July. 
the Plant therefore belongs to the ai andria Pen 
tagynia of Linn US. 24 | 
Kind, but-one of thofe innumerable Varieties 
which rife from well ripened and well managed. 
Seeds. 
The old Writers have defcribed it under the - 
Name of Aguilegia inverfis corniculis ;»and Aquile- 
gia multiplici flore inverfo: thé inverted-leaved Co- 
lumbine, and the double inverted Columbines. >. 
The Origin is from the common fimple Cale 
bine, wild in fome Parts of this Kingdom, and 
throughout the reft of Ezrope, and little regarded 
now in Gardens. No Plant gives the E lorift 
more Field for Variation; for the Forms and Co- 
lours of the Flowers are almoft endlefs. 
Linn us refers all thefe, the great double and 
the great fingle, the degenerate, the rofy, | the 
ftarry, and this inverted Kind, to the common 
Columbine, which he diftinguifhes by the Addition 
of corniculis incurvis ; the Columbine with the Horns 
bent inwards: and in the Flower in that natural 
State only, as feen in the wild) or common 
fingle Columbine, be 
the Characters are. to. 
traced. | 
This inverted Kind is of the fame Stature with © 
the common, and, unlefs for the Difference in 
the Flowers, of the fame Form. 
The Root is compofed of numerous Fibres, 
hung to a long and firm Head. 
The Leaves are fupported on long flender but 
firm Footftalls, of a redifh Colour, and are com- 
pofed of many Divifions, placed in Three’s : 
thefe feparate Parts are obtufe, and of a blueith 
green. 
The Stalk is two Foot high, svntile tolera- 
bly firm, but flender. 
Several Leaves ftand irregularly on it, ae 
bling thofe from the Root; and at the Top it di- 
vides into many Branches. 
~The Flowers are large, double, and very beau- 
tiful: their Colour varies extremely; they are 
blue, red or white, and often pyebald, or mixed 
of two of thofe Colours in a very pleafing 
Manner. | 
They are thick fet with curled and rounded 
Parts, and their Neétaria or Horns ftand forward ; 
the Flower appears’ fixed to its Footftalk by the 
_ wrong End, and this Singularity adds to the Ele- 
‘gance. 
We have had Occafion before to refer the Stu- 
dent to the fimple Columbine for the Claffical Cha- 
racters: that with five Petals, and five horned 
Nectafia, has numerous Filaments fixed to the 
Receptacle, and five Rudiments with their Styles : 
once flowered, 
‘Culture of this CoLuMBIne. 
- As the Columbine is a Native of our Country, 
tere will be no Danger of its fuffering by Frofts 
or Expofure: the Seeds will raife it if fown ever 
fo carelefly; but, with due Pia saree: the 
Plants will be vaftly improved and varied. 
All that we have named as belonging to the 
fame original Stock, will rife one time or other — 
from the fame Seeds; but let thefe be faved, and 
fown with Judement. 
Several of the double Columbines ripen Seeds as. 
perfeétly as the fingle; and ’tis - fome of 
thefe it fhould be faved. 
Let the Gardener mark for this Purpole, two 
or three Plants which have the largeft and faireft 
and from thofe fave the Seed, as ae 
have directed on former’ Occafions. 
Flowers : 
‘When this is thoroughly hardened, let it be fown 
in the Nurfery; and as the Plants come up, let 
them be weeded, watered, thined, and every way 
affifted in their Growth: and when they have 
let them be brought into the 
Garden. 
The Variety is endlefs that will thus rife from 
one Parcel of Seed collected from one Plant; 
there will be fingle and double, rofy, ftarry, © 
and inverted, perfect and degenerate Flowers: 
in Colour there will be all the Shades of blue, 
white, and red; and all the Colours that can be 
derived from various Mixtures of thefe ; among: 
the reft there will be fome variegated, Reged, 
clouded and fpotted: thefe are he fineft, and 
from thefe Seeds fhould be afterwards faved. 
Thefe numerous Varieties ought to recommend 
the Plant to the Gardener ; nor is there a little Re- 
gard due to its Form and Time of Flowering. 
This Seafon is a kind of middle Space between 
the Spring and Autumn Flowers, and there are 
fewer particular to it than to either of the o- 
thers. A bufhy Plant which produces Abundance 
of Bloom at fuch a Time, is therefore va- 
luable. ae | 
We do not enough regard it; and ’tis more 
ftrange yet, that the Plant does not appear to 
have been known to the Greeks and Romans: it 
has no Name in the Language of the firft, nor is. 
that which we call the Latin one, of real Latin O- 
} rigin. 
5 ORIDNTAL GUADIOLE. 
This is a Plant well recommended by its large 
and {pecious Flowers, and worthy a Place in eve- 
ry Garden: nor is the Culture difficult. 
The Bignefs of the Flowers, their Difpofition, 
and their Colour, are the great Diftinction of 
this from the commén Kind which we have 
named before. To the Gardener thefe are very 
effential Diftinétions: but our Botanical Student 
knows that in the Eye of Science there are none. 
He will confider the Plant therefore as deduced 
from the common Giadiole, and while he admires 
its Beauty, know its Origin. 
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