Pl. ‘, oe 
Fig. 2, mon Weed: for in the fingle State, the red 
Campion paints our Hedges in the eatly Part 
of Summer almoft univerfally. Nature firtt gave 
the Hint for ennobling the Flower, but Art 
only can raife it to the full Bignefs wherein 
_ we reprefent it in the annex’d Plate. Where 
_the Ditch Side on which it gtows is rich and 
well watered, we fee the Flower not unfre- 
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is, that it is practifed by thofe, who not know- Odtob. 
O&€tob. 
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— Seeds. 
Water near, where the Mould is light and deep, 
and there is fome Shade. All thefe Advan- 
tages, when the Englih Gardener knows they 
are required, he can give without much Trouble 
to a Plant which endures freely the open Air in 
our Climate. | | 
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Pk COMPL EAT BOD Y 
Flowers, but the loweft of them in fome De- 
sree refemble little Leaves. So | 
The Flowers crown the Top of the. Stalk 
in a Kind of elegant, fhort, but thick Spike. 
They are very large, and of the Lilly Form, 
and Snow-white Colour; only that three 
of the Petals are tipped with green: and they 
have a very delicate Fragrance. Ten or twelve of 
thefe Flowers appear frequently at once upon a 
Plant; and each has its feparate fhort Footftalk, and 
at the Bafe of that a Film. There is no Cup; 
the Body of the Flower is compofed of fix 
oblong Petals, which continue feparate to the 
Bafe, and they are fmalleft there, wider to the 
Mouth, where they are expanded; and the 
upper ones turn a little back at the Ends. 
Within the Flower rife fix Filaments, long, tu- 
bulated, and crowned with golden Buttons: they 
are equal to the Body of the Flower in Length, 
they droop a little, and the upper ones are | 
fomewhat fhorter than the under. ~ 
From the Rudiment of the Seed-veffel, which 
is roundifh and furrowed, rifes a fingle Style 
of the Length and Figure of the Filaments, 
and crowned with a three-corner’d Head,’ which 
turns up a little. When the Seed-vefiel ripens 
it becomes more of the oval Form, and has 
three Ridges: it is divided within into three 
Cells, and in each contains numerous rounded ° 
ing the Hiftory or Nature of the Plants, can- 
not give thofe Affiftances to their Growth fo 
eafily in the Power of fuch as are confcious 
they are required. 
On this Principle let the prefent Plant be 
.cultivated. Let a {mall Bed be allowed for it 
in the Flower Garden; and let this be in a 
Spot that has natural Moufture, a little Shade, 
-and fome Déclivity; into this Place let there 
be dug as much River Mud and Meadow Earth 
as there is of the Garden Soil; and with thefe 
a little rotted Cow Dung: thus the Soil will be 
enriched without Heat, and the Place correfponding 
with it in fuiting the Nature of the Plant, there 
| will be all poffible Advantage. 
~the Root, or raifed from Seed. If the Method 
by parting the Roots be chofen, the Seafon for 
more Trouble is required than to take them 
off from the old Root with a good Head; 
and, levelling the Bed made for them, to plant 
them at a Foot and a half Diftance with the 
Head upright, and cover them two Inches with 
the Mould. They will in this Manner flower 
the fucceeding ° Summer. 
. The Method by Seeds is flow, and there 
is rio Expectation of Variety in the Flowers: 
it is fearce worth while to be at the Trouble; 
but thofe who chufe it will have numerous and 
‘The Clafs of the Plant is feen obvioufly in 
elegant Plants. 
the fix Filaments; and its Place in that Clafs 
by the fingle Style, It is one of the Hexandria 
Monogynia. and the Seedlings are to be treated with great 
the firft Seafon, out of the Seed-bed, and 
planting them at a F oot Diftance; and then 
Culture of this FaemEroca.us. 
We. have: obfemved the Plant is Native. of 
the Northern Parts of Europe, but it is not con- 
fined to thofe; for it flowers alfo in great Ele. 
gance wild in /taly. The. Situation which mot 
favours it, is the Side of a Hill where there is 
and Leaves are perfectly decayed. The Roots 
muft at this Seafon be taken up and reduced 
to a due Sizes and planted again immediately 
in the frefh Mould, covering them at leaft 
as deep as at the firft planting, 
This Garden Flower we raife fio a com- 
In the double State the old Authors call it,. 
| Lychnis multiplex; and Lychnis Flore plemo ; 
in the more ufual State, with fingle Flowers, 
they have all defcribed it: they call it Lych- 
ms fylvefris flore rubro, and Flore rubello, and 
Ocymoides purpureum. C. Bauutne calls it, 
fimple flower’d red, wild or Water Lychnis : nor 
Ditches 
The Plant may be either encreafed by parting: © 
it is toward the End of September; and no 
The Time of fowing is the End of Autumn, ~ | 
Care,. removing them when the Leaves fade, 
sheneeneneianineimmanenS 
LILY, 
