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the Flowers are large, produced in 

 great Tufts, and are of a fine blue 

 Colour, with a yellow Thrum in 

 the Middle, and is a great Orna- 

 ment to Gardens in its Seafon of 

 Flowering. This is the Amtllut of 

 Virgil. 



The third, fourth, and fifth Sorts 

 grow to the Height of four or five 

 Feet, and produce large Quantities 

 of Flowers, and are very proper for 

 large Gardens, where they may 

 have room ; but in fmall Places they 

 are very apt to over-run whatever 

 is planted near them, and the Seeds 

 are fubject to fcatter, and fill the 

 Garden with young Plants, if the 

 Stalks-are not cut down, and car- 

 ried away, foon after the Flowers 

 are pall ; for which Reafons few 

 People care to keep them : but yet in 

 large Wilderneffes they are very 

 good to fill up Vacancies, and the 

 Flowers are very proper to adorn 

 Halls and Chimneys; and as they 

 come at a Seafon when few better 

 Flowers appear, are the more va- 

 luable : but, in order to keep them 

 within Bounds, you mould at leaft 

 once a Year dig round them, and 

 cut off all the fpreading Roots, 

 which would otherwife extend them- 

 felves very far, and become un- 

 fightly ; and with thefe Roots you 

 may make frefh Plantations. Thefe 

 come at a middle Seafon to flower. 

 x The fixth, feventh, and ninth 

 Sorts are very lateFlowerers, feldom 

 appearing till Oifober, and in a good 

 Seafon hold till the Middle of No- 

 vember ; for which Reafon they are 

 much efteemed. 



The feventh Sort grows to a great 

 Height, and is very proper to inter- 

 mix with other large Kinds ; but it 

 is not fo fubjecl to creep at the R.oot 

 as they are,' and the Flowers are 

 large, growing in handfome Tufts. 



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The fixth Sort flowers very late; 

 but they are very fmall, and grow 

 fparfedly on the Branches ; for which 

 Reafon it is not fo valuable as the 

 other. But the ninth Sort is one of 

 the moft beautiful ; the Flowers are 

 large, and of a deep-blue Colour ; 

 the whole Plant grows ereel, and 

 never creeps at the Root : it begins 

 to flower towards theEndof OSober, 

 and continues till the Middle of 

 December, and makes a very good 

 Shew during that Seafon, if the Wea- 

 ther is mild. 



The tenth Sort is a very hand- 

 fome Plant, and is not fo apt to 

 fpread as moft of the other Kinds. 

 This produces a great Quantity of 

 white Flowers in Ottober, and is 

 worthy of a Place in every good 

 Garden. 



The eleventh Sort is apt to fpread 

 much by its creeping Roots ; fo 

 Ihould not be placed amongft other 

 Plants, left it overbear them. Thi* 

 continues flowering moft Part of Afc 

 member. 



The fifteenth, lixteenth, feven- 

 teenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twen- 

 tieth, twenty -firft, twenty - fecond, 

 twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty- 

 fifth, twenty-fixth, twenty-feventh, 

 and twenty eighth Sorts are all very- 

 hardy Plants, and may be treated in 

 the fame n,anrer as the former 

 Sorts. 



The fixteenth, feventeenth, nine- 

 teenth, twenty- third, and twenty- 

 fourth Sorts do not creep by the 

 Root, fo may have a Place in the 

 Borders of Flower-gardens ; but the 

 other are only fit for Wildernefs- 

 quarters, or other large open Places, 

 where they may have room to fpread 

 without Injury to the other Plants ; 

 for, as thefe are great Growers, 

 they will not only overbear the 

 neighbouring Plants, but alfo ex- 



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