The Surface of this Bed mutt be raked level, 
- and the Seeds feattered over it with an even hand. 
They fhould be fown thick, for many fail. 
When the Plants come up they muft be thin’d 
and weeded; and at Autumn, when the Leaves 
Sept. | 
decay, half. an Inch of frefh Mould muf be fift- 
ed over the. whole Bed. . 
In this Manner they are, to be kept one > Year 
more, and it will then be Time to remove 
them. : 
‘A Bed mutt be made up with the fame Com- 
poft, in fome fheltered Part of the Garden; and 
the Roots, taken up foon after the Leaves have 
faded, muft be there planted at ten Inches Di- 
| ftance, and. covered with two Inches of Mould. 
| Here they. are to ftand till they flower, fifting 
over them half an Inch of more ‘Mould every 
Autumn, and a Quarter of an Inch is 
Spring. : ) 
‘There will *s found a great deal of Variety 
arnong, the Flowers; fome will be of a darker, 
fome of a pale Tinct; fome perfect. red, ane 
others yellowith. 
A @ OMPLE AT BODY 
The fineft muft be marked, and the reft, See 
when the Leaves are decayed, mult be taken up, 
j and planted in other Places. 
_ The fine F lowers which are left will have good _ 
Room: by this, and they muft: at the Approach. 
of Winter be: covered with another Inch of the 
fame Mould. Their proper Place in the Earth 
is about five Inches under the Surface, they never _ 
fail to fhoot ftrong through this; and the bury: 
ing them thus is their beft Defence during the 
Winter. : iat 
The next Year. they will thew their Flowers in 
Perfection : and from this Time they are to be 
treated as others of the fame Kind. They fhould 
be taken up every Year as foon as the Stalks 
and Leaves are decayed, and planted again in 
a frefh Bed of the fame Soil: they mutt be 
fheltered from the North Winds, and open to 
the Morning Sun, but defended from that of 
Noon-day ; and they will thus produce Abun+ 
dance of F lowers extreamly elegant, and very 
es 
6. BROAD LEAVED STAR HYACINTH. 
We have before had occafion to acquaint the 
Gardener, that the Plants univerfally known by 
the Name ffarry Hyacinths, : are by no means of the 
proper Hyacinth Kind, but Species of the Scilla. 
- This Name has been fo long ufed folely for the 
medicinal Squill, that there appears a Strange- 
nefs in applying it to a Garden Flower, but there | 
is the Authority of Linnavs for it; and what 
is much more, the Warrant of Natute. _ 
PI, BA. 
Fig. 0. 
have named, and the Writers on Flowers have all 
perceived it: they have called it Hyacinthus ftel- 
laris Liliifohis. C. BAvHINE names it, Hyacinthus 
frellaris folio &F radice Lili ; and others, Hyacin- | 
thus latifolius. ftellaris. Linn aus diftinguithes it 
by the Root, which is altogether unlike the others. 
He calls it Scilla radsce ES ua the fcaly root- 
ed Scilla. . . 
The Root is oa latet, and white, and 
is compofed of Scales in the Manner of the Lilly 
Root, but thicker and fhorter. 
_ The Leaves are numerous, broad, oblong, 
obtufe, and of a ftrong green; the middle Rib 
is pale, and fometimes the Ends of the Leaves 
are tip’d with brown, 
The Stalk is round, juicy, and a Eoot high. 
There are no Leaves on it; the Colour is a pale 
oreen, tinged toward the Bottom with red, and 
the Top is decorated with a great Number of 
_ Flowers. Thefe are large, and of a delicate 
white, fometimes tinged a little with Flefy Co- 
Jour. | | 
They have no Cup: they rife -naked from 
their Footftalks, and each is compofed of fix 
Petals which ftand open. 
In the Centre are fix fhort Filaments, crowned 
with oblong incumbent Buttons, and in the 
Midft of them a fingle Style with a fimple Head. 
This rifes from a roundifh Rudiment of a Seed- 
veflel; which, as it ripens, becomes more oval, 
and is marked with three Furrows. It is formed 
of three Valves, and divided within into three 
Cells, in each of which are contained fevera} — 
| Toundifh Seeds. 
This is a Kind diftinct from the others we 
Culture of this HyacintH. 
It is a Native of Spain, and other warm Parts 
of Europe; but it will bear the open Air very 
well with us in a well chofen Situation. Its Cul-— 
ture is in all Refpects the hime with that of the | 
other flarry Hyacinths, which we have given at 
large in a preceding Number, only that the Soil 
muft be rendered more loofe and dry by mixing 
a good Quantity of Sand with it; and the Roots 
when they are taken up after flowering, fhould 
be immediately planted again in a ite os Bed of 
the fame kind of Soil. 
In this Manner it will flourifh in great Per. 
fe€tion: the Roots will preferve the Principle of 
Life, if they be kept out of the Ground feveral 
Months; but I have always found they flower 
beft when they are planted again as foon as 
taken, up. 
There will be Abundance of Off-fets to propa- 
gate the Plant in that eafy Way; and from Seed 
ae will be befide this white, which is the moft 
elegant, the common Yariety of blue, and of pale 
red Flowers. 
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