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tae a large Clufter of gold yellow Flowers, fupported | Cover them a Quarter of ah Inch} and throw a June, 
finely on long Footftalks. They form a kind of | Piece of Hawthorn over the Place. Let this ——— 
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Umbel ; and the Footftalks are fo equal in Length, | Piece be weeded’ and° water’d from Tirhe to 
‘that the Flowers ftand in the fame Level: not 
rounded, as in moft of the Umbelliferous Plants, 
or deprefs’d in the Middle, as in fome of them, 
but flat. This is the Form Linnvs exprefies 
by the Term faftigiated. ) eae 
‘The whole Tuft makes a fpecious Appearance. 
All the Footftalks rife from one common Point 
~ at the Head of the Stalk, and are at firft enclos’d 
Time. 
‘When the young Plants appear, let them be 
thin’d; and when their Leaf decays, fift over 
them half an Inch of the fame Compoft. , 
When they flower, mark the fineft; and 
| in the third Week of Aveuft prepare a Piece of | 
Ground for them in the Garden. Let the fame 
Compoft be us’d. Level the Surface, ‘place the 
in a rounded Scabbard ; but this foon burfts and | Roots regularly at a Foot Diftance, and cover 
fades. | 
Each Flower is plac’d naked on. its particular 
Stalk, and is compos’d of fix oblong, narrow 
Petals, which ftand hollow and ereét. 
In their Centre rife fix Filaments, equal to the 
Petals in Length, and fmaller from the Bottom 
to the Top, terminated with oblong upright But- 
tons. In the Midft of thefe is plac’d the Rudi- 
ment of the fucceeding Seed-veffel, which is 
roundifh, but mark’d with three flight Ridges, 
from which rifes a fingle Style, crown’d with an 
acute Head. The Seed-veflel ripens in a fhort 
_ three-parted Form, with three Valves, three Cells, 
and numerous rounded Seeds. | | 
The fix Filaments fhew it one of the Hexandria 
of Linn avs, his fixth Clafs; and the fingle 
Style marks it as one of the firft Seétion under | 
that Head. 
them three Inches. The next Year about this 
| Time they will flower in full Perfection. ~ 
After this, every Year let them be taken up in 
Auguft, and the Off-fets taken off. Let freth 
Compoft: be us’d; and let them be planted as at 
firft. | 2 Se 
It has been by this Method I rais’d thofe Plants 
of Moly, which appear’d to Gardeners a new Spe- 
cies; fo much fuperior to the Plant in its ufual 
State. If the curious Reader will compare the 
Method of Management with’ that given by the 
common Writers, he will not be at a Lofs for the 
Reafon. ae 
Lhe Word Moly (for it is a Greek Name) oc- 
curring frequently in the Writings of the An- 
tients, the Curious Have been at Pains to find to 
what Plant it truly belong’d. They do thefe Wri- 
ters a great deal of Honour: many of them knew 
ee too little Botany to underftand themfelves; and 
Culture of this Autium. 
. The Plant is a Native of the Mountainous 
Parts of Europe, the Alps and Pyreneans, and is 
very common by the Sides of Hills in Hungary. 
_ It thrives beft where there is a rich Soil with fome 
Shade and Moifture. | Ve? 
In Gardens ’tis hardy, and eafily kept alive; 
the Gardener therefore allows it little Care or At- 
tention; but he may raife it to a very fuperior - 
Degree of Excellence by better Management. 
His common Way is to procure Off-fets; and 
_ he plants thefe not where they will thrive beft, but 
where he fees a Vacancy in a Border. 
. Let him chufe the Spot, adapt the Soil, and 
raife the Plant from Seed; and he will fee F lowers 
very different from thofe. the common Gardener 
raifes, according to his common Guide’s Direc- 
tion. | 3 
Mix up a Compoft in this Manner : | 
A. Barrow of rich Meadow- Earth, the fame’ 
Quantity of River-Mud, a Bufhel of Wood-Pile 
Farth, and five Pecks of Sand. 
Mark fome good Plants when in F lower, as 
they now are, and Keep the Ground clear and well 
water’d about them: tye up the Stems to Sticks ; 
and when the Seed-veffel is ripen’d, and ready to 
iplit, cut off the Head, and lay it on a Shelf in 
an airy Room. 
The Compoft will be by that Time ready: if 
mix’d up in Fane, and two or three Times turn’d, 
it will in September be fit for Ue. 
Take out the Mould in a fhaded Part of the | 
-Nurfery ; put in this Compoft, and {catter on the 
Seeds, a, ee 
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hence the vain Toil of their Commentators. 
Some very reverend Names among them, by 
Moly, mean Harmala, wild Rue; a Plant as dif- 
ferent from the Garlick Kind, as any two that can 
be imagin’d. 
Homer, who talks of Moly as an Herb fhewn 
by the Gods to Mankind for its Virtues, gives no 
farther Defcription of it, than that the Root is 
black, and the Flower white: ‘ 
eiCay ev meray ecne yarns Je enceroy avboc, 
| So much alfo Ovip knew of it, and tranfcrib’d 
faithfully ; 
Florem dederat Cyllenius album 
nigra radice retentum. 
(weet a 
and this the great Men, who undertook to ex- 
plain their Works, and from them all Antiquity, 
| apply’d to the wild Rue. 
Doubtlefs, a Plant with a black Root and white 
Flowers, if the Defcription go no farther, may 
find many Names: but THEopurastus, the Fa- 
ther of Natural Hiftory, better defcribes the Plant : 
he fays it had a Root like an Onion, but black, 
| and Leaves of the Squill. 
This probably was the Plant meant by Homer, 
for THEOPHRastus liv’d neareft his Time; and — 
this refers to the white flower’d Moly, a Plant, as 
this yellow, of the Garlick Kind, whofe Root is on 
_the Outfide black ; lefs elegant than this golden 
flower’d Species, tho’ more celebrated of Anti- 
quity. 
As fome confounded the Harmala, and Maly,’ 
others have perplex’d themfelves between the com- 
mon Yellow Kind, and the true White. They 
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