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Octob. 
Pl. 67. 
The Leaves ftand in. Pairs. 
broad, oblong, foft to the Touch, and of the 
Ditches which are cut as a Part of the Fence: 
" and it never thrives fo: well as when there is 
Water in them. Cxvusrus fuppofes it the 1é- 
landrium of Pliny, and not without Foundation. 
Linn aus, who has feparated under feveral dif- 
ferent generical Names the Plants called by others 
Lychnis, retains that Name for a certain Num- 
ber of them; and this is one: he adds as the 
Diftinction of the Species, a very fingular Cha- 
racter, Floribus dioicis: WLychnis with male ‘and 
female Flowers on feparate Plants. This is 
indeed’ a claffical rather than’ fpecifick Cha- 
racter;- and fhould, in the Strictnefs of Me- 
thod, remove the’ Plant far from all the others 
of its Kindred: but Linn zvs on thefe Occafions, 
makes his Syftem fubfervient to Nature; and _ 
has kept them, together according to her Laws, | 
though in. Contradiction to his own. 
The Root is long, thick, white, and hung 
with many Fibres. 
. ‘The Leaves rife in vaft Tufts, and; are oblong 
and of a pale green, broad, fott | to" the Touch, 
and varioufly difpofed. 
The Stalks are irregularly upright, sr agtaligd 
weak, and two Foot high. Their Colour is 
a pale green, and they are, covered with a light 
ereyifh Hairynefs. The Joints {well a little, and 
are often {tained with purple. | 
they are large, 
fame pale green with the Stalk. 
The Flowers ate very large and fpecious: 
they are compofed of a Multitude of oblong 
Petals irregularly jagged at the Edges, and their 
Colour is a ftrong and fine Crimfon. 
The Student knows we are to refer him for 
the Charaéters of the Plant to the fingle State 
of the Flower; in this he will find it com- 
pofed of five Petals, and placed in an inflated 
Cup. 
This Cup is formed of one Piece, rounded, 
cut into five Parts at the End, and permanent. 
The Petals of the Flower have narrow Bates, 
of the Length of the Cup, which are edged 
by Membranes. ‘The Filaments are ten, five are 
fomewhat fhorter than the others; and they have 
incumbent Buttons. 
The Rudiment of the goed cele is oval, and. 
there rife from it five long Styles crowned with 
fimple Heads. 
The Seed-veffel, is blogs, and remains de- 
-Taftance, 
.ill-chofen Situations, 
Weeds, and flowers thefe in great Perfeétion : 
but even in this plain Inftance the Guidance 
of Nature is neglected, and ’tis therefore we 
fee it poor and imperfect. 
We ‘have lamented that thofé concerned in 
the practical Part of Gardening, generally want 
Opportunities of knowing the Hiftory and na- 
tural. Growth of thofe Plants they are to cul- 
tivate, becaufe the Books which fhould convey 
that Knowledge, are in Languages unknown 
to them: but here *tis Want of Obfervation 
only, for the Plant is before them. _ 
One wonders to fee Men’take a Plant from a 
damp fhady Place, and fet it in a dry and 
open Border; but as often as the Oecafion 
returns, we have the Caufe to wonder. 
Let the Gardener remedy it in this familiar 
He. is furprifed at the Bignefs in 
which we reprefent the Flowers in this Figure, 
arid becaufe he has only feen the Plant in 
where they reach but 
half their natural Size, and very little of their 
proper Luftre; he fuppofes their true Form 
exagserated. Let him give the Plant proper 
Advantage, and he will find it all in Nature; 
if he propagate it by parting the Root, let 
him in Autumn choofe the damp Side of a 
| Clump of flowering! Shrubs; and with no more 
Care he fhall fee the Flowers next Summer 
vaftly improved in Bignefs and in Colour; 
and fuch Soils and ftich Situation let him. for 
the future give to this and to all other Plants 
of the fame Origin. 
This Method sf parting che Roots is the com- 
mon and familiar Way of propagating the Plant, 
they encreafe abundantly; and they fhould be 
parted in Autumn, but not too fmall. After this 
they fhould every Autumn be taken out of 
the Ground, clean’d, and reduced to a due 
Size; and planted again immediately either in 
another Place with the fame Advantages as the 
firft, or in the fame Spot with new Mould. | 
Thus they will flower in Perfection 
Gardener knows more is to be expected if he will 
be at the Pains to raife them from the Seed. The 
Method of doing this we need not here lay down 
at large; having given it fo fully already. He 
mutt obferve that no Seed is to be expected from 
thefe double Flowers: it muft be colleéted fromm 
the fingle Kind wild in the Hedges. 
This muft be fown in Autumn under the Ad- 
fended by the Cup; it is compofed of five | vantages we have directed for other Seeds in: 
Valves, but has only a. fingle Cell, and is full | tended for raifing double Flowers; and the Re- 
of roundifh Seeds. ’ 
Culture of this CAMPION« 
fult will be, cloak the Gardener will find, among 
|} many of an inferior Order, feveral double and 
large ones; crimfon, pale red, white, and va- 
riegated. The Plant in this View is very well 
The Gardener ‘neéds not be told, that little of | worth Culture, and is capable of great Improve- 
his Care is needed to preferve in the Borders 
a Plant which takes .its Chance among Hedge 
ment. 
ok ARABIAN ORNITHOGALIUM. 
but this moft of all, and moit worthily ; there is 
The Ornithogaliums of every Kind have been at 
Fig. 3. all Times received and valued in our Gardens ; 
a Dignity and Elegance about it which none of the 
| others 
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