OF GARDENING. 
July. mutt bé weeded and watered carefully in this 
‘Bed, and kept without any farther Removal to 
flower. wahee 
When it is on which are finett, oxen muft be 
the fucceeding Autumn tranfplanted again into 
a freth Bed of Compoft, and placed at a Foot 
Diftance, that there may be room for laying the 
Shoots in order to encreafe them farther. 
Pl. 43. | The common Crown Imperial is well known ; 
Fig. 6. and this, though an elegant Kind, is nothing 
more than a Variety from Seed; flowering later, 
and diftinguifhed by the Splendor of its Colour- 
times there rifes above hele a third from the fame 
Wantonnefs of Nature, under a delayed Planta- 
tion, and rich Soil. 
The Flowers in the fecond, and even thofe in 
the third Crown, will fometimes arrive at a tole- 
rable Luftre ; but when they do not, they are ftill 
a greater Advantage: they terminate the Stalk 
agreeably, and they draw up abundant Juices ; 
which, if not employed to bring themfelves to 
Perfection, feed the lower Stage with a more than 
. ufual Nourifhment. led c 
a The Writers on Flowers have all named this 
~~... Wariety, and too many of them in their ufual 
| Way, have treated it as a diftin& Species; They ' 
oF call it Corona imperialis duplici corona, and Gorona || 
imperialis triplict corona: the Crown Imperial, 
with a double and with a triple Crown; and 
d 
they have named. it as if. yet another Species, 
Corona imperiahs flore. luteo. firtato: the ftriped 
called it: alfo Tufai; and Caspar Bavuuine refers 
it to the Lillies. : 
Lunn zzus, much more correct than thefe; deée- 
the fame with thofe of the Fritillary : he refers 
it to that Kind; and for Diftin@ion of the Spe- 
cies adds, racemo comofo inferne nudo, foliis integer- 
vimis: Fritillary with undivided Leaves, with a 
leafy Head, and the Stalk naked under the 
Flowers. : | 
‘The Root is bulbous, but of a particular Form, 
rounded, thick and flattéd; and is compofed of 
many thick; pointed, juicy Scales; of a yel- 
lowifh white; more or lefs tinged with papi; 
and of a difagreeable rank Smell. | 
Mould a vaft firm Shoot, cluftered-with Leaves, 
and loaded with the Buds of many Flowers. As 
the Plant advances in Height, it acquires a more 
regular Form. 
t “The Stalk: rifes. to two Foot and a half in 
Re Height, and is very thick, firm, ftriated, and 
green. . : 
The Leaves are placed irregularly, and in 
- . great Numbers about the lower Part of it: they 
creafed ; and from thefe Sowings of the common 
ing; and be the fecond Stage of Flowers. Some- | 
when the Flower have been diverfified in Colour, 
flowered Crown Imperial. J. Bauuine has’ 
nies it a diftinét Genus; for the Charaéters are’ 
From this, early in Spring, burfts through the: 
In this Manner the good Kinds are to. be en- 
Pink, will be produced many very elegant Vari- © 
éties; the Pheafant’s Eye, the ‘old Man’s Head, 
the Shock, the Damafk, and many which have 
no Names; for every large Sowing will produce a 
new Flower or two; and the Stock thus encreafe 
continually. 
. | Hy baOn 3, Mae dok, oc. d 1 CK CROWN IMPERIAL. 
are long, cade broad; of a fine green; 
fharp pointed, and undivided at the Edges. F or 
fome Space above thefe Leaves the Stalk is naked, 
{mooth, of a faint yellowifh green tinged with a 
purplith Cait, and frequently fpotted very beau- 
tifully. At the Top ftands .an elegant Head, 
compofed partly of Flowers, partly of J Leaves. = 
The Flowers are eight or ten in number, and 
they rife each between two of thofe Leaves which 
form the comofe Head. Thefe Leaves are placed 
“Each lias its feparate Footftalk Bae in the 
| common State of the Plant, thefe, with the 
Crown of Leaves, terminate the whole. But in 
the redundant Condition wherein it is here figured, 
the main Stalk is not terminated by the Head of 
Height above the Tops of the Leavés, it has a. 
‘fecond fmaller Crown of Leaves and Flowers, 
difpofed exaétly as the firft, but lefs. 
‘Above thefe there will alfo fometimes rife ano- 
ther. : 
The F ae in thefe upper Stages perfectly 
beautiful. 
Each Flower is compofed of fix oblong, pa- 
-rallel Petals, difpofed in a campanulated Form, | 
and without a Cup. 
At the Bafe of each Petal, on the Infide of the 
Flower, is a confpicuous hollow, rounded and 
filled with a tranfparent Liquor : thefe are the 
Neétaria of the Plant. 
The Filaments are fix, and the Style’ is Tas 
The Buttons are oblong and fquared, and the’ 
Head of the Style is divided into three Parts. ° 
| This fhews the Plant to be one of the Hexandrig 
Monogynia of Linnvs, his fixth Clafs, and its” 
firft Seétion. 
The Colour of the Flowets is yellow: ‘but. 
under the. various Stages of Culture they have 
this in different Tinges and Degtees. In the Con- 
dition wherein wé repreferit: it, the yellow is 
ftrong, and not uhfrequently there run through it 
Stripes of a-fainter Gold, very pleafing. 
Culture 
SIL 
July: 
obliquely upwards, and form a Crown like that of | 
the Pineapple: : 
: The F lowers hang down as in the other F aor | 
laries. : 
Flowers. and Leaves, but continued thro? them ee 
and after runnihg up naked and‘flender to a little 
refemble thofe of the lower, but hey: are lefs 
