April. 
mio Jone. Tenaer, {malleft at. the Tep, and crown’d | 
Pl. 32. 
‘Pig. 5. 
“ COMPLEAT BODY 
In the Centie rife four Filaments; they are 
with a kind of double Buttons. 
. The Style in the Midft of thele is fingle, and |« 
the Top a little fwell’d. | | 
"The Seed-veffel is a long Pod, divided into. 
1 will require the fame Care with the reit, and no 
The different Length of the Filaments here de- 
- ‘termines’ the Clafs. of the Plant: where two are. 
longer than the reft, the Linn aan Syftem places _ 
it among the Didynamia: and the Seétion is that 
Cells, and fill’d with many flat alated Seeds... 
of the Angiofpermia, thofe which bert the Ser 
fot naked, but i in : Capfles. ia 
Culture f sbis Brantnia: 
The. Elegance of thin: Plant, when Ctirated 
‘with its Flowers, exceeds almoft every thing in 
our Gardens; and, with due ats it bears. the 
open Ground, 
Where it is native "tis always forest) in a dtp | 
rich Soil; and no Compoft need be made for its 
Reception here: for nothing will oper it better 
than rich Garden-Mould. — 
Tho’ it will live our Winters in a good Situa- 
tion when it has = fome Strength, ae; 
g EVER-FLOWERING 
The Flowers of the {mall Shrub we hete re- [| 
commend to the Gardener’s Care, 
are not 
fingly large or confpicuous, yet there does not | 
want fufficient Elegance in the Whole, to merit 
all the Attention that has been fhewn to it. Tho’ 
‘the Flowers aré frivolous feparately, they make a 
‘handfome Appearance in the Bunches, wherewith 
the Branches naturally are terminated ; and the 
| "whole Plant has a pleafing Afpect. 
The early flowering alfo, and the long Conti- 
‘nuance, are Confiderations of no flight Account. 
There i is no earlier Flower of Spring. — 
‘Kept blowing the whole Summer; and even in 
Winter it is rarely altogether bare : 
‘fore well call’d Everflowering. 
__ All who have nam’d it, {peak of it with Praite 
Zanont calls it T. blafpi fruticofum Perficum foliis 
Cheri. Bocconz, 7) blafpi latifolium Polycarpon 
foliis Teucoii ; and Sepa, Thlafpi fruticofum 
semper florens. | é 
Linnavus, with Juftice, removes it from the 
“Genus Thla/pi, and calls it beris. To. this Ge- 
nus, according to the Character he has eftablith’d, 
it evidently belongs; and he diftinguithes it from 
the other Species, by the Addition frute/cens foliis 
_cuneiformibus obtufis: Shrabby Iberis, with obtufe 
cuneiform Leaves. By this Name a diftinguithes 
a Leaf, which is longer than broad, and is 
fmaller all the Way from the Extremity to the 
Bafe. 
: it is there- i 
young Plants are tender. 
Let .gdod: Seeds ; be procur’d Sra: ‘the We oft 
| Indies ;, and-early in Spring let them be fown upon 
a Hot-Bed, among the tender Annuals: they 
ther. 
When they have had their devnicie Removals 
wens the others, in the Manner we have directed 
for the raifing Annuals, they are to be tran{planted 
into an open Border, expos’d to the South Sun, 
again{t a Wall, and. defended from cold Winds ; 
| here they will .grow very faft, and the fecond — 
| Year they will flower. 
After this, they will only require pruning in 
Spring, to keep them in Order, and taking out 
dead Stalks and ill growitig Branches: their 
Tendrils will faften them. very well to the Wall, 
and they will every Year, early.in Summer, cover 
it for a vaft Extent. with their noble Flowers. 
After this, they may be encreas’d by laying 
‘the Branthes which root freely, and after one 
| Year will be fit for removing into thofe Parts of 
the Garden oes are intended to decorate. 
‘The Root is uy: long, ‘divided, whe and 
hung with a few Fibres. _ 
The Stem is woody, irregular in Growth, and 
| two Foot in Height, divided into many Branches 
| regularly, and handfomely cloath’d with Leaves. 
The Bark is dufky on the Stem, and palst on the 
| Branches, 
The Leaves have no Footftalks : they fata at 
{mall Diftances, and are oblong and undivided at 
the Edges : they adhere by a narrow Bafe, whence 
they grow gradually broader to the Extremity, 
where they are rounded. Their Colour is a ftrong 
With godd Management, the Shrub will be | but often brownifh green; and they are of a firm 
and flefhy Subftance. 
_ The Flowers are white : they fpread themfelves 
in round and thick-fet Tufts from the. Tops of 
| the Branches, and they are fucceeded by flat Pods. 
‘The White of the Body of the Flower is agree- 
ably diverfify’d by the F ilaments, which are very 
confpicuous, and of a pale Crimfon, and have 
yellow Buttons. The Flowers have a light and 
very agreeable Fragrance, not unlike the Smell of 
the Violet. 
No Clafs more, than that to which the Shrub 
belongs, demands the Attention of the Student : 
it is the Tetradynamia.. The Filaments in the 
Flower he will find to'be fix; and two of thefe 
fhorter than the other four. 
The Flowers muft be examined fingly. Each 
has its little Cup, compos’d of four fmall oval 
| hollow’d 
It will be therefore pro- April. 
per to raife them in a Hot-Bedj;and he Degrees ——— 
| inure them to the Air. 
