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Augutt. 
Rows. 
The Stalk is round, thick, two Foot and a 
half in Height, and hollow; of a pale green, 
‘fpotted in the lower Part with red, and marked 
with Rays from the Head of the Bulb. 
The Leaves ftand irregularly, and are -nume- 
| rous. Their Colour i is a frefh green, and .at the 
“Edges they thew a little Hairynefs. 
xib’d and fharp pointed ; and oblong, and largeft 
near the Middle. 
T hey are 
The Flowers are large and beautiful ; their 
Form is that of the Tas Flower, but they. 
are much bigger, and their Geloak) is a high and 
‘noble fearlet. ; 
The. Characters are. fhe fame with thofe we the 
other Lillies. | 
The Flower rifes naked from the FE sorftalk, | 
arid: is compofed of {ix Petals, which unite at the 
Bottom, forming a {mall campanulated Bafe. 
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The Filaments are fix, and they: are ctowned | 
with large | fearlet Buttons. ee ae 
The Style is fingle, and rerminated by a hick 
three pared Head. if 
The Seed-vefiel, from whofe Rudiment it rifes, 
is oblong 
saidatnd it three Valves numerous Seeds in double 
‘The fix Filaments and fingle Style thew 
the Plant one © of the Henandria ssa 
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Culture of this Lity.: 
It isa Minive of the Eaft: yet will bear the 
Cold of our Winters, and thrive perfectly well in 
an open Border: but they do ill who becaufe it is 
hardy, fuppofe all Soils are equal to it. 
There is no Plant fo fufceptible of Difadvan- 
tage, or Improvement, from the Variety of Ma- 
nagement in the common Refpéa, of Place and 
Temper of the Mould, even when the Gardener 
gives himfelf no more Trouble than the propa- 
eating it by Off-fets: but when he follows the } Wises Poliige' 
Satie Method of raifing it from Seeds, he will 
have in his Power almoft an endlefs Scope of 
Advantage. 
Though this Plant will bear Cold, dee the 
Gardener underftand that it will not bear the 
Shade.of Trees, nor ever thrive in a Soil enrich- 
ed with Dung. | 
Therefore whether he raife it from Seeds, or. 
only plant the Off-fets from other Roots, let him 
thus prepare a Compoft for it: 
Mix equal Parts of rich Meadow Farth and 
Pond Mud; add to a Barrow of thefe a Buthel 
this lie expofed to the Air fome Months, turning 
it at Times. 
_ Chufe a Part of the Garden that lies dry and 
open, fronting the South Fat: diz out the 
Mould from part of a Border, and fill up with 
this. 
In the Beginning of September let ith Of-fets 
be planted in this “Bed at a Foot Diftance, and. 
cover’d two Inches with Mould: and every Year 
afterwards they muft be taken up and, planted 
again in a frefh Soil at the fame Seafon 
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-and marked with fix Furrows, and | 
le en eS 
Thus may the Plant be pécpactarech -aticls eee: A. 
| Trouble; and its Flowers this Way will be equa! 
to -thofe of the original Root : 
the Flower, the Gardener mutt begin from the 
original. Source; and raife it from the. Seed. For 
this we fhall give hirh; Dire@tions from-a fuccefs- 
ful Experience. | 
but -to improve 
Let him cia for Seed two or three Plants 
| -when in Flower, . felecting fuich as have a ereat 
-deal of red upon the Stalk, and: have the Leaves 
ting’d with brown : they muft be fick as pro- 
amife many Flowers; -but:he mutt only faffer a- 
bout three to blow upon each, and the ftronger 
the Colour of thefe the better : they mutt be 
| fuch as. ftand in.anepen Situations for unde: 
too much Shade ithe: Leaves. ‘are. greener, and the 
| Flowers are paler: this Crustus long azo ‘dif. 
| cern’d, and our own Experience confirms it. 
The Seeds from thefe Plants muft--be sib 
| | wich great Care, and. dry’d.on a paper’d Shelf.” 
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In the fecond Week in Auguft prepare a Bed j in 
a Part of the Seminary open to the Morning Sun: 
make it with the fame eek and f{catter on 
the Seeds. « 
Cover abel a Quarter of an Inch by Gifting 
Mould. over them, and thus - leave them 
ants 
thin’d where they appear too thick, 
In. Augift let the Bulbs be carefully taken up, | 
and planted in a frefh Bed at more Diftance ; : 
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and in the Beginning of the Septeimber Tollowing, 
det them be again removed and he at a EB oot 
Diftance. oes 30 , 
~The fsdesseciaps Year they. will flower, and the 
Gardener will fee among them a Variety very 
well repaying his rouble. Fe will have Plants 
with a few, and others with very numerous - 
Flowers: fome with creener Leaves and fainter 
Flowers ; others Pobirtt and rough, with difco- 
‘but with Flowers of a {carlet, 
deeper and finer than he can match from all the 
Colours of the Painter. He will have Variety 
in their Size alfo, as well as Number and Co- 
lour; and in fome Plants the Leaves will be 
_ fpotted with. purple, and the Flower Blood co- 
lour’d. 
Ais the Number of Plants from this Sowing 
well be very great, the fecond Year’s flowering 
fhould determine how to difpofe of them. It 
would be rath to refolve. upon the Appearance 
of the firft Bloom, becaufe they often alter after 
this. 
of Wood-pile Earth, and a Peck of Soot. Let | 
When they flower the fecond Summer, let the 
Gardener mark the fineft, and thofe'moft difer- 
ing from one another: thefe, when the Roots dre 
taken up in the fucceeding Autumn, thould be 
planted at fifteen Inches Diftance, in-a’ Bed made: 
up in the Flower Garden, according to the Direc- 
tion we have given for Managing the Off-fets ;: 
and the others may be planted out in common’ 
Borders, for there will be few but what are wor- 
thy a Place in the Garden. 
After this the finer Kinds muft be taken up 
_ | ¢wery Autumn, and their Off-fets feparatéd ; and 
they 
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Permeconeeenmesienione, 
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‘ture! The Bed muft be weeded often : ; and wa- 
| tered as there may be Occafion ; and the P} 
