Stine wav’d at the Edges, pointed at the End, ‘and of 
|| so a deep blackifh green. 
- The Stalk is firm, round, aie of a ey oteen.. 
‘It rifes in the Midft of the Leaves, and is but an » : 
4 of fome Soot. 
Inch or two in Height. 
On its Top ftands a fingle Flower, large, of 
a golden Yellow, and very beautiful. It burfts 
~ from an oblong Scabbard, and 3 is upright, pollow, 
and regularly fhap’d. 
The Petals are ce 
, fharp- -pointed, and fmall at the Bafe. Within 
-ftand fix Filaments, crown’d with oblong Buttons, 
and in the Midft of them a Style, with a three- 
parted Head. — 
The Clafs and Blace of the Plant in the Lin- 
nan Syftem are learn’d from this : it is, as the 
former, one of the Sixth Clats, the Hexandria, 
and. of its firft Section. 
The Seed-vefiel which follows the F lower, i is 
of an oval Form, and has three Valves and three 
Cells, with: numerous Seeds. 
“Culture of this AMARYLLIS. 
\ 
" Befide the Beauty and Singularity of this 
Flower, (for it has both in no mean Degree) the 
Eafe of its Culture is no fmall Recommendation : 
it is encreas’d eafily by Off-fets, tho’ rais’d more 
 fuccefsfully by Seeds, and in either Way bs eg 
little Attention. — 
-It is a Native of many Parts of Europe, efpe- 
lally - of Spain: it rifes there in damp Ground 
very abundantly, and paints the Meadows as our 
Crowfoot. 
The Soil to i prepar’d for it fhould ‘ate 
this which it has naturally; and the Part of the 
World wherein it is wild, will inform the Gar- 
dener that it requires no Stove or Greenhoufe to 
bring 1 it to Perfection. 
Let him mix up a Compoft of the following 
Ingredients: i 
hee 
Pl. 36. We-call here by the Gardener’s Name, a Plant 
Fig. 4. to which a very different Generical Title belongs. 
He will underftand by this what Flower we mean, 
and we are then to tell him it is properly a Fvitil- 
dary: the Title. muft: not furprife him, the Crown 
Imperial belongs to the fame Clafs. He may be 
_ indulg’d in calling both thefe by thofe long ac- 
_cuftem’d Names, but ’tis “fit he know that ‘their 
Flowers thew them truly of the Fritillary Kind. 
This i is a very fingular and elegant Species, con- 
fpicuous for the Number and Difpefition of the 
Flowers, more than forvtheir fingle Elegance ; 
but,..on. the whole, extremely. worth the ‘Care 
_beftow’d upon it inour Gardens, ~~ 6 0 
We obtain’d it from Sufa, about a. hundred 
and eighty, Years fince; and thofe who’ frit re- 
ceiv'd it call’d it thence.the Sufan, or,in 4 more 
extenfive Phrafe, the Perfian Lilly, 
A Barrow of Earth Fears under the Turf ina May. 
rich Meadow, a Bufhel of Pond-Mud, and a Peck ——— 
of old Cow-dung. Throw-thefe up in a Heap all 
Winter, and in Spring let them have an Addition 
_ Let them be.turn’d up again to thé 
Weather, and remain in that. Manner till 
guft. 
_ This is a Compoft well fuited not only to this, 
but to many other of the Plants estas from 
broadeft in the Middle, | 
the Meadows into our Gardens... ~~ 
In the latter End of Auguf? let the Mould be 
| dug out of a Border in a Part of the Seminary, ’ 
| open to the South Eaft, and let this Compoft be | 
thrown in. _ On this, when the Surface is levell’d, 
let fome Seeds of the Plant, fav’d with Care from 
the earlieft Flowers, and fuch as. have blown 
ftrongeft, be fow’d moderately thick. Sift 
over them a Quarter of an Inch of the fame. 
Compoft, and throw fome Hawthorn Buthes upon 
the Bed. 
All the Care it will require farther, is : Weeding | 
at Times, and Watering when the Mould is too 
dry. The young Plants muft, be thin’d where - 
they ftand clofe; ‘and. at- two ‘Years Growth 
they may be planted out into a Bed at four 
Inches Diftance. . | 382 
The Gardener, when they come. to F “lower, 
will find among them a great deal of Variety, 
deeper and paler Flowers,,. larger and fmaller 
Plants, and broader and narrower Leaves. »Thefe 
have been confider’d by fome.as the Marks of 
difting. Species ; but he will, know in what Man- 
ner to confider them, when himfelf has rais sid 
them all from the fame Seed. 
After this, the: better Kinds are to be feparated, 
and propagated by Off-fets. But we advife the 
Gardener on-this, ‘as all the preceding Occafions, 
now and then to repeat the Article of Sowing. 
The Trouble is really very trifling, and the Re- 
ward is a certain Improvement. 
PERSIAN LILLY. 
We have feen the Word Lilly apply’d wildly, 
by thofe unartful Authors on many Inftances, 
and this is not the leaft, for the Plant has not 
the flighteft Refemblance to that Genus 
Linwaus plac’d it in its proper Rank. He 
determin’d the Genus Fritillary by the invariable 
and diftinétive Character of the Flower, and he 
added this to the reft of that Name, giving, 
_as the Characters of the Species, racemo nudiufculo 
| foliis obliquis : Oblique-leav’d Fritillary, with the 
Flowers in an almoft naked Clufter. 
~The Root ‘is very large, round, and compos’d 
of great Scales, cover’d with a thin Membrane: 
in Colour of a yellowifh White, and of a dif 
agreeable Tafte. 
The Stalk is round, firm, upright, and two 
Foot Pads of a Par green; and from the Bot- 
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