‘O&ob. 
Pl. 55. 
Fig. 1. 
CompPpLeat Bopy of GARDENING. 
ckigarerteeedaes Goh see so TeeeAGeeSSORReRaee Awe ehesosasssosesoees 
aed gic, Uglies Brien 1a wee 
For the firft Week in “OCTOBER. 
<niuticcecadla diatinisbebaediaLatallele tuticuslsvcletiaaiaaius 
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PreasuRE-GARDEWN 
Me A ome orf 
Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
t DOUBLE CHINA ASTER, 
4HE Garden fearce affords a more elegant 
Flower than the China After, when doubles 
: and well colour’ : and there is great 
Advantage in that it bears the open Ait, and 
common Ground. The Quantity of Flowers, and 
their Bignefs, upon fo fmall a. Plant; -are Atti- 
cles of great Account; and'we fcarce know any 
Kind ih which there is fuch a Variety of Colour- | 
ing. The old Writers were not acquainted with 
the Plant. But of later Time all have named it, 
and all with great Praife. 
The Character of the Afr ‘Tribe is fo ftrongly 
imprefled upon it, that noné have miftaken its 
" proper g cenerical Name. Drrientvs calls it, “ee 
Chenopodii folio annuus fore ingenti fpeciofo: 
nual Oracle- leaved After, with a large “ieee 
Flower. 
Linnvs, more correct in “his fpecifick. Di- 
ftinétions, is under ‘a Neceffity of a longer Name 
for this, as the Species of the Aer Family: are 
very numerous: he calls it After foliis ovatis, 
angulatis, dentatis, petiolatis, calycibus, terminalibus - 
patentibus foliofis: Aiter with oval, angulated, and 
dentated Leaves, on Footftalks ; and with broad 
| golden Difk ; but in that improved Condition to. 
leafy Cups terminating the Stalks and Branches. 
‘The Root is compofed of numerous Fibres 
Numb. LY. | | 
Colour; ‘very much branched, 
deep Notches on the Sides’; 
conneéted to a {mall Head ; F 
white; and fpreading ; ; and in proportion as they . 
have Room to extend a eed the Plant 
flourifhes. : 
The Stalk is rourid; and ridged ; of a purplifh 
and two Foot 
high. 
"Bled sched to ntana ehe stowebPare are oval, 
angulated a little, varioufly indented, plated on 
Footftalks, and of:a deep blackifh gteen. } 
--Thofe on the upper Part of the Stalks are nar: 
rower, and have no F ootftalks ; ; they have feveral 
their Colour is a 
fomeéwhat. paler green, and their Surface rough, 
Thofe at the Extremities. of the Branches, and 
juft under the Flowers; are narrower yet, and 
paler ; they are waved alittle at the Edges, but 
they have'no Indentings. | 
The Flowers terminate all the Branches, and 
| there are feveral others on fhort Footftalks; which 
rife from the Bofoms of the ‘upper Leaves. 
In the fingle and natural State of the Plant 
they are extreamly large and elegant; confifting: 
of a Series of violet colour’d Rays, furrounding a. 
which the Plant is brought by modern Culture, 
gr the 
dite! are toss O&ob. 
