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OFZGARD EN.ENG 
“Augult. they muft every Seafon have a frefh Quantity of 
- fruited Bramble as Varieties to the common Kind, 
calls that Rubus foliis quinato-digitatis, ternati/que 
caule petiolifque aculeatis: the Bramble with prickly | 
‘Compott. 
I have feen from this Management a Plant 
with one Flower only, which has continued un- 
altered in ‘that State many Years; but from the 
Bignefs and fine Colour of the Flower, has given 
a fine Exception to the Gardener’s common Rule, 
that thofe in this Kind are unworthy Notice, 
which have not many ona Stalk. Every Thing 
that is excellent in its Kind is to be valued. 
4. The 
Our Hedges, under the due Improvement, fur- 
nifh Gardens. It would not be eafy to name a 
meaner Shrub than the common Bramble; yet 
curious Art has raifed its fingle Flower to a rofy 
Fulnefs, and a rofy Colour; and rendered it a 
Favourite among the fineft Plants of remote Re- 
gions. | 2 
Luxuriant Nature has fometimes mimicked the 
Gardener’s Labours, and added to the Number 
of Petals in this Flower in its native Hedge; but 
*tis in the more regular Culture alone we can ex- 
pect its peas In the fingle State all Wri- 
ters on Plants have named it : they call it Rubus, 
Rubus vulgaris, and Rubus major; fome Rubus | 
fruéiu nigro: the Bramble, the common Bramble, 
the Great, and the black fruited Bramble. 
The Fruit is fometimes white by accidental 
Variation, and from this Ray has raifed an 
imaginary Species: in the double State of the 
Flower, Magnol and others, have called it Rubus 
flore albo pleno: the white double flowered Bram- 
ble: this is but half its Beauty ; for the Bluth of 
red in its Colouring, when fully perfect, is equal 
in Elegance to the Doublenefs. | 
Linn 2us, who juftly refers this and the white 
Stem and Footftalks, and with Leaves digitated 
in fives and in threes. A long Name for a com- 
mon Shrub, but needful to diftinguifh it from 
the others of the fame Genus. . 
The Root is long and fpreading. 
The Stem is weak, purplifh, and drooping ; 
and that and the Footftalks are equally befet with 
Thorns. Several Boughs ufually rife together, and 
fpread themfelves every Way: thefe droop with 
theirown Weight; and fo full of Life is the Shrub, 
that when they touch a favourable Soil, they will 
root again at the End or Head, and thence fend 
out new Shoots; which, if left to Nature, root 
at their Heads again. . 
I have feen in the [le of Ely an Acre of rich 
moift Ground, neglected by the Owner, cover’d 
with the arched Boughs of this common Shrub ; 
which took off all the Miracle of the arch’d Judian 
Figtree. 
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‘fixed alfo to the Cup: 
Thefe Obfervations give Credit to what thofe 4 
who firft cultivated the eaftern Plant in England, 
have left concerning it; for they have made 
the fame Remark, that this Lilly will often be 
very fine with only one Flower. It feems from 
this, and many the like Inftances, that they 
underftood the Culture of bulbous Plants better. 
than modern Vanity allows, or would be pleafed 
to hear. | 
Ban 
DOUBLE BLOSSOMED BRAMBLE. 
The Leaves are not inelegant, three or five ad- 
here to one common Footftalk, each with its par-— 
ticular Pedicle: they are oblong, but confiderably 
broad; irregularly ferrated, of a deep but not 
unpleafing green on the upper Side, and whitifh 
underneath ; the middle Rib alfo on that Part is 
| prickly in the Manner of the Footftalk. 
The Flowers terminate the Stalks and Branches, | 
and rife in Numbers alfo from the Bofoms of the, 
Leaves; they are numerous, and very elegant; fo 
many diminutive Rofes,; round, full of Petals, 
white, with a delicate Bluth of Crimfon, and very 
regularly form’d i 
Their ‘sect Structure is to be traced by the 
Student in the fingle Flowers of the common 
Bramble; for here, as in. other Cafes, where Na= 
ture is luxuriant in Petals, they are difturbed, 
obliterated, and abortive. 
‘In the common Bramble the Flower has a 
Cup divided into five permanent Segments ; and 
is itfelf compofed of — broad, rounded Petals 
fixed to them. 
The F ilaments are numerous in the Centre, aid 
this fhews the Shrub to be 
one of the Icofandria: when they are numerous, 
and fix’d to the Receptacle, the Plant 1s of the 
Polyandrous Tribe. 
In the Midft of the Filaments rife ntimerous 
fhort Styles, each fix’d fide-way to a Rudiment 
of a Seed, and each terminated by its little Head ; 
this places the Plant among the Polygynia. 
The Fruit is compofed of numerous Grains 
forming one complex Berry, and each contain- 
ing one Seed: 3 
Culture of the DovsLe BraMsie. 
Though the Hedge knows no Shrub fo com- 
mon as the ordinary Hiamble not three Plants of 
‘itina Kingdom, fhew naturally double Flowers. 
If it happen that in the Neighbourhood of the 
Gardener there is found this Singularity, he will 
do well to bring it into his Ground, for he will 
eafily improve it into the full Beauty. of the 
double Kind; good Nourifhment will encreafe 
its Bignefs, and a dry Soil will give the elegant 
Bluth to the Colour. 
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