Culture of ‘this PHasro.us. — 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of Ame- 
vica, where it rifes frequent in their Thickets, 
twifting itfelf among the Branches, and running 
often to the Height of four or more Feet. With 
us it will require a Stove to give it full Perfec- 
tion; but it may be preferved tolerably in the 
Greenhoufe in Winter, and open Air in Sum- | 
mer. 
The Seeds are eafily obtain’d from Abroad; or 
it will grow from thofe which ripen here. The 
Method mutt be this: 
Fill a Pot with rich Garden Mould within an | 
' Inch of the Rim, fcatter on a Dozen of good 
Seeds, fift over them a Quarter of an Inch of } 
Mould, and fprinkle on a little Water. Set the 
Pot up to the Rim in a Bark-bed, and when the 
_ Mould is too dry, give it a little more water- 
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When the young Plants come up, let them at. 
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“COMPLEAT BODY 
Times have a little Air; and when they ate big Odtob. 
enough tosbe removed, take them earefully ase cagore 
and plant each in a feparate fmall Pot. Set thefe 
alfo up tothe Rim in the Bark, give them a 
gentle watering, and fhade the Glafles from the 
Sun till they have taken Root. 
Then give them Air by degrees, as at firft, 
and when they are well eftablith’d, remove them 
into the Stove. 
As they increafe in Size, let them be removed 
into frefh Pots, and at each Time let the whole 
Ball of Earth be fhook out, the extream Fibres 
of the Roots trim’d round, and the Ball fet upon 
-an Inch. of frefh Mould in the fame Pot; and 
as much put in round it as will fill up the Space 
within, and cover the whole Ball an Inch deep. 
_ Some frefh Mould fhould afterwards be put in 
| upon the Surface twice a Year, {craping off an 
Inch or more of the other; and thus the Plant 
will flourifh as in its native Country, green all the 
Year; and elegant even without its Flowers. 
2 GREEN ..F.LOWBRED SQUILI. 
Pl. 58. This is a very fpecious and noble Plant; and 
BF ig. 2. to thofe who confider thefe Things lefs attentively, 
would appear a diftin& Species from the common 
— Squill. tis, however, no more than a Variety ; 
differing in the Size of the Plant, and Colouring 
of the Flower: thefe Variations our more correé 
Student has been taught are not enough to con- 
ftitute a fpecifick Diftinétion ; and tho’ they are. 
extreamly worthy the Notice of the Gardener, 
they fink under his Eye into flight accidental - 
C hanes... Be 
_ The Reader who remembers that the Genera- 
lity of botanical Writers have made two Kinds of 
- Squill, of the red and the white rooted Plant, 
frilla radice rubra, and fcilla radice alba ; and ho- 
nour’d them with feparate Defcriptions, though 
differing in fcarce the leaft Article befide, will 
not wonder that this larger Plant, whofe Root is 
neither white nor red, and whofe Flower is greatly 
{uperior to the common Kind, fhould have ap- 
pear’d to ComMmeELine, who received it from 
Africa, a diftinct Species. He will find however, 
that all its Variation is accidental; and that tho? 
this Author, and before him Herman, have 
called it feilla Africana flore viridi parvo, bulbo 
amplifimo: great rooted African Squill, with fmall 
Flowers ; he is to refer it to the common Kind. 
_ This Linnzus chara@terifes by the Structure 
of the Root, /cilla radice tunicata: coated rooted 
Squill, a moft abfolute Diftin@ion from all the 
other Species : for though we join with them, ac- 
cording to the Linnean Method, the ffarry Hya- 
cinths, there 1s not another coated Bulb among 
them. | : 
_ The Root of this is well proportion’d to the 
Size of the Plant; it is as big as a Child’s Head, 
of an oval Form, yellow, and compofed of nu- 
merous thick Coats, the outer ones of which 
are varioufly broken; and hung at the Bottom 
with many thick Fibres. The Tafte of the Root 
is uncommonly naufeous, and the Juice fo fharp” 
that it blifters the Skin. 
The Leaves are oblong, broad, of a deep 
green, pointed, and hollow’d ; they are -alfo full 
of a thick acrid Juice: they are nine or ten 
Inches long, and of the Breadth of three F ingers. 
Thefe naturally appear in Spring; and when the 
Plant is ill managed, they are all the Produce. | 
_ The Stalk which fupports the Flowers rifes 
naked; and is thick, round, juicy, redifh, and 
four Foot high. | | : 
_ The Flowers are fmall, but they are innume- 
rable ; they cloath the Lop of the Stalk for more 
uae and 
in that Cafe they are not inelegant, but the perfec 
Beauty of the Plant is, when the green 1s laid in ° 
thin Stripes upon a white Ground. 
~ Each Flower is compofed of fix expanded Pe- 
tals, and rifes naked from tle Footftalk. ee 
dn the Centre ftand fix Filaments ; they are 
fhort and fmalleft toward the Top, and are crown’d - 
with oblong incumbent Buttons. 
The Style is fimple, of the Length of the F 4 
laments, and terminated by a {mall Head: it 
rifes from a roundifh Rudiment of a Fruit, and 
1s followed by a fmooth oval Seed-veflel, mark- 
}ed with three Purrows, and form’d of three: - 
Valves within it is divided into three Cells, in 
each of which are feveral roundith Seeds. 
The Student can be at no Lofs for the Clafs of 
this Plant, its fix Filaments refer it to the Hex- 
andria, and the fingle Style to the Monogynia, 
Linnavs’s fixth Clafg, and its firft Section. | 
Culture 
