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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



cause of failure in bulbous plants, sometimes arises from 

 being greedy, and planting too many in the same pot. 



More a Barbigera. MSS. Moraea ciliata. y Ker in Bot. 

 Mag. n. 1012. cum Ic. 



I cultivated this species many years, and it differs exceed- 

 ingly from Mr. Ker's supposed varieties in its root, the coats 

 of which are thicker, and more reticulated, like those of the 

 true Cloth of Gold Crocus. I found it also more tender ; and 

 it grows wild in low sandy plains, near the sea, where the 

 frost seldom reaches. If cultivated on the front flue or shelf 

 of a stove, it will ripen seeds. 



Morea Tricolor. Kenn. in Bot. Rep. n. 83. cum Ic. bond. 



A tender species also, which should be kept very hot and 

 dry after the leaves decay. It flowered abundantly last year, 

 in Messrs. Lee and Kennedy's collection. 



Morea Tristis. Ker in Ann. Bot. v. l.p.241. Iris tristis. 

 Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 577- cumlc. Moraea sordescens. Jacq Ic. 

 v. 2. t. 225. — Collect. Suppl. p. 29. Moraea spatha, Sec. Ph. 

 Mill. Ic. t. 238./. 1. 



Mr. Philip Miller first named this plant after Robert 

 More, Esq. a celebrated horticulturist in Shropshire. It 

 is so hardy as to live through winter under a hot-bed frame, 

 if matted up in very severe frost. It ripens seeds here abun- 

 dantly, so might probably be naturalised in some of our 

 sandy downs near the sea. 



Morea Odor a. Par. Lond. n. 10. cum Ic. 



A charmingly fragrant species, which is now filling my 

 library with perfume, like that of the Lily of the Valley. It is 

 rather tender, and should be cultivated in pure sandy loam, 

 exposing the pot to the full sun after the leaves decay. My 



