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the Ground frequently 
——— hoed about it to break the Surface, and deftroy 
Weeds; and it muft be train’d up to Shape. 
i he fecond Year thefe Plants will flower; and 
they will continue with good Management many 
Seafons in Beauty: the great Care is not to let 
them flower too profufely. If fuffer’d to pro- 
duce that abundant Quantity of Bloom they 
naturally will in our rich Garden Ground, and 
to ripen Seeds after it all, the Plants will be ex- 
haufted, and the Roots decay. Nature anfwers 
ping this exuberant ripening of Seeds. 
_ We have obferved before, that ’tis not the = 
Production of Flowers, but the ripening of the 
Seed, which exhaufts the Roots of Plants. The 
Gardener may therefore indulge himfelf with a 
large Bloom from this Lavatera, if he will be 
careful to pick off the Flowers when they be- 
gin to fet. The old Plants may thus be kept 
alive a great while, but they never flower fo 
perfectly as the third Year. 
As they are eafily managed by the Method we 
her Purpofe by the Quantity of Seeds, which fal- | have given, it will be better to raife fome young 
ling, produce more; but thofe who would pre- 
Stocks, than to depend upon the old ones too 
O&tob 
| “A COMPLE AT:;B OD Y 
O&ob. mutt be often water'd; 
ferve the old Plants, muft prevent this, by ftop- | long. 
Sota We LUPIN E. 
Pl. 65. The Lupines are a large Affortment of Plants, | The Ale are oval, and nearly equal to the 
Fig. 7. fpecious, and of extreamly eafy Culture. They | Vexillum in Length ; they converge below, and 
/ are worth a Place in the beft Gardens from the | are not fix'd to the Carina. 
Variety they are capable of giving by their fin- The Carina is fplit at the Bafe, and falcated 
gular Form and Colours, and none deferves that tipwards ; and is narrower than the Ale, and 
Notice more than this; the talleft and moft fpe- | undivided. 
cious of them all, _ The Filaments are ten; they are form’d into 
The Generality of thofe who have written on | two Bodies in the lower Part, and loofe in the 
- Plants have defcribed it; they call it Lupinus | upper; they have a bend upwards, and five. of 
| mar, and Lupinus ceruleus birfutus. C. Bav- | them are crown’d with oblong, and the other five 
HINE, Lupinus peregrinus major five villofus ce- | with roundifh Buttons. 
ruleus major: the great foreign Lupine, or great | The Style is fingle, and of the Length of the - 
blue hairy Lupine. _ | Filaments, and is crown’d with an obtufe Head. 
Linn vs, more correét in his fpecifick Names, | The Fruit is a large compreffed Pod, tough, 
calls it Lupinus calycibus, verticillatis appendiculatis, | pointed, and containing in one Cell numerous 
labio fuperiore inferioreque integris: Lupine with | large Seeds. 
the Cups placed in Circles round the Stalk, and | The Clafs is found by obferving the Coalefcence 
increafed by Appendages, and with the upper and | of the Filaments: they are arrang’d into two 
lower Lip of the Flower both undivided. . This | Bodies, and this is the Character-of the Dig- 
Name abfolutely diftinguifhes the Species, where-.| de/phia. | 
as thofe form’d on the Colour of the Flower, and The Number of the Filaments which. is ten, 
other fuch accidental Marks, are frivolous; for | places it under that Order, which comprehends 
the Colour is changeable, and the fame Seeds | the Decandria. . o 
will produce red, blue, and white; nor are the Tt is a Practice with Linn vs, where there 
other Characters of the old Authors better efta- | is fome other claffical Charaéter, to make the 
blifh’d. | : Number of Filaments the Mark of a fubordinate 
The Root is compofed of many thick white | Diftinétion. | 
fire. | 
The Stalk is firm, upright, branched, of a 
pale green, and lightly hairy; it rifes to a Yard 
in Height, and is befet with numerous Leaves. 
Thefe have long Footftalks, pale, and hairy 
as the main Stem, and they are of the finger’d 
Kind: each compofed of five, feven, or more 
Parts, which are join’d to the Footftalk all in 
one Place; and are oblong, narrow, hairy, and 
of a faint filvery green. 
The Flowers are very elegant, and are difpofed 
to great Advantage ; they are placed at Diftances 
upon the Stalk in circular Tufts, and open in 
Succeffion. 
Each has its Cup form’d of one Leaf, {plit into 
two Parts, and hung with a fmall Appendage. © 
The Flower is papilionaceous, and regular in 
that Form. | 
- The Vexillum is rounded and compreffed, and 
has the Edges turn’d back, 
Culture of this Giant Lupine. 
The Plant is a Native of the warmer Parts of 
Europe, but it acquires its great Stature and large 
Flowers by Culture. It is an Annual, and is 
eafily raifed: the Seeds put into the common 
Ground in Spring, bringing it forward, without 
any more Care than Weeding and Watering: but 
to raife the Plants in Perfection, they muft be 
_allow’d due Diftance. s 
‘There is alfo a farther Article to be con{- 
der’d, which is the fowing a particular Parcel 
for Seed. We fhall give the Method 
both. | 
In the Beginning of March let a warm, dry, 
and weil fhelter’d Border be dug up, and plant 
fome good Seeds of this Lupine in Rows a Foot 
afunder, and at the Diftance of four Inches from 
one another in the Rows. 
: | ~Whena 
of doing 
