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- O&ob. toward their Tops, and open a little at the | wards kept weeded and watered. 
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Beauty, than this we are about to defcribe ; ithas | naturally growing ina Clufter at-the Head.of the 
Fig. 2. 
bottom; and two of them, which ftand op- 
pofite, are. prominent near the Bate. 
The Flower is compofed of four oblong Pe- 
tals with narrow Bafes, and in the Centre fland 
fix Filaments : four of thefe are longer than the 
other two; and they are crowned with narrow 
upright Buttons turned back at the Ends: at 
the Bafe of each of the fhort Filaments there 
is a Gland, which ftands between the Filament 
and the Rudiment. of the Fruit, and fofrounds 
that Rudiment. is 
There is no Style; this Rudiment, which is ob- 
long and fquared, is crowned with a Stigma or 
Head of an oblong Shape, placed inward and up- 
right, fplit at the Bafe, and clofe at the Top. 
The Seed-veffel is long, fomewhat flatted, 
ftriated, and formed of two Valves; it contains 
two Cells, and in each many a oval 
Seeds. 
The Clafs of the Plant is ee in thé Dif 
proportion of the Filaments, four being longer 
than the reft. It is that of the TZ oad: 
thence named; and the Fruit fhews it one of 
the Siliquofe or podded Kinds, 
Cultare of the fingle and double Hespenis. 
The Hejperis i in this fimple State is ‘Native of 
all the warmer Parts of Europe; it has been 
fuppofed a wild Engii/b Plant, but probably when 
it has been found out of Gardens, the Seeds have 
been by fome Accident fcatrered thence. Its 
Culture in this State is extreamly eafy. 
The Compoft fhould be of a Mixture of | fine double-flower’d Plants. 
it will srow 
Pafture Mould and River Mud: 
in the common Borders, and flower very well 
: but the Root will not fo continue good, 
In fuch a Compott, the Seeds, ripened the. 
pineal Seafon, are to be fown in the laft 
Week of March. The Plants muft be fuffered 
to flower where they rife, for tranfp! anting al- 
ways hurt them; and all the Care they require, 
is to be thiniied to two Foot Diftance, and after- 
a Ca EM SON 
There is not in the World a Shrub of oreater 
the Advantage alfo of Novelty: it is unknown to 
the lateft When. and. but of a very few Years” 
{tanding i in our Collections. 
It has had till now no Name : the Characters af 
the Flower plainly refer it to the Genus Vinca, 
the Name Linn vs has affixed to the Plant 
Periwinkle, heretofore called Pervinca;-as the 
_ Flowers of the other Kinds have no Colours. 
except blue, white, and a faint red; the Ad- 
dition of Crimfon will ferve the Gardener for its 
common Diftinction. For the botanical Student 
we may name it, Vinca floribus corymbojis : 
Clufter: 
Every Autumn the Roots fhouldsbe taken up, 
reduced to a due Size, and planted again in frefh 
Compoft. The parted Roots will increafe it far- 
ther, but the propagating by Seeds is fufficiently 
eafy, and is better. 
This is all the Care required for the fingle Kind; 
and from the Seeds of this is to be raifed the 
double. For this Purpofe a large Seed Bed mutt 
be dug up in the Nurfery ; ind the Seeds faved 
with Care from a wourns Plant, mutt be fcat- 
tered over it. ; 
The young Plants muft be thinned ; and, after 
they: have fome Strength, removed to another 
Bed, where they mult be fet at fix Inches 
| Diftance:: 
In this Bed they muft flower. The inferior 
Kinds muft be pulled up; and thofe which. pro- 
mife beft muft be planted out in Autumn in the 
Garden ; but they muft have fuch a Compoft as we 
have direétéd, for they will be fpoiled by the 
common Earth of the Borders. 
They will flower the next Year in their 
full Perfection; and there will be fome with 
Flowers. approaching to Doublenefs. 
Thefe muft be marked for Seed. This mutt 
be faved with Care, and fown as the former. 
From this will probably rife fome perfect double 
Plants; if not the Procefs muft be repeated ; fow- 
ing the Seeds of the fineft of thefe with the 
fame Cautions. 
Every Time, the Plants will be improved: no 
O&ctob. 
Part of the Labour will therefore be loft; and in | 
the End there will be produced the. perfects and 
| Thefe will yield no Seed, ME AS they tute 
be propagated by parting the Roots. The'Time 
| for doing this is Autumn, they muft be taken 
up every Year at that Seafon, and planted in 
a Bed of new Compoft; and the parted Pieces 
| muft be planted in a Nurfery Bed till they have 
| Strength to flower perfectly, and are in a Con- 
dition to be removed into the Garden. 
PERIWINKLE, 
ee d. Baii@inlde ; the Fleas of this S Species 
Plant, or Tone of the Branches; whereas in 
the others they rife from the Bofoms .of the 
Leaves along the whole Stalk. — 
The Root is compofed -of numerous, large 
Fibres, connected to an oblong Head. 
The. Stem is woody, and covéred with «a 
brown Bark; the young Shoots‘are green: and 
the Plant in its moft agreeable Form is a flight 
Shrub of about a Yard high. 
The Leaves are placed in Pairs, and are very 
beautiful ; they are oblong, confiderably broad; 
undivided at the Edges, and of a firm Subftance : 
their 
