Sept. 
Pl. 51. 
Fig. 4. hardy, of eafy Culture, and never can fail to be a 
Source of Variety. 
OF GARDENING 
pagation, but the old Roots flower much more 
{trongly for being cleared of them. 
They are to be planted again as foon as cleared 
from thefe, for the fcaly Bulbs do not bear like 
the tunicated or folid to be kept out of the Ground. 
‘There needs no Compoft to be made for them, 
for they fucceed very well in Garden Mould. 
When the Off-fets have ftood in the Nurfery 
Bed till they flower ftrongly, they are to be 
‘brought into the Garden, and treated juft as the 
others. 
This is the Method of encreafing the ftrip’d 
Lilly by Off-fets, and thus it will retain its Na- 
ture; but the Elegance of colouring and farther 
Variation, is only to be continued as the Flower 
firft was raifed, by a careful fowing of the Seeds. 
To this Purpofe let a good Plant be marked for 
Seed, and encouraged to ripen them perfect) by 
fuffering only the three firft Flowers which opened 
to remain, and by frequent watering and breaking 
of the Soil. 
Let the Stalk be ra up toafirm Stake, to 
‘prevent the Accidents from Winds; and when 
the Seed-vefléls are tolerably hardened upon the 
Plant, let them be taken off, -and laid for a 
Fortnight upon a paper’d Shelf, turning them 
every Day. 
Then open them, take out the Seeds, {pread 
them upon the Shelf, and air them ten Days; 
at. the End of this Time Le will be fit for 
fowing. 
_ Dig out a Piece of ‘Ground in .a Part of the 
Nurfery which is well fheltered, but open to the 
Morning Sun. Fill up the Place with frefh 
Mould taken from under the Turf in a rich 
Pafture, and featter on the Seeds. Sift over 
them a Finger’s Breadth of the fame Pafture 
Mould, and lay a Thorn Bufh upon the Bed 
to keep off Accidents. 
Let all Weeds be pick’d off as they appear ; 
and when the Plants come:up let them be 
thinned, if they rife in any Part too ‘clofe; and 
from this Time carefully watered. If they are 
Bed, 
expofed to the Noon Sun let the Bed be fhaded 
by a Reed Hedge. : 
In the Beginning of Fok let a large ‘Bed of 
the fame Earth be prepared, and let the Mould 
be taken off the Surface of the Seed Bed fo deep as 
to take up. all the Roots. Let this Earth with the 
Roots in it, (for they are too fmall to plant 
feparate) be fpread carefully over the Surface of 
the new Bed, and fift over it half an Inch of 
more Mould. 
In fevere Weather cover it with a Coat of 
Pea-ftraw, and in Spring ftir the Surface very 
lightly and gently, fo as not to difturb the 
Roots; and fift on a Quarter of an Inch more 
of the Mould: 
and the Bed muft be carefully weeded and 
| well watered in dry Seafons; a little at a Time, 
but often repeated. 
In the September following make up a larger 
and feparate the Roots by fifting the 
Mould of the firft Bed. Plant them in this 
new Bed four Inches diftant, fee the Heads 
are placed upwards, and fift over them more 
Mould till they are covered half an Inch. 
The fecond Year after this Removal they 
will flower, and there will be found an elegant 
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| Variety ; as a great Quantity of the Seed of the 
‘common white Li/ly would have a Chance to raife 
fome ftrip’d Flowers, fo there probably will be 
from the Seed of the ftrip’d fome white ones, but 
the ftrip’d ones will be very numerous, and 
there will be among them a great deal of Va- 
riation. The Stripes will be broader and ftronger 
in fome, paler and flighter in others; and they 
will, in fome Flowers, ramble ovef the whole 
Petals with a very rich and pleafing Variegation. 
Thefe Roots are to be managed as we have 
before directed, treating of raifing the Plant 
from Off-fets: they muft be taken up every 
Year, the Off-fets muft be carefully removed, 
and planted at four Inches Diftance in a Nurfery 
Bed to gather Strength; the grown Root thus 
cleared, mult be planted again as at firft, only 
in frefh Mould. 
4 YELLOW PYRENAN ACONITE. 
This very fingular and elegant Plant is yet lefs 
common than it fhould be in our Gardens, ’tis 
It is Native of fo many Parts of the World, 
that one wonders to fee fo few of the botanical 
Writers defcribe it. This cannot have arifen from 
their not having feen the Plant, but to their over- 
looking its diftinctive Characters, they have 
doubtlefs confounded it with the common yellow 
Aconite, fappofing that extreme Diverfity of the 
Leaves accidental, which later and more accu- 
rate Searchers have found to be fpecifick. 
Ray, in his Catalogue of the European Plants, 
extraneous to Wieaia. names it, and very juftly 
marks the Diftin@tion. THe calls it Aconitum Pyre- 
naicum luteum foliorum fegmentis fibi invicem incum- 
bentibus. 
WY et. 
% 
Linnaeus, Aconitum foliis multipartitis, - 
laciniis inearibus inciumbentibus Jquarrofis: Aconite 
with divided Leaves and linear Segments, loofe 
and lying over one another. 
The Root is compofed of a Multitude of long 
twifted, blackifh Fibres, connected to a {mall 
thick Head. 
The Stalk is a Yard ‘igh pale, upright, and 
not branched: feveral Shoots rife from the Bo- 
foms of the upper Leaves, but they are {mall and 
erect; the main Stalk runs up fingle and un- 
divided. 
The Leaves are of a pale but not unpleafing 
green; and in rich Soils often confiderably 
deeper. They have long Footftalks alfo of a faint 
green, and they hang from them in a palmated 
Form, but with wild and ftrange Irrecularity. 
Each Leaf is divided to the Rib into five Seg- 
ments; thefe are long, narrow, rarely of equal 
7s - Breadth, 
the Leaves will foon appear, 
