PL. 35. 
OF GARDENING 
a ee rR 
May. ~ 
“+ tuation, fhould be feleéted Seeds for raifing them 
under yet more favourable Circumftances in Gar- 
From Plants vabiich erow in fuch Soil and Si- 
dens ; and from thefe will be produced the feveral 
elegant Kinds which follow. 
‘The ftrongeft of thefe Plants, or of the fame | 
Kinds in Gardens, fhould be mark’d while -in 
flower, and the Seed-veffels cut off when they are 
ripe; this will be in the latter End of Fuly. Let 
them be laid on a Shelf three Weeks to ‘harden : 
then let the Seeds be taken out, and fpread for a 
Week more; and at the End of this Time, which 
will be the latter Part of Auguft, let them be 
fown upon a Piece of good Ground in the Nur- 
fery, open to the Morning Sun, but defended 
South and North. ~~ 
Here let them be allow’d the common Ma- 
> ASAREL LIA 
This is a very elegant Variety produced from 
the common purple Kind, and lefs diftinct in Ap- 
pearance than many of the fucceeding. The 
Difference principally confifts in the Firmnefs 
of the Stalk, and Colouring of the Flower. 
_ The Root is white and flefhy. 
The Stalk round, and toward the Bottom pur- 
plith. . 
The Leaves are very narrow, few'in Number, 
placed irregularly, and of a pale green. 
One Flower bends the Top of the Stalk, and 
PI. 36. | 
Fig. 3. 
this does not exceed the common Kind in Big- | 
nefs, but greatly excels it in the oy ck 
The Bafe is wider and more rounded. 
nagement; weeded from time to time, thin’d May. 
where they have rifen too clofe, and water’d often ——-= 
a little at once. 
In ‘the Beginning of the following Autumn 
take'up all the Roots: plant them at hives Inches 
Diftance on a frefh Bed, in a like Situation, and 
allow them the fame Care. 
They may remain in this Bed ‘to the Time of _ 
their flowering ; which according to the Manage- 
ment, or cities Accidents, will be the third or 
fourth Year. Then the beft Plants muft be 
mark’d ; and at Autumn their Roots taken up, 
and planted in another Bed at five Inches Dif 
tance. 
_ There will be thus produced many very hand- 
| fome Flowers; and from thefe will be rais’d with — 
Eafe the following elegant Varieties. 
FRIT IL boRom 
Length than in that Flower, and no Part of the 
Edge turns up. 
-Two Colours diverfify the whole; thefe are an 
elegant light red, and a clear green. They are 
| difpofed in large fquare Spots interchangeably, 
and the Edges of thofe regular Fi Figures are very 
- diftinét, 
The Colours are Sfgiehaete toward the Ends of 
the Petals, and more obfcure nearer the Bafe. 
The great Merit of this Flower is the Brightnefs 
of the red, and the Diftinétnefs of the Spots. 
[t is fometimes produced from a firft fowing ; 
| but in greater PerfeCtion from the fowing again 
the beft Kinds rais’d, as we have already directed, 
2 The Petals are. broader in Blood, to. their | from wild Seeds. 
4 GREAT ‘UMBELLIFEROUS FRITILLARY:z 
FP 3s. 
Fig. 4. 
~** Pts ftands diftinguith’ d eminently from. all 
nefs of the Stalk, the Breadth Tee Firmnefs of 
the Leaves, and the Size and Number of the 
Flowers. oes 
The Root is large and white. ~ , 
The Stalk rifes.to, the Height of eighteen 
od 
Inches, and is purplifh at the Bafe, green, up- 
wards, and of a firm Subftance. 
‘The Leaves are confiderably. broad, long, fharp- 
pointed, often twifted, and of a deep green. 
At the Fop of.the Stalk: there are three or 
fometimes more Flowers ; very large, and confpi- 
cuous alfo by the Boldnefs of. their Colouring. 
They donot regularly hang down as in the 
other Kinds, but fome droop more than others; and 
not unufually one or more are nearly horizontal. 
the other Kinds by the ‘Strenoth and Stateli- 
The Bafe is fwelling and round; the Petals 
are broad and fharp- pointed, and the Flower 
opens regularly without any turning up of the 
Edges. 
The Colours are very fine, a deep lively pur- 
ple, and a very agreeable greyifh brown. This 
latter is the Ground Colour, and the Chequerings | 
are of the purple. The whole Flower is of a 
glofly, polith’d Sutface, and has fome Lines of a 
yellowifh green within. It rifes from the Seeds 
of the common purple Kind, but rarely perfeéts 
any itfelf. Nature is too much exhaufted by the 
Number of the Flowers to bring her laft Work 
to Perfection. Therefore when the Gardener 
has obtain’d a Plant of it from the Culture we 
fhall direct, he mauft encreafe his. Store: by Of. 
iets. | : 
SMALL meet ty FRITILLARY. 
As the former is the..utmoft Luar Panal of | 
Fig. 5 Culture in the common F ritillary, this fhews the 
Effect of extream Nourifhment, and well regu- 
lated Plantation in the Pyrenean Kind: it is a 
very fingular and elegant Variety, and.fhews. that 
the lefs confpicuous wild Plant, is capable of 
perhaps equalling the fineft under the fame Ma- 
DagPoacnt, 
The Root is fmall, and whitith. 
The Stalk is firm, green, and eight Tie i in 
Height: Culture rarely makes any confiderable 
Alteration in this Article, though it covers the 
whole Length with Leaves, and crowns its Top 
with numerous Flowers. | 
The Leaves are long, moderately broad, and 
of a frefh and lively green: they are hollow’d 
lias 
