May. want Language to exprefs them, The White is 
the Ground Colour in this Flower, and it is of 
that delicate Kind we call pearly : there is in it a 
Tinéture of greyifh and blueifh. 
The Red is the moft perfe& Crimfon ; and it is, 
OF GARDENING. 
difpos’d in the Flower with a mof pleafing Regu- May. | 
larity. The Edges of the feveral Petals princi- 
pally have it, and it is laid on there in even Stains, 
which dye away as they are continued narrower 
toward the Middle. 
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5. The AURIFLAME, ot GOLD ad SCARLET TULIP. 
Pl. 34. | What we have juft faid of the Variety of Co- | 
Fig. 5. louring under the fame general Name; is in’ no 
F lower {een more‘ftrongly than this Tulip. The 
Colours, in plain Words, are red and: yellow ; 
but fo they are in our third Species, arid: feveral 
others; yet this Flower fhews them diftinét from 
all: the Yellow is perfe& Gold, and the Red the 
higheft Scarlet. 
It is a Tulip of the largeft Kind, but often lefs 
erect than many others. 
The Root is very large, idea covered with 
a brown Skin, and white within. The Fibres 
are long, thick, and numerous. ; 
The Leaves are very: large, broad, wav’d, of 
a freth green, and pointed. 
The Stalk is fifteen Inches high, Tound, not 
very thick, and generally bent bir the Weight of 
the Flower. 
The Size and Colouring of the Flower render 
6. The WHITE and 
Pl. 34. We have in this another Inftance of that vaft 
Fig. 6. , Variety there is in Nature, under the few com- 
-mon Names of Colours. This Flower differs in 
Tin@ from any of thofé we have defcrib’d here, 
or before, and yet the fame Names muft exprefs 
the Colours: White is White in a thoufand Va- 
rieties, and fo it is with Purple. 
The Root is large, and. covered with a thick 
deep brown Skin. 
* Ens Stallecs upright, and a Foot and jel in 
Height ; thickeft at the Bafe, {mall toward the 
Top, but firm throughout. 
The Leaves are very broad, and of a "dere 
green; pointed at the Ends, but lef wav'd than 
many others. 
_ The Flower is of a middling Size; < a tok 
Form, and of extreme Beauty. 
It is handfomely rounded. at the Bate the Pe- 
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precéding Numbers, and a Multitude of other 
Tulips, are no more than Varietiés rais’d from | 
the Seed of fome good Kinds, we fhall here enter 
upon their Culture together : the fame Manage- 
ment ferves for them all, the fame Soil fuits them, 
and they will be no feverally: to their Perfec- 
tion by the fame Care.. ae 
The ufual Method ob Enéréaleoi is. dog parting 
the Roots ; and the firft procuring: of thefe is by 
Purchafe. “The common Gardener thinks -he 
knows enough if he can chufe found Roots, 
keep them alive, and encreafe the Number. by 
their Off-fets: we fet out on a very different. Plan. 
We fhall teach him to raife thefe from Seed,’ in-a 
much higher Perfection than he can. purchafe or 
pteferve them; and, for moderate Labour, offer: 
it extremely confpicuous. The Colours, Scarlet 
and Gold, are difpos’d in long, broad, and irre- ‘ 
gular Stains, with a wild Freedom; and the Petals 
throw themfelves open as if to difclofe them; 
Nature intending in this Flower the glowing 
Tinéts to be the Source of Beauty, and not ‘the 
regular Form.) 
The Yellow is the Ground Colour, and thews 
itfelf very confpicuoufly in every Part of the Pe- 
tals, but moft near the Bafe. 
The Red ‘is ‘difpos’d in long Streams, broadeft 
at the Extremity, and narrower as they approach 
the Bottom. — | 
This’ was the Colouring of the facted Enfign 
carry’d before’ thé antient Kings of France, 
and thence the Name of this Flower, which wé 
have taken from them. That Enfign’ was call’d 
Oriflamme, and Auriflame, and een Flower by the 
fame Names after it... 
Cae Fees TULIP. 
tals ftand upright, neither bending i in at ‘the Tops, 
nor turning outward, more than to preferve that 
beautiful Freedom there is. in. all the Works of 
Nature; and they are tolerably. rounded, at the 
Ends. 
~The Cilours are only two, but they are perfect 
in their Kinds, and difpos’d with a fine Regularity. 
White is the Ground C olour, and this is the moft 
perfect in its Kind that, can be conceiv’d. We 
ufually fee White. either tending to Blue -or Yel- 
low : this has no Tinét of either; ; ‘but is true, 
genuine, ‘and unftain’d Ermine. | My 
The Purple which forms the Variegations, is. 
laid on in fine, flender, and even Streaks ; they 
‘run to the Bafe of the Petals, and: they {pread 
themfelves in {maller Portions over the whole 
Flower. 
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UL APS: 
As thele we have nam’d here, thofe in our | 
him the Reward of Multitudes of F idureln, ane 
ory them many new ones. 
‘The only Way to Perfection, in ieee Cafes,” is 
the Beginning from the Seed.’ The firft Care is the 
Choice of what is good; and this is the Time for 
chufing the Flowers from which: it fhall be 
taken. ra 
of Saving the Saeds $4.27 
Let the Castine now look miths a cateful Eye 
over his Beds of Tulips, and mark a certain Numbet 
of them for Seed: - Let him chufe for this Pur. 
pofe fuch as have firft the general good Properties, 
Strength of Stalk and Regularity of Flower. Let 
| him fee that the Petals be rounded, the Bottom 
well fhap’d and fwelling, and the Buttons brown. 
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