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OF GARDENING 
are Natives of different Countries; this of Ezrope, 
- renee that of the warmer A/a. 
To that Plant, not amifs, belongs the Culture | Border; but ’tis otherwife in Refpect of this, 
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our Gardeners give to Moly ;-for being a Native ! 
bears, with us, a loofe poor Earth, and an unfhaded 
native of damp and fhadowy Places, 
5. ALTERNATE - ‘PLOWERED. “GLADIOLUS, 
We wriBore here to the Gasideiter s Care, a 
Fig. 5. ‘Plant well known, but not always well manag’d ; 
whofe Flowers give it a Right to a Place in every 
Garden; and afford the Gardener an Opportunity 
of very advantageoufly thewing his fuperior Skil! in 
filling the Colour, and enlarging their Body. — 
He is us’d to underftand the Gladiole or Corn- 
flag, as of two Kinds; the one with the Flowers 
all on one Side the Stalk, the other with them dif- 
pos’d alternately. on both: thefe are not di- 
ftinét Species, but Varieties of the fame Stock. 
Both may be rais’d from Seeds of the fame Plant; 
and he may unite their Excellencies. 
In the common Courfe of Things, the F lowers 
are fewer and larger in thofe Plants where they 
hang all on one Side, and more. numerous, but 
fmaller where they are on both. Commonly, alfo, 
the Colour in this laft Cafe is inferior. 
We fhall thew him. by what Method he son 
encreafe the Number of F lowers, without dimi-_ 
nifhing the Luftre; ard throw them on both Sides 
the Stalk, while they, are as as large as ufually feen 
on one. 
~The Plant has been a great while familiar. in 
our Gardens, and is deferib'd by all the common 
Authors: they led the Gardener into his Mif- 
take, of fuppofing the two Varieties we have nam’d 
to be diftinét Species ; and Tourwerort, their 
Oracle’s Oracle, has indeed, in moft Cafes, been 
the Caufe. 
Authors in general have defcrib’d it under the 
proper Name Gladiolus, fome have call’d it Xiphion. 
‘The Epithets of Diftinétion have been generally 
takenfrom its Placeof Growth; Narbonenjis and Ita- 
Gicus, the Italian or the Narbon Gladiole, and thofe 
‘who diftinguifh the Varieties as Species, have 
nam’d them, from the Difpofition of the Flowers, 
uno verfu, and binis ordintbus : 
Series of Flowers. 
The Englifh Name 1s Corot -flag, but ’tis little 
us’ds our Gardeners have been taught Latin 
Terms, and ’tis to their Credit they endeavour to_ 
_ remember them. 
Linnaus, who juftly confiders the Plant as 
_ the fame in both thefe States, names it, without 
Reference to that Difpofition, Gladiolus foliis enji- 
formibus floribus diftantibus: Sword-leav’d Gladiole 
with diftant Flowers. This is the Diftin€tion from 
thofe Kinds in which they hang over one another 
clofe, and<in the Manner of Scales, 
The Root is roundith, fmall; cover’d with 
many Skins, and hung from the Bafe with Fis 
bres, 
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and enclos’d by them at the Bafes. 
Gladiole, with the }. | 
Flowers hanging one Way, and Gladiole with two 
‘The ce are iattow, long, ‘harp. pouited, 
and of a fine frefh Green. 
The Stalk rifes amidft thefe, and is furrounded 
It is fmooth; 
round, of a pale green, ‘tolerably erect, and two 
£ oot high. 
The Top is decorated with a fine long 
Spike of Flowers, large, and of a very ‘glowing | 
Crimfon.’ ‘Thefe have no Cup, but in the Place 
of one a few vague light fealy Scabbards. 
~The Flower is large, and compos’d of fix ob: 
long Petals, united at their Bafes ; fo that if the 
| Student pleafes, he miay call them Segments of 
one Petal; the Part where they unite is tubular 
and crooked. 
The Petals or Segments are obtufe at the End: 
three. of -them, | plac’d upwards, ftand near 
to one another, and are convergent’ the three 
others are more diftin@ from thefe, and from one 
another. : 
On. feparating the Petalss there wil be diac 
three Filaments, crown’d with oblong Buttons. 
They rife alternately betweem the Segments of the 
Flower, and throw themfelves upwards among the 
three convergent and fuperior Petals. 
Below:the Receptacle of the Flower is pide’ a 
Rudiment of the Seed; this gives Rife to a fim- 
ple Style, as long as the Filaments, and crewn’d 
with a three-parted Head, | 
The Clafs of the Plant is feen familiarly in the — 
three Filaments: they refer it to the third’ in the 
Linn aan Syftem, the Zriandria; and the ingle 
Style fhews it one of the Monogynia. 
The Seed- veffel is fwoln, oblong, obtufe, i 
mark’d with three Ridges: it has three Valves 
| and three Cells, with numerous roundith hooded 
Seeds. 
| Colture: of this Gnawebne, 
“The Plant is a Notive. of the Southern Parts 
of Evrope, where it is found moft flourifhing in a 
light rich Soil, not. wholly expos’d to the Noon 
pe Paar 
This is the cee s Rule for its Culture: 
Let him chufe a Spot that has the Morning 
Rays; that is defended from the North Wind, 
and fhelter’d from the South Sun; and there lay 
ina light rich Compoft ; in this the Plants aré to be 
rais’d from Seed, and in this they muft flower : 
only letting it be chang’d for freth of the fame 
Kind every other Year. 
The common Method of propagating thern is by 
parting the Roots; but ’tis not thus we direct our 
Pupil to manage F lowers, 
g¥ In 
Aa 
of light and barren Sarids, in open Expofures, it June: 
