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OF GARDENING 
Culture of this Fexiepore. 
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Earth and rich Garde Mould in equal Quan- Oétob. 
tities; a Bed fhould be made of this, and dug two 
Spades deep, and perfectly levelled. It fou! d be 
It is a Native of Hungary; and fnany other of | in a Part of the Garden open to the Morning 
the Northern Parts of Europe, where it fuc- 
ceeds beft in a loofe Soil, and open Situation ; 
on the Sides of Hills, and Borders of Fields. 
There can be no Difficulty in propagating fuch 
a Plant in Gardens here: it lives in the com- 
mon Borders, in any Situation ; and flowers with 
tolerable Care more beautifully than in its native 
Country. 
The Gardener has his Choice, to propagate 
it by Seeds, or by parting the Roots : 
but the other is the’ Method for thofe who 
value themfelves upon having fine Plants: we 
advife the Gardener to ufe both. For the prefent 
Stock let him obtain fome parted Roots, but for 
a Succeffion of fine growing Plants, let him have 
the necefiary Patience for the Growth from Seed. 
The Seafon for parting the Roots is not Au- 
tumn, as for the Generality of the fibrous Kinds, 
but Spring. The Beginning of March is the 
moft fuccefsful Time: and they will require to 
be divided once in three Years. 
The Soil fhould be a Mixture of frefh Pafture 
the latter | 
js the ready Way, and fucceeds very well;. 
Sun, and not fhaded by Trees : 
muft be planted at eighteen Inches Diftance; 
and watered and weeded in the common Way. 
Every Autumn and Spring the Surface of the 
Mould muft be well broke between the Plants ; 
and every third Year, when they are taken 
up for parting, the whole Soil muft be dug 
out, and frefh put in its Place; or the Plants 
muft be put in another Border. 
The Seeds muft be faved from che ftouteft 
and moft flourifhing Plants ; and fown in Autumn. 
The following Spring they muft be ofteri watered, 
and the Bed kept clear from Weeds; and where 
they have rifen too clofe, they muft be thinned. 
The fucceeding Spring they muft be planted out 
at fix Inches Diftance in another Bed; and the 
Spring fucceeding that into the Garden, where 
they will flower according to the various Acci- 
dents of their Growth that or the fucceeding 
Summer. Thefe will be the fineft Plants, and 
though Time is required; the Trouble of raifing 
them is trifling. 
6éGREEN BACKDOOR NIT HOGAL UE 
It muft be indeed an elegant Plant of the 
Ornithogalum Kind, that cous appear with Ad- 
vantage after the Arabian we have juft named : 
this cannot be faid to difpute the Preeminence 
with that; but ’tis notwith{tanding a very elegant 
Plant: and, as it is alfo of eafy Culture, it fhould 
be admitted into all Gardens where Variety is 
ftudied. 
The old Writers’ were acquainted with it, and 
they have univerfally called it Orithogalum. They 
have added their Senfe of its Diftinction from the 
other Kinds, though in Terms which confefied 
they fcarce knew what the Difference was. 
It is indeed a Variety of the common Kind; 
rifing from its Seed under the various Acci- 
dents of Growth, not an abfolutely diftinét Spe- 
cies. Cxiusius calls it Ornithogalum vulgare aliud: 
another Kind of common Ornithogalum. C. 
BavHiNE diftinguifhes it by the Term Latifohum, 
broad Jeav’d but this is vague and uncertain. 
The Leaves, though commonly broader than 
thofe of the common Ornithogalum, from which he 
means to diftinguifh it by that Epithet; yet being 
too uncertain in that Particular for the found- 
ing a proper Character, the entire green of the 
back of the Flower is the obvious Diftinétion: 
by this the Gardener will always know it ; this is 
‘its principal Recommendation to his Notice; and 
he is to be informed that Linnaeus, who has 
carefully. diftinguifhed Varieties from Species, 
does not allow this of the latter Kind: he is 
to refer it therefore to the common Ornithoga- 
lum, which that Author diftinguifhes by the Ad- 
dition, Floribus corymbojfis, pedunculis [capo altiori- 
| bus, filamentis emarginatis : Corymbofe flower’d Or- 
nithogalum, with the Footftalks taller than the 
main Stem, and with emarginated Filaments. 
The Root is a large Bulb; white, crowded 
with Off-iets, and hung with many Fibres, 
The Leaves are numerous, very long, mo- 
derately broad, and of a fine fhrotig green: they 
rife confiderably above the Top of the Stalk ; 
and they have not that white Rib in the middle 
which diftinguifhes the Leaves of the common 
Kind. 
' The Stalk is green, Jound, naked, ane eight 
Inches high; white toward the Grane. _anid elfes 
where of a pale green. : 
Atits Top ftands an elegant Cie or round 
Head of Flowers: they all rife from one Point; 
and {pread themfelves into a Kind of Umbell, 
Each has its feparate long Footftalk ; and when 
the full Number is blown, the Tuft is very 
elegant. 
The Flowers aré large, s6d on the infide of | 
a {nowy white; the whole Back is green; and as 
the Footftalks move with the Wind, this gteen 
Part is often turned up to the Sight, and adds to 
the general Beauty: 
The Gardener recolleéts thofe in the F lower of 
the common Ovnithagalum: there runs all along the 
back of each Petal, in the middle, a green Sereale 
this, in the prefent Flower, does not keep withia 
thofe natural Limits, but fpreads itfelf over the 
whole Petal. 
The Flower has no Cup ; it is compofed of fix 
oblong, moderately broad Petals, and has in the 
| Centre fix Filaments, three of which are nip’d, 
the 
the parted Riots | 
