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~O€tob. | 
-Footftalk. A long Name, but neceffary. 
OF GARD BENING. , 657 
Oétob: 
6" (FE RTE OR A TIE-LAVA TE 
‘We have told the Gardener how ill atrangéd | which are inferted in this collected State upon 
the Mallow Kind ftand in the Generality of Au- | the Flower at their Bafes, and at their Tops {e- 
thors, and how much Freedom Linn aus has | parate, and are crown’d with Kidney-fhaped But- 
been under a Neceffity of ufing to bring them | tons. 
into Order: he is not therefore to wonder at the The Style is fingle, but it is terminated by 
Name Lavatera being beftow’d upon the A/thea | feveral Heads; and it rifes from a rounded Ru- — 
frutex. The Characters that Author has efta- | diment, which ripens into a kind of orbicular 
blifh’d -are very accurate; and they demand this | Fruit, compoféd of many fmall Capfules, in each 
Sacrifice. | | of which is one Kidney-fhaped Seed, and which 
He is to be told that the common Name is | are kept in their Places by being fixed to a co- 
as old as Clufius. He has called the prefent Spe- | lumnar Receptacle. 
cies Althea frutex, without farther Addition ; and The Student knows that when hes Filaments 
many followed him. C. Bavnine atranges it | in a Flower coalefce into a Body, the Clafs is 
among the Althe« frutefcentes, and Pruxener, | determin’d by that, and not their Number: he 
with many others, after him. will therefore fee this Plant is one of the Moza- 
delpbia, and the Number of the Filaments refer | 
it to that Subdivifion, thence named Polyandria. 
Van Roven and Linnzvs join in referring 
it to the Lavatera; and the latter adds as its 
fpecifick Diftinction, caule fruticofo, foliis fubcorda- 
tis, fubtrilobis, rotundatis, crenatis, ftipulis cordatis, 
pedunculis unifloris : fhrubby Lavatera, with Leaves 
of a fomewhat hearted and triobous Form, round- 
ed, and crenated ; with heart-fhap’d Films at the 
Bafe, and with Flowers placed one upon each 
Culture of this LavaTERAs 
It is.a Native of Spain, and other of the.warmer 
Parts of Europe, and thrives beft there in a deep 
rich Soil. With us it bears the Winter in the 
open Air; but fo much Confideration fhould be 
had of its naturally warm Climate, as to allow it 
a fhelter’d Place, and as much Defence as can be 
given Things in the open Ground. Without this 
Care it lives with us, but this Way it thrives as 
well as in its native Climate. 
It is a very elegant Shrub. The Roots 
fpread far, and the Shoots are numerous and 
woody. 
The Bark is of a gale brown ; and the 
Branches are paler yet: the young Shoots are 
green, ting’d fometimes in an irregular Manner 
with red ; and cover’d very lightly with a delicate 
Hairynefs. 
The Leaves vary extreamly in their Form, 
fometimes longer, in other Pasts of the Plant 
fhorter, but every where fhewing a Tendency to 
a trilobate Divifion by two deep Indentings, and 
a long Point from between them. 
_ Thefe feveral Divifions are more or lefs confpi- 
cuous, and the Leaves are deeper or paler, 
according to the Part of the Plant on which 
they grow, and to its Health and Vigour; but 
they are always irregularly and ‘bluntly: indent- 
ed, and have a light Hairynefs ; they are alfo 
foft and clammy to the Touch, 
The Flowers are very numerous, and ele- 
gant: they rife from the Bofoms of the Leaves, 
two or three together in fome Places, in others ferved till the following Spring. 
fingly, but each of them has always its feparate In the Middle of March let the Ground be 
Footftalk. Their Colour varies, but in the moft dug up two Spades Depth, and the Surface le- — 
perfect State they are crimfon about the Centre, | velled where the Shrubs are intended to ftand : 
and elfewhere white. i | if in feveral Parts of the Garden, let a Spot of 
Each has its double Cup, as is common among half a Yard {quare be dug up at each Place. 
the malvaceous Kinds. The outer Cup is form- | Scatter on ten or twelve of the Seeds upon each 
ed of one Leaf cut into three flight Segments ; fuch Spot, and cover them a Quarter of an Inch 
the inner is larger, formed of one Leaf alfo, with Mould. 
but cut into fave Segments 5 and both remain When the young Plants appear let them be 
after the Flower. water’'d frequently ; and as foon as it is feen 
The Body of the Flower is formed of firm, which is the fineft, and beft eftablifh’d in the 
broad, expanded Petals, united at their Bafes. Ground, Jet all the reft be taken up, and the 
In the Centre ftands a columnar Body, form- | Attention of the Gardener be devoted to that. 
ed of the lower Parts of numerous Filaments, When only one is thus left in each Place, it 
No #5. 8 E mutt 
Very good Plants of it may be raifed from 
Cuttings, and many have prefer’d that to any other 
Method, becaufe the Cuttings bear their tran{- 
planting without Harm; whereas the Seedlirgs, 
after they have acquired any confiderable Gr. wth 
in the Nurfery, decay after tranfplanting. But 
this is only prefer’d becaufe the Seedlings have 
not been well manag’d; either way will produce 
good Plants, but the Method from Seeds the 
beft. : 
There are fevetal Plants befide this which do 
not bear Removal when they are grown to any 
Size ; and the Method we have direéted for the 
Management of thofe will equally fuit this; and 
thofe who try it will no more prefer Cuttings. 
The Seeds ripen with us perfectly in Autumn, 
and they fhould be dry’d with Care, and pre- 
