: June. 
Pi. 39. 
Of this and the other bulbous Iris’s, Yad? no way 
——— but this; nor lefs than me 5 Loar! of feveral | 
Years ‘can thew that F lower in the full Perfec- 
tion. ; | 
Ae HUNGARIAN. vee 
This is the tifual Gileadictors bike in different 
The Student who } has examin’d with us the 
ig. 4. Flower of the laft mention’d Plant, will readily | 
underftand the Struéture of the prefent 5 the prin- 
cipal Difference of which frorn that, befide the 
~ Colour, is that it has thofé bearded Nedtaria 
wanting in the other upon the lower Petals. 
Moft of the Writers on Plants have named | 
this; nor are our Gardeners unacquainted with it. 
They call it Many-colour’d Iris. It is one of 
the tuberous or common Kind, not of thofe called 
Xiphia, or bulbous Jris; and it has been named 
from its native Country, Iris Pannonica, from its 
Colouring, Iris lutea variegata, and Iris colore 
multiplici , as from the Breadth of its Leaves, Iris 
latifolia. 
C. Bavatne joins the three latt Cinkeitvaricials 
and thence has form’d a Name copy’d by moft 
_ others, broad leaved Hungarian Iris, with a many 
_colour’d Flower. . 
Thefe are not the Diftinétions on which Lin- | 
nus form’d his fpecifick Names. In his ac- 
curate Method he conveys a Defcription of the 
Plant in its Title: this is Is corollis barbatis, 
caule fubfoliofo, longitudine foliorum multifioro : beard- 
ed Iris, with the Stalk of the Length of the radi- 
cal Leaves, and carrying fome {mall mene and 
feveral Flowers. 
The Root is thick, irregular, “suited and yel- 
lowith. 
The Leaves are numerous, long, broad, fharp 
at the Point and Edges, and om a frefh but fome- 
what blueifh green. 
The Stalk is rounded, of a iil green ; up- 
right, but with fome little Bendings, and a Foot 
and half high. ‘Toward the Ground it is often 
purplith, as are alfo the sees ech which rife with 
it from the Root. | 
There ‘ftand on this in an ieicondak Manner, 
two, three, or four flight Leaves ; much fmaller 
than thofe from the Root, and paler. 
The Flowers are large and very beautiful, one 
ufually terminates the Stalk; and there burit 
forth others without any Regularity Sideways, a 
little below it. 
_ Thefe are formi’d as thofe of the bulbous Iris 
juft defcribed ; they have no Cup: three Petals 
ftand upright, three droop, and there are three 
broad and leafy Tops ‘to the Head of the Style, 
which reprefent fo many other {maller. 
The Colouring is extreamly various and uncer- 
tain, but always elegant. 
The three upright Petals are of a fine Gold 
yellow, naturally plain, and elegant, only in the 
Purity of the Tinét, but fometimes vein’d with a 
deeper Hue: the three Petals which hang down 
are white, variegated with Streaks and Clouds of 
purple or crimfon. 
The bearded Part at the Bafe is yellow toward 
its Bottom, and whitifh toward the End; and 
the three Heads of the Style are alfo variegated 
with yellow and white, 
oa es 
Flowers it varies extreamly. In fome the three _ 
under Petals are altogether white; in others 
they are flefh colour’ds and in others they are 
crimfon at the Bafé, from whence all the Rays 
| proceed, which run ina regular Direction to the 
Tip of the fame Colour. Thefe and many other 
| Changes rife frorn the! Accidents of Culture ; but. 
in all the Flower is very beautiful. 
The Charaétérs of the Clafs are obvious as in 
the preceding Kind: three Filaments and a fingle 
Style declare it one of the Triandria Monog ynia of 
—— his third Clef, —_ its i ae 
& 
Caltare of ibis Int. | 
The common Method of. propawating this is, 
as in the other, by the Root: as that of the bul-— 
| bous Iris produces Off-fets, this fpreads out every 
Way in thick irregular Parts, and will bear to be, 
every Year or two, divided; and the feparated Parts 
will flower, if not too fmall, the firft Year. 
This is fo eafy that few think of giving them- 
felves more Trouble about it: and the Plant is 
fo hardy, that it grows without more Care in any 
Soil wherein it is planted; fo that it is put down 
at random in Borders where there is a Vacancy, 
without regard to its Nature, or the Condition of 
the Place. Even this Way it flowers beautifully, 
but the Gardener may be affured more Care and 
Attention will bring it to greater Elegance. 
Every Plant has in Nature its peculiar Soil and 
Expofure in which it fucceeds beft; and thefe 
fhould be ftudy’d to give it full Luftre ia Gar- 
dens. | 
This in its Native Country before mention’d, 
loves a light, rich Soil, with fome Moifture; 
and though it flourifhes in a warm Air, it doés 
beft where there is leaft Sun. Therefore let a 
part of the Garden fuited to this be chofen, and 
let the Compoft be Pafture Earth and Pond | 
Mud, each a Buthel: Wood Pile Earth, and . 
| Cow Dung, of each half a Bufhel ; and a Peck 
of Sand. 
Let thefe be mix’d in Spring, and in the firft 
Week of September thrown into the Place fele&ted 
for the Plant. 
Let the Roots be taken up and parted in a 
Cloudy Day when there is a Probability of 
‘Showers, and immediately planted at two Foot 
Diftance in this Bed. If there fall no Showers, 
they muift have gentle Waterings, and they will 
flower unlefs too Bind. the next Year. 
‘The Way to raife the Plant in its higheft Per- 
feftion, and to procure Flowers of more than 
ordinary Beauty, is to fow the Seeds. 
Thefe fhould be gather’d from a handfome 
Plant, and fown in a Nurfery Bed of the fame 
Compoft, managing them as in the former Kind; 
and when they. come to flower, felecting the 
| fineft, and planting them in fuch a Bed in the 
Flower 
June, 
