OF GARDENING | 
March. pee and the saidhlle Petals are paleft. ‘Phe Light 
Pl. 28. 
and Shade from. their accumulated Numbers, 
- gives a great deal more apparent Variety ; but | 
thus much is in Nature. 7 
The internal Stru€ture> of the: fimple F lower is | 
the fame with that of the Narcifus laft deferib’d, | 
except that the Neétarium is fhorter., We refer | 
to that Account, inftead of repeating the Number | 
and Form of the Filaments,. arid other Parts | 
here; and have chofen. for this. Reafoti alfo, the | 
- double Flower for the Figure. 
The Plant is of the fame Genus. with the pre~ 
ceding ; therefore certainly of the fame Clafs, 
the Hexandria Monogynia, the Sixth in the Lin- 
nw AN Method, and its firft Section. 
Cultare of the DovstE Jonquitte.. 
The fingle Yonquille, from which Art and In- 
duftry have rais’d this {pecious Flower, is a Na- 
tive of the warmer Parts of Europe: it is frequent 
in the Meadows of Spain, and at the Mountains 
Feet in Portugal; and loves a light rich Soil. 
~ From this our rational Gardener will know that | 
-muft raife’ the Plants from Seed. The Method’ 
we have laid down for the preceding Kind, {uits - 
he is to feek no Means of Winter’s Shelter, but 
that it will live in a well chofen Spot of open 
Ground ; and that its proper Soil will be one of 
5 DOUBLE 
The Tralian Fields fapply’d. us with ‘the Ori- | 
Fig. 5- ginal of the laft double F lower, but | the Source 
of this we draw from Home, 
The common Primrofe of our Thickets, rais’d 
by the Gardener’s Hand, and. improv’d by re- 
peated Culture, affords the elegant and confpi- 
cuous Flower we have reprefented in the annexed: 
Figure: anid which in Nature never fails to at= 
traét the Eye, and command a fix’d Attention. 
-Moft of the old Writers have defcrib’d i it; for 
fn this double State it has fometimes, ‘bok fa- 
vouring Circumftances, and a Luxutiance in Na- 
ture, been found in the Fields; 
known in Gardens : 
flore duplici, flore multiplici ; and flore pleno. In its 
plain and fingle State they call it Primula veris 
minor ; and Verbafculum majus fingulari flore. 
~ Lainnzvus, who confiders this Plant, the Cowf- 
lip, and the Oxlip, as Varieties of one Stock, not 
and it was early 
three diftinét Species, calls it Primula foliis denta- 
tis rugofis: Dentated and rough-leav’d Primula. 
The Variations from the Primrofe Stock in 
Gardens ate indeed neatly enidlefs, witnefS the Po- 
lyanthous Kinds, of which we have fpoken in our 
from the fame Stock, demands more Obfervation, 
- The Double Primrofe is in all its Parts, except | 
the Flower, fmaller than the fingle. 
The Root confifts of a {mall Head, from | 
whence run numerous long thick whitith Fi- 
bres. | 
they call it Primula veris 
the whole Tuft is very elegant. 
the light Compotts. 
| the Narciffus, with. a. final Mixture more of 
Sands, and: fome Earth: from under a’ Wood: Pile, 
will perfe@ly anfwer the Purpofe. » 
Let the Gardener chufe’ a warm and: fhelter’d 
Part of the Garden ; and! taking out the Earth 
of. the Border a full Spade cep, fill up with the 
Compoft. | 
Let him draw Line at a Foot Diftance one 
Way, and fine Inches another; And in the Centre 
| of each long Square made. thus, let him plant an 
| Off fer from fome: good: Root. - 
- Lee hia, cover thefe with two Inches of the 
faine Mould, and after this they will require no 
more Care than to be kept clear from Weeds; to 
be fhelter’d in the Ground in fevere Winters, by 
fome Pea-ftraw. thrown into the Bed; and-every 
BE 
That we have directed: for March. 
a” 
other Year to be taken up, and have the Earth — 
taken out as at their firft Planting; and its Place 
| fupply’d, with a frefly Parcel of the fame Kind. 
Thus they will continue to flower {trong and 
| finely,. and will encreafe themfelves by Off-fets. 
This is all the common Care, and. this pre- 
ferves them. Thofe who would improve them, 
this without Alteration. 
PRIMROSE, 
The Leaves tife in a Clufter, and dt have no 
-Footftalks : they are oblong, confiderably broad, 
obtufe at the Ends, -and Seated irregularly about 
the Edges. 
Their Colour is a pale but dean: green; and 
they aré uneven on the Surface; rough, furrow’d : 
as it were, and mark’d with finking Fibres. 
They are fmooth on the upper Side, but a little 
hoary on the underneath; and there the Ribs and 
Veins, which fink in on the upper Side, are pro- 
minent, pale, and more hoary than the reft, - 
The Flower-ftalks rife among the Leaves, nu- 
merous, pale, and deélicate; of various Heights, 
from two Inches to five or fix, and enclin’d in 
different Directions; fo that when a Root is well 
eftablifh’d in the Ground, and in full Flower, 
The Footftalks 
fupport each one Flower ; they are whitith, fome- 
what hoary, and have no Rudiments of Leaves 
upon them, 
The Flower itfelf is large, pee of an elegant 
white, compos’d of numerous Series of Petals, 
| oblong, obtufe, rumpled and wav’d, and thrown 
: tagesnet in a pleafing Irregularity. 
fourteenth Number; but whether the Cowilip be | 
- The Charaéters from which the Clafs' thould be 
Jearn’d, are in a great Meafure obliterated by this 
Multiplicity of Petals: they are to be fought in 
the fingle Flower; and we have already ney 
them under the Article Polyanthous. 
_ The double Flower, as the fingle, has its long 
hollow Cup, mark’dwith. five Ridges, and: di- 
vided 
