-———— much expos’d to the Sun ; 
June. 
~ them ftand till Autumn, | 
Signs of fending up a Stalk for fowering, let it be 
- Chufe a Part of the Nurfery that is not too 
and in the latter End 
of: Auguft, taking out the Mould from a {mall 
Piece, throw in this Compott five Inches thick. 
~ Scatter the Seeds over the Surface, and fift upon 
them a third of an Inch of the fame Mould. 
Lay a Piece of Hawthorn over the Bed, and 
leave it to Nature. All the Care it will require 
~ farther will be weeding in common with the other | 
~ Ground ; and if the Surface fhould grow very dry, 
a gentle Watering. 
When the young Plants appear, they muft be 
water’d more frequently ; and thin’d if = ftand 
any where too clofe. 
In the Middle of April let another Bed of the 
fame Compoft be prepar’d for them. Let them 
be taken up out of the Seed-Bed, and planted re- 
- gularly in this, at feven Inches Diftance. Here let 
and when they fhew the 
cut off in Time, for the whole Bufinefs now is to 
ftrengthen the Roots. 
In Autumn let another Bed be Biiearid? si the 
fame Compoft, and plant them again, at ten 
Inches Diftance.. Cover them in the hard F rofts 
of Winter, and the next Year let them flower, 
| without any other Removal. 
Pl. 40. 
Fi 
§: 3° 
The Plants from this Culture will greatly ex- 
ceed thofe from whence the Seeds were taken; and 
many of them will probably fhew femi- labbite 
Flowers. The Seeds of thefe muft be faved, as we 
have directed for the others; and thefe being fown | 
in the fame Manner, and the young Plants ma- 
nag’d with the fame Care, will probably afford 
the Plants we have thus purpos’d to raife; fuch as 
fhall have the Flowers perfectly double. 
When fuch a Plant is once obtain’d, the Pro- 
pagation of it will be eafy : all thefe fibrous Crow- 
foots fpread at the Root abundantly ; and by parting 
them in Autumn there will be a quick Encreafe. 
‘That double Flowers of this Species may be 
rais’d, is plain, from what we fee fo familiar in 
the other Kinds; and we find in them, that each ~ 
retains its original Character and Bignefs, When 
thus fill’d eink Petals. ee 
The double Flowers of the common upright 
Crowfoot, tho’ clufter’d full of Petals, are {mall , 
and the double Flower of the common creeping 
Kind, is, on the other Hand, large and {pecious, 
The Size would therefore naturally be preferv’d in 
this, and the delicate pale yellow. Thefe, with the 
filvery Whitenefs of the whole Plant, would render 
it a Species highly worthy its Place in every good 
| Garden. 
3 HUMBLE POLEMONIUM. 
‘The Gardener is to be inform’d, that under the 
Name Polemonivm, is now underftood the Plant 
which the Vulgar have been accuftom’d to. call | 
Facob’s Ladder, and thofe a little more acquainted but newly known in Europe. 
with the Subject, Greek Valerian. That is a Plant 
common in every Garden, and diftinguifh’d into 
two Varieties by the Colour of the Flowers, the 
Blue, and the White. 
It had been very improperly numbered with the 
Valerians: but thofe lefs accurate ‘Writers, who 
confidered the general Afpeét of a Plant, more 
than the effential Characters, when they reduc’d 
it, in their Way, to its Genus, might very natu- 
the winged Leaves, | 
rally fall into that Error: 
and terminating Tufts of Flowers, give the Plant 
the general Air and Afpect of a Valerian, tho’ its 
true Characters, plac’d by Nature in the Flower, 
and there read by the more accurate Eye of mo- 
dern Science, are perfectly diftin®. 
The Genus. thus diftinguith’d from Valerian, 
Linnavs has nam’d Polemonium; nor mutt the 
Reader fuppofe he has by this confounded it with 
one yet more diftinét, the Poley mountain. That 
had been called Poliun montanum, a Name fome 
have confounded with Polemoniums; but he takes 
off the Epithet, and writes that fimply Polium. 
The Gardener thus underftanding that Polemo- 
mium is the Generical Name of the Plant he has 
been us’d to call Greek Valerian, will perceive, at 
the firft View of the F; igure of this Plant, that it 
is of the fame Genus, as well as that it differs 
fpecifically from the common Kind. The Name 
bumbie we have given from its lower Stature, and 
more tender Conftruction, than: in the common 
2 
Nature : 
common Kind, and may be call’d Polemonium pin- 
a 
A GCOMPLEAT BODY = 
June, 
Kind 3 and he is not to expect he fhall meet with © 
any other. 
The Plant is a ative of North America, and 
The old Writers 
have therefore no Name for it; and Linnvs, 
who has feen the Plant, confiders it as a Variety, 
not a diftinét Species, and has therefore given it 
no feparate Name. 
All the Reverence we owe that Author’s Judge- 
ment muft not fhut our Eyes againft Truth and 
the Plant -is diftinét in ‘Bbiciies from the 
nis paucioribus ovatis : 
oval Pinnz. 3 | 
That Author has done great Service to Botany, 
by reducing Varieties'to their proper Species ; but 
the Defcription of this Plant (with which we thall 
mention the correfpondent Parts of the common) 
will fhew that he has here carry’d the Reduction 
Polemonium, with few and 
too far. 
The Root is fibrous, and rca: abundantly 
under the Surface. 
The firft Leaves are long and winged; each is 
compos’d of about four Pairs of Pinnz, and 
thefe are of an oblong oval Form, obtufe, and 
pale.. In the common Kind there are from twelve 
to twenty Pairs, and they are pointed, and of a 
frefh green. 
The Stalk is’ round, lightly ‘ftriated, oe 
ufually a little bent, and of a pale green. In the 
common, it is firm, rigidly upright, high ridg’d, 
and ‘ting’d with a purplifh brown. 
The Leaves in this are few, rarely more than 
three or four, and plac’d at confiderable Diftances : 
in 
