Auguft. fends up a flender Style with a blunt Head. 
Bastecerr 
Pl. 46. 
Fig, 2. 
_efculent. 
_ erimony, mutually tempering one another. 
The Seed-veffel is rounded and flefhy, di- 
and contains in three 
vided into three Parts ; 
Cells, numerous triangular Seeds, which fwell out 
on one Side. 
The Sdident : will fee that the fix beataments 
and fingle Style refer it to the Hexandria Mo-- 
nog ynia, the Gxth Clafs in the Linn &AN Syftem, 
and its farft Seétion. 
Culture of this ASPHODEL. 
We find the Plant wild in the fouthern Parts 
of Europe, and it is frequent _ alfo in the Greek | 
~ Mlands. 
remain to us, found it, and, thence they firft re- . 
There the oldeft Authors, whofe Works 
moved it into Gardens: partly for the Beauty of 
the Flower, partly for the Root, which they held 
This Hesrop mentions,. and after. him 
THEOPHRASTUS. | 
lk appears: fingular to us ais this Time,. that 
~ fo ill tafted 2 Root fhould be kept for fuch, a 
Purpofe ; but we find they roafted it: and after 
thus evaporating the moft difagreeable Juices, 
mixed, it with Figs; their Sweetnels, 
» This 
we learn from the salt Words of Tueo- 
| PHRASTUS. 
Some have tranflated wet has been faid by: thie 4 
Greeks of its efculent Quality, and applied it to 
the Squill. ‘Then it appears. doubly abfurd. <<". : 
Others have fuppofed the common Star of Beth- 
lebem to be the A/phodel of Hzsrop, and have 
thence called it the Hyacinthine Afphodel : they 
- may quote GaLen who are againft the Opinion 
of this Plant being the 4/phodel of HeEsiop ; but 
to refer to THEopHRasSTus is to call in a higher 
Authority... He. lived much nearer the Time of 
and its A-- 
| Hezsrop, and may naturally be fuppofed to have 
underftood what he meant: 
this Plant which is 
common to Italy, Spain, and Greece, is evident-— 
ly his A/phodel, It is very eafily propagated, and’ 
with due Care not difficultly improved. 
The Roots increafe abundantly, and the com- 
mon Method of raifing it is by parting of them 
in Autumn: but it grows freely from Seed, and 
| this is the Way to obtain: it in Perfection, and 
to improve It. 
The Seed fhould be faved with Care, eather- 
] ing it when ripe, and drying it on a papered - 
Shelf. Then mix equal Parts of rich Garden 
Mould, and common Pafture Earth. Dig out — 
a Piece of Ground in the Seminary ‘enough for 
the Seeds, and fill the Place with this Compoft 5 
dnd in the! End 6f Auguft fow the Seeds. } 
When the Plants come up jet them be thin’d, 
and j in- this Bed. et them ftand a Year; weeding 
and watering them as neceflary. 
The September following dig out a Piece of a 
Border on the Garden, chufing a dry Place, and | 
fill it with the fame Compoft. 
In this plant the 
Roots ‘eighteen. Inches afunder, and they will. 
flower the next Summer. All they will require 
after this is, to be taken up every Year at the 
| latter End of Auguft, and to have a frefh Com- 
poft of the fame Kind thrown into the Place, 
They muft at thefe Times be reduced in the 
Root when they grow £0p aarBes and thefe Part- 
ings will grow freely. © 
The Flowers will have no Variation except in 
-Bignefs, and in the Degree of Colour of the . 
Streak behind: but if the Seeds of the beft 
Plants be faved and fowed from time to time, 
‘the whole will become maych more ftately, the 
Flower larger, and the Abs spelling. of a f{tronger 
and: finer Colour. 
~ 
26 PRENESTINE “ROSE. 
We have obferved that there would come under 
our Confideration fome elegant Kinds of Rofes : this 
is one; and as it requires fome Care in the Cul- 
ture to preferve its Beauty, will ftand as an Ex- 
ample of the more delicate Kinds. 
The Authors who of late Time have ‘eae: of | 
Plants have named it, and all with oreat Praife : 
it is indeed one of the moft ‘fingular and ele- 
gant of the known Kinds. They call it Rofa 
preneftina duplex, and Rofa preneftina variegata 3 
and our Gardeners from the Mixture of the Red 
and White init, the York and Lancafter Roe. 
Linn&usy who rejects all thefe Names as in- 
expreffive of characteriftick Diftinétions, refers the 
Shrub to the Rofa campeftris fpinofiffima flore albo 
odorato, of C. BauuINE: which in his more ex- 
preffive Manner, he calls Rofa caule petiolifque 
aculeatis calycis foliolis indivifis: the thorny Rofe 
with prickly Footftalks, and the Leaves of the 
Cup undivided. 
This is a very correct and accurate Name for 
3 
the Species in its wild State ; but Culture, while 
it improves the Flower, wantons alfo in other 
Parts of the Shrub; and in this, as in other of 
the Rofe Kinds, obliterates often the Marks of the 
Species. 
The Shrub is of moderate ee and fpreads 
into numerous Branches: when well managed it 
will make a very handfome Buth of four or five 
Foot high. 
The main Stem is prickly, and even the F ‘Oot- 
{talks but this uncertainly. 
The Bark of the old Wood is of a deep olive ; 
that of the young Shoots is green, often ding’ 
with red. 
The Leaves are numerous and handfome. Each 
confifts of about two Pairs of Pinnz, with an odd 
one at the End; thefe are oblong and finely in- 
dented, and their Colour is a Eveth ereen. 
The Flowers are large, numerous, and ex- 
treamly elegant. They are double, and of a 
good Shape ; ; and their Colours are two, a {trong 
ce 
Auguft, | 
