‘have all celebrated it, 
‘C. Bauwine calls it Narciffus Ilyricus Liliaceus : 
The more. 
tionarciffus, vel Narciffus tertius Mathiol: 
OF GARDENING. 
tL LY RY AN Pee Rep ie 
The Senfe of Mankind of this Plant’s Ele- 
wance has given it a long Time a Place in 
Gardens, where its delicate Fragrance, Singu- 
larity, Beauty, and eafy Culture, will join to 
preferve it in Reputation. A Flower, fo long 
and fo well known to the Gardener, could not 
efcape the Attention of botanical Writers: they 
but under various Names. 
the liliaceous Daffodill of Sclavonia. 
common Writers, Narciffus tertius Mathioli: the 
third Sea Narciffus of Mathiolus. Brsier calls it, 
Lilio Narciffus Hemerocallidis facie : Lilionarciffus 
with the Afpect of the Hemerocallis; and J. 
Bavunine, by along Name which very well fhews | 
his vague Notion of its Characters, Pancratii 
Monfpeliani, vel Hemerocallidis valentine facie Lil- 
narciffus, with the Appearance of the Pancratium 
of Montpelier, the Hemerocallis of Valentia; 5 
or the third Daffodill of Mathiolus. 
When fuch Names were received, did not the 
Science want Linnaus? that Author, having 
— diftinguifhed the bulbous Plants by Characters 
which obviated all this Confufion of naming 
them from their Likenefs to one another, defets 
this to the Pancratiums, feveral Species of which . 
we have had Occafion to defcribe before; and he 
diftinguifhes this particular Plant by the Addition, 
Spatha multiflora, foliis enfiformibus, Staminibus nec 
tario longioribus: Sword-leaved Pancratium with 
clufter’d Flowers and Filaments longer than the 
Nectarium. 
The Root is bulbous, vety large, of an oval 
“Form, and hung from the Bafe, with many long, 
large, and durable Fibres. 
The outer Coats are 
blackifh, but it: is white, and full of Juice 
within. 7 
The Leaves are fix or eight in Number, broad, 
plain, and edged, not very long; of a firm Sub-. 
ftance, and of a grey-green Colour. 
The Stalk is round, thick, and juicy, naked, a 
Foot high, and of a pale green; whitifh toward 
‘the Ground. . 
On its Top ftand the Flowers, all oe from 
‘one common Point, and at the firft furrounded 
or enclofed with a common Scabbard. They 
are from fix to ten or twelve in Number, er 
with very good Culture more: they are large, 
white, wide expanded, and extreamly fragrant :, 
the Scent is in the higheft Degree ae but 
not heavy or overpowering. 
The Scabbard from which they beet is Ob- 
long, obtufe, flatted, and large; it burfts on the 
“plain Side, and foon after fades. 
The Flower confifts of fix Petals, and a con- 
fpicuous Nectarium. This is formed of one 
Leaf, white as the reft of the Flower, and cut 
at the Rim into twelve expanded Segments; 
{maller and hollow toward the Bafe. The 
{ix Petals are fixed to the Outfide of this tu- 
bular Part near the Bafe: they are oblong, 
and broadeft toward the middle. 
bares F 
a Lalio-’ 
that is 
they -rife from the 
and they 
The Filaments are fix; 
Neétarium ; they exceed it in Length, 
have oblong incurnbent Buttons. 
The Style is fingle, and crowned with an obtufe 
Head. It rifes from a rounded Rudiment pla- 
ced.under the Receptacle of the F lower; and 
marked with three obtufe Ridges; this after- 
wards ripens into a three corner’d Seed-veflel form’d 
of three Valves, divided within into three Cells, 
and ‘containing in each many round papmiiore 
a columnar Reve ithe. | 
The fix Filaments and fingle Style fhew the 
Plant one of the Hexandria Monogynia. 
Culture of this PANcRATIUM. 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of Eu- 
-rope, and thrives beft on the Sides of Hills 
that lie near the Sea. 
The Influence of the Sea Water reaches farther 
than any but thofe who ftudy Botany, are aware, 
We find in England a Number of Plants, 
befide thofe which never live any where but, 
upon the Shores, which very- well deferve to be 
called maritime, for they flourifh five or fix 
Miles from the Sea, but are not found in the © 
midland Places. Therefore this bulbous Flower, 
though found on the Mountains of Sardinia, 
as Ray tells us, is always to be underftood 
by the Gardener as a Maritime Plant, and 
treated accordingly. We have had ‘Occafion in 
former Inftances to mention the Particularity 
to be obferved in the Treatment of 
thofe Plants which Natute has raifed near the 
Sea ; it is a Thing quite overlooked in the Practice 
of Gardening ; and the Confequence is, that few 
of thofe Plants, fome of which are the finéeft we 
know, flower in their full Beauty. 
As this is a Native of Europe, it will vety well 
bear the Seafons with us in open Ground, only it 
fhould have a good Spot chofen ; and a Soil ap- 
propriated to its Nature. In this the Gardener 
may very happily propagate it by Off-fets 5 for 
we could, with an ill Grace, advife him to the 
Method by Seeds, ‘if every Attempt in that Way 
were to be as tedious as our faithful ParKinson’s; 
who was fourteen Years in bringing a Seedling 
Plant of it to flower. This Method however, tho’ 
we name the Difcouragement, we do not mean to 
difcommend, the Art of Gardening is better 
known than in his Time, and with the Circum- 
{tance of a well fuited Soil, the Labour may reap 
its Reward fooner: It will be a Service to the 
Caufe, if fome, who raife many of the bulbous 
Kinds from Seed, will give this a Trial among 
them. < i 
The Compoft fhould be prepared thus: mix 
a Barrow of dry and not over rich Pafture Mould, 
with a Bufhel of old Cow Dung, three Pecks 
of Woodpile Earth, and two of Sea Sand wet 
with the natural Water; or, if the Sea be not 
near, ufe in the Place of this the fame Quantity of 
River Sand, or of coarfe Pit Sand wafhed clean, 
ae ee and, 
