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long Stalk, 
and their Colour is a deep and fine green. 
The Stalk rifes in the Midft of thefe, and is 
round, tolerably firm, but hollow, and of a pale 
green; it rifes to two Foot in Height. _ 
The Leaves on this perfeétly refemble thofe 
from the Root, but that they have no Foot- 
ftalk. | | | 
The Flower is large, and extreamly fingular 
and beautiful. It is large, of a perfect Gold 
yellow, and compofed of numerous Petals, which 
all turn inwards; fo that the Shape is {pheri- 
cal: at firft it is abfolutely clos’d at the Top, but 
as it ripens more, there appears a little Open- 
ing in the Middle difclofing numerous golden 
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This appears at a tranfient View; but on the 
Student’s nearer Attention, there will be found a 
great deal more of Singularity as well as Beauty. 
The Flower is fix’d naked on its “Foottftalk. 
The Number of its Petals is naturally ten, but | 
this Culture often makes it exceed, and in the 
wild Plant I have fometimes counted twelve or 
fourteen. Five of thefe always ftand in a par- 
ticular Series innermoft, and they bend in the 
mott. - eS 
_ The others are placed in different Series, two 
or more: all are broad and obtufe. Within are 
placed nine Nectaria; thefe are flender, all the 
Way of equal Breadth ; flatted, bent inwards, um- 
bilicated, and mark’d near the Bafe on the Infide - 
with a Perforation: they are nearly of the Length 
of the Threads, and are moft diftin@ly feen in 
a newly open’d Flower. | 
In the Centre are placed numerous fine Threads, 
with upright Buttons, and in the Midft of this 
Clufter ftand many oblong Rudiments of Seed- 
veflels. “Thefe have no Footftalks, they are of a. 
_ columnar Form, and are terminated by pointed 
Tops without any intermediate Style. Thefe Ru- 
diments are fhorter than the Threads, and they 
ripen into fo many longifh, oval Capfules, with 
crooked pointed Tops; each containing a round, 
fhining Seed. 
The Number of thefe Filaments, and their | 
Adherence to the Receptacle of the Flower, not 
to the Petals, fhews the Plant one of the Poly- 
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gives them a great deal of Beauty; andria: and the numerous Tops or Stigmata, June. 
for there are no Styles, declare it one of the -—— 
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Polyg yma. 
Cufture of its TRogxrvs. 
The Plant is a Native of all the cooler Parts 
of Europe. We have it wild in the Northern 
Counties; and in Wales alfo it is very common. 
It is moft frequently found on damp Ground, 
on the Sides of Hills, and where there is fome 
Shade. This fhews what we fhould attempt in 
its CultOre, } i 
A Soil of the fame Kind with that a Plant 
has wild, only richer, is generally the true Me- 
«| thod of raifing it in a Garden; and fuch a Situa- 
tion fhould be chofen as it has in Nature. There- 
fore let the Gardener mix for his Compott for this, 
a Bufhel of Meadow Earth, three Pecks-of Pond 
Mud, and one Peck of Cow Dung well rotted. 
Let him chufe a rifng Part of the Ground © 
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Plant flowers in May, and the Seeds will natu- 
rally ripen in July. 
Let him favour their ripening by clearing 
away the Ground about a thriving Plant; and _ 
often breaking the Surface, and watering it. 
When the Heads are ripe let him lay them to 
dry on a Shelf; and after the Seeds have been 
fhaken out of them, and harden’d a few Days, _ 
det them be fown pretty. thick upon this Bed, 
and cover’d a Quarter of an Inch with fifted 
Mould, 
_ Let a few Hawthorn Bufhes be thrown upon 
the Ground, and thus leave then to Nature. 3 
When the young Plants come up they muft. 
be weeded and watered; the fineft of them muft 
be left ftanding at a Foot Diftance, and thus 
they will flower in their full Perfeétion. 
Once in two Years the Earth fhould be re- 
moved, in Autumn; and the Roots when large, 
parted; thus there will be a Supply of new 
Planis, and the Flowers will always be large, 
and bright in Colour. The Petals will in fome 
be very numerous, but thefe are not the moft 
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This is a Tulip much efteem’d in Holland, and 
worthy of all the Regard they fhew it. Befide 
the elegant Singularity of its Colouring, the 
Time of the flowering gives it a particular Me- | 
fit, for it comes in after the Generality have loft 
their Beauty; and fhould for that Reafon be 
planted in a feparate Bed, or with the’ two or 
three other late Kinds, not among the’ Generality ; 
of the others. 
Few People look into a Bed of Tulips for a 
Flower or two after the reft are faded ; and for 
that Reafon this has been much lefs known, or | 
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regarded than it deferves; for it does not come 
into full Bloom till the general Flowering is 
over. | 
It is one of the many Varieties produced by 
Culture from the common oriental Tulip; and is 
to be treated, in general, like the others. 
The Root is large, and cover’d with a blackifh 
Skin. 
The Leaves are very broad, of a ereyifh green, 
waved at the Edges, of a firm Subftance and 
hollow. 3 
The Stalk is thick and upright, a Foot high, 
and 
