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Spot muft be open to the Morning Sun, and 
defended from Noon. 
On this Bed let the Seeds be fcattered with an 
even Hand, in the latter End of Auguf, and 
covered with a Quarter of an Inch of the fame 
Mould. When the young Plants appear, they 
muft be weeded and gently watered ; and in the 
End of September they fhould be taken up, and 
planted in another Bed at eight Inches Diftance. 
Here they may ftand till the September follow- 
ing, and then it will be Time to remove them 
into the Flower Garden, for they will flower the 
next Year. | 
A Place muft be chofen for them under a 
warm Wall, open to the Eaft, and fheltered from 
the Noon Sun. | 7 
A Bed muft be made for them in this Place, 
and they muft be planted at eighteen Inches Di- 
ftance. They muft be carefully weeded and wa- 
tered, and the fucceeding Summer they will 
flower. : 
Let the fineft be marked while in bloom ; and. 
in the September following let the Roots be all 
taken up, and a new Compoft thrown into the | 
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OF GARDENING. 
| Joly. leta Bed be prepared in a fheltered Part of the | Place. The inferior Kinds may 
-—— Seminary, with the Compoft juft directed. The 
When they have been in this Manner nurfed 
two or three Years, they may be increaled by 
parting the Roots when taken up in Autumn for 
renewing the Soil; and at the fame Time Seeds 
fhould be faved from one or more of the very 
fineft Flowers ; and a new Stock raifed. 
The old. Plants are then to be rernoved into 
the common Borders, as foon as the néw Seed- 
lings come to the State of perfect flowering ; but 
the fame Place preferved for the choicer Kinds. 
There is no great Trouble in the Manage- 
ment of feedling Plants to thofe who raife great _ 
Numbers, and there is no other Way to attain 
Perfection in the feveral Flowers. 
The worft of thefe Plants will be avery great 
Ornament in the Borders; and fo much Atten- 
tion muft be fhewn to the Warmth of the native 
Climate of the Plant, even in thefe, that they 
_muft have a warm and fheltered Place, though in — 
the common Mould: otherwife they will either 
become very weak, or abfolutely perifh: 
3 SINGLE sGREDEN AMARYLTTS, 
If the Figure on the annexed Plate did not 
remind the Gardener of the intended Plant, he 
would not conceive that by golden Amaryllis we 
mean the autumnal Daffodil of his Nomenclator. 
Tis by that Name he knows the Plant; but there 
never was one more given at random. ~ : 
He knows the effential Character of a Daffo- 
dil is a hollow Nectarium; or in his own Lan- 
guage, a Cup within the Flower, but he will find 
none here; nor is it eafy to conceive by what In- 
fatuation they were led who firft gave it the Name 
Narciffus. By this, however, it is called among 
the Generality of Writers. They add to. it az- 
tumnalis, from the Time of the Plants flowering; 
and from its native Country, Indicus. C. Bavu- 
nine adopting both, calls it, Narciffus indicus 
autumnalis; and by thefe Names it ftands in 
Cuusivus and others. 
Some finding the Impropriety of this Name, 
have refer’d it to the Colchicums, which indeed it 
more refembles, and fome have called it Pancra- 
tium but not in the prefent adopted Senfe of this 
Word. 
Such was the Confufion under which the 
Science of Botany laboured till the Time of 
Linnzus. He found the bulbous Plants, more 
than all the reft, confounded among one another, 
ill joined, and ill feparated; and each Way called 
by the moft difcordant Names. He fet thefe 
afide; and examining Nature and her Characters 
alone, to his everlafting Honour, eftablifhed many 
new Genera, and of thefe the Amaryllis is one. 
The Gardener, accuftomed to common Names, 
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and falfe DiftinGtions, will be aftonifhed to read 
that he has brought together under this one 
Name, the autumnal Daffodil, the. Atamufca, 
Guernfea, and Facobean Lilly, the Ceylon Lilio- 
narcifus of Commexine, and Hermans Dwarf 
African Lilly; the oriental Narcijus of Swerr- - 
situs, and the fpotted Lilly of Pruxener. Let 
him look into thefe Flowers, and he will find that 
it is done with Juftice: his Eye will thew him 
that howfoever thefe Names have been given the 
Plants by ignorant, and continued to them by 
unfkilful Perfons, there is not a Lilly nor a Daf- 
fodil among them. i 
He will fee they all differ from: the Flowers 
properly called by thofe Names; and that. they 
all agree with one another: then thaking off old 
Prejudices, he will perceive his Obligation to that 
Author, who joined them under one Name; and 
will not be offended, as there was no old Ds. 
mination which fuited them, that he eave the 
Genus anewone. ! : 
He has diftinguifhed the prefent Species by 
the Addition of Spatha uniflora corella equali fiami- 
nibus declinatis : fingle flowered Amaryllis, with a 
regular Flower, and drooping Filaments. 
The Root is large, bulbous, and covered with 
a thick blackifh Skin. | 
The Leaves are long, moderately broad, ob-. 
tufe, firm, and of a deep green. Eight or ten 
of them rife together from the Root, and with 
them a fhort thick Stalk fupporting a fingle 
Flower. . 
The Stalk is green and fmooth; and the 
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be planted out July. 
in the Borders of the Garden; and thefe finer 
Kinds kept together, in their former Place; tho’ 
in a new Soil. 
