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O&ob. Chipings of Stone among: a Parcel of fome light Cuttings fhould be planted in Fume. Either way QFon» 
“———— and not too rich Compoft. 
In this Bed they may be propagated either by 
Seed, by parting the Roots, or by Cuttings. 
The Method of doing each we need not repeat, 
as there is nothing parididex required in regard to 
- this Plant; only the Time. 
The Seeds: fhould be fown in Autumn ; the 
Roots are beft parted early in Spring; and the 
the Plant fhould be raifed originally on the Bed, 
where it is to remain, for it fucceeds better .. 
than when tranfplanted. 
The Stone in the Border is an effential Thing 
to its Profperity, and the Roots never run fo 
well among this, as when they are originally pro- 
duced there. 
so DOU BH RW wer Be pedal; 
If Singularity did not often ftand in the Place 
PL 50. of Excellence with the Gardener, we fhould not 
Fig. O° recommend this Plant to his Attention. In all other 
Kinds the doubling of the Flowers is an Advan- 
tage, but in this it is rather an Imperfection. 
The Petals are continued in an irregular Suc- 
ceflion one above another, and there is more the 
Appearance of its having been occafioned by the 
Puncture of an Infect vitiating the Juices of the 
Plant, and producing monftrous Forms, as in the 
Burr of the Briar, than of its having arifen from 
Culture. . 
Under thefe Difadvantages, however, there is 
Variety in it; and tho’? we would by no means 
advife that it fhould take the Place of the com- 
mon white Lilly in Gardens, yet we do not think 
it improper to be intermixed with it, : 
The whole Plant, except in the Flower, re- 
fembles the common white Lilly. . 
The Root is fcaly, and forms a large Bulb. 
The Stalk is a Yard high. 
-’The Leaves are long, moderately broad, and 
waved at their Edges; and the Flowers crown | 
the Divifions of the Stalk at the Top; and the 
Shoots which rife from the Bofoms of the upper 
Leaves. They are long and irregular, white as in 
the common Lilly, but compofed ‘of more’ nu- 
merous Petals; “and as they are lefs beautiful, 
they are alfo lefs fragrant. 
Culture of this Lituy. 
We have obferved that this is only a Variety 
of the common white Lilly; it is entitled there- 
fore to no fpecifick Name, or farther Diftin&tion, © 
It has been raifed in our Gardens, and no Soil 
fuits it better than the common Mould of the 
Borders, The original Production of it muft be 
from Seed; but after it is once obtained, the 
Propagation and Increafe will be eafy from Of- 
fets of the Root, taken away at the Time of 
removing it after flowering. 
We have obferved, that the beft Change for 
raifing double Flowers from the Seed of the 
fingle, is by allowing a large Seed-bed, and fow- 
ing a fufficient Quantity. 
This muft be repeated a fecond and a third 
Time, if it do not fucceed the firft, and the La- 
bour is never loft: for if the double Flower is not 
produced, there will be always remarkably fine 
Plants of the common Kind from fuch fowings; 
and the ftriped Lilly we have named before, will : 
rife among them. 
When by repeated Sowings the expected Kind 
is produced, it fhould be nurfed with Care for 
the Production of Off-fets ; it fhould be allowed 
a good Soil, a great deal of Room, and fre- 
quent Waterings; and it fhould not be fuffered 
to exhautt itfelf in flowering. ie | 
_ At the End of this Time it mutt be taken 
up; and the Off-fets being removed, muft be | 
planted at ten Inches Diftance, in a Nurfery- 
bed, to gain Strength; and when they are fit 
for flowering, they are to be taken into the 
Garden, 
6. FERRUGINEOUS FOXGLOVE. | 
Plant, and all with particular Rewerd ieiek 
C. Bavuine calls it, 
There requires fome Tafte to enter into the 
: but the upright Robuftnefs of the Stem, the 
eke of the Plant, its clufter’d Leaves, and 
above all, its long Spike of .thick-fet Flowers, 
truly demand Attention. 
The Flowers have alfo a Colour peculiar to 
themfelves, that of a rufty Iron, and this is ano- 
ther Charaéter of Singularity in their Favour. — 
All the Writers on Botany have defcribed the 
N° 509. 
— of this Plant; for Colour is‘greatly againft | few of them with Praife. 
Digitalis auguftifolia, flore ferrugine: - narrow- 
leav’d Foxglove, with an Iron colour’d Flower. 
Van Roven, Digitalis foliis calycinis ovatis, ob- 
tufis: Foxglove, with the Leaves of the Cup 
oval and obtufe: and Linn mvs adds to that 
Diftinction, Corolle labio inferiore, tongitudine, 
foris: Foxglove, with the Leaves of the Cup 
oval, and obtufe, and with the lower Lip of the 
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