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Plate | This is a very elegant Plant, a Native of the 
XXXVI. Eaf, and defervedly efter’ d throughout Europe. 
Fig. 3. 
much Care, 
. but it deferves to be introduced in all. 
~ Many of the Writers on Flowers have nam *d 
it but under various indeterminate Denominations. 
Brsier entitled it Narci/fus orientalis mediocroceus 
Great Oriental Narcifis, deep yellow in- 
major : 
— the Middle. : 
_ Linnaeus. calls it- Narciffus foliis enfi formibus 
florum necario campanulato erecio petals. longe bre- 
Sword-leav’d Narciffus, with a campanu- 
wiore : 
lated Nectarium much fhorter than the Petals. 
The Root is. large, roundifh, -and furnifh’d 
- from the Bafe with many thick coarfe F ibres, 
The Leaves are ufually four; they are long, 
of a moderate Breadth, and have fome Refem- 
blance of the Blade of a broad Sword. 
Their Colour is a blueifh green, and ih have 
fome Subftance. | 
~The Stalk is robutts voliibe naked, was a 
- Foot and half high, purplith.at the Bortoms and 
green toward the Die 
It has no Leaves ; but at the Summit is plactd 
a Scabbard, ferving as a general Cup or Defence i 
for many Flowers. 
This burfts when they are ready to appear, 
and becomes yellowifh, 
The Flowers rife together from the Head of 
_ the Stalk in the Bottom of this Scabbard, ten, 
twelve, or more in Number. 7 
Together they make a large Taft; like'a Nofe- 
gay; and they are ouekraly! of confiderablé Size. 
- Fach rifes naked from the Stalk, and is com- 
‘pos’d ‘Ora phn Sag ane i Petals. 
a ge Variation. 
pale yellow, yet with the true ides Tinge; and 
the Nectarium is of the deepeft yellow that can 
be conceiv’d with Brightnefs. 
The Nectarium, or, as the Gardeners com- 
monly call it, the Cup, is very confpicuous, tho’ 
much fhorter than the Flower. It is form’d in 
‘the Manner of a Bell, with an even Rim; and 
ftands out a little from the Infertion of the 
~ Petals. .Thefe are fix in Number, and they are 
inferted at forne Diftance below the Edge of the 
_ Nectarium, in a regular expanded Minter: 
~ From the lower Part rife fix Filaments ; they 
are terminated by oblong Buttons ; but shipte are 
hid within the Tube of the Nessun, unlefs 
fought with Care. 
The Style is fingle, longer than thefe, and | 
_crown’d with a three-parted Stigma. 
The Fruit is 4 roundith Seed- veflel, form’d of 
NARCISSUS. 
Several of lefs Beauty, which yet require as 
have taken its Place in Gardens, 
Soniate Fr oe emer i nl eee AAA Rare s 
Diftance. 
Condition. 
"preferable : 
muft be us’d for all the Narciffus Kinds: but as 
there. are fome Particularities in the sina this 
eee we fhall enumerate them, 
muft be kept clear of Weeds, 
gently water’d. 
Fs 
“The Sx E ilaments thew. the ag one of the 
Hexandria, Ranaus’ s Sixth Clafs; and its fin- 
gle Style places it among the SR the firft 
Sub-diftinction under that a Head. 
ti pieaaceninasioes inten nnieirn ' ‘cileiiiaiemneiipeeniiteiaiic a 
Culture. of this Narcissus. | 
It is a Native of the Eaft, but it is not con- 
fin’d to that Quarter of the World; fome of the 
warmer Parts of neces have it, tho’ in lefs Per- 
fection. 
In 7 urkey it Beek as the bett cattle 
we can. bring it to make in our Gardens: °tié 
from thence we fhould import Roots for a quick 
Stock ; and Seeds for raifing it to Perfection, and 
with Variety. 
The Reafon that we fee the P sting fo ci 
below its proper Standard here, is, that. thofe 
who fell the Roots, inftead of obtaining them 
from Countries where they are native, import 
them from Holland ; where, tho’ many very fine 
‘ones. are rais’d, the Lett are kept, and our People 
are fupply’d only with an inferior Kind. 
Thofe who chufe to raife them from, Ol es 
fhould take fuch as have been with the Parent 
Root three Years in the. Ground, Thefe fhould 
be taken. off in Auguft, and planted at ten: Inches 
They will thus rife to a very good 
The Method bas Seeds is in all Refpedts 
it, is,in. general, the fame that _ 
Dex muft Z fons the 
but with firft Week in September, in Boxes of fome one of © 
the light rich Compofts, and fet where they. can 
have free Air, and the Morning Sun, 
In Winter the Boxes muft be remoy’d into 4 
_ | fouthern Afpe&t ; and toward April be taken back 
into their. firft Place again. 
In Spring the Leaves will appear; and they 
and fometimes 
Early toward Autumn they will ie and a 
Quarter of an Inch of the fame-Com oft : 
be then fifted over them. poft mutt 
» hor crumbly thro’ over 
Drynefs; and the third Year they fhould be fe- 
_parated from the Earth, by fifting: 
out in a Place thelter’d from Winds, and not open 
to the full Sun, : 
; and planted 
‘Feb, 
and it contains many Seeds, in three Cells, nat 
three Parts, and lightly mark’d with three Ridges ; - 
a Columnar Receptacle. 
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