise | 
known for Defcription ; nor does it receivé much 
and brown. 
From this rife at. the fame Time, 
Flowers, and a kind of Stalks . which lies upon 
the Ground, and’ take Root’ at» their: 
Joints ; 
thefe. are the Stolones of Linn aus: they are 
green, thick, and round; and. wherever they 
root, there rife alfo Leaves, and a new Plant is 
formed. 
The Leavés ftand in Clutters, 
placed fingly on long, flender, | 
ftalks. .They are roundifh, but fomewhat Heart- 
Leaves, 
. 
and they are 
and their Colour is a paler green; they are 
frequently alfo ting’d. at the Bafe with purple: 
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