ed 
Sept. 
OF GARDENING, 
Berry of an oval Form; pointed, and covered by | withftanding 
| Part, to the. Mindeiiia: 
= the Cup of the Flower. 
Pl. 54. 
being fingle at the Bafe, Linus refers it not- 
- This Cup i is hollow, formed of one Piece, and 
terminated by three Points at the Verge. 
The Flower is formed of one Petal, and is 
narrow at the Bafe, and broader all the way to- 
> the fingular Divifion of the upper 
Culiure of this Corpia. 
It is a Native of the Eaft, and requires tlie 
Heat of a Bark-bed to raife; and of the Stove td 
the Rim: ‘The tubular Part is of the Length of Keep it in Perfection. It will live undet lefs Ma- 
the Cup: 
ments. 
The Filaments are five, and they are {maller 
to the Top; their Buttons are long and thin. 
The Style is of the Length of the Filaments, 
fingle towatd the Bottom, but fplit at the Top ; 
and each Divifion is again fplit into two Parts, 
all crowned with rotind Heads. This fingular 
Style rifes from the Rudiment of the F ruit, and 
fades foon, but the Cup reniains: BS) 
The five Filaments declare the Plant to ie one 
of the Pestandria of Linnaeus; and the Style 
The peculiar Variety of the dulbiferous Lilly, 
Fig. 5. which we have defcribed firft in this Number, 
; but the Seafon of blowing. 
ee itis 
ftands as an Inftance that not only the Colouring 
of a Flower may be altered in a feedling Variety, 
firms that Doétrine: it differs in nothing from 
the common early Pomponian Martagon, but that 
the Rim is cut into five Bae Seg- | 
“the Bofoms of the upper Leaves. 
This Martagon con-- 
hagement, but not’ thrive as when the Air is 
firited to that’ of its natural ‘Climate; which is the 
Eaft; Egypt and India. 
The Method of raifing it is from the Fruit, 
which fhould be obtained as frefi as poffible, 
and fown in a Pot of light Compoft. This 
muft be fet in a Bark-bed to the Rim; and 
when the Plants appear, they muft be treated. 
as we have directed for the others. They muft 
be témioved into feparate Pots, watered, fhaded, 
dle of the Day, and then placed with the other 
tender Plants to take their Chance. 
5 LATE POMPONIAN MARTAGON: 
They have 
long Footftalks, from which they hang drooping ; 
their Form is that of the common Apprearon, 
but their Colour a high and perfect fcarlet ores 
with black. 
Each Flower is compofed of fix long Petals 
which unite at the Bafe, and turn up at the 
Oar, 
Sept. 
and by degrees habituated to the Air in the Mid- © 
the Colour of the Flower is a higher fcarlet, and | Ends, and at the Bottom of each there is a re- 4 
the Time of flowering later. 
All the Writers on Botany have named the 
Plant in its ufwal State: they call it, 
 Martagon anguftifolium. Cxiusius, Lilium rubrum 
minus, and C. Bauuine, Lilium floribus reflexis 
anguftifolium: the narrow leaved Lilly, with reflex 
Flowers. 
‘The Student is to be told, that the graffy leaved 
Lilly, and the fcarlet narrow leaved Lilly, of the 
fame Author, are only Varieties of this Plant; 
and that the latter of thefe more than any other, 
refembles the prefent Kind. Our Gardener knows 
the Martagons are all properly Lillies. 
Linnaus refers this to~the Number, and 
adds as the Diftinétion of the Species; foliis /parfis 
fubulatis, fioribus reflexis corollis revolutis: Lilly 
with fcattered fubulated Leaves, and with hang- 
ing Flowers, whole Segments turn up. 
The Root is very‘ ‘fingular in this Species, it 
38 not compofed of thick'Scales as in the other 
Lillies, but’ coated as an Onion; this GMELIN 
very juftly adds to its Character. 
The Stalk is f&mple, firm, upright, two Foot 
and a half high, round, ftriated, and of a pale 
sfeen, tinged with brown or yellow. 
The Leaves ate extreamly numerous, and they 
ftand irregularly: they are of a moderate Length, 
narrow, and in fome degtee three fquare ; fharp 
pointed, and of a iftrong and lively gréen. 
The Flowers are very numerous and_ beauti- 
they crown the Stalk, and rife alfo from all 
fe) 
5+ 
Lilium 
markable Line, which is the NeCtarium.. 
The Filaments are fix; they are fhorter than 
the Petals, and they have oblong Buttons. 
The Style is fingle, and its Head triangular 
and thick; and the Seed-veffel is phlahe, and, 
marked with fix Furrows. . _ 
The fix Filaments ard fingle Style fhew it one 
of the Hexandria Monogynia. 
Culture of this Marracon: 
The Seeds of the early or common Pomponian 
Martagon raife this ; and the fame Method muft 
be taken in its Culture. It is a Native of the 
warmer Parts of Europe, but thrives perfectly 
well in the open Ground in our Gardens. A 
warm Spot muft be chofen for it, and the’ Roots 
muft be planted deep to defend them from the 
Severity of our Frofts, and they muit not have a 
moilt or too rich Soil. 
The beft Compoft for them is rich Pafture 
Earth, with a little Wood-pile Mould, and rotted 
Cow Dung. This fhould be mixed up in Spring, 
and it will be ready to receive the Seeds in Ay- 
tumn. 
Thefe muft be faved from ae healthy 
Plants, and dried on @ papered Shelf with all 
the Care we have direéted for other Kinds. In 
Autumn a Bed muft be made up in the Semi- 
nary with this Compoft, chufing a °R° that is 
open to the South Haft, and: defended fi from all 
the cold Quarters. = 
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