OF GAR DEN ING 
Pi. 27. 
E Pig. 4. 
4. BROAD-LEAVED PULMONARTA. 
This is another of the hardy Plants which early 
decorate our Borders in the open Ground; and 
need no more Care than their firft Plantation. 
It will live in any Soil or Situation; but will 
thrive moft perfeétly in a rich mellow Earth; where 
every Garden. 
The Flower is compos’d of a fingle Petal, and 
is plac’d in a tubular Cup. This is form’d alfo 
| of Gné Piecé, and is mark’d with five Ridges, 
and divided by five Indentings at the Rim. The — 
_there is forme Damp, and where there is Shade and | Flower alfo is tubular in the lower Part, and at 
Shelter. 
It very well merits to have the Place carefully 
chofen ; for not the Flower alone is beautiful, 
but the Leaves. | 
Moft of the old Writers on Plants have nam’d 
it: but from their vague Denomination, Pulmo- 
naria, a Title given to a great many Plants be- 
fide this, and altogether unlike to this or one an- 
other, the Gardener has been ill talight to call it 
Lungwort, 
This Englifo Name is only an uncertain and 
- confus’d one, but the Plant has cthers altogether 
abfurd. 
falem, tho’ it neither is at all ally’d to the Cowflip, 
nor is a Native of that Part of the World. 
Thofe who have nam’d it Pulmonaria, add 
many Epithets of Diftinetion, Italica, latifolia, 
and macuclofa. 
C. BAUHINE calls it Symphytum macuclofum, as . 
well as Pulmonaria latifolia. 
Linn AUS, retaining the latter Name for this 
Genus, banifhes from it the unlike Plants ; and 
adds here, as the Diftinction of the Species, folits 
vadicalibus ovate cordatis feabris Pulmouaria, 
with the radical Leaves rough, and of an | oval 
-heart-like Form. 
_. The Root is compos’d of numerous thick white 
Fibres, of an infipid and mucilaginous afte. 
_ The firft Leaves are numerous, and they fpread | 
They are | 
themfelves into. a wild irregular Tuft. 
broad, fhort, and fharp-pointed, undivided at the 
Edges, and of a deep green, fpotted varioufly 
and irregularly with white. 
The Stalks are “numerous; and fix or eight 
‘aches high, hairy, and of a pale green. 
The Leaves on thefe are oblong, and have no 
Footftalks : Bae are of the fame Flue with thofe 
from the Root. | | 
The Flowers rife in a Clufter at the Top of 
each Stalk, and are oblong ; not large, but very 
confpicuous, and finely-vaiy’d according to’ thejr 
different Per iods. 
When in ‘the Bud they. are red; but wheit they 
open and fhew the Infide, their Colour is a. cele 
{tial blue, : | ee oe 
There are tfually, throat: the Seafon, a 
ereat Number of Flowers -in both thefe States ; 
and they fet off one another. very agreeably. . The 
white Spots. on the Leaves join alfo very happily - 
and the moft unaccuftom’d Eye 
in Contraft : 
never pafles | the Plant unnotic’d. It is not of 
the Rank of a F “lower, yet worthy a Place in 
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| In any Situation. 
the Edge is divided into five broad Segments, 
which Sac wide open. In the Opening of the 
tubular Part are plac’d five very fhort Filaments, and 
thefe. are terminated by erect convergent But- 
tons. | . ? 
The Style is fingle, tho’ it rifes from a four- 
~ parted Rudiment of a Fruit: the Seeds which 
follow are four, and they ftand naked in the. 
Cup. 
The five Filaments thew the Plant to be one of 
the Pentandria, the fifth of the Linn 2 an Clafies ; 
and. the fingle Style declares it one of the Mono: 
gynia. 
It is call’d Buglofs Coico fins: ska Sage of Feru- | 
Culture of this PuLMONARIA, 
The Plant is a Native of the colder Parts of 
Europe, as well as the warmer, and will live freely 
It thtives beft wild by thé 
Sides of Woods, where the Earth is rich and light, 7 
and not too wet. 
This is the Rule for its Cultivation: 
_ A. Place fhould fe chofen where the Sun os 
not. too much Power ;, and the Soil fhould be frefh 
Pafture- arth, with fome rotted Cow-dung. 
It may be rais’d. from Seeds fown in. fuch a 
Spot, and left to Nature: but it is fo common, 
and thrives fo well from parted Roots, that few 
will take this Trouble. It is } however very right 
to be done. | 
We propofe to oer: the Gardener haw he fhall 
-raife the moft common Things to their greateft 
Perfection ; and fhall give, in the Management of 
this Plant, an Inftance, by which it will very 
much exceed all of its Kind feen in common 
2 Gardens. 
Let a Piece of a Border be chofen in a South- 
Fatt Afpect, and in a low Part of the Ground: 
} let the Mould be dug out, and. frefh Pafture- 
Earth put in its Place. 
In this, about the Middle of, Oftober, plant 
fome parted Roots of the Pulmonariay. at a Foot 
and half Diftance; and at the fame Time fcatter 
a good Quantity of the Seeds over the Surface be-. 
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‘In Spring the sire Plants: vill: flower, and 
the Seedlings will appear. Let them be kept clear ® 
| from Weeds, and have at’ Times a little Water. 
In Autumn take up the partéd Roots, and 
thin the Seedlings to a Foot afunder. | 
In the following Spring thefe will flower very | 
well. At Autumn let them be taken up, the 
Earth dug out of the Border, and freth Mould 
4M c" from . 
March 
