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4 OLF GAR, D.ELN_TNUG. 
‘June. 
with multifid Leaves, with prickly bent Seeds, 
_—— finall to the Point, and with the Cups turn’d 
_ Leaves: 
back. 
The Root is compos’d of numerous long Fi- 
bres, connected to a fmall Head. 
The firft Leaves have long hollow’d F ovtitalks:; 
and they are large, and divided into a Multitude 
of long narrow Segments: they are of a tough 
Subftance, and their Colour is a greyifh green. 
They are covered with a loofe cottony white 
Matter. | 
The Stalk is a Foot high, upright, round, and. 
divided into a few Branches. | 
The Leaves ftand alternately on ners -and re- 
femble thofe from the Root, by their Divifion into 
numerous, long, and narrow Parts. Their Co- 
lour is the fame whitifh green with that of the 
others, and they are covered with the like cottony 
Matter. 
The Flowers terminate the Stalks and REE RN . 
and feveral are fupported. alfo on flender Foot- 
ftalks, rifing from the Bofoms of the upper 
they are in the whole, numerous, and 
they are confpicuous both in-Size and Colour. 
They are half an Inch in Diameter, and of a sary 
fine, tho’ not ftrong yellow. 
The Cup is compos’d of five oval Leaves, and 
thefe, when the Flower is open, turn back; and, 
hanging downward, fhew the Hollow of their 
Infide ting’d with the yellow of the F lower, tho’ 
paler. 
_ Five Petals form the Body. of the F lower, and 
thefe are obtufe at the End, broad, and fix’d ‘to 
the Receptacle by fmall Bafes. A little above 
this Part, in each Petal, there is a imal Hollow, 
the Nectarium. 
The Centre of the Flower is fill’d with a Mul- 
titude of Filaments, and a Clufter of Rudiments 
_ of Seeds, with their Heads, plac’d in the Midft. 
The Filaments are fhort, and they are crown’d 
with doubled Buttons. 
its feparate Head fix’d to their Summit, without 
any Style; and when the Flower is fallen: with its 
Cup, thefe ‘Tipen into fo — _— pierce 
Seeds. 
To know the Clafs wid Place af the Plant j in 
the Linnaan’ Syftem, the Student mutt. trace 
thefe numerovis Filaments to their Origin. He 
will find they rife from the Receptacle; and that 
the Plant is therefore one of the Polyandria: the 
numerous Rudiments refer it alfo to the Po- 
lygynia. a . 
Culture of this Crowroor. 
The Plint cis a’ Netiewstos hb Hilt itehene it 
theives beft in a deep Mould, with fome Moifture. | 
The Seeds grow freely with us y and it flowers, | 
4s in its native Meadows, inthe Borders of our 
Gardens. 
The Divifion ahd Colouring of ia ie aes Ge 4 
ftinguifh it at Sight from’ all the European Kinds ; 
and there is fomething in the Size and Colour of 
we 
propofe to enrich this with additional Petals, and | fome Moifture; thtee Pecks of Pond-Mud, and 
that Way to make it a proper Ornament of the 
the Flower that naturally ftrikes: the: Eye: 
Flower-Garden. 
| may:. 
The Rudiments have each | 
There is no Plant in which Nature is more apt 
to be luxuriant in the Number of Petals, than the 
Crowfoot. 
Seafon gilds our Meadows, there are frequently 
fix, feven, or more, inftead of five; and 
we fee frequent in our Gardens, the upright 
Kind, brought in from our Paftures. elegantly 
double. 
What is fo familiar in the Englifo a 
Crowfoot, I have feen in this Oriental Kind: 
one Flower gather’d from a thriving Plant of it it 
in Mr. Lee’s Garden, I counted nine Petals, 
tho’ the Generality had but five, according to the 
natural Limitation: from this’tis plain, that Nature | 
and 
is enclin’d to this Redundance in the Flower ; 
} on that Obfervation it is not rafh to pes the 
Purpofe of rendering it by proper Culture, double, 
in the Manner of the common upright Crowfoot. 
‘In this Cafe, the Plant would be extremely 
elegant. The Flowers, naturally larger, and of 
a more delicate yellow than in that Kind, 
would give it a great Preference; and as they are 
numerous, and the Branches not ftraggling, 
one may expect to fee fuch a Plant well train’d, 
of the Bignefs of a Walnut, and of a delicate 
Lemon Colour. 
‘This is the State to which the Chili fhould 
attempt to bring the Plant. 
done, but Nature gives plain Indication that it 
*tis.a proper Subject for his Art, and he 
will get Credit who fhall firft fhew the F lower i in 
this Perfection. 
The Method of attempting it muft be this = 
Let one of the Plants now in Flower be mark’d 
pen to be a Flower with more than the five com- 
mon Petals, let that be certainly one of thofe 
fav’d for Seed. : 
Let the Ground be clear’d of Weeds and sth 
Plants, of whatever Kind, for a Yard round | 
about this; and once in four Days let the Surface 
be well broke with a Trowel, not going fo deep as 
to-difturb the Roots. Let the Stalks that have 
Flowers on them, be ty’d up to Sticks; and 
every Evening give the Plant a gentle Watering. 
_ | Let this be continued till the Flowers are fallen, 
and the Heads of Seeds have their full Bignefs : 
then give no more bE cat but leave the Seeds to 
harden upon the Stalk. 
When they begin to be loofe, carefully cut off 
the Heads, and lay them to dry upon a paper’d 
Shelf. 
_ Thus’ there. will be a Perdiiney of good Seeds ; 
wad the next Care mult be to compofe a proper Soil. 
It has not yet been 
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June. 
In the common Kind, which at this ’ 
cover’d with a compleat Head of Flowers, eaca — 
for Seed. Let all the Flowers and Buds be cut | 
from this, except three or four; and if there hap- 
Jn this, and in the Situation, Nature muft be the _ 
Rule. 
In all thefe Giles, the fame Kind of Soil thould 
bi chofen that Nature fhews moft fuited in the 
and the fame Kind of 
~wild Growth of the Plant ; 
Situation. 
Mix for this Pinot a Buthel of rich Meadow 
Earth, taken from under the Turf where there is - 
of coarfe Sand, and work the whole together. 
Chile. 
two of rotted Cow-dung. Throw in two Quarts 
