June. 
Pl. 98. 
Fig. ie 
| Time the Of-fets fhould be ge iitee 
moved into a like Situation and Soil in the Nur- 
fery; and kept there till they flower. Some will | 
have double Flowers, and. the fineft of thefe 
fhould be kept to fupply the Place of the old 
Roots. 
They mutt be planted at the fame Diftance of 
a Yard afunder, and treated in the fame Manner 
as the others. | 
the Soil, but it muft be chang’d every ‘Year. The 
Seafon for this is the End of Augu/ts and at that" 
42 Se, 
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We mi told the ebsthey there were yet fine 
i vee: Kinds of Fritillary to come under his Notices 
and there is not among them a more elegant one | 
than: the prefent. | 
It is a feedling Variety from the common 
purple Kind, and inherits _ and improves all its 
Excellences. | 
The Root. is moderately large, and has many. 
Fibres. an | | 
The Leaves are of a deep green, long, nar- 
row, obtule, hollow’d, and of a Bethy Sub- 
ftance. 
The Stalk is ten Inches high, ngrplith at the 
‘Bafe upwards, of a pale green, and tolerably 
firm. | | é : 
_ The Leaves on this ftand all alternately, and 
at Diftances ; they refemble thofe from the Root, 
but that they are sprains A and their Ends are 
| often purplith. 
One Flower hangs from the Top 6 the Stalk 5 
and this is large, and of the moft perfect Shape: 
hollow’d as a Cup, rounded at the Bafe; and 
form’d of fix Petals, which ftand very regular- 
ly, and turn in their Points at firft, but have 
them perfectly {trait when the F lower is ae) 
blown. 
Three or four of the: upper Leaves ufaail 
rife perpendiculatly over the F lower, and are of 
a frefher green than the others ; thefe add great- 
ly to the Beauty of the Plant. 
The Colouring of the Flower has a Delicacy 
and Variety that no other of the Fritillary Kind 
exceeds, and few can be faid to equal. 
The Chequering is not formally plat, but 
it is very pleafing. 
The ground Colour of the F lower is a deli. 
cate flefhy Hue; there runs down the Middle of 
each Petal a broad Rib of Olive, and the Spots 
Common Garden Mould is to be | 
be fall. They fhould be planted out into a 
Nurfery Bed till they are of a due Bignefs for .%. 449 
flowering with Strength, and they muft then be 
planted. in ‘various Parts of the Garden, obferve+ 
ing to put them where there ts fome Shade. 
The old Root being thus clear’d of its Off-fets 
annually, and refrefh’ d with new Mould, will 
continue to flower in ‘full Glory. 
7. FLESHY ‘LATE FRITILLARY. 
the Exactnefs as in many. others. 
The. Characters are the fame in aes as in the 
other Fritillaries, and its Clafs that of the Hexan- 
dria, the fixth in the Linn an Syftem. 
Its Culture in nothing differs from that of the 
| other Fritillaries : this has been deliver’ d at large 
fina preceding Number, and therefore needs not 
be repeated. here. 
It will be occafionally found among the Plants 
raifed from Seeds of the common purple Fritil- 
lary ; and whenever it is feen, fhould be mark’d 
for a particular Bed. 
4) The Beauty of thefe late Fritillaries is loft 
when they are planted promifcuoufly among the 
others; for they do not come into flower till 
the reft are decay’d, and the Beds are no longer 
examin’d: to fhew this in its Beauty, and pre- — 
ferve it in that Perfection for the utmoft Time 
thefe frail Elegancies can laft, this Method is to 
be obferved, 
‘eta particular Bed be Fa for them in 
a Part of the Garden where the Sun does not 
come, except till about Ten in the Morning. 
Let this be made up with the fame Compoft 
we direéted for the other F ritillaries ; and let this, 
with thofe other Kinds we have particularized for 
their late flowering, be planted in it at a Foot 
Diftance, | , 
Let them have lefs Water than the other 
Kinds ; but let the Bed be kept conftantly weed- 
ed, and the Surface be once in ten Days broke 
with a Trowel. This will difpofe it to retain the 
Dews,: and nothing more is required. 
The Plants, with the fame Management as, . 
the other Fritillaries, in all other Refpeéts, will 
afford a pleafing and furprifing Shew, at a Time 
when they have paffed their Bloom; and_be- 
ing thus preferved from the Noon-day Sun, they — : 
are of a Lemon Colour: they have fomething of | will continue in flower much longer than thofe 
the fquare Shape, that makes the Chequer-work which in the common Way come in much 
in the other Kinds; and they are difpofed in 
fuch a Manner as to favour it, but there is not. 
earlier. . 
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CHAP, 
If this be done every Year as it ought, to keep June, — 
‘the old ‘Plants in their Beauty, the ‘Off-fets wi 
