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- Roots, and plant them at two Foot Diftance, 
fringing the Margin of little Brooks, and hanging 
_ f{ture. 
‘the Morning Sun fhines freely, and dig in this 
A COMPLEAD 
_ They are placed on fhort and flender Foot- 
ftalks, and are in Colour of a pure Gold yellow. 
They rife without any Cup from the Top of the 
Footftalk, and each appears to be compos’d of fix 
oblong, broad, and pointed Petals ; but they are — 
really Segments of one Petal, for the Bafe is en- 
tire, and the Flower comes off unbroken. 
In the Bafe of the Flower appear fix little Fi- 
bres, which rife from the Bottoms of the Segments, 
and form a little globular Protuberance. . This 
the Student will know to be the Neétarium of 
the Flower, for he will fee befide it the Petal, 
Filaments and Style. 
The Filaments are fix, and they Jabecde At-. 
tention, they are inferted into thefe Films which 
compofe the Nedtarium: they are fmaller from 
the Bottom to the Top, arch’d, and of different 
Lengths, three longer and three fhorter. Their 
Buttons are oblong, and very confpicuous. — 
The Style rifes fingle in the Midft of thefe 
from a roundifh Rudiment of the Seed-veffel, 
and is terminated by a blunt Stigma or Top. 
The Student will diftinétly read in thefe Parts the 
Clafs of the Plant, and its Place in the Linnaan | 
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it is one of the Hexandria Monogynia. 
Culture of this ASPHODEL. 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of Exrope, 
from the Sides of craggy Hills, where there is a 
light Soil, and fome, but not too much Moi- 
This muft be our Rule for propagating it; and 
very little Trouble is required. Let a Mix- 
ture be made of two-thirds light Pafture Earth, 
and one-third Pond Mud, add to half a Load of 
this a Bufhel of rotted Cow Dung, and the fame 
Quantity of Wood-pile Earth, and mix them 
well together ; chufe a Spot in the Garden where 
Compott. 
In the Middle of Auguft procure fome parted 
burying the Head half an Inch. They will re- 
quire no Care but that which is taken in com- 
‘mon of every thing in the Border; and they will 
flower the next Year. After this to ‘keep them 
in Perfection, they fhould be every Autumn taken 
up, the Side Roots cut off, and frefh Compoft 
put into the Place. ‘They are then to be planted 
at the fame Diftance as at firft, and they will 
thus preferve their full Vigour. 
The Seeds which ripen freely in round flefhy 
Capfules, will grow as freely in the open Ground ; 
but there is no need for the Trouble, the Plant is 
do common, and increafes fo faft by the Root, 
that enough is always ready for that Propaga- 
tion; and there is no Advantage’ in raifing it 
BODY 
from Seed, for it is not one of thofe Plants whofe 
Flowers admit a Variety of.colouring. - 
The Cuftom is to plant thefe parted Roots 
and thofe of other Plants in common Borders, 
without regard to the Soil, and to mix them 
among aia Kinds: what we propofe for this 
| and for all other Plants which the Gardener would 
bring to Perfection, is to place as many Roots 
of them as will occupy a {mall Spot together ; to 
dig out the Mould, and fill up that Part of the 
Border with their proper Soil; and to attend 
each with a Care and Management -fuited to its 
particular Nature. It is a new Plan of Gardening, 
but Reafon declares it to be, what Experience un- 
der our own Eyes have fhewn it, fuperior to all 
others. 
The Plants of every Kind are certain to attain 
their full Perfection when each is thus treated as 
Nature direéts; whereas in a promifcuous Border, 
where the moft different Species are manag’d alike, 
one half muft be drown’d. with that watering 
which is not enough for the other. | 
Nature has given to each Plant its appropriated 
Soil: the Gardener plants them all in one. His 
Part as any Compofition that could be imagin’d. 
Dung has always a large Share in its Compofi- 
tion, and there are very few Plants which this 
will bring to proper flowering. 
No Doubt can remain but that,the Plants will 
that in which it lives, where Nature produces it ; 
and where it has that Expofure, and that Deiter 
of Moifture her invariable Law direéts : that the 
Plants will be finer when rais’d in this Way, is 
known by all who have feen the Prattice, and 
muft be believed by all who read it. The only 
Queftion remaining is, Whether a Garden whofe 
Borders are thus planted with Clumps of. every 
diftinct Kind, or one where the feparate Plants 
are intermix’d, will be moft pleafing to the Eye. 
Fancy muft give the Determination here, but 
upon the moft impartial Comparifon it has ap- 
pear'd to us that this Method is more pleafing. 
We would not have a little Clump in a Grafs 
Plat, planted entirely with one Kind; nor would 
we have it divided into regular Quadrants, Sex- 
tants, or Octants, for fo many Species. Here 
Wildnefs is intended, and let it be preferved by 
the promifcuous planting ; but in the long Bor- 
ders of a Garden, Clufters of Plants thus in 
Health and Vigour, unknown to common Eyes, 
| will vaftly exceed the half ftarv’d promifcuous 
Plantation. 
Rules for Culture imply it. generally. We hope 
the practical Gardener who follows our Inftruc- 
tions, by this Time fees the Effect in many In- 
ftances. 
6 GOLDEN 
common Mould is as ill adapted to the greater 
be more perfect when each is rais’d in a Soil like 
It muft be proper once to name this, for our 
May. 
