one, it is hardy : 
OF GARDENING 
Bafe of each Footftalk of the Flowers, there is 
an oblong filmy Subftance; a kind of baftard 
Leaf of a greenifh white. 
The Hines themfelves are confpicuous, more 
7 their milky Whitenefs than their Size, tho’ 
the whole Clufter is not little. °Tis only their 
Infide that has this plain Colour ; for on the Back 
they have on each of the Petals a broad Rib of 
ereen. 
- The’ Student will examine the Flower with a 
more ftri€t Attention, and he’will find his Trouble 
~ well rewarded. - 
There is no Cup. It rifes with a plain Bafe 
immediately: from the Footftalk, and is com- 
pos’d of fix oblong, pou, and moderately 
broad Petals. 
ipra at the Top, ‘fo that the Point appears trifid, 
and the Button fupported on the Middle Piece. 
- This is-a very fingular Structure. 
In the Midft of thefe rifes a fingle Style, 
crown’d with an obtufe Top; and the Sead vente 
_ which follows is of a rounded Form, divided into 
three Cells; with a columnar Receptacle, and 
many roundith Seeds. 
The fix Filaments thew the Plant one of the 
Hexandria, and the fingle Style one of the firft 
Renton oF that 'Clafs, the Monogynia. , 
abi of this ORINTHOGALUM. | 
- We fhall bring the Reader acquainted with O- 
vinthogalums that. demand a careful Management $_ 
but we have faid before, the Culture of this 
is eafy. ’Tis in our Gardens however too much > 
negiected, and we fhall fhew our Pupil how, 
~ with a very little Trouble, he may give it an 
Appearance very much above what is ufually | 
{een. 
> It is, if not of England, a Native of Parts of 
Europe as cold: Germany abounds with it ; and it 
' flowers with vaft Perfection in many other of the 
found | 
Northern. Nations: univerfally it is 
where there is a rich black Soil; and fome Shade. 
Let this give the Rule for their Culture. 
"Let the Gardener mix up two Barrows of 
black Mould, from under the Turf in a Meadow, — 
- one Barrow of River Mud, and a Buthel of old 
Wood-Pile Earth: this will be rich, and will’ ' 
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May. no Leaves, properly fo call’d, upon it; but at the preferve, as well as feed the Roots. Dung, which May. 
is commonly in the Mould where they are planted, ——— 
deftroys them. Let thefe Ingredients be well 
mix’d together, and expos’d to-the Winter’s Air; 
and that of the firft Months of Summer. 
In the Beginning of Fuly let the Gardener chu 
a Piece of a Border; open to the Morning Sun, 
fhaded. from Noon, and fhelter’d from cold. 
Winds. Here let him dig out the common 
Mould, and put in the Compoft. 
Let him draw Lines lengthway and a-crofs, at 
| eight Inches Diftance ; and in the Centre of each 
| Square plant a good: Of-fet from fome well-efta- 
| blifh’d Root. 
Lev the Roots be taken up for the 
Purpofe, and the Off-fets planted immediately 
| after they are feparated. Open a Hole for each 
7 | with a Trowel, and cover them two Inches above 
The Filaments’ are foc, and they are of a fin- T Si 
cular Form, broad at the Bafe, and -alternately | 
the Crown. 
Thefe planted for an immediate Stock, let 
there: be fown in Auguft upon the fame Bed, near 
the back Part and Edges, and at a Diftance 
| from the planted Roots, fome Seeds fav’d with 
Care from a flourifhing Plant. They muft be 
fcatter’d lightly on the Surface, and cover’d with — 
a Quarter of an Inch of the fame Mould ait 
over them. 
Thofe who are nice may do this on a feparate 
Piece of Ground in the Nurfery; but as the Si- 
| tuation is well chofen, and the Soil adapted here, — 
| the young Plants will be eafily manag’d with the 
others, and they —_ — no unpleafing Ap= 
pearance. 
The next Spring the Off-fets will moft of them 
flower; and the following Seafon more ftronely.. 
The Seedlings will be taking their Growth at the 
fame Time, and they will ‘nel only the common 
Care of ‘being thin’d where they are too clofe, — 
weeded and inert with the reft of the Bed; and 
at Autumn to have a light Covering of frefh 
Mould fifted over them. This will ftrengthen 
the Off-fets for F lowering, as well as nourifh the 
Seedlings ; and after iNneer or four Seafons the 
young ones will flower. 
in the Middle of “Fuly, and all the former dug out. 
The old Roots muft be planted in other Parts of 
the Ground, and the fineft of the Seedlings fet in 
fhe Bed at the fame Diftances as were iowa to 
the other Roots: thele will flower in the. utmott 
Perfection. 
3 DOUBLE CRIMSON ANEMONE. 
This Child of Culture, and worthy Favourite 
. of dheGaddener’sF ancy, is the ph Sn of the | 
Blood-red Anemone we juft defcrib’d : 
fore we have plac’d it near; 
*tis there- 
and it has the fameé 
_ Merit with its Parent Kind of early Flowering. 
Tho’ a double Anemone, and a very. elégant 
little Culture ferves to raife and 
to continue it in Beauty, and it will flower in the 
moft unfavourable Seafons. 
3 
°Tis not at Random we declare it the Bitoies 
of the fingle Blood-red. Kind; we have ourfelves 
rais’d it from the Seeds of that. Flower; and that 
| in its full Beauty. 
Gardeners . have call’d it the Double Red, the 
Early Red, and the Double-Princefs; but thefe 
vague Names deferve little Regard. T he Stock 
Foire which it is rais’d is the common fine-leay’d 
Anemone, and thither the Student muft refer it. 
The 
A freth Parcel of Compoft muft be got reap : 
