March. 
T oO os brélertc the Plait in its ‘ube ‘the’ Bed 
 sptove its Luftre, (for. fo far we would have 
Pl. 28. 
Big. 4. 
Seed. 
7 rais’d frien che true gre pe ‘Offers my heir 
Gardens; and from the beft Produce of thefe to 
collec Seeds for a frefh Progeny. Thus the firit 
Shew will be equal to any others ; and the fuc- 
ceeding Plants will probably exceed them. 
The firft Year let them flower; and cut down 
the Stalks before they form the Seeds. Then 
when the Leaves are wither’d, take them up, dig 
out the Mould, and fill the Place. with new Com- | 
poft; plant in the Roots again, and cover them 
up carefully with Mould. Let their Diftance be 
fourteen Inches; and keep the Surface clear from 
Weeds. The facceeding Spring thefe Roots will 
flower much itronger than the firft, and they mutt 
then be examined critically. . 
The fineft Flowers mutt be ‘mark’d for Seed, 
4. DOUBLE 
muft be renew’d ence. in. two Years ; and to itt 
The Compott we revomeneiided for the Nar- ! 
ciffxs, defcrib’d in a late Number, will perfectly | : 
fuie this ; and it hse be digi from Off- | of the 
| Oftober they. mutt howe the Morning Sun only: 
by ferting: up’ x ‘Seidle 1 rear hii, The fineft are March. 
thofe which have;. 1. The ftrongeft Stalk j 2. The - 
largeft Flower; and; 3. The Nectarium ‘moft 
him carry his Art) it muft be rais’d fron | folded, owepeila ge wav'd,. ane of the higheft 
| gold.Colour. 
The Seeds mutt be fav'd Si thefe with Care ; 
iin in the Beginning ¢ of September fown in. Boxes 
oft us’d for the Roots. Till 
from that Timé td March they muft be fet open 
| to the Noon Sun ; and'during Summer they muft 
be plac’d foras to have only the Morning Sun. again, 
| The Earth when tod dry, muft be gently wa- 
ter’'d; and Mofs and Weeds clear’d off with 
Care. 
At two Years Sending the Roots mutt be taken. 
out of this Mould, by fifting it, and planted at 
four Inches Diftance in a Bed of the fame Com- 
poft,- - 
Thus will they & brought to flowering, and 
there will then. be found a great Variety among 
them: many will be inferior to thofe from which 
the Seeds were fav’d, many much finer. 
The ordinary Kinds mutt be planted out in 
different Parts of the Garden; and the fineft, in 
a Bed by themnfelves, every Year remov’d. 
JONQUILL. 
7 he Botanift will know we are hot here out of | in a scene Plate, treating of another Kind. 
the Nércifus Kind. - The onquille obtain’d its 
Name from the rufhy Figure of its Leaves ; and 
is properly call’d more at large the age Nar- 
ciffus. 
So the Plant we call the T; uberofe, was otigi- 
: ‘ally; tho’ not propefly, refer’d to the Hyacinth 
Kind, and call’d the Tuderofe Hyacinth , tho’ the 
Manner as in the Yorguille, aiid the Plant call’d 
— Luberofe. 
The proper Englifh Nathe of he Fonquille, is 
the Ruth-leav’d Narciffus: We réprefent it here in 
a State of confummate Beauty; with the Flower 
larger than in the common Growth, and full with 
multiply’d Petals. 
The Colour, in itfelf elegant in 4 very high De- 
ee, ete has thé Advantage of Light and Shade | 97? FT | 
ot “aa Sige a where it is oftén whitifh. © This rifes terminated 
by a flight Scabbard, containing the Rudiments 
with great Variety; afid, upon the Whole, few 
of the Narciffis Kind éxcel it. 
In the fingle State Authors have call’d it 
Narciffus jucufolins luteus, with a Diftinétion from | 
the Size major and minor, as if that conftituted 
different Species. In this double’ State they | 
name it Narciffus jucifolius flore multiplict. 
Lixn vs, expreffing the whole Diftinction of 
the Plant in its fpecific Name, calls it Narciffus 
{patha multiflora Neélario campanulato brevi foliis 
fubulatis ? Subulate-leav’d Narciffus, with many | 
Flowers from the Scabbard, and the Nettarium : 
fhott and Bell-fhap’d. 
“This Form of the fingle Flower we hall thew 
I 
The Leaves are diftinét in this as in the Other 
Appearance, {mall and equal at the Battom, but 
ditninifhing to the Point. This is the Senfe of 
the Terri fubulated. : : 
‘The Root is rotindifh,. large, and eompos’d of 
many Coats: The outer Skin of a dufky brown, 
| and the inner ones white. F rom | the Bottom there 
~ Generical Name was afterwards funk in the fame } run many Fibres. 
The Leaves are few, rarely more than three 
or four, often but two, from a Root; and they 
are long, and of a fine green: they are not flat, 
as in the cotimon Narcijffus, but rounded on the 
Back, and rufhy ; brownifh toward. the Bottom ; 
but for the reft of a fine bright greéh, and hol- 
_ | low’d along the imner Side. 
The Stalk is round, not very ftrong, a Foot 
high, and of a pdle green, except at the Bafe, 
of the Flowers. When they are perfected. for 
blowing, this thin Film burfts on one Side, and 
three or four of them appear fpreading themfelves 
into a kind of elegaht Nofegay. _ 
They are, in this improv’d and double State, 
“very large, full of Petals, and thofe difpos’d in 
fo many Series; that it was not arnifs in Lozet 
to defcribe the Plant by the Term flore rotundz 
circimtatis rofeo ; but he err’d, ih fuppofing with 
the reft, that-it-differ’d as a Species. | 
The Flower is: thtoughout yellow, but. not 
without. fortie Variety of Tinge: the Backs of 
the. Petals are more dufky, the Infides pa- 
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