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June. Flower Garden; difpofing the reft in lefs regarded | muft be cut off as they grow toward fading, June. 
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Fig. 5. 
Among thefe fine Flowers, which will thew a | unlefs Seed be wanted let none ftand to ripen any. 
great and elegant Variety of Colouring, let the 
beft be mark’d for Seed again, and that fown 
with the fame Precautions. © 
In this Manner will be obtain’d the finett 
Flowers the Plant.is capable of producing, and 
thefe are then to be manag’d with the fame kind 
of Care we directed for the parted Roots. — 
The Place in the Garden muft be fhady, for 
the full Sun deftroys their Flowers in a few Days, 
which naturally are much more laftings there 
muft be Water allow’d them frequently, from 
the firft Shoot of the Stalk till the Time of their 
flowering is paft. : ee 
When they are..in bloom they fhould. be 
fhelter’d by a Reed-hedge, if the Place be 
Open to any fharp Wind; and the firft Flowers | ment. 
When Seed is required, let only the firft Flower 
that opens be permitted to ripen; for the others 
would exhauft the Nourifhment, and the Seeds 
would ‘be lefs perfe&t. Let thefe be dry’d, and 
fown in the fame Manner, and at the fame Sea: 
fon with thofe of the other kind. 
‘For the Management of the Roots nothing 
more is required than the allowing them freth 
Compoft every Year, and the parting them 
every other Year. This muft be done in Augu/t; 
when the Flowerftalks are quite faded, and the 
Leaves look pale: they muft be immiediately 
planted again; for all that is meant by this; 
is to prevent their {preading to fo large a 
Bulk as to rob one another of the due Nourifh- 
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§ YELLOW AND WHITE JONQUILL, 
The Gardener. underftands by what -has -been 
faid on a preceding Occafion, that the Fonquill is 
properly of the Narciffus Kind ; and the Student 
in Botany will immediately difcover the fame Cha- 
racters in the Flower. 
fingular kind, and has been. long known in our 
Gardens, 
In the moft ufual State the entire Flower is white; | 
but in the elegant Condition wherein we reprefent 
it in this Place, the Mixture. of white and yellow 
WS very Dieming, gee 8p vy og a 
All. who have written on Flowers have 
named it; they call it Narcifjus juncifolius flore 
albo reflexo, and in this elegant State, Narciffus 
suncifolius calice luteo foliis reflexis albis : Jonquill | , : 
with a yellow Cup, and white Leaves to the | 
Flower. 
The Student knows what is meant by the Cup | 
in this Flower, is the Ne¢tarium, and he will eafily 
underftand the Name. 
Linnus joins it with the other Jonquills , | 
and adas as their Diftin@tion from the reft of the | 
Narciffus Kind, Spatha multiflora, neEario campa- 
nulato brevi, foliis Jubulatis : Many-flower’d Nar- | 
ciflus,, with a fhort bell-fhap’d Nectarium, and | 
fubulated Leaves. | 
The Root is roundith, of the Size of a Chef. | 
nut, and cover’d with a brown Skin; with many 
white Fibres from the Bafe. ti | 
The Leaves are narrow, long, hollow’d, 
{triated, and of a fine freth green. | 
The Stalk is round, upright, of a pale green, 
and eight Inches high. On its Top are placed | 
four or five Flowers of @ whimfical Form, and 
very elegant Colouring. 
They all rife from one common Point at the 
Head of the Stalk, and each has its feparate lorig 
Footitalk : their natural Pofition is drooping ; 
and they are compofed of a large NeGarium or 
Cup, and fix Petals rifing from its Outfide to- 
ward the Bafe. Ss 7 
The Cup is of a faint delicate yellow, and the 
Petals are Milk-white; - 
This is a very elegant and | 
The Colouring of the Cup is various | in Des 
gree and Form, ufually it is compleatly yellow ; 
and that Colour is deeper in fome Flowers, and 
paler in others; fometimes the Body of it is fo 
pale that it appears whitifh, and the yellow is 
laid on in Streaks; and thefe will be fometimes 
continued to the Petals, tho” they are naturally of 
a pure and perfec white, og site 
The Flower is conftructed as thofe of the other 
Narcifi. There is no Cup befide the common 
Scabbard, which ferves for the whole Bunch of 
Flowers, and. fades foon after it has burit to 
give them Way. 
The Neétarium is of a_bell-like Shape, and 
Culture of this Jonauizi., 
The Plant is a Native of | the foutherh Patts of 
Enrope : it is found wild in moift, warm Places, 
| where the Soil is deep and rich. 
The common Garden Mould with aii Addition 
of Wood-pile Earth, and rotted Cow Dung, I 
have found fuit it beft; about a Peck of each of 
thefe latter Ingredients fhould be added to 4 Buthel 
of the other: it requires natural or artificial Shade 
in the Heat of the Day, and in the fdweting. 
‘Seafon to be often water’d, Pe 
‘| — It may be propagated by Off-fets in the ufual 
Manner, but the beft Way is to raife it from 
Seed, There will always be produced by that 
a. Manage. 
