April. 
Footftalk, and from the Hollow of - rifes ano- 
tent ther, equal in Bignefs and of like Form. 
The Flower Beabics the Primrofe in Shape; 
_butit is one of the Singularities of the Plant, in 
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a Cup. . 
- [Tp the wild State of the. Plant there rifes fuch a 
Place of it. ‘ = 
this State of wanton Luxuriance, that there is no 
Cup: the &rft ot tindermott Flower fupplies the 
Place of a Calyx to the other ; but it is notwith- 
{tanding an ablolute Flower, not in the leaft like 
fingle firm Stalk as we have nam’d, crowded with 
a Number of Flowers on feparate Pedicles, produc’d”| 
from its Summit: and often from the fame Root 
there will rife one or more fingle Footftalks, bear- 
ing each one Flower. 
This fhews Linnzus right in making the 
Plant a Mongrel between the Cowflip and Prim- 
rofe, 
Cup, as the Primrofe and as the Cowflip have: 
-Nature in this proliferous Kind beftows an under 
Flower in the Place of that Appendage. 
In the Polyanthous we often fee the Cup {welling 
beyond its natural Size, and {tain’d with the pur- 
ple of the Flower, but that is much lefs ftrange. 
In this Cafe, an abfolute Flower Fae the 
The Plant from this receives its great Singula- 
rity; and the Appearance is not lefs beautiful. 
The Segments are wide expanded, and the Colour ° 
is a bright and fine yellow. 
When the Plant is not well manag’d, the 
Flowers will be {maller and paler; but when full 
~nourifh’d, and not ftinted for Room, they have a 
very lively Tinge. 
The Conftruction of the Flower we have de- 
{crib’d before, for it is the fame with the others of 
_ the Primula Kind; one Petal forms it, and this is. 
It has a fhort. half round | 
tubular at the Bafe. 
‘Neck, and from this Part j it {wells out into a broad 
expanded Rim, cut into five Segments, which are. 
obtufe and heart-fafhion’d. 
“Within the tubular Part of the Flower arife 
and ‘convergent: Buttons. 
fingle Cell numerous Seeds. 
_ Five Filaments fhew the Plant one of the Pen- 
tandvia of Linnaus, the fifth of his Clafies; 
and the fingle Style declares it one of the Mono- 
suid, 
aint of the Prouirenous Ox.IP. 
The’ Gandenel is ditected by his profefs’d In. | 
but. 
The longer they are left in'their Place, and the | 
slefs Care is shaken} the fooner they degenerate ; but | 
at the beft, when only parted Roots are us’d to pro-. 
“paéate them, they will grow worfe from Time to 
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and is his Reafon for connecting them all: - 
but in either Cafe, the Flower has its long hollow. 
have the largeft Tufts ; 
| Seeds without it. 
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| the South-Eaft ; 
ftructurs: to part the Roots of this Plant in Au- 
tumn, and thus propagate and encreafe it: 
we have'toid him often, that thofe Plants, whofe 
Elegance has originally | rifen from Culture, will 
Peckadeat ) 
weeding it at Times. 
Number of young Plants : 
Time : 
Colour fainter. 
This is the Diftinction. of the Efeas of Art 
from the abfolute Products of Nature.* The laft: 
continue invariably the fame; and if at any Time 
Chances alter them, they will retinal to their ori- 
ginal State. ~ 
Great Nourifhment may enlarge a wild Plant 
| to twice its Size; or ftinted Supplies may check 
its Growth; but, in either Cafe, Seeds from it in 
common Ground will produce the Plant as at firft; 
or the fame Root with common Nourifhment re- 
turn to its firft Condition. 
Thus permanent is Nature: but in the Luxu- 
riances rais’d by Art the Courfe is otherwife;. and. 
that upon the fame Principle. . Nature is at the 
Bottom; and will take every Advantage of re- 
turning to herfelf. | 
| Thus when the proliferous Oxlip, rais'd from 
Seed, is propagated by parted Roots, the Flowers 
lofe their fine Colour, and diminifh in Size; and, 
if left neglected, they will become’ fingle, 
fmall, whitifh, and abfolute Primrofes. One on 
a Stalk will at length rife from that Root, or its 
feparated Parts 5. whence better Culture produc’d 
thefe elegantly doubled Flowers. | 
— | «- If the Gardener will follow. the eafy Courfe of 
parting the Roots, let him every other Year give 
them a new Soil; butif he would diftinguifh him- 
felf-by ‘finer Flowers than others, and raife them 
beyond what himfelf has a feen, let him pro- 
| ceed thus : 
Let him mark among the Plants when in 
flower fuch as are ftrongeft in the main Stalk, and 
the Flowers muft alfo be. 
large: the Degree of Colour he need not regard, 
for that-will be -encreas’d by his pes ate: 4 
nagement. 
Let him mark feveral of thefe fine Plants with 
Sticks, and watch their Seeding. -All will not 
ripen them: but where he fees the Rudiment well - 
| fet, as it is very confpicuous in’ the naked - 
| Flowers, 
ade Filaments; ‘they are fhort, and have pointe i Let him break the Ground about them with a 
Amidft thefe appéars a | 
ingle Style: it rifes from a roundifh Rudiment, | 
aaie afterwards becomes oblong, and holds in a 
| acquir’d their full Bignefs; but after that let him 
let him take Care of thofe for Seed. 
Trowel, and ‘once every Day sive a every gentle 
Watering. 
Let him continue this Hill the Sasdvenalé have 
give no more Water: they will gsi ftronger 
When the Heads are raion d five the Stalk let 
| him cut them off, and Jay them to dry leifurely 
| pon a Shelf: in a Month let him pick out the 
| Seeds, and fpread them upon a Paper, and at the 
| fame Time let him prepare the Border for them. 
This muft be in a Part of the Garden open to 
and under fome Shelter and 
Shade of eis: Let him-mix four Parts com- 
mon Pafture-Earth, and one Part Mould, from 
under a Wood-Pile: let this be put into the 
‘Border, and the Seeds featter’d on the Surface. 
They muft be fown thick, for many will fail. 
Throw fome loofé Thorn Bufhes over. the 
Ground ; and thus let it remain the Winter, only 
In Spring there will be a 
let them be thin’d to 
eight 
the EF Seen BE Tatler” nd their April, 
