OF GARDENING, 699 
. Oétob. 
Octob. their Colour is a deep green ; their Surface glofly, 4 and furrowed. 
Fin so. 
Fig. 
and their Veins whitith. 
The Flowers crown all the Branches in great 
Tufts at theic Extremities: they are large 
as well as numerous, and in the higheft. De- 
gree elegant; they ftand crowding upon one 
another, wide expanded, and are of a delicate 
crimfon: and on the Back-fide of a pearly white. 
Each has a Cup formed of one Piece, divided 
into five. Segments. 
The Body of the Flower is formed of one Pe- 
tal, tubular at the Bafe, and fully expanded at 
the Verge. 
The tubular Part is lenge than the Cup, cy- 
lindrick toward the Bottom, broader upwards, 
and marked with five Lines: 
pentangular Mouth: 
The expanded Part is formed of five vaft 
Segments; they are broad, obtufe, and fo deeply 
cut down, that they refemble fo many Petals ; 
but they are united with the Top of the Tube. 
The Filaments are five; they are very fhort, 
and are bent backward and’forward ; and they 
are crowned with upright, - obtuse, | membra- 
naceous Buttons. 
There are two Rudiments, with a rowhdifh 
Gland affixed to each ; and to thefe there is one 
common Style, fhort and cylindric. 
two Heads: the lower rounded and flat, the up- 
pet hollow. © 
The Seed- vefiel is a double Pod; or in other | 
Words, there follow every Flower two long 
Pods formed each of a fingle Valve, and opening | 
longitudinally : the Seeds are numerous, oblong, 
it has alfo a 
This has 
The Conftruétion . thefe Parts is very fin- 
gular, but five Filaments and a fingle Style 
refer the Plant: plainly to its Clafs and Place 
in the Linnean Syftem, the Pentandria Mono- 
gynia, the fifth Clafs, and its firft Section. 
Culture of this PERIWINKLE: 
It is a Native of Madaga/car, and with us re- 
quires. the Heat of a Stove to keep it in Per- 
fection. | 
The Miffionaries of France in that Ifland 
fent over the Seeds to the King’s Garden, where 
it firft flower’d in Europe. This is about three 
Years ago; and two or thereabouts we. have 
known it in England. 
_ The Elegance of its Flower foon made its 
Way hither; and Mr. Hamizton, a Gentleman 
diftinguifhed. eminently in the Knowledge of 
Plants, firft raifed it here: at prefent it is. in 
two or three other of our curious People’s Hands, 
but I have feen it no where fo perfect as at the 
Nurfery Garden of Mr. Ler and KENNEDY, near 
Hammer fimith. | 
It requires a light rich Mould, _and may be 
railed from Seed or Cuttings. 
The Seed fhould be obtained from the Place 
where it is Native, for the Periwinkles are Plants 
which do not ripen it favourably. The Cuttings 
are to be managed as we have directed for the 
other tender Kinds; but a great deal of Care 
-muft be taken in the potting of them to 
preferve the Mould about their Roots. 
2: Bis LA COB ANGLO TUS. 
The extream Singularity of this Plant: never 
fails to attract the Attention at -a -diftant View 
and on a nearer ‘Obfervation, there is a Pe- 
culiarity alfo and Beauty in the Flower, which 
itrongly recommend it. | 
The old Writers did not know: the Plant. 
The Dutch firft raifed it in 1690, from Seeds 
fent thither by Mynheer VanpersTeL, Governor | 
of their Settlement at the-Cape,. from the IfMand — 
whence it is named ; sat which he touched on his 
Way thither. | 
Commetane, who firft raifed it in Europe, named 
it, Lotus auguftifolia flore luteo purpurafcente Lnfule 
Janth Facobi, but this is not expreffive of the Co- 
lour, which is rather blackith. 
Linw vs calls j it, Lotus leguminibus fubternatis, 
caule berbaceo foliolis linearibus : upright, her- 
baceous Lotus with narrow Leaves, and fub- 
ternate Pods. 
. The Root. is long, divided; mute, and hung 
with many Fibres. — 
The Stem.is- round, upright, very ca. and 
covered with a pale brown Bark. t 
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continues through the: Night. . 
The Branches are innumerable : 
with great Irregularity: they are tough, long, 
flender,. and. of a pale green; aa they 
fend out a Multitude of young Shoots, which 
are round, firm, and of a whitith Colour. The 
whole Plant naturally; forms a fpreading Buth 
of about two Foot. anda half high, _ 
The Leaves ftand at Diftances upon the — 
Stalk, Five always grow together; three of 
thefe are fupported on a lender Footftalk, and 
the other two grow to the main Stem: ‘They are 
they grow 
| long, narrow, fharp-pointed, and divided at the 
Edges; and are nearly all the Way. of a Breadth: 
_ This.is what Linnaeus exprefies by the Term 
Linear.. Their Colour is a pale greyith green ; 
and. they are of a firm Subftance.. In the Day- 
time they ftand horizontally ; but in the Night; 
the Footftalk, which fupports thé’ three; rifes 
upward; and thofe Leaves alfo rife upward, 
and turn inward, embracing the lower Part of 
the young Shoot, which rifes from their Bofom.: 
‘This.-Change comes.-on at Evening, and 
It is what 
Linn 2us 
