Pl. 48. 
Pig. 5. 
Gt the beft will be on the Side of fome Wilder- | 
nefs. Quarter’; and it. fhould be raifed dharma Seed 
The Plant is a Native of Germany; and moft | in the Place where it is to continue, 
other Parts of Europe, where it lives in the worlt “The Seeds ripen in Augups: and-mutt ‘* — 
Soils, and never thrives fo well as when among in April; when the Plants come up. they fhould 
Bushes. — ) | be thinn’d to two Foot Diftance ;.and-after this, 
Culture of this CORONILLA. 
favourable Part of the’Garden may be allotted for Aug guit. 
Let this: ouide the Gardener in its Culture, | every Year, taken up in Oéfeber, and reduced to 
a due Compafs, for otherwife they: will nies 
in which more Care will be required to keep it | 
over-run a very large. Extent of Ground. 
within Bounds than to make it grow. Any un- 
gees PURPLE ‘CENTERED RUDBECKIA. 
There is a oreat i of Beauty as well as Sin- 
gularity in this Plant; and its ealy Culture 
farther recommends it. : S 
The old Writers could not know it; 
it is Native only of America, ) 
fpoke with great Praife of its Flower, who 
wrote fince the Time when Science travelled into 
‘that new World, Pruxenet makesit a Cry/anthe- 
mum, and adds, Heleni folio umbone grandiufculo : 
Elecampane leav’d Chryfanthemum with a large 
Difk; and his Name, Morison and Ray have 
copied. Under the Defcription of Ditientus it 
obtained the Name Obelifcotheca, with the Ad- 
dition of Integri- -folia radio aureo umbone atroru- 
bente : Obelifcotheca with undivided Leaves and 
colden Rays furrounding a blackith purple Difk. 
We have before told the Student, that Lin- 
nus has given Rupgecx’s Name to the 
7 -Obolifcotheca’s he adds, as ‘the Diftinction of 
this Species, Foliis indivifis fpatulato-ovatis radii 
petalis emarginatis: Rudbeckia with undivided 
Leaves, and the Rays nipp’d at the End. This 
Name is more accurate and fcientifick; but that of | 
DILLENIUs is more expreffive. 
The Root is thick, 
Fibres. 
The Leaves rife in great Numbers, and have 
long, hollowed Foot-ftalks; they are oblong, 
moderately broad, wav’d at the Edges but very 
little, and obtufe; their Colour is a dufky green, 
and they are covered with fhort fcattered Hairs, 
fo {tiff that they feem prickly. Thefe Hairs are 
white, and the Ribs on the Leaves are pale. 
The Stalks are numerous, and two Foot high, 
red toward the Bottom, naked two thirds of their 
Length, towards the Top; round, ridged, and co- 
vered with the fame briftly Hairs. The Leaves 
on the lower part have no Footftalks ; they re- 
femble thofe from the Root, and they have the 
fame rough Hairs. 
At the Top of each Stalk ftands one. Flower 
very fingular and very elegant; it is of the 
conf{picuous and 
and of 
radiated Kind, but with ‘a 
prominent Difk. The Rays are long, 
a gold yellow, the Difk is of a deep purple. 
The general Cup is compofed of numerous | 
- Jong Leaves, hairy as thofe of the reft of the Plant, 
I 
for 
but all have 
and hung with many 
and difpofed in twoor more Séribsn The Rays 
are about fourteen. in. Number ; they are long; 
narrow, of a fine gold Colour, and nipp’d at 
the End. The Flofcules in thé’ Difk are cut 
into five Segments at' their Top, and they have 
five fhort Filaments, with convergent Buttons; 
forming a Cylinder. ) 
The Coalefcence of the Buttons in this Form - 
fhews the Plant to be one of the Syngenefia; 
and as the Seeds do not ripen under the Rays 
or female Flowers, it belongs:to that Subdi- 
vifion called Polygamia fruftranea. 
Culture of this RuDBECKIA, 
The Plant is a Native of Virginia, and ‘many 
other Parts of America, and is there found in 
open Places, ‘where there is a great deal oe 
Sun, and a deep, light Soil: “With” us it will 
live very well in the open Ground in a well 
chofen Spot; and ripen its Seeds. 
This is an Article of great Importance ; for 
though the Plant may be very well propagated 
fi partings of the Root, it never flowers fo 
well as the firft Seafon; which is, when rightly 
managed, the fecond var from the fowing. 
| Let the Gardener not. grudge the little At- 
tention which is needful to this Plant, fince on 
that depends its Beauty. 
If the Spot be ill chofen, it will fearce open - its 
Flowers; but in a good Expofure — they. will 
fucceed one another in a long Succeffion, and 
each of them will be of a Duration fcarce to 
be equal’d in other Kinds, fix or feven Weeks 
in full Beauty. 
Let a Mixture be made of equal Parts, Pafture 
Mould and Pond Mud, add to this about one 
tenth Part of Lime, and throw it all in a Heap i in 
Autumn. | 
Let a Plant which ftands in a warm Expofure 
be marked for Seeds, and let the firft Flower that 
opens be tied up to a Stick, for that Purpofe, in 
two or three Places of the Stalk, that it may 
{tand the whole Time of its Bloom undifturbed 
by Winds. 
When the Seeds are hard in this, cut off the 
Fiead, lay it fideway on a paper’d Shelf, and turn 
it 
