Sept. where the Plants are to remain:’ no Place ; from the lower Part of them. They muft be |, 
ee The Garden excludes no Plant on account of 
Fig. 6, 
named Plant, a Border at the Foot of an old 
South Wall. “S | 
The Plants muft be thinned when they have a | 
little Strength, and at Times watered’; no Weeds 
mutt be fuffered among them. By this Manage- 
ment they will fend their long Roots deep into 
‘the Mould, and between the Bricks, and in all 
Crevices of the Wall. : 
Care when they are once thus eftablifhed, and 
will continue many Years an Ornament: to’ the 
Garden. ae | p48 ear? 2G 
If Seeds cannot be conveniently procured, the 
Plant may be propagated very well by Cuttings, but 
they will require the Affiftance of Dung under. 
the Mould; and to be fhaded for fome Time by | 
Mats drawn over Hoops placed for that Purpofe 
* 
over the Bed. | - 
- The Seafon for this muft be the End of ril; 
and as there will be other Trees and Shrubs ready 
at the fame Time for the fame Kind of Propaga- 
tion, one Trouble will ferve for alli: 94. : 
The Cuttings muft be taken off clofe to the 
“Root, and the old Spines and Leaves cleared off ' 
They will need little 
is better than fuch as we directed for the Jaft } carefully planted, and the Mould preffed clofe to 
them; and from Time to Time they muft be 
wart. | | 
The Affiftance of the Heat from the Dung is 
only neceflary for their firft fhooting of Roots, — 
fo that as it decays there will need no Refrefh- 
ment : the Plants may be by degrees expofed to’ 
the Sun and Air, and they muft ftand there all 
the Winter, fheltering them in the fevereft Wea- 
ther by drawing the Mat over them. 
The following Spring they may be planted out 
along the Foot of a Wall, at half a Yard Dift 
tance, and they will make flourifhing and hand- 
fome Plants, They will require after this -no 
particular Care; they ,will take up littl Room, 
and that fuch as would ferve no other Purpofe, 
and they will give an everlafting Variety. ~— 
The Method from Seed is preferable, becaufe 
there will be fome Variety in the Flowers; they 
will be of various degrees of Crimfon; and in 
fome Plants the ground Colour will be: very 
nearly white, and they will be ftreaked with 
Crimfon like the Roman Cranes-bill, 
its Size, if there be Elegance or Peculiarity to 
recommend it: This pretty Weed has both. 
~The Growth is very pleafing, and the Leaves 
as well as Flowers have their Beauty. | 
The old Writers were not unacquainted with 
tt ; but they have defcribed it under an impro- 
‘per generical Name: the Sedums and Saxifrages 
have been greatly confounded together; and this 
which belongs to the latter Kind has been called 
‘by the former Name. a oe 
Ciusrvs calls it, Sedum minus. C. Bauning, 
Sedum alpinum flore pallido, and Joun BAvuHINE, 
Sedum parvum montanum luteum: the little Houfe- 
leek, little pale. flowered, and little 
tain, or Alpine Houfeleck. } 
_ Lixn aus refers the Plant ‘to the Saxifraga, 
and adds as the Diftinétion of the Species, foliis 
 eaulinis lineari fubulatis foarfis nudis tnermibas, 
caulibus, decumbentibus : drooping Saxifrage, with 
the Leaves on the Stalks equal pointed, {mooth, 
and placed at Diftances, it | 
_ Culture in a creat meafure takes away the 
Propriety of one of the Terms, that relating to 
the drooping Difpofition of the Stalks, for they 
are tolerably erect, the reft continues unaltered ; 
and there are fo many Saxifrages, that the N ame, 
though long, is neceffarily fo. 
The Root is fibrous and {mall. 
The Leaves are very numerous, oblong, and 
moderately broad ; of a fine freth green, waved a 
dittle at the Edges, and obtuf: they lie fcattered in 
.~ The Leaves on thefe are oblong, natrow, 
yellow Moun- | with brown or red, according to the Accidents of — 
Growth. . 
often there are a confiderable Number alfo 
{mall Side Shoots from them : the 
| the Colour of Lemon-pee 
gS LEMON 9 6 XS FPR a oi 
circular Clufters on the Ground 5 and ae i 
Plant encreafes faft by Root, there ufually are a 
great Number of thefe little Clufters of Leaves 
) together forming one great Tuft. 
_ The Stalks are very numerous, flender, natu-— 
rally of a pale green, ‘often brown or redifh, be- 
fet with a few Leaves at Diftances, and toward 
the Top branched. Their Length is.ten Inches 
or more, but in the wild State of the Plant they 
ufually lie for the greateft Part upon the Ground, 
-| In the better State of Culture they are more erect, 
but ftill very lender, weak, and delicate, Z 
fharp 
pointed, and of a pale green, more or lef tinged 
The Flowers terminate all the Bet ae: ae 
from 
y are moderately 
large, and of a very delicate pale yellow ; much 
The Cup is formed of one Piece divided licht- 
ly into five Segments, and is permanent, 
Five Petals compofe the Flower, and they are 
broad and rounded, but with narrow Bafes. 
In the Centre rifé ten flender Filaments with 
rounded Buttons, and in the Midf of thefe ap- 
pear two Styles: they rife from a roundifh Rudi- — 
ment of a Fruit, and have obtufe Heads, | 
ten Filaments refer the Plant to the D, 
: Ccandria 
of Linn aus, and the two Styles place.it among 
the Digynia, | oe 
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