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Place is a Hollow in a dry Spor, well defended, 
and where the Surface may be covered with a 
flight Coat of Grafs; nor in Turfs, but f{cat-> 
tered. i 
_ The Method fhould be this: When the Plants 
j are in Flower, mark as many of the {trongeft 
and beft as are intended to be taken into the 
Garden, . 26. | 
Chufe a Place for them that is open to the 
South Eaft, and perfectly defended from cold — 
Winds. Dig out the Mould two full Spades 
Depth, and bring into the Place as much of the 
Soil in which the Plant is growing as will fll 
Augutt. is of an oblong, oval F oni obtufe, ftriated, 
| ae form’d of three Valves, and marked with three 
Ribs: the Seeds are very minute and brown. 
Auguft, 
Gultdve: of the Bez Firower. 
The Plant is wild in all the temperate Parts 
of Europe, but it is no where common: for of 
Millions of the Seeds which the Winds {catter, 
fcarce one falls where it can hoot. 
‘Tt is found principally on the hollow Sides of. 
old Gravel Pits, where there has been Time for 
a flight Covering of Grafs ; and fometimes in the 
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Joofe Earth upon the Edges of Woods. In thefe 
latter Places the Flower is ufually fmall; where 
there is lefs Moifture and more Sun it attains. 
up the Room of it. 
Let this be taken up not only from the fame 
Gravel Pit, but from the fame Side of the Pit, 
the due Perfection, 
I have found it near High Wickham, and 
on the Edge of Charlton Foreft in Suffex: and | 
Linnavus’s Opinion is extreamiy confirm’d 
on the. Subject, by what occur’d in this latter 
Place. joel fae | 
The late Duke of Richmond, to whom I fhew’d | are jult faded, ‘and then take up the Roots, 
it there about fixteen Years ago, and with whom 
I afterwards annually. vifited the Place, fhared 
- the Aftonifhment with me of feeing the ftrange of an Orchis who gets the double Bulb 5 the FE 
. Uncertainty of the Flower. _ 3 
Safety from difturbing their Roots. 
The Method muft be this, 
The Earth muft be 
Space, and a gentle 
n that Place, not near 
{mall, and of the Fly Kind; and a warmer | filled in to clofe up the 
and drier Seafon the Bee Flower in its proper Watering muft be given i 
Form. | | the Root. 
The prefent Duke of Portland, to whom the 
Ppt ia Botany” has great Obligations, and the Surface, and all left to Nature. 
whofe Name would be often echo’d as its Patron, The Grafs muft be fuffered to grow, mode- 
if he did not eclipfe that Title by yet greater | Trately thick, and the Plant will rife as naturally 
Qualities, preferves this Plant. in great Perfec- | among it as in the original Pit. 
tion. 
The Place is one of thofe old Gravel Pits where. 
it delights to grow, and where Nature’s Hand 
firft feattered the light Seeds. That Nobleman 
has enclofed this Spot within the Limits of his 
Ground ; and it flowers there annually with more 
Regularity, in Form, and Colouring, than it 
ever does in Places more expofed to the Uncer- 
tainty of the Seafons: I have obferved it there 
many Years, and always fine; not of the largeft 
muft be thin’d. 
left naked, nor 
clofe: 
This'is the Method when the Plants grow wild’ 
near the Garden; but from greater Diitances it 
muft be brought without fuch Encumberance, 
Such a Bed fhould be prepared: the Roots fhould 
be taken up in the fame Manner when the Leaves 
and 
From this which we fee in Nature we muft 
Jearn the great Leffon of its Culture, 
raifed on 
and as near the Plants as may be done with 
Then fome Hay-feed muft be {cattered upon | 
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