PI. 53. 
Fig. 4. others jut defcribed, to modern Curiofity. 
Botany no fooner travelled thither, than this 
OF GARDENING. 
2 Ter a Ee ea: 
This elegant little Plant we owe, like the} The Stalk is round, and not very firm, 
The old Writers could not know it, for it is 
found only in America; but the Science of 
the reft; of a pale green. 
The Leaves are placed in Pairs: they are 
{mall, oval, and of a frefh sreen Colour, lightly 
| rib’d, and fupported on flender Footftalks. 
The Flowers terminate the Stalk, and two 
naturally rife there together; they are large, 
white, and hairy within. 
The two Flowers rife from the fame Rudi- 
ment; but each has its feparate Cup. This 
is fmall, uprivht, permanent, and cut at the 
Top into four pointed Segments. 
The Body of the Flower is formed of one 
Petal, and is long, hollow, and as Yeurnefort 
has taught us to exprefs ourfelves, F unnel- 
fafhion’d; but ’tis a coarfe and ill chofen 
was one of its Difcoveries. 
But though the frft American Botanifts, and all. 
who wrote after them, have named it ; *tis but 
of late Time that it has been reduced to a 
proper Genus. | 
The inferior Race of Botanifts take thefe 
Thines as they are; “tis to Linnavs the 
Honour belongs of afcertaining old, or efta- 
blifhing new Genera; and upon thefe Occafions 
the Eyes of Europe are conftant.y turned 
to him. There requires Knowledge and Spirit 
to adventure thefe Decifions, and ’tis happy for 
| ftained toward the Ground with red; and for — 
the learned World, even for thofe who moft 
cenfure~that Author, that he has fhewn both. 
Till his Time this elegant Plant has had al- 
moft as many Names as there were Writers 
Term: ’tis Bbroadeft at the Mouth, where it 
opens into four Segments; and thence: gradu- 
ally fmaller to the Bafe; it is fmooth on the 
outfide, and hairy within. 
to be faid to.have given it that Name, he took 
Four oblong upright Filaments ine Bisa 
the Divifions éf the Petals, and are crowned 
with oblong acute Buttons. 
The Style is flender, thready, and is crowned 
with four oblong Heads. Each Flower has 
its Style, and they rife from the Germ or 
Rudiment which is placed beneath the Recep- 
tacle of the two Flowers. Its Form is rounded 
and doubled; and it ripens into a globular 
Berry divided: into two Parts with ce 
Dents. 
who have mentioned it. — 
Periver, who firft gave us Knowledge of 
its general Form, called it by a Name per- 
feétly undeterminate, Baccifera Mariana clematis 
daphnoides minoris folio: a Maryland Berry-bearing 
Plant, with Leaves like the fmall Periwinkle. 
CaTESBY, though he called it a Syringa, is not 
Piuxenet’s, which is, Syringa baccifera myrtis 
foliis fubrotundis floribus albis Gemellis: Berry- 
bearing Syringa, with roundifh Leaves like 
thofe of Myrtle, and with white Flowers two 
together. 
-Gronovius, much more modern and more ac- 
quainted with the Laws of Science, refer’d it to 
the Lonicera, adding as its Diftintion, Foliis 
fubovatis germine bifloro corolis interno birfutis fiylo 
bifido: oval-leav’d Lonicera with Flowers hairy 
prefs’d Form, and callous Subftance. 
, Culture of the MircuELua. 
a delicate, is a fhrubby Plant. There is no 
it much more tender, the Singularity of the 
The Seeds are four, and they are of a.com. . 
It is a Native of North- America; and though 
great Care needed for its Culture, and were. 
within, and rifing two from the Germ, and 
with a divided Style. 
Thus ftood the Plant known to all Botanifts, 
but ill examined as to its Characters, and refer’d 
to a Genus to which it did not. belong; till 
‘Dr. Mrrenert, to whom the Science owes 
great Advances and Improvements, examining 
its Characters, found it diftinét from all nein 
Kinds, and named it Chame Daphne. LINNZ£vS 
rewarded him with Immortality: he removed 
the Name; and, retaining the Genus, gave it 
that of its Author, Mitchella. 
- To this, as there is no other known Species, 
te adds no Epithet. 
It is a very delicate Plant. 
The Root is compofed of many long Fibres, 
connected to a {mall Head. 
- Growth, and-is not neceffary. 
Flowers would very well deferve oy Attention 
in raifing it. 
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Sept. 
‘The Soil for it fhould be a Mixture of two > 
Parts Garden Mould, and one Pond Mud. 
The Seeds are the beft Source for good 
Plants, and they fhould be fown in Spring 
upon a Bed of this Compoft in the Nurfery. 
When the Plants come up they fhould be 
thinned if they rife too clofe, and carefully 
weeded and watered till they are of a Size 
to tranfplant. They may then be planted out 
in the Garden in fheltered Places, and. they 
will flower in their full natural Perfection. 
Some pot them, and give them the Shelter of 
a Greenhoufe in Winter; but it curbs: their 
fo RARUBBY JUS SIA A 
This is a very elegant and fingolar Plant, | 
unknown till of late Time, but worthy to 
No 53. 
be introduced into every Garden where there 
are Opportunities of raifing it. 
7 ie THIERMAN 
