OF GARDENING. 
July. 
the Flowers, and varied their Colouring, they 
———— were fond of it in Flower Pots, Feftoons and 
Smell. 
Garlands ; and wanting Cotton, they ufed the 
downy Subftance which covers its Leaves for the 
Wicks of Lamps. Hence was derived its Name 
Lychnis, from the Greek augue, a Lamp. .and 
therefore ’tis to be lamented, that Linn us va- 
ried it. 
He has ufed Lychius as a Term for another 
Genus; which not having this Character, could 
not have been called among the Antients by that 
’ Name. | | 
_ The Addition of Rofe to its Name feems to 
have come down to us from Piiny, who con- 
fidered it in his rude Way as a Rofe; but. he 
adds to the Certainty of this particular Plant 
being meant, by his obferving that it has no 
From this wild Plant the common fingle Field 
Rofe Campion, improved by the Cole then | 
known in Greece and Italy, our fuperior Art has 
raifed the elegant double Flower we here aor thefe, as well as the fingle, there will be a Variety 
fent ; and Rik other fine Varieties. 
The Plant requires a deep Soil ; and will grow 
in any that has that Quality. It is eafily increafed 
by parting the Roots: but this, though it fatisfy 
the common Gardener, is not the Method. to Per: 
fection. 
To raife all the Varieties of it in their full 
Beauty, a> proper Soil muft be adapted; the 
Plants muft be raifed from Seeds; and according 
to our Method of tracing every Article from the 
very Origin of Improvement, this muft be under- 
taken in the following Manner : 
Mix equal Parts of rich Pafture Eatth, and 
_ River Mud: toa Barrow of this add three Pecks 
of coarfe but clean Sand, and one Peck of Wood- | 
- pile Earth ; and the fame Quantity of Cow Dung, 
old, and well rotted. This is the proper Soil; 
and in this I have found the Plant thrive be- 
yond what is ufually to be fhewn. 
This fhould be mixed up in Autumn, and lie a 
Year; it fhould be turned often to blend its Parts, 
to give it the Influence of the Air, and to pre- 
vent the Growth of Weeds. 
This being prepared, let the Gardener mark 
a Plant of the common fingle Rofe Campion for 
Seed. Let him chufe a ftrong and healthy Root, 
and watch its flowering. Let him cut off all 
Stems but the principal; and when about a dozen 
Flowers are open, let him take off three or four 
of the weakeft, and worft looking of thefe ; and 
after that, pull off all others in the Bud juft as 
they are about to open. Thus will the whole 
Effort of Nature be employed on ripening the 
Seeds of thefe eight or nine Flowers; which the 
Gardener mutt alfo promote by clearing the 
Ground for a Yard about the Plant, and at 
Times breaking and watering it. 
When the Seeds are thoroughly ripe, let him 
harden them upon. a papered. Shelf, in an airy 
Room, and in the Middle of Auguft fow them in 
a fhelter’d Part of the Nurfery, upon a Bed of the 
Compoft raked very fine, 
N° 43. 
Let them be covered 
a Quarter of an Inch with Mould, and a Haw- 
thorn Buth laid over the Ground. 
In this Bed they muft be kept careful- 
ly weeded and watered till big enough to re- 
move. 
_ The fineft Plants muft then be tranfplanted to- 
a new Bed of the fame Compott, and fet at fix 
Inches Diftance. 
The others being left at the fame Diftance in 
the Séed-bed. They muft in both Places be 
| July. 
from time to time weeded and watered, and they 
will come to Flower the firft Year. 
There will be found among ‘ther a great 
many of the common Kind, but feveral alfo of 
other Colours: the beft of thefe mutt be planted 
out in the Garden in the latter End of Auguft, 
| 
and Seeds from the fineft of thofé improved Flenth 
| mutt be fown in the fame Manner. 
Thus from two or three Sowings thete will be 
produced ‘all the known Varieties of the Plane> 
I ‘There willbe many double Flowers; ‘and of 
in Colouring. Some will be of the natural deep; 
velvety crimfonl of the original Flower ; 
fome 
_ deeper, yet, and purplifh; others paler and: ap- 
‘be nurféd: afterwards with all Care. 
mutt be: taken up? every Seafon after the flower- 
ing is over: the beft Time for this is the third 
white, and whofe Petals are ftained curioufly with 
a fine Bluth of red, pale, and flefhy. 
Thefe fine Flowers obtained from Seed, mutt 
Week: in Auguf. The Compoft fhould be re- 
moved, and frefly put in its Place at this Time; 
and all: the young Heads which have been pro- 
duced about the old Root fhould be taken off; 
the dead Leaves taken off from théein, and froni 
the old ones, and the Fibres trim’d. 
The old Roots being thus cleared, muft be 
' proaching to the Peach-bloom Colour, and fome | 
white; but the moft elegant of all will be the 
| large double Flowers, whofe ground Colour is 
The Roots’ — 
-planted in frefh Compoft at fifteen Inches’ Dif- — 
tance, and they wlll then flower in full Perfee- 
tion the fucceeding Year. 
The Off fets ‘will be too {mall to bring into the 
Flower Garden; and they fhould be planted i in a 
Nurfery Bed of the fame Compoft, at five Inches , 
afunder, to ftand till they are in a flowering 
Condition. 
The old Roots mutt be kept clear from Weeds; 
and when the Mould between them is too dry, a 
little Water muft be allowed but this muft be 
given in Moderation, for too much i ite ai their 
Strength. 7 
In Spting let evety Plant be looked eaiefally : 
over; all dead. Leaves taken off, and the Ground 
broke about their Roots. 
At this Time a fmall Caterpillar is apt to lie 
concealed in the Heart of the young Shoot, and 
to be very hurtful. 
afunder, and the Creature taken out; and if this 
‘Let the Leaves be pulled — 
do not prove effectual, fome Tobacco Duft muft be - — 
{trewn over the Plants. This generally deftroys 
them. 
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