_ June. 
——— three-corner’d Top, 
- and mark’d with fix Furrows, mut has a hollow } 
with the Angles obtufe: it 
contains three Cells, and is form’d of three Valves. 
The Seeds are very numerous ; they lie in a dou- 
ble Row in each~Celly and they are noe | and 
rounded onthe outer Part. 
The fixeThreads and fingle Style Pe. phinly 
declare the Place of the Plant to be among the” 
Hemandria Monogynia. 
Culture of this MaRTacon. 
' Tei is a Native of the. Northetn Parts e Hubepe, 
where it thrives beft in a deep light Earth, about 
the Edges of Forefts. | | aan give the Gar- 
“dener its Rule of Culture. ~ 
No particular Care can. oe: needful for preferv- 
ing a Plant which Nature leaves to takes its 
& . ee ee ee ee 
ilies’ pre ee, ER 
‘Chance in Hungary and Swifférland ; and there can | 
be no more Difficulty in mixing.a proper Compolt. .| 
A Bufhel of Pond-Mud, two Bubhels of rich 
Pafture- -Mould, half a Buthel of Wood-Pile E. arth,. 
‘and a Peck of Sand, will, make an excellent Sail” 
for it. Thefe fhould be mix’d in Spring, and 
two or three Times turn’d, between that Seafon 
and ¥uly; when it will be proper to plant the Of 
fets from the Roots. , 
Thefe are to be taken of del the Stalks are 
decay’d, and they muft be planted immediately. 
Let a Part of the Garden be chofen where there is 
the Morning Sun and fome Shade, and let the 
Compoft be put in the Place of the common 
Mould. Let the Off-fets be planted at two Foot 
Diftance, and afterwards kept clear from Weeds, 
_and.occafionally water’d. ........ ad 
This is the common Method “et Colne. and 
the Gardener in the ufual Courfe of his Bufinefs 
thinks of nothing more; but there is a great } 
Advantage in raifing the Plant from Seed. The 
Flowers will be larger, and more elegantly fpotted, 
‘when all is manag’d with due. Care this Way, 
and often there will rife Varieties beyond Thought. 
‘The Method is this : 
Save the Seeds from a ftrong and healthy Plant, 
‘and fow them on a Bed of the fame Compoft, in 
a Part of the Seminary open to the Morning Sun, 
for two Hours, but fhelter’d from. its Rays dur- 
ing the reft of the Day. 
The beft. Time for fowing them is the Middle 
of Auguft: they mutt. be fcattered thick upon the 
- Mould, and covered a Finger’s Breadth with the 
fame Compoft fifted over them. 
From this Time the Bed is to be kept clear 
from Weeds, and fometimes flightly water’d. 
In the fucceeding Spring they will fhoot; and | dener’s Imagination. 
the young Plants, when they have a little Growth, 
‘mutt be thin’d where they have rifen too clofe. 
_Diftance, and there manag’d as before 
“and watering till they flower. - : ; : eas oO . oF 
Mould. 
Thus let. them be manag’d ti the fucceeding 
Auguft, and then let the Mould be fifted ; the= 
Roots taken ‘carefully out, nd Mlanted in the 
Garden, .in a new Bed of the fame Compoft, a _ 
little more expos’d to the Sun, but itil fhaded 
Bb from the full Blaze of Noon. 
They fhould be. planted i in this Bed at a Foot 
There will be found a great many ‘Warieties ; 
and the beft fhould be mark’d while in Bowel: 
- + Thefe muft be preferv’d feparate afterwards, and 
the reft planted out into common Borders. 
Varieties confift in three Particulars : 
I. re the Ground Colour of the F lower, which 
The 
aay) be flefhy, Crimfon, or pale Purple. 
. In the Tinét of the Spots, which will be of 
a des Orange, Blood Colour, or a A! iolet Pur- 
ple, or almoft Black : and, 
3. In their Oia bacion and F ic fome will be 
round, others oblong ; and they will throw them- 
felves-into various wild Arrangements. 
Dr. Martyn, from the Forms into which 
“ thefe Spots Xoresivics caft themfelves, fuppofes 
the Martagon to be the famous Hyacinth of the 
old Poets, mark’d, as they fay, with the Letters 
AE. ; . ; 4 
Ovip, indeed, defcribes the Flower as being 
like a Lilly, and Red, and thus far the Martagon 
very well agrees with it: and if the Spots do in- 
deed ever form themfelves in the Flower, as they 
are reprefented in that Author’s Figure, there is 
no Reafon to doubt its being the Plant. In ge- 
neral, theit Difpofition is perfectly wild and free. 
When the fineft Flowers have been. fepa- 
rated from the reft, their Roots mutt be taken up | ua 
as foon as the Stalk is decay’d, and planted again A m1 | 
immediately in frefh Compoft of the fame Kind, 
at two Foot Diftance. 
This muft be done every Year; the Of. fets - 
muft be every Time carefully taken off, and the 
old Compoft clear’d away. 
The third Year of their Flowering, let Seg 
be fav’d from one of the fineft Plants, and thefe 
fown, and the Plants manag’d, juft as. directed 
for the firft: thus there will be an Improvement 
upon the firft; and the fame Method being ftill 
purfu’d, of fowing from the fineft Flowers, the 
Martagon, which was improv’d the firt Time, 
will, by the third or fourth Procefs, exceed the Gar- 
One Thing I have obferved — 
fingular in this Cafe; as the Flower is thus ren- 
dered more beautiful, the Scent STOWS fainter. 
3 DOUBLE 
Let the Bed be kept clear from Weeds ; and June, 
when the Leaves of the young Plants are ‘decay’d, sscstilhii, 
let them be cover’d. with half an Inch of frefh 
