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NUMBER _ XXXV. 
For the Middle of MAY. 
MLL LUL LLG CLL LL LCLL CLL CL LLL OLLGLLULULL iLL Lk 
ye oe BS a a < ns 
FLORA, 
or the PueasurE-~GAaRDEN 
ot He orgie 
Flowers now in their Perfeétion. 
HE. laft Number we devoted to the Tu- 
: lip, whofe pleafing Appearances under 
the various Diltin@ion of Magnitude 
and Colour, . the Botanical Student confiders as 
Varieties, not feparate Species; but whofe Pro- 
duction and Culture make an effential Part of the 
Gardeners Bufinefs, and when well executed, of | 
his Praife. 
‘We here propofe to him in the fame Manner 
that elegant Variety of Fritillaries, which paint. 
the Borders at this Seafon. Thefe, like the Tu- 
lips of thofe feveral Names, are the original Pro- 
y 
duce of two original Species. 
As the Gardeners Art has increafed the Num- 
ber of thefe Varieties, he has ermbellifh’d them 
with new Colouring ; fo that the original Plants as 
gather’d from the Lap of Nature, with all their 
Chequerings, are poor in the Comparifon. 
Thefe two original Kinds we fhall firft propofe 
| to the Reader’s Confideration. They will give the 
Botanical Student a true Knowledge of the Na- 
ture and Characters of the Plant; and the Gar- 
dener will view them with thé more Curiofity, 
when he knows all his others rife from them. 
ay COMMMON PURPLE FRITILLARY. 
~~ This is an old Inhabitant of our Gardens, plea. | 
| fing by its Particularity, and for being raifed with 
little Trouble. Every Gardener knows it, and all 
the Botanical Writers have treated of it: they have 
ealled it Fritillaria and Meleagris; fome without 
Addition, others with the Epithet vulgaris, com- 
mon Fritillary. | 
Linnzus, more diftiné&t and. accurate. than 
thefe, difclaims not only the trifling Epithet 
vulgaris, *becaufe it expreffes no Character, and is 
equally applicable to the other original Kind, as 
frequent in many Parts of Europe as this; but fets 
afide alfo the Addition of thofe who thought they 
~ Numb. XXXV. 
_Chequer’d - Daffodil, 
had judged better in calling it Pitiliesta purpurea 3 
for in the wild State this Colour of the F lower 
varies ; arid in Gardens without End. i 
~ He calls it Fritillaria foliis india tins 
Fritillary with all the Leaves alternate. This di- 
itinguifhes it from the other in which: the lower 
Leaves ftand in Pairs. 
Our Gardeners Names of Chequer’d Lilly, and 
Vulgar, becaufe they confound it with Plants, to 
‘which it is not ally’d. ‘Tho’ neither common, nor 
purple are fo difting&t as the. Linnaan Term, 
they may very well fuperfede the Ufe of thele. 
‘5M The 
are wrong even for the 
May. 
