and the Subdivifion of thofe Plants is form- 
_ this are covered; it is therefore referred to the 
: to chufe a ‘warm Spot of the Nurfery for its Pro- 
- pagation; and a fheltered Part of the Garden for | 
it to flower. 
perfectly peculiar Character, 
The Root is a thick Head, with innumerable | 
long Fibres. . | 
The Stalk is five Foot high, rounded, but 
lightly ridged, and of a dufky green. 
The Leaves are long, narrow, fomewhat hol- 
-low’d, and extreamly numerous: they are placed 
very clofe, but irregularly on the Stalks; and 
their Colour is a dull green. | | 
The Flowers are placed as thick as they can 
ftand, in a Spike of near a Yard in Length, and | 
they gape open. Their Colour is that of rufty 
Tron, a yellowith or redifh brown, and they are 
of confiderable Duration. _ 
The Cup is cut: deep into five Segments, 
the upper one of which is narrower than the 
others. | 3 ) 
oo See. lower itfelf is formed of one Petal; it is | 
tubular in the lower Part, and divided at the | 
Verge into two Lips. 
_ The Filaments ate four; they are inferted 
into the Bafe of the Flower, and two are longer 
than the others; they are crown’d with But- 
tons divided into two Parts, and pointed at one 
End. | 
The Style is fingle, and the Seeds are con- 
tained in an oval Capfule. The Clafs and Place 
of the Plant are eafily known from this. The two 
longer Filaments place it among the Didynamia, 
ed upon the Condition of the Seeds, which in 
Angio/permia. 
Culiure of this Foxciove. 
It is aN ative of the warmer Parts of Europe, 
and the Eaft; but lives very well throughout 
the Year in our Gardens. We fhould, however, 
have fo much Regard to its native Climate, as 
« Let the Seeds be faved from a robuft and fares 
Plant ; and when they have been carefully dry’d 
and harden’d upon a paper’d Shelf, let them be | 
put up in Bags, in fmall Quantities, and hung 
up for the Winter. 
In the March following let a Bed be dug up 
in a warm Part of the Nurfery, and the Seeds 
fcattered on with an even hand, not too thick. 
The common Mould of the Seminary will an- 
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Length of the Flower: this is a diftin¢tive and | {wer for this Purpofe, for they will rot in too Oétob, 
rich a Soil. 
When the Plants come up let them be thin’d, 
and the Bed carefully weeded and refrefhed ar 
‘Times with a little Water. 
When the Plants are four Inches hich, let a 
new Bed be dug up for them in a near Part of 
the Nurfery; and. in the Evening of a cloudy 
Day, let them be taken up and planted in this. 
at feven Inches Diftance. 
Let the Bed be divided by Lines at this Dif. 
tance, and the young Plants be taken up with 2 
good Quantity of their original Mould. 
Let them> be planted in the new Bed With 
Care, and particular Regard had to the preferve- 
ing the upright Straitnefs of the’ Stalk ; becaufe on 
that a great Part of the Beauty of the Plant wili 
depend. 
Let them be watered in their new Bed as foon 
till they have taken Root. After this let the 
Bed be conftantly and carefully weeded, and the 
Plants kept in a State of free Growth by frequent 
_ but moderate Waterings. | | 
Let them be fet upright in this, with a eood 
Ball of their own Earth, and tied up to fhort 
firm Stakes to fecure their upright Growth. 
They will flower very boldly, and the finett 
of them fhould be permitted to ripen Seeds. It 
is with thefe, as many other of the hardy fibrofe 
rooted European Kinds, they may be made either’ 
biennial or perennial, at the Pleafure of the Gar- 
dener. . | 
If they be fuffered to fland and ripen the 
vaft Quantity of Seed which naturally follows that 
creat Number of Flowers, the Root becomes 
quite exhaufted, and the Plant dies; but if the 
Stalk be cut down before the F lowers fade, the 
Root will continue ftrong for feveral Years, 
and from the others, whofe Stalks be cut down, . 
a large Increafe by parted Roots. 8 
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