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their Centre numerous Filaments. 
Pl. ¢7. 
OF GARDERLINGS 
three or four Rows ‘of broad Petals, and have in 
Their Smell 
is not unlike that of the Orange-Flower, but lefs 
rich: hence the Vulgar call the Shrub Wild O- | 
- range, and Mock Orange. 
The Fruit which fuc- 
ceeds thefe, is a Capfule; oval, pointed at each Exnd, 
and furrounded in the Middle with the Cup. 
This is the moft elegant State of the Shrub; 
but ’tis in the fingle Flower the Student is to 
fearch the Characters and difcover to what Clafs it 
belongs. 3 
This is compos’d “ four Petals: it is plac’d 
in a {mall Cup fix’d on the Rudiment of the 
Fruit, and divided into four Parts at the Edge. 
Im the Centre ftand twenty Filaments, crown’d | . 
with upright Buttons, mark’d with four Fu ur- 
rows. 
The Student knows he is to trace thefe Filaments 
to their Origin, to find whether the Plant is of the 
_ gcofandrous or polyandrous Clafs, that being the di- 
ftinGtive Character where the Filaments are fo 
numerous. ‘They are here inferted into the Cup, 
whence the Shrub is refer’d to the firft of thofe 
Cfaffés ; and its fingle Style thews that it is one of 
the Monogynia, i its firft Section. | 
Culture of this Pai aDELPuus. 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of Europe, | 
‘in the fingle State; and lives beft where there 
is a mellow Soil, and fore Moifture. 
The double one is a Creature of the Gardener’s 
‘Art, and therefore requires no different Soil from 
the fingle. There is, however, a Secret in regard 
to it which our People do not know. ~ 
‘The common Way of propagating it is by. 
here and there. 
Suckers, and it thus degenerates : 
only there appears, upon a Shrub thus rais’d, 
one double Flower, the others being all fingle ; 
but it is not fo where it is rais’d from 
Seed. 
This therefore we recommend : 
dener will, by’ following ‘that Practice, fhew in 
England the fame Elegance in this Shrub it boafts 
in other Countries where better cultivated: he 
will have whole Branches of double Flowers, and 
will no longer envy the happy Bester that ftrange 
and the Gar- | 
This is the whole Secret. 
With Refpec&t to the common fingle Kind, it 
fuffers nothing in the Propagation by Suckers , 
and as thefe are produc’d abundantly, and root 
freely, it will be beft, in Refpe& of that Kind, 
to continue the fame Method. 
In September let the Suckers be clear’d ffomh the 
old Trees, and planted two Foot afunder in the — 
Seminary : 
Seafons ; 
they will require a little Water in dry 
and at.all Times to be kept clear from 
Weeds ; and thus in three Years they will be fit 5 
to plant out into the Garden: where a deep rich 
Soil fuits them beft; but they will grow in 
any. | 
If the double Kind be rais’d from Suckers, 
the Shrubs will thrive very well, and they will 
here and there fhew a double Flower; but a hun- 
dred will be fingle for one that has this Beauty. 
Therefore let Seeds be regularly obtain’d for this 
| Kind, and the young Plants treated with the Care 
they deferve. 
In Léaly the doula ‘Flowers are niiaceal fol- 
| low’d. by perfect Seed- vellels, which ripen the” 
Seeds well and freely. 
Let fome of them be obtain’d from thence, and 
fow’d with Care. 
The fecond Week in Mareb is the Time ; ; and 
the Method is this: 
Chufe a fhelter’d Spot in the Nurfery, and dig 
into the Ground a good Quantity of Pond- Mud: 
break.it very fine, and fcatter on ‘the Seeds. 
Cover them a quarter of an Inch with the fame 
Mould, and throw a few White- Thorn Bubhes 
upon the Ground: thefe defend the Place, and 
do not cover it fo clofe as Furz: this is a 
Shrub whofe Seeds will not saesl unlefs ‘aiey 
have free Air. 
When the Plants appear, let ‘them have fre- 
quent gentle Waterings ; carefully clear the Spot 
from Weeds ; and from Time to Time, when the 
Mould is dry, draw up fome about their Stems. 
At the Approach of Winter ftick up fome. 
Furz-Bufhes about them, and among them, to 
break the Force and Sharpnefs- of the Winds; 
and the next Year plant them out at ‘two Foot 
Diftance. They will rife to their full Perfeétion 
this Way, and will never degenerate, 
3 DOUBLE bAD V.<- 5.0 Os K. 
This is a Wantonnefs of Nature in a wild Plant 
Fig. 3. of our Meadows; from whence fome Gardener | 
brought into his Ground, and ‘Spply'd his Ac- 
quaintance. 
This feems to have been the Cafe from what 
we know; for our Meadows at this Time fre- 
quently afford the Double Lady-Smock, and no- 
thing is more uncertain than the raifing it from 
Seed. 
But tho’ we receive it from the Field, it puts 
on a new Majefty in the Garden; the Flowers at- 
tain three times their natural Bignefs ; 
have often a Blufh of flefhy red, which gives 
them a new Luftre. | 
No Plant is more common than the Single Lady- 
Smock in our moift Paftures; and the Species is 
the fame in either Cafe. The Doublenefs of a 
Flower we have repeatedly told the young Botanitt, 
is a Variety, no Mark of a feparate Species. 
All the Botanical Writers have defcrib’d the Plant 
in this fimple State, and moft of them under the 
Name Cardamine , fome, Nafturtiwn magno flore; 
and’ 
and they 
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