June. 
A’ COMPLEAAD BOD Y 
Management, a great Variety of Flowers; and if | 
— Seed be again faved from the fineft of thofe, the | 
Pi. 39. 
Fig. 6 
Fhe Method of raifing it from Seed mutt be 
Flowers will be improved almoft without End or | which we have deliver’d.in a preceding Number. 
Limitation. - 
6 GREAT WHITE- “NARCISSUS. 
This is a very elegant and noble Flower, hardy 
enough to bear the worft Seafons with us, and 
adorning our common Borders with a Blaze of 
fnowy Whitenefs that is very pleafing. 
“Thofe who have written on Flowers have all | 
of the Plant to Doublenefs in the Flower; and 
Culture may eafily improve them into the full 
Multiplicity of Petals, which is the Character of 
They call it, Nareiffus | orientalis calice pal- | 
lido maximus, and Narciffus orientalis albus luteo | 
are fix; 
- other Narciffus’s, refer the Plant to the Hexandria 
named it; and under the. {mall Variations of 
Colouring in the Nectarium, or as they call it, 
the Cup, have diftinguifh’d many imaginary Spe- 
cies. 
calyce: the great oriental Narciffus with a. pale 
Cup; and with a yellow Cup. 
Linnavus, who difregards fuch flight Marks 
in the diftinétive Names a Plants, i ae the fe- 
veral Varieties to one Kind; which. from the 
Form of the Leaves, and Shape, Pofition, and | 
Proportion of the Cup, he diftintively calls, 
Narciffus foliis enfiformibus, florum neEtario camipa- 
nulato ereéio, petalis longe breviore: Sword-leav’d 
Narciffus, with an upright bell-fhap’d Nettarium, 
much fhorter than the Petals. | 
Under this Name he comprehends perhaps 
too many; but ceftainly with Juftice, all thofe 
Flowers of this Form, which have ‘no more Di- 
ftinction than a flight. Variation: in the Colouring 
of the Cup. 
The Root is roundifh, cover’d with ‘a brown 
outer Skin, and hung with many large and long 
white Fibres from the Bafe. 
The Leaves are broad, eight Inches long, 
obtufe, and of a pale green, With a Tinge of 
blueifh. 
The Stalk is fifteen Inches high, pale and erett, 
The Flowers burft together from the Top of 
it, ‘where they are at firft inclofed in a flight 
Scabbard ; and each has its feparate long Foot- 
ftalk. | 
They are large and elewant ; ; the Petals ob- 
long, expanded, tind of a pure white; and the 
Cup or Nectarium {mall, and lightly ting’d with 
yellow. It is waved at the Edge, and the yel- 
low is in different Flowers various difpofed, and 
Cup, and Fullnefs of the Petals. 
in ‘different Degrees of Strength ; but in the moft 
| delicate State it is pale. 
~The Characters are often obliterated by the 
Rife of fome irregular little Petals in the Centre 
of the Neétarium : thefe are the firtt Tendency 
fuch Flowers. | 
Where there is. nothing of this, ‘tie Filaments 
‘and thefe with the fincle Style, as in the 
Monogynia of Linn £us. _ 
Culture \of this Narcissus. 
“The Plant i is a ‘Native of the fouthern Parts of 
Eurcpe, and of the Eaft. It flourifhes naturally 
in a rich, deep Soil, where aa is fome Shade 
and Moifture. J 
~ Tt has been much improved from the wild 
State in our Gardens; and we have been long 
accuftom’d to receive the Roots from ‘Holland, 
whither they firft came from the Eaft. | 
~ Our Gardeners ufually raife the Plant from 
Off-fets ; but there is no Difficulty in producing 
it from Seeds; and every one knows the Advan- 
cage, | 
sis the Method f. om 1 OFF. fets the Flowers are 
limited to the few original Kinds; and they will 
_ degenerate even from the full Beauty of thefe after: 
a certain Time. ~~ 
On the other hand, thofe who will be at the 
Pains to raife it from Seed, will have the Choice 
of innumerable Variations in the Colouring of the 
The beft of 
which they may preferve in Beds raifed for that 
Purpofe; and the others planted out in common 
Borders, will add greatly to their Beauty. In both 
Cafes the Management is to be the fame with 
that we have direéted for the other Kinds, of 
which no part need be repeated on this Occafion. 
CHa a. * 
The Management of the Flower Garden, for this Week. 
HE Gardener will remember that we have 
directed the taking up the Roots of many 
of thofe bulbous and tuberous Kinds, which do 
not bear to be kept long out of the Ground at 
the Seafon when their Leaves fade; that new 
Mould may be given them, and the Off-fets 
which would weaken their next flowering may be 
taken off. Many of the Spring Flowers are of 
this Kind, and this is the Seafon for removing 
them. 
Let the Gardener fee where the Leaves wither, 
and take that as his Notice for doing it. The 
Winter Aconite, Erythronium, early Fritillaries, 
Spring Cyclamens, and feveral others, are now in 
a Condition for this. 
Let them be taken up with Care, and the Off- 
fets feparated without injuring the Roots. For 
the choicer Kinds let the Earth be taken entirely 
away, and a frefh Quantity of the fame Kind put 
inits Place. For the reft let the whole be very well 
dug up, and broken, and let fome frefh Pafture 
Mould be dug in among it. This will anfwer 
i the 
June: 
- the fame with that ufed for the other Narciffus’s, ---— 
