CO. Tn A eee a ete on 
July. 
Pi. 42. 
is. 2. 
OF GARDENING. 
Plants, and clear away all the reit for two Yards 
about them. 
Let him cut off the Spike of each when it 
begins to flower, leaving only about half a Dozen 
of the lower Flowers, which are then open. | 
Let him watch the Progrefs of Nature from 
time to time; and as new “ Shéots for flowering 
appear, deftroy them. 
Let thefe Flowers only ftand for Seeds; and 
me whole Effort of Nature being directed thi- 
ther, they will be ripen’d in the moft igo | 
Manner. 
Let him watch the Time when. their Pods 
grow dry; for they foon after burft, and the | 
Winds would carry away his Expectations. 
~~ Let him cut them off when thus fully ripen- 
ed, and lay them in an airy Room where there 
comes neither Sun nor Wind, to dry. 
This 
thus : : 
Mix equal Parts of black Meadow Earth, and 
Pond Mud; 
of Cow Dung, and one Bufhel of Marle; or if 
that cannot be had, three Pecks of Fullers 
Earth. This will make a very rich, and at the 
fame Time a cool’'Compoft, fat and mellow; it 
is what the Plant loves, and it will improve in 
lying. ‘ 
7 Pre it Aataiey for the Seeds will be well 
mellowed by ‘that Time it is wanted; but the 
Remainder will lie through the Winter, and the 
Frofts will perfect it for thie Reception of the 
Plants. 
done ; ’ let him: prepare a 1 Compoft 
“5 When the Seeds are well dried, aad the Heap Care beftowed on the other Plants: 
: - Autumn they muft be taken up, frefh Compoft 
turned, fix upon a cool and fhaded Part of the | muft be put into the Bed, and the Roots muft 
~be reduced to a due Size, for they fpread very 
| faft. This done, they muft be planted” again at 
of this Compoft has been two or three Times 
Nurfery for the Bed. Dig out the Mould a full 
Spade deep, and fill the Place with fome of the 
oo | 
- In the Middle of September chur a perfectly 
_ calm’ Evening of a cloudy Day, and mix with 
the Seeds a double Handful of dry clean Sand. 
The common white Writing Sand is beft, Rub | 
this and’ the Seeds together to feparate them; 
and: then: ‘the Surface of the Bed rn perfectly | 
levelled, fcatter them on with the Sand; 
to a Load of this add three Buthels 
a Place that has fome fhade; dig out the Mould 
as even 
as poffible, and. not too thick. 
When they are thus fpread upon the Bed, 
fweep them about with the Surface of the Mould 
with a ftrong Hair Brufh: by this Means all the 
Lumps will be broken. ‘This is very effential, 
for according to the Degtée of. covering, the 
| Seeds fhoot’ ftronger or weaker; and the Plants 
fhould rife diftinét, that the weak may. be taken 
up without hurting the others. 
Sift over them a Quarter of an Inch of this 
Compoft, and laying a Piece of a Whitethorn 
Bufh upon the Bed, leave all to Nature. — 
If in the: Remainder of 
Ground fhould grow too dry, it muft have a little 
Water: if any Weeds appear, ~~ mutt be 
pulled up. ‘ 
In Spring the young Plants will appear, let 
them be weeded and watered ; and when. they 
‘| have fome Strength, let all but ten or a Dozen 
of the fineft be pulled up. — 
Prepare a Bed for thefe in the Garden ; chufe 
July: 
reser TS 
the Autumn the. 
a Spade and half deep, lay in fome Clay that the 
-Moifture may be detained, and ag fe with the 
: Compott. 
When the Plants lef in the Seed Bed are five 
Inches high, open as many Holes as there are of 
them’ in this ‘Bed at a Yard Diftance, and in a 
cloudy Evening take them up with large Balls of 
_ Earth, and if nt them: give a good Watering, 
| and fhade them till they have taken root. 
After this they will require only the common 
but every 
the fame Diftance, and watered when they grow 
toward flowering. | 
This Management will bring them to the high- 
eft Perfection, nor is it limited to this Plant ; 
but with due Allowances for their Nature, fuits . 
all the fibrous rooted Kinds. 
a PORT IEC DAFFODIL. 
The ener foes not afford, in its Kind, a 
prettier Plant than this; nor do we know one 
that has been fo early, or fo honourably mention’d | 
by all Kinds of Writers. This is the ‘Narciffus 
celebrated in Greek and Roman Verfe: the vapxigcos 
vrvooc, the fragrant Daffodil of Turockitvs, 
the firft Flower ‘he has placed in his Europas 
Garland, this the vaexecos Of THEOPHRASTUS, 
which he defcribes with the naked Stalk, and Af- 
phodel Leaf, but broader: this the rofy-bofom’d 
Daffodil, which, they fay, reflected its bright Image 
in the clear Streams of their favourite Rivers. 
°Tis from thefe Fathers of the Science we are 
to feek the true Knowledge of their Time in 
Plants ; and while we honour the Critick who 
3° 
fets right the Afphodeloides, we want another 
ScaALIGER to reconcile to Reafon the Colouring 
of the Petals. 
The Name thus given to the firft N arciffus, 
the white flower’d Kind, with the purple Cup, 
the lefs accurate Followers of thefe Writers tranf- 
ferred without Addition, to the, whole Narciffus 
Kind. . 
Ovip has been fuppofed to contrac the early 
Greek, when in his elegant and mournful Story 
he fays, 
croceum pro corpore florem 
inveniunt foliis medium cingentibus albis. 
But Dioscoripzs who wrote between their 
Times, has reconciled this feeming Contradic- 
-tion : 
