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In the Beginning of September let them be taken | At this Time the old C ompoft mutt be taken March. 
up, and planted at a Foot Diftance in the new | out of the Border, and its Place muft be fup- 
Bed. Here let them ftand two Years, that they | ply’d with a frefh Quantity got ready for that 
March. 
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See 
PL. 28. 
Fig. 3. 
may have full and fair Time to fhew théir Flower- | 
ing. After this, let the beft be preferv’d alone, 
and the others planted out in lefs regarded Places. 
The fine Plants left in the original Bed, muft | 
{tand at about a Foot Diftance; and they alfo | 
will flower much | more beautifully the fucceeding | 
Year. 
Years to be taken up. «> Co 
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- After this, they will-only-require to be kept at 
all Times free from. Weeds ; ; and once in four 
Purpofe. The Off-fets muft be taken off with 
Care at the fame Time, and planted in a feparate 
Bed, and the old Roots plac’d at fegular Diftances 
in the new Compoft. : 
» The laft Week: in. Auguft 3 is the proper Seafon — 
for doing this. The Roots fhould not be kept 
: out of the Ground, but planted as foon as ‘the 
Off-fets -are taken off, the frefh Border is 
made up, and the Places ‘mark’d to receive 
~ 4 them. 
3} GOLD-CUPD NARCISSUS. 
The Wake ied of Narciffus rais’d 4) uted 
are much more numerous than the Species we 
have from Nature: the Botanift, ftri€tly decifive, 
owns but few; but in this Work we fhall not 
omit the moft confiderable of the various Forms 
refulting ftom Culture, refering, each to its ori- 
ginal Kind. 
This Kind is call’d fomewhat at Random by our 
Gardeners, Spanifh Narciffus, by fome; the Mid- 
dling Spanifo Narciffus; and, by thofe who aim_ 
at more Diftinction, a Pfeudo-Narciffus. 
Linnus calls the Species, to which it be- 
longs, Narciffus foliis enfiformibus florum Neéario 
longitudine Petalorum: Sword-leav’d Narciffus, with 
the Nectarium of the Flower nee! in Length t to 
the Petals, 
In the.common Growth this Species has the | 
Rim of the Neétarium broad, but tolerably plain : 
in this State, Culture {wells that Part into more | 
Extent; and folds and plaits its Sides, and undulates , 
its Verge. : 
The Root is roundifh, full of a ‘Aimy Juice, 
and hung’ with many Fibres. — 
The Leaves are long, and of a Seen aes 
yet paler.s | 
The Stalk is a. Foot: and half Kink naked, 
edged, and of a deeper: green; and on-its Sum- 
mit ftands a. fingle: Flower. 
and of confiderable Beauty. 
fore this Opening, » oblong, 
withers foon after the full blowing. 
The Body of -the»Flower: is form’d of’ Gb 
broad, of .a fomewhat. 
oval Form, and: aes a> Nectarium which equals | 
Jarge Petals, oblong, 
finuated Rim. This Gardeners call the Cup. 
The Caius of the-entire Flower is. yellow 3. 
The Petals are: of a | 
but in various Degrees. 
faint and pale but very pleafing Tind; and the 
Ne¢tarium is of a deep gold yellow: this is finely: 
N° 28. 
be taken of the Roots; and the Plant, 
form him under this Particular, 
diverfity’d by the fishe and Shade thrown in by 
the various F oldings ; ; and it refembles, when the 
Flower is well nourifh’d, a Vale of beaten Gold. 
*Tis hence it: has obtain’d in Holland the Name 
of the Golden Cup; and they, with Reafon, pre- 
fer it to many of the gaudy and moft. double 
Kinds. 
From the Infide of the Ne&tarium, in its tubu- 
“lar Part, arifes-fix-Filaments,-not-very long, but ~ 
crown’d with large Buttons. The Style SEE 
appears among thefe exceeds them in I, ength, 
and is fingle, but terminated by a Top or Stigma 
divided into three Parts. 
. The Clafs of the Narciffus is obvioufly foutid a 
thefe Characters, and the Divifion under which it 
is plac’d. It isone of the Hexandria Monogynia, 
Culture of this Nage: ISsus, 
The Plarit j in its wild State is native of almoft 
every Part of Europe: it will therefore bear, 
without Danger, the worft Cold of our Winters 
in the open Borders of a Garden; but as fome 
| | Care muft have been taken to raife the F 
at firft they are hollow’d, but when they have | ue the Flower fo 
_much above. itfelf, the fame Attenti | 
ftood fome ‘Time: a aren out eu and grow ntion: mutt be 
allowed, wherever. it is propagated to eoiitiaiie itin- 
that Eouitea. cacy’ . | 
t. This “is: dis Gale of all thefe enrich’d Rates! 
| ties: if left unregarded, they, by Degrees, fhrink 
This is very large, | 
Its burfts out fide- 
ways from a pale green Scabbard, which is, be- 
comprefs’d, and | 
blunt at the End: © This: bei Ves it as a Cup, and 
back into their original Plainnefs : 
this under an Article wherein. it is_moft. plainly 
con{picuous, the Degeneration of the Proliferous 
Daify ; which, if left but a few Years unregarded. 
in the Ground, tho’ at firft ever fo well adapted 
we mention’d 
to its Nature, lofes its irregular Offspring firft, > 
and then its Size_and doubled Rows of Petals , . 
till, after four or five Seafons, the fame Root 
bears a common py’d Field Daify. 
them in Length, and is folded and: rumpled at’ | 
the Sides, and at the Extremity expanded” in 
Form of a Bell, with a wav’d, irregular, and’ 
. ’Tis the fame here. The F oldings, Curls, and 
Colour of the NeCtarium will be loft, unlefs Care 
fhewing 
mott plainly its Original, will fink into the com- 
mon wild baftard Daffodil. 
~ Our Gardener is, by this Time, fo well in- 
{tructed in his Principles, that few Words will j ine 
4P To 
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