_ May. 
OF GARDENING. 
- The Colour is mixt of White, a faint, and a 
—— = deeper Yellow. Thefe are difpos’d in. various 
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‘eruentum® flore pleno: 
Term: 
ee: within, 
Degrees and Shades; and in different Flowers 
with a great deal of ‘elegant Variety. Sometimes | 
there is very little of the White, fometimes abfo- 
lutely none; but, in that Cafe, the Variety of Yel- 
lows is ftill pleafing ; the deepeft Colouring being 
in the Middle, and the Yellow growing paler 
from thence outwards, even when it does not be- 
come any where altogether. White. 
«The Charaéters of the Clafs are not to be 
Petals obliterates, or at leaft impairs them. 
other Daffodils. 
- The feparate Flowers have no Cup, but the gee : 
oe Scabbard ferves- that Office to them all. 
“The Flower confifts of a -Nectarium and fix 
Petals; and to the Tube of the Nectarium. are 
fix’d fix Filaments, crown’d with oblong Buttons. 
Under the Receptacle of the Flower is plac’d the 
Rudiment of the Seed-veffel ; and from this ‘rifes 
a flender Style, longer than the Filaments, and 
crown’d with a trifid Head 
* Thefe Parts, which are confpicuous enough in 
the fingle Flower, refer the Planr'to the Hewanibiée 
Monogynia of Linnaeus; his fixth Clafs, and its> 
firft Section. 
Culture of this Narcissus. 
The Plant in its fimple State is a Native of the 
Eaft, and of fome Parts of Southern Europe. It 
| fucceeds beft where there is a light rich Soil; and 
: | the Sea or Salt Rivers in the Neighbourhood. 
fought in this Flower, becaufe the Multiplicity of | 
In 
the plain and fimple Yazetta, they are as in the’ 
This is not effential to its Growth ; but as the 
Flowers are always fineft when ‘the Plant has this 
| Advantage, a good Gardener will not neglect to 
give it. 
Therefore let a Compoft be prepar’d thus : 
- Mix a Barrow of fine Mould -from an upland 
-Pafture, with a Bufhel of Wood-Pile Earth; a 
Peck of Sand, two Quarts of Sea-water, or, in 
want of that, oF Brine ; anda —— of a. Peck 
‘of Sheep’s Dung. | 
In this fow the Seeds, or propagate the parted 
Roots, as we have directed tor the other Nar- 
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“. “WOUSLE: SCAR EET LIE Y, 
This will be found at firft Sight a Variety rais’d 
by luxuriant Culture; but it is fo elegant and 
‘{pecious, and at the fame Time fo fingular, that 
‘no Pains fhould be call’d too great to produce it. 
Bester has figur’d it under the Name Lilium 
the double bloody Lilly ; 
but the Colour is not well exprefs’d by that 
Colour. 
In the common or fingle State all the Writers on 
Plants have mention’d it; 
Appearances from different Accidents of Growth, 
have call’d it by various Names, as well as from 
the different Tin&s of Red in the Flower; 
hence we fee it defcrib’d under the Title of 
Lilium Phenicium, Lilium rubrum, and Lilium 
purpuro-croceum. ‘The Granules, which ferve for 
its Propagation as Seeds, have alfo been made 
another Subje&t of Diftinction ; 
fefs’d of thefe, it has been call’d Lilium bulbiferam, 
as if another Species. 
~All thefe Linnaeus very juftly refers to the 
one original Kind, which he happily charac- 
terizes by the Name Lilium foliis fparfis, corollis 
campanulatis ereétis intus feabris: 
Lilly, with bell-fhap’d upright Flowers, rough 
The Root is large, rounded, and compos'd of 
~ numerous Scales. - 
The Stalk is round, upright, ane, and two 
7 Feot and a half high. 
_ The Leaves are plac’d irregularly, and are-very 
ee* 
numerous : 
it is a deep Scarlet, but not Blood- | 
and under its various } 
of a flefhy Subftance. 
and, when pof- 
Scatter’d-leav’d | 
: To this the prefent double Flower is ob- | 
~ vioufly to be refer’d, as well as the others, tho’ | 
~ -waitly fuperior i in Beauty to them all. 
they are long, narrow, wav’d and 
fharp-pointed ; they are of a firm Subftance, and 
their Colour is a deep ftrong Green. 
face. | 
The Flower ftands on the Top of the Stalk, 
large, fpecious, and in the higheft Degree fingular. 
It is plainly of the Lilly Form, but full 6F nu- 
merous Petals, and greatly exceeding any other in 
Beauty. 
The Colour is a fine deep Scarlet, covered with 
Spots of a dufky but not difagreeable Red. 
The Petals are oblong, wav’d, and pointed, and 
Their Number is about 
Thirty; and they ftand open in the Manner of 
Rays of a Star. 
In the common Scarlet L Lilly there 4 are, utpmedt, 
two or three Flowers upon the Stem, each fup- 
ported on a flight Footftalk ; and ’tis in this State 
of the Plant the Student is to trace its: Cha- 
racters.. 
He will in that Kind perceive the F lower od 
naked from the Stalk, with a fmall bell-fhap’d Bafe, 
and dividing thence into fix large Petals, with 
thick, vee Points: . toward the Bafe of each 
there is drawn a Line lengthway, which is the 
Neéctarium.. 
In the Cenkte ftand fix. F ilaments, with large, 
oblong, incumbent Buttons, and in the Midft of 
thefe sifes an oblong Germ, with a cylindric Style of 
the Length of the Flower, terminated by a trian- 
g sala Head. 
This is the natural Condition of the Flower 
‘and = refers the Plant to the Hexandria Monos 
The Rib is. 
pale, and the whole Leaf is of a fhining Sur- 
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