A C@NER EE AR ARO DY 
emcee: 
Augutt Culture of this WawkweEED. Let the Seed be carefully faved from this: 
. It is frequent wild in the Southern Parts and dry’d upon a Shelf in a Sheet of Paper : 
of Europe, nor is it confined to thofe: We for, if left loofe, the leait Motion of the Air 
= 
Pi. 4B, 
Flowers. 
this vegetable Wonder ; 
their ‘Whips. as they pafs’d by, fuppofing it a 
Soil, 
fee it ourifh perfectly well on the Moun- 
tains of Switzerland. It loves a deep, mellow 
and requires very little Care in the Cul- 
_| will carry it away. 
In the Beginning of September let this be fown 
-upon arich fhaded Piece of Ground; and when 
the Phants come up let them be thinn’d, weeded, 
botanical Student. » 
ture. No Compoft fuits it better than the Sas 
common Mould of our Garden Borders, and | and watered. They will live through the Winter 
the beft Situation is where there is fome Shade, 
and where there comes fome Moifture. 
It is to be raifed from Seed; and the great 
| the fucceeding Seafon. 
creafe faft by the Root; but as the Propagation 
Art, which none, tho’ pointed out fo obvioufly by Seed is fo eafy, it is beft to do it every 
Nature, have regarded, is to fave that Year, for the Flowers never are fo Pee as 
Seed only from that “firkt Flower, which is fo on the firft blowing. 
much fuperior to all the others. ' 
Toe SoS WER 
a ie 
Thefe are only Varieties of the fame Plant, 
nor is the Variation limited within that Com- 
"We enter on the free Confideration of a Plant, 
whofe Nature, Qualities, and Culture have been 
much mifunderftood ; and a proper Difcuffion of | pats: 
which will be, in more than this fingle Inftance, of | Circumftances of Growth the Flower will be 
Ufe to the Gardener, as well as Information to the 
| ation in Colouring : 
naged, it exceeds all that is feen wild: 
in Gardens, when well ma- 
Every one has heard of the Bee Flower, but its it fwells 
Management in a Garden is fo little underftood, 
that very few have feen the Plant; and wonderful - 
as the Form of the Flowers appears, fewer yet, 
till Linn aus led the Way, have underftood them. 
. That the Plant is worthy of a ‘Place in the: 
beft Gardens, none will doubt; and we fhall 
fhew, from Practice and Experience, that altho’ 
the raifing it there requires a great deal of Care 
Plate. So Bester faw and figur’d it long fince; 
and fo we have this laft Year feen it oes un- 
der our own Care. 
The Names by which botanical Writers have 
called the Plant are Orchis fuciflora, and Orchis 
fucum referens, Orchis Melittias, and Orchis Sphe- 
godes, fome Tefticulus Sphegodes, and others Saty- 
according to the more or lefs favourable 
larger or fmaller, and there will be fome Vari- — 
and Attention, yet when that Attention is rightly 
apply’d, it is as certain of Succefs as in other 
rium fuciflorum: all thefe Names, whether of Greek 
or Latin Origin, have the fame general Mean- 
ing; they refer the Plant to the Orcbis Kind, 
| and exprefs the Refemblance of a Bee in the 
Flower. 
All who have written on Plants have famed 
nor have they faid too 
much of the Singularity, and perfeét Mimickry of 
animal Nature in the Flower. 
Fancy has been, in too many Cafes, brought in 
to find imaginary Likenefles; but the Refem- 
blance of a large humble Bee is fo ftriking in this 
Flower, that where it has grown by a Road- 
Side, Men’ have been feen to ftrike at it with 
Linn 4vs has entered into this Subject more 
deeply. The numerous Plants, by preceding 
Writers comprehended under the general Name 
Orchis, he has divided into three Genera: 1. The 
Orchis, properly fo called. 2. The Satyrium. 
3. The Opbrys. Thefe are kept feparate by the 
following Particulars : In the Orchis there isa Spur 
or Horn to the Flower: this is the Nectarium run- 
ning out behind. In the Satyrium the Neétarium is 
alto placed behind, but it is not horn’d or pointed, 
after we have named the Difficulty of its Culture, but inflated and doubled fo as to refemble a 
to hear of the Plant as a Native of our own | >crotum: in the Opéris the Neétarium is a de- 
Kingdom; many of the more fingular Plants of pendent Lip, cut into two Parts, and denticulated 
England are worthy a Place in Gardens, but are,| ©? each Side: thefe comprehend, under the three 
more difficult to be raifed there than the Natives diftinét Heads, the Plants in general by others 
of the Ludies. ranged together as Orchis’s; and it will be found 
~ ; i ; 
The Writers on Plants name two Kinds of the by this accurate Divifion, that the Bee Flower does 
Bee’ Flower,» both which. they univerfally refer'to not come under the Orchis but the Opbrys Kind.. 
the Orchis Kind ; and they are diftin guithe ee Befides thefe, fome particular Plants have been de- 
Enghja by the Names of .the Bee, and Humble | BORNEO LURES, venich aAge g the Nectarium 
Bee Orchis. | oval, {wol’n, and furnith’d with an oval Lip, 
are referred to another Genus, the Serapias, 
properly 
living Infect, 
The young Gardener muft not be furprized, 
real, 
* 
RRO IO rene nee 
Augutt, 
without Danger, and will flower in Perfection | 
After this they will in-| 
to the full Size we have reprefented in the annexed 
