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The Flowers naturally terminate the Stalk in 
a large and fine {carlet Head ; but often in good 
Ground there will rife another Head, figpported 
on a flight Stalk, which takes its Origin from 
the Centre of the firft, and is a a be Conti- 
nuation of the main Stem. 
On the Summit of this is fiypported the fe- 
condary Head, lefs and flighter than the firft; 
and to this accidental Change in the Form is 
owing the Confufion among thofe who have de- 
fcribed it, and who did not know whether to call 
the Flowers capitated or verticillate : 
Head acquires the verticillate Form on the ae 
pearance of the other. 
The Flowers are very numerous; sae ba’ 
elegant: they are long, tubulated, gaping, and 
in Colour of a moft elegant fcarlet ; a little paler | 
or a little deeper, acording: to the Degree of 
‘Culture, but always beautiful. 
The Cup is formed of one Piece, tubular, 
ftriated, and cut into five equal Apes at the 
Edge. 7 | 
- One Petal forms the Flower, it. rifts from the 
Cup with a long Tube, and is at the Extremity 
fplit as it were into two Lips. The upper Lip 
- is long, narrow, and undivided, and all the Way 
~ of equal Breadth. 
The lower Lip is broader, it 
turns down, and is cut into three Segments, of 
which the two Side ones are {mall and obtute, 
and the middle one longer, narrower, and nip’d 
at the End. 
_ The Filaments are two, they are long, Aender, 
and crowned with compreffed Buttons, which ter- 
minate abruptly on the upper Part, and are con- 
vex on the lower, and placed erect. 
There are befide thefe two other imperfect Fi- 
laments fhorter, and without Buttons, or with 
the firft 
thod of propagating the Plant. 
A‘ COMPEREATR BODY _ 
Sept. 
imperfect ones, this has given occafion to the 
Term Subdidynamious 1 in the Linnaan Name. | 
The Style is fingle, and has a fplit Head: 
rifes from a {quare Rudiment, which: ripens into 
four Seeds, and they remain naked in the Cup. 
The two Filaments place this Plant among thé 
Diandria of Linn us, and the fingle Style among 
the Monogynia. So himfelf has placed this Genus, 
| but the two fhorter and lefs perfeét Filaments feem 
to refer this Species to the Didynamia. Indeed the 
Plants of thefé two Claffes; tho’ fo far leparated 
in the Syftem, are nearly allied in Nature: 
Culture of this Monarpa. 
Sept. 
mas a 
Alicante i 
Wet. 
The Seeds ripen freely with us, and they will | 
grow as feadily :-this is therefore the proper Me- 
Let them be faved 
| from a flourifhing Plant, and in the Beginriing of 
September fown upon a Bed of ee Earth in the 
Seminary. 
The Plant is a Native of the colder Patts of 
America, and will require no gréat Attention to 
raife it. The young Plants muft be thinned, and 
weeded, and watered in Spring, and toward thé — 
End of May they may be taken up with a Ball of 
Earth, and planted where they are to remain. 
_ They will require frequent Waterings, and they 
fhould have a Foot and half Diftance from one 
another, or from other Plants, and they will thus 
flower in full Perfection. 
_ There will not be any great Difference in the 
Colour of the Flowers ; they will be a little paler, 
or a little ftronger ; but in whatever degree they 
have the Colour, it is in itfelf fo elegant, that 
they never can want Beauty. 
FRR DORR ORO BORER SO ASE SO DIO DIOR KOM, Se 
Sega c 
Pooh 
Of the laying out a re che URE GARDEN. 
HE Gardener remembers how far we have 
in the preceding Numbers advanced in the 
Difpofition and Arrangement of a Garden. The 
Out-fkirts of the feleéted Piece of Ground have 
been formed, according to their various Qualities 
and Condition, into the feveral neceffary Ap- 
pendages : the Orchard, Seminary, and Kitchen 
Ground have been marked out; and there remains 
, the principal Part to be formed into a Pleafure 
Garden. | 
This is the moft delicate Point, and the leaft 
underftood of all: a falfe Tafte which had long 
reigned is now banifhed, and Nature prevails under 
the Conduct of good Senfe. 
We fee, however, but few good Gardens; and 
thofe we admire moft are yet imperfect. Their 
Defigners have concealed the Art which they 
have weakly exerted : what we propofe. is to ex- 
plain the Principles, and proceed upon them to- 
ward a greater Perfection. 
Our Defigner has before him a chofen Spot of 
Ground; open to the Morning Sun, rifing by a 
flight Afcent, planted at Dittances, or in beder for 
fuch a Plantation, and fituated in the -Midft of 
an agreeable and well diverfify’d Country: this 
he is to difpofe fo as to be moft agreeable to 
itfelf, moft varied that can be in its feveral Parts, 
and fo that it may have the beft Command of 
the adjacent Country. | 
He is\to give a Harmony and Agreement of 
the feveral Parts within, and to diverfify the Pro- 
{pects by a due Choice of the innumerable Objeéts 
which offer from without ,; and as he is at length 
freed from the confined Tafte of former Time, he 
is to indulge that Liberty with Moderation. What 
is to be attempted in general, is to give the Spot 
a {miling and a natural Afpeé&t: to confider firtt 
what is moft beautiful in Nature, and then to 
embellifh and improve it without deftroying that 
Charaéter. 
‘ opt we P: 
