Odctob. 
Pio. 
Fig. 5. 
OF ‘GAR DEN EN’G. 
The Stalk is round, rough, jointed, a Foot and | which are numerotis Kidney-fhaped Seeds, this Oétob. 
half high, and divided into many Branches. 
The Leaves ftand two at a Joint: they have 
no Footftalks; they are oblong, obtufe, largeft 
at the End, and rough. Their Colour is a pale 
ereen; and the Hairs to which they owe their 
Roughnefs, are white, firm, and {tiff 
Toward the Tops of the Branches the Leaves 
are narrower, and they ftand not oppofite but al- 
ternately, and from the Bofom of each there rifes 
a fingle Flower. 
. At the Summit of the Stalk thefe Leaves ftand 
Bids and are but fo many Rudiments; and, 
confequently, the Flowers are difpofed there in 
a fhort Spike, or little Tuft, but lower down, 
as the upper Part of the Stalk lengthens by the 
continued Growth of the Plant, the Leaves ftand 
much more diftant, and the Seed-vefiels are placed 
upright, and perfectly diftinct in their Bofoms. 
The Flowers themfelves are fmall, but ex- 
treamly pretty; they are of a deep red, but 
edged with a Border of white, regularly conti- 
nued round each Petal; and the extream Edge 
is fring’d with a Series of ftiff Hairs. 
The Cup is thick, and of a clavated Form, 
permanent, compofed of a fingle Leaf, and 
dented in five Places at the Top. 
The Body of the Flower is form’d of five Pe- 
tals: thefe have narrow Bottoms of the Length 
of the Cup, which have a fineular kind of addi- 
tional Edges: the broad Parts of thefe, Petals ex- 
pand' themfelves regularly and freely. The open- 
a kind of Crown form’d of ten Scales; two of 
thefe rife from the Neck of each Petal, and this |’ be left at about a Foot Diftance, and thus they 
Thofe fown in Au- 
tumn will blow early; and ripen good Seeds ;. 
thofe fown in Spring will come into flower when — 
Corona is the Nectarium of the Flower. 
The Filaments are ten, they are pointed, and 
crown’d with oblong Buttons. Underneath is the 
Rudiment of the Fruit, of a cylindrick Form, 
and from this rife three Styles longer than the 
Filaments ; they are crown’d by Heady which 
turn from the Sun. 
The Seed-veffel is cylindrick, and is cover’d 
by the Cup; it is divided into three Cells, in 
Seed-veffel when ns burfts in five Places at the 
Top. 
The Clafs of the Plant is feen in the Numbe 
of the Filaments; they are ten; and they refer - 
it to the Decandria, the tenth in the Linnean 
Syftem. The three Styles refer it alfo to the 
Trigymia, the third Subdivifion of that Clafs, | 
Culiure of this S1uune. 
It is an Annual, native of the warmer Parts 
of Europe; Spain, Italy, and the South of France, 
‘and is one of the common Weeds of their plough’d 
Fields and Vineyards. It is eafily raifed in our 
Gardens, and though when fown in Spring, it 
decays the fame Summer after flowering : it may 
be raifed by fowing in Autumn, and the Plants 
will flower earlier that Way, and better ripen the 
Seeds: but the beft Way to keep a Succeffion for 
the greateft Part of the Summer, is to fow it at 
both thefe Times. 
Let fome good Seed be faved from Plants 
which flower early, and fpread upon a paper’d 
Shelf to harden. 
Quantity fown in the latter End of Auguft, and 
the other the Beginning of the 4ril following; 
Both Parcels muft be fown in the Flower Gasden: 
upon the Spots where they ate to remain, for 
they do not fucceed nearly fo well when tranf 
planted. 
ing into the Hollow of the Flower is defended by: | 
When the Plants come up let them be thin’d 3 
and afterwards weeded and watered. They fhould 
will flower in Perfeétion. 
the others are over, and continue till the Frofts 
deftroy them: 
The Seeds thould be faved from the Plants 
of the Autumn fowing; and particularly from 
thofe which blow firlt, for they are Saas the 
ftrongeft. . 
ieee YELLOW ORE WT AL CORNFLOWER: 
The Gardener is not cofeusbles that from the 
common Cyanus, Cornflower, or blue Bottle of our 
Fields, cultivated in Gardens: there are many 
pretty Varieties in Colouring, and the Plant is 
much enlarg’d in Size. This is a Cornflower of 
a nobler Kind, and well. worth his Notice. 
He is: to know, that the Name Cyanus is loft 
in the modern Genus Centaura; one Species of 
which we defcribed firft in this Number, and 
that this is another. The old Authors however 
called it Cyanus, and by that Name he has hitherto 
heard it called by thofe who raife it. 
Morison calls it Cyanus orientalis major foliis 
oblongis flore luteo, and Dopart, Cyanus orientalis 
fore luteo fiftulofe: yellow fiftulous, fower’d Cya- 
AUS. 
N° 56. 
| dutky green : 
i aseee does not allow it to be diftin® in 
Species from the great oriental putple Kind; and 
referring that to the Centaurea; he adds as the 
Diftinétion of the Species, Calycibus inermibus fub- 
rotundis glabris, fquammis ovatis foliis finuatis: 
finuated leav’d Centaurea, with rounded; fmooth,; 
and naked Cups form’d of oval Scales: 
The Root is long, hard; woody, and hung 
with numerous Fibres. 
The Stalk is round, fitm, divided into many 
Branches; and a Yard in Height. The Colour 
is brown in general, deeply ftain’d with purple 
toward the Ground, and on the extream Parts 
oreenifh. 
The Leaves are numerous, long, and of a 
they ftand at Diftances itregularly 
8G upon 
Let it be divided into two Parcels, and one. 
