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~ Oétob. the other plain, all broad at the: Bale ; “and 
crowned with roundifh Buttons. £ 
The Style is fingle, it rifes from an anoulated 
Rudiment, and is terminated by an obtufe Pied: 
‘mon Kind there will be fuch Plants, and the te- 
cular Expeétation is, that this will be obtained from 
the Seeds of fuch Plants in a fecond Succefiion: 
There is no particular Care requiied for fowing 
-and the Leaves with the fainteft Stripe of white 
_ for the making themfelves Mafters of the Science 
The Seed-vefiel is roundifh, angulated, and 
formed of three Valves; it contains three! Cells, 
~ and in each of thefe are numerous rounded Seeds 
with a columnar Receptacle. id 
The fix Filaments and fingle Style thew very 
plainly the Clafs and. Place of the Plant; they 
declare it one of the Hexandria Monogynia. 
the Seeds.. A Spot; in the:Seminary, open to 
the South FEiaft, will raife thenr in the open 
Ground, and they muft be removed the fecond 
Year into a Bed at five Inches Diftance. _ 
_ The fecond Sowing muft be: treated as the 
firft; and if no Plants of the true Kind ap- 
pear from this, the Seed of thofe which come 
neareft to it are to be fown again. 
Culture of this ORNITHOGALUM. 
| 5 Method of propagating it by Off-fets is very 
We have obferved that this elegant Plant is only | familiar: it lives freely in the common Borders ; 
a Variety of the common Kind; the Gardener | and once in two Years the Roots may be ‘alee 
therefore is to raife it by large fowings of the Seed | up to remove the Off-fets. The Seafon for this 
of that Plant, or to propagate and encreafe it by | is immediately upon the Decay of the Leaves 
Off-fets, which it produces in Abundance: the | after flowering, and both the old Roots and 
Method by Seed is very precarious, for out of a | the Off-fets muft then be allowed a frefh Soil. 
thoufand Plants there fometimes will not perhaps The Off-fets will flower the fucceeding Seafon ; 
be one of the true Kind: the Method to attempt it | and after this are to be treated as the old Roots, 
with moft Profpect of Suceefs is, to fow the Seed 
from fome Plant, which has the green Rib at 
the back of the Petals broader than ufual; 
Off- fets ; and in thofe Years wherein they are not 
taken up, the Surface of the Bed fhould be pared 
off at the fame Seafon, and fupplied with frefh 
From the firft fowing of the Seeds of the com- | Mould. 
SESOSGASACSSS ORCAS SS LORS ACRONIS ASTOR REACTORS 
Seo et Oe Ne EE eet 
Of the Propagation of Trees and Plants from all their PARTS. 
rience. The Practice is too new in: England for 
accumulated Iluftration; but what we have now 
under Trial with a Profpect of Succefs, we lay down 
to the candid Examination of the Publick, and 
HE Spirit of Curiofity is fo far raifed in many 
who have not Opportunities or Attention 
of Botany, that the raifing exotick Plants and 
“When the true Plant is once obtained, the: 
taking | them up every other Year to remove their 
Trees is become a very profitable Employment. 
The Purchafers for the more rare Kinds are 
more than can be fupply’d; and the Nurfery- 
man wifhes nothing fo much as the Secret of 
a ijarger 2 Multiplication: 
The Method by Seed is flow, that by Layers is 
limited in Point of Number ; it alfo requires much 
Time : the Method by. Cuttings i is the moft ready, 
but that does not well face in ‘all the Kinds: 
there is alfo the farther Difadvantage in the Way 
of raifing from Seed, that it ripens imperfectly in 
many Kinds with us; and often what we obtain 
with much Difficulty from abroad, is either oa 
thered unripe, or injured in the bringing over. 
Thefe Confiderations join, to fhew that a more 
univerfal Manner of propagating them would be 
of great Advantage to the Dealer, as well as 
Satisfaction to the private Gentleman : and this is 
what we propofe to treat of in the prefent Section. 
The Honour of the Difcovery, if the Sue. 
cefs fhall fhew it merits any, will be due to a 
wild and fantaftick Writer, Agricola of Ratifbon, 
from whofe irregular and {trange’ Work upon 
this Subject, we have here thrown together for 
the Uie ee the English Gardener, what folid Know- 
ledge it contains, and what is fupported by E'xpe- 
pleat Plant. 
and all the reft are in them; 
Manner, that. every Leaf of a Tree may be 
defire thofe who have Opportunities to make the 
fame fair Experiments. 
The Principle on which this Author proceeds 
is, that in general every Part of a Plant con- 
‘| tains the Rudiments of an entire Plant of the 
fame Kind. What Lrywaus has fince faid, 
that the Trunk and Root differ little, other- 
wife than as one is above and the other under 
the Ground, this Author had long before afferted ; 
and he alledges that every Part of a Plant or 
Tree has the fame Analogy with the reft: con- 
fequently, that as there are in every Part, the Ru- 
diments of all the reft; and a proper Manage- 
ment only is required to bring them forth; that 
every Part may equally be the Source of a com- 
- That the Branches will form Trees 
becaufe they want only Roots whofe Rudiments 
are contained in them; that Parts of the Roots 
will as eafily be raifed to perfect Trees, becaufe 
the Rudiments of Trunks, Branches, Leaves, 
and in the fame 
made to grow up into a perfe&t Tree. Upon 
the fame Principle he afferts, that in the Fibres 
of the Leaves, as well as in the Branches and 
their Shoots, there are thefe. Rudiments of all 
the 
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