ss al 
- Branches. 
A COMPLEAT. BODY 
The Care of faving Seeds for a next Year’s 
Crop, fhould come aul into the Gardener’s 
Mind: he fhould mark the #rongeft Plant as 
foon as they come into Flower, and not fuffer 
this to exhauft itfelf by too large a bloom: he 
fhould cherifh the ten or twelve Flowers’ that firft 
open, aut. take off. alk fucceeding Buds... Thus 
July. 
the whole Strength of Nature. being employed on == 
thefe, the Seeds. will be. ripened i in a -moft perfect 
Manner, and his next Year’s Plants will very w ell 
-fhew the Effect of his Cares 
Nests abit 
4. DOUBLE: ROSE” CRMPT ON” 
‘The Gardener is well acquainted with this 
Plant, and its eafy Culture : he knows that Cam- 
pion is the Englifh Name of Lychnis, fynonymous 
with Catch-fly; and he cannot need be told, that 
this particular Kind obtained the Addition of Rofe 
from the glorious red, and Luftre of the Flower. 
It has long been an Ornament of our Gar- | 
“aenk and from all Time the Botanical Writers 
have defcribed and celebrated it. 
- Droscoripzs has mentioned in too exprefs 
Terms to be mifunderftood; and from him many | 
of the later Authors have called it Lychnis Coro- | 
naria, Dioscoripis fativa; others Lychnis Coro- 
novia, and Camerarius fimply Lychnis. 
' Our Student muft be told that Linnzvus, | 
whom all with Reafon follow now in Botany, | 
has difcoveted in the Characters of the feveral | 
Plants joined by others under the common Name 
Lychnis, the Foundation of a Diftinction into fe- | 
veral Genera. 
eceltweniel: of the old Genera was one of the 
ereateft Faults of the Syttems. 
He has feparated from the rafts the Cockle, : 
this; and fome others; and given the new efta- 'Iaments, crowned’ with” fimple“Heads. 
| Seed- veflel follows, containin 
blifhed Genus the Name Agrofemma: to which 
as the Diftinction of the prefent Species, he adds, 
Tomentofa, folits ovato lanceolatis, .petalis integris 
coronatis: woolly Agroftemma, with lanceolate 
oval Leaves, and undivided coronated Petals. 
By this Name he expreffes the Rofe Campion in 
its fingle State, and our Pupil knows that no pecu- 
liar Denomination is needed to this double Flower; 
a Multiplicity of Petals never being underftood 
as a Mark of a diftinct Bp! but of a. feminal 
| Variety. 
The Root is long and hung with innumerable 
thick Fibres. is! 
The Leaves rife in a vaft Tui ack are Stitt 
and lanceolate, but with’! fomewhat :of: the oval 
Form. = are white, woolly, and foft:to: rhe 
Touch. { ine! 
: ime Stalks tife among, thee numerous, thik 
round, jointed, and two, Foot,,.or more; 
Height. They are woolly. 
Leaves, and toward the,Top they fend out. many 
: . 
i HoT “at F 
The Leaves ftand ee Pairs, cont thele,_ and are 
oblong, pointed, and of the fame whitifh Co- 
lour, with the fame woolly Covering, , oL hey 
ry 
have no F ootttalks, but | PanY. enclofe, the Stalk 
at the Bafe. ee 
~The F lowers terminate the main Stem, and all 
the Branches. They are. yely large, Goble. or 
+i m= wehbe sed ¢ wis 
| Petals. 
‘This is highly. ufeful, for the Ex- 
full ‘of Saeed and waved Petals, and of a moft 
elegant and rich-errmfon:-~Fhis- would -be-1n any . 
Plant extreamly confpicuous; but in this it is 
elegantly Bs arty by a Contraft with the 
Lieavesa & ° “ 
é 
The 2. knows he is to find a fingle 
Floweriin order to® trace’ the Characters of the 
| Plant ;cfor in. this Multiplicity of Petals the Fi- 
latnents‘are often: obfcured,, obliterated, or loft. - 
In the fingle Ro/e Campien he will fee the Cup 
| compofed’ ‘Of one’ Pieces, tubular, of'a°tough Sub- 
| ftance, and Cut into” ‘five flender Segments at the 
Rime 
ithe ‘Body of © sanis Blower is. orepoted af | five 
Thefe have narrow Bafes of. the Length 
of the Cup; and’ their’ ‘Bodies are oe be 
broad, and obtufe.. 
In the Centre ftand' ‘ten Filaments, ‘fmall sé 
the Top; and fixed in an alternate: Order to the 
Bafes * of “the Petals. ° 2 
fimple Buttons.’ ©? °~ 
In the Midi of there is an ‘oval uae 
and from it five. Styles. of the Length of the Fi- 
An oval 
g numerous dotted 
Seeds. eS | 
The ten F ilaments. refer i Plone to elle De- 
candria of Linn aus ; 5. and the five Styles to the © 
fifth Section under that Head, 
containing the 
ie | ee 
Culture of this LycHnis. 
eye Plant i iS.a a perennial, hardy, and fpreading 
at the Root: it isa Native of Italy, and of 
the Greek Wands, and has been very long intro- 
duced into the Gardens of the more northern 
Parts of Europe. — 
‘The Student muft not wonder that we afcer- 
tain this as the Lychuis of the old Greeks, though 
they have left but fhort Accounts of it; a Prac- 
tice we have often Occafion to lament -in their 
| Writings, concerning Plants, too common at that 
and whitith , as. ae Time to need Degeerion, 
| agrees with it perfectly ; and Puiny, who at-ran- 
}dom places the Lychnis among the Rofes, yet 
for he fays the Petals 
What they have faid 
gives. fome Confirmation ; 
of. the F ‘lower. never exceeded five in Number, 
The Antients..therefore, though. they efteemed 
she Plant Anew it,only in. the fingle State of the 
F lowers: P 
In ee meaner Coidicion it is fill Lepaitifiak: 
and though ineglected!with usw ho; have doubled 
2 the 
4 are “crowned with. | 
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