se apeaclect ie eka eS aay ¢ ; ris . , ele ye ioe 
— Oétob. 
_ Manner of a Cup: 
OF GARDENING 
fixed in their Divarications, or Clefts of the Stalks 
and Branches. 
- The general‘Cup, which furrauaiide and fup- 
ports the Head of Flofeules, is formed of nu- 
merous Series of Leaves which enclofe the 
Receptacle, and are fixed upon it; the inner 
ones are fmaller, and the outer gradually larger. 
Befide this each Flofcule has two feparate Cups, 
an outer and an inner, both fixed to the Rudi- 
ment of the Seed. We have not before had an 
Opportunity of defcribing the Scadious Flower : 
it is fingular, and the Characters, though particu- 
larly plain and obvious in this Species, are the fame 
in every Kind. ‘The outer Cup is fhut, folded, 
and of a membranaceous Subftance; the inner 
Cup is formed of one Piece, divided deeply 
into five pointed Segments. 
Each Flofcule is “Road of a fingle Petal, 
long, hollow, upright; wider toward the Mouth, 
and there divided into five irregular Segments, 
two fmaller and three larger: the large ones 
ftanding outward. 
The Filaments are four in Number, they 
are very flight and feeble, and they are crowned 
with ie incumbent Buttons. 
The Styles is fingle, flender, and of the Tome 
of the Flofcule ; it rifes from a Rudiment of Seed 
placed underneath the Receptacle of the Flofcule, 
and covered with a particular Scabbard in the 
the Paki is obtule, ind a 
liquely nip’d. 
The Seeds, which -follow, are oblong, fiir- 
rounded with their proper Membrane, and 
crowned with their Cups; and they are fixed 
to a common Receptacle of a convex Form, and 
feparated by the Leaves of the Cup. 
The four Filaments refer this Plant to the Te- 
trandria, the fourth Clafs in the Linnean Syftems 
and the fingle Style phres it among the Mono- 
ia. 
- Pl 545 
Fig. 3. 
The hafty Obferver might be apt to place 
if not among 
but in the claffical DiftinGtions of Linnmus being 
deduced from the Filaments according to their 
Number and Difpofition, this is altiaBetheg fe- 
parated from the Syngenefia, which have five Fi- 
laments with coalefcent Buttons; and is brought 
to the fimple Clats. of the Tetrandria. 
Culture of this Scasious. 
It is a Native of the Eaft, and of fome of the 
warmer Parts of Europe, but it bears our Sea- 
fons very well in’ the common Ground; fo 
mate, as to allow it a warm Spot and a dry 
Soil. | 
It is to be raifed from Seed, and this fhould 
be fown in the Nurfery: the Seedling Plants, 
when big enough to remove, fhould be at once 
brought into the Garden. 
The Seed fhould be faved from a vigorous 
Plant, and carefully hardened and btentte 
} through Winter. 
In the Beginning of pril it muft be {eat- 
tered over a new-dug Piece of Ground in the Se- 
minary, and when the: Plants rife they muft 
be thinned; and weeded, and often watered. 
When they have - fix Leaves, let as many 
be taken up as it is intended to preferve, “and 
planted in a warm Part of the Garden. 
fhould ftand at a Foot Diftance, and they 
muft be weeded and watered as the other Plants ; 
they require no other. Management: 
thofe, from which Seeds ‘are intended to be 
faved, fhould not be permitted to ripen many 
Flowers. The principal or firft Flower thould 
always be preferved for this Purpofe, = about 
two others, 
3  PURBLE TANZY- LEAVED ACHILL@A. 
The common Zanes that flowers Ly our 
Way-fides, when Accidents of Growth give a 
Bluth of red to the Flower, would be thought, 
if found in America, a <a Acquifition to 
our Gardens. 
°Tis to this Genus, among which he has 
mixed feveral other Plants, eee has given 
the Name Achillza; and the Species of which 
we treat in this Place, has more Elegance 
of Leaf than the common Yarrow, and a little 
grimfon in the Flower. 
The old Authors have not been unacquainted 
with the Plant. C. Bavutne calls it in a 
lower and’ poorer State, Tanacetum minus album 
odore camphore : {mall white-flower’d Tanzy, with 
a Smell of Camphire. Tracus much better 
named it, Millefolium nobile: the noble Yarrow ; 
and Morison has called it, Milefolium T anaceti 
foliis. Dopart, Millefolium montanum purpureum 
3, 
tomacett folits : 
Tanzy Leaves. 
Linnzzus calls it, Achillea foliis bipinnatis 
pinnis diftantibus, utrinque fubfeptenis obtufiufculis : 
“Achillea with Leaves doubly pinnated, the 
purple mountain Yarrow; with 
Pinnz diftant and’ obtufe, and about {even 
Pairs on each Rib. The Name is very ex- 
preffive, but Culture varies the Number and’ 
Divifion of the Leaves, tho” they keep in 
general this Form. : 
The Root’ is long, thick, and hung with 
many Fibres: it divides toward the Top into 
feveral Heads, and each fends forth many 
elegant Leaves and a firm Stalk: 
The Leaves are long, large, and elegantly 
divided : each is compoted of numerous Pinne 
fixed on the two Sides of a middle Rib, which is 
terminated by an odd one. Thefe Pinne are not 
fingle little Leaves, as in many Cafes, but they are 
thems 
only that 
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it among the Difcoide Plants, and the Scadious Octob: 
_ has been ufed to ftand near them, metic 
them, in the old Arrangements of. Botany : 
much Regard being fhewn to its natural Cliz : 
They 
