~~ 
| of a Bell-like Form: 
parallel in Difpofition. 
of Honey-Juice.. 
Plant to the Fritillary Kind ; and the Clafs is ob- 
vioufly written in the internal Parts : . 
Filaments gather’d clofe about a fingle Style. From 
Species. 
‘compris’d in narrow Limits; 
‘Art from a good Management of thefe, is innu- 
‘mone proceed all our elegant Flowers. 
OF GARDENING. 
tom to half its Height, or more, thick fet with | 
Leaves: | 
Thefe are long, narrow, tharp-pointed, wav'd, 
and of a’pale but not unpleafant green. 
The Flowers are numerous, 
the Plant in a long Spike of a pyramidal Form. 
All have F ecaiatiice but thofe of the lower 
Flowers are longeit. 
The Flowers themfelves are {mall, they hang 
drooping from their Footftalks, and their Colour 
is a deep Purple; paler on the Infide than with- 
out, and with a little Greennefs about the Bafes of 
the Petals; 
Each Flower is compos’d of fix, and is 
it rifes from the Footftalk 
naked, and the Petals are oblong, obtufe, and 
In the Bafe of each Pe- 
tal there is a Hollow, in which is lodg’d a Drop 
Thefe Characters refer the 
thefe are fix 
thefe it is to be adjude’d to the Hexandria Mono- 
gynia, the fixth Clafs of Linnaus and its firft 
Section. | 
Culture of this Farvitary. 
In Perfia, where the Plant is native, it thrives 
beft in a rich Soil where there is fome Moitture. 
‘This muft be our Rule for adapting a proper 
Compoft; and in the Choice of a Place for it, 
fo much Regard fhould be had to its native 
Warmth of Climate, that it be not too much 
expos’d; nor muft it be left, during Winter, | 
and they crown 
quite unfheltet’d.., Let the Comipoft bé four Parts 
rich Meadow-Earth, and one Part rotted Cow- 
dung. Let this lie from November to Auguft ex- 
pos'’d to the Air, and often turn’ds and then let 
it be put in the Place. of fome Mould dug out of 
the Seminary, in a Part of the Grourid hot too 
much expos’d to the North, nor Open to the 
Noon-day Sun. 
Let Seeds be fav'd Sard di. ftrong and well 
erowing Plant, and fown upon this Compoft, 
Let a third of an. Inch of the: fame Mould be 
fifted over them, and let the Bed be defended, by 
a few Hawthorn Bufhes; and kept weeded. 
The Plants will grow gradually to their Perfec- 
tion; and when they are fit to he brought into 
the Garden, a Bed of the fame Compoft mutt be 
made for them, and they muft be planted at a 
Foot Diftance. Here they will flower in the 
higheft Perfeétion; the beft of them fhould be 
mark’d, and afterwards propagated farther 7 
Off-fets, 
Few are at the Trouble to raife this Plant from 
Seed ; but none will have it in the greateft De- 
gree of Perfection by any other Method. 
There*is not the Temptation of new Flowers 
to lead Men to this Practice, for the Plant is the 
fame in general, however propagated , but there 
is a vaft Difference in the Strength of the Colour ; _ 
and when this is in its Perfection, it does hot laft 
more than a certain Number of Years in the Off- 
fets : 
Flowering ; and this careful Method of raifing by 
Seeds is the only Way of keeping the Plant for a 
Continuance in the full Glory: 
5 PROLIFEROUS SCARLET ANEMONE. 
We have occafionally treated of Anemonies be- | 
fore, but have refer’d the full Confideration of 
their Culture and Management to this Place, 
where treating of one of the moft confpicuous 
and fingular Kinds, the Art of raifing that may 
comprehend the whole Doctrine of the others. 
The Reader has been told before, that all 
that Blaze of Beauty and Variety we fee in the 
Anemone Kind, is the Produce of a few original 
All that Nature has done toward it, is 
but the Produce of 
merable; and the new Produétions are endle&. 
From the broad-leav’d arid narrow-leav’d Ane- 
owes its redundant Beauty to repeated Operations 
of the Gardener, 
_ The Seeds of a fingle ‘Meetioie of this Kind | Name: 
produce a femi- deakie: Seeds from that Flower 
afford a perfect double Anemone ; and good Ma- 
_ magement and good Fortune combining, produce. 
from the Seeds of the laft, 
Flower here mention’d; double in the moft per- 
the proliferous 
N® 36, 
fect Manner, and fending up from its Centre an: 
other Flower, no way inferior to itfelf in Bignefs, 
Colouring, or Multiplicity of Petals. 
This Effect of exuberant Nature we Hae ae 
plain’d on the Occafion of the Ranunculus id 
two Kinds; but in both thofe the fecond Flower 
is {maller than the Original: ’tis peculiar to this 
Anemone to have it equal. — 
So confpicuous a Variety could not efeape thé 
Notice of thofe who firft treated of Flowers after 
its Production, They have nam’d it with Won- 
der, and dwelt on its tae wate with a Kind of 
Tranfport. — 
They have call’d it Anémorie prolifera: Anemone 
This of | flore fuave rubenie prolifera, and, in the £nglifh, 
which we treat here is of the latter Kind, and | Childing Anemone, and Proliferous Anemone. | 
Linna&vs, refering it to the original Species, 
allows it, in this Bebuitiar: State, ho feparaté 
the plain Kind, to which it owes its Ori- 
gin, he calls Anemone foliis radicalibus ternato de- 
compofitis, involucro folivfe: Anemoné, with the 
Leaves from the Root fubdivided in Three’s, and 
a Leafy Involucrum. : 
The Root is oblong, thick, ps and irs 
gQ. regularly 
they by Degrees wear out in their Luftre of 
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