rare plants, by Captain Quick •, and this is at pre- 
fent in fo fiourifffing a ftate of health, that I hope 
foon to increale the number of plants, which will be 
a great acquifition to the Englifn gardens. 
Linnaeus has fuppofed that fort of Jafmine, to which 
the title of Gardenia has been given, to be the fame 
with this ; but as my plant has flowered here, fo it 
appears plainly to be an accidental variety of this Nyc- 
tanthes, the flowers changing to a purple colour be- 
fore they drop off 7 , whereas the plant titled Gardenia 
changes to a buff colour-, beflde, this Nyctanthes is 
a twining plant, whereas the other is of upright 
growth : he is likewiie as much miftaken in fup- 
poflng it to be the lame with Rumpfius s plant, for it 
differs in many refpects from that, as alfo from Fur- 
man’s figure ; therefore if he had looked upon the 
figure, and attended to the defcription given of this 
pfant in the Pifa Garden, he could not have fuppofed 
thefe two to be the fame plant. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in India, where it 
.riles to the height of a tree, dividing into many 
branches, garnilhed with large, oval, fmooth leaves, 
of a lucid green, with hairy foot-ftalks ; thefe come 
out on every fide the branches without order. The 
flowers are produced on the fide of the branches 
from the wings of the leaves, upon long hairy foot- 
ftalks, each fuftaining feven or eight flowers, which 
are of a pure white, and very fragrant, but have longer 
tubes than thofe of the former fort. The flowers of 
this plant open in the evening, and drop off in the 
morning, which has occafioned fome to give it the 
title of Arbor Triftis, or the Sorrowful-tree, from its 
calling the flowers in the morning ; this is very rare 
in Europe at prefent. 
The plants of the firft fort are frequently brought from 
Italy by the Italian gardeners, who bring Orange- 
trees here for fale but thofe plants are always grafted 
upon flocks of the common Jafmine, which do not 
keep pace in their growth with the graft, fo become 
very unflghtly, when the plants are grown to any fize; 
befides, the frocks are very fubjebt to fhoot from the 
bottom, and if thefe fhoots are not conftantly rubbed 
off, they will draw the nourifhment from the graft 
and ftarve it : therefore the bell method to obtain 
the plants, is to propagate them by layers or cuttings 
the former is the fureft method, for unlefs the cuttings 
are very carefully managed, they will not take root ; 
and as the ftalks of this fort are pliable, they may 
be eaflly brought down, and laid in pots filled with a 
foft loamy foil, which fhould be plunged into a hot- 
bed of tan : if the branches are laid down in the 
fpring and carefully watered, they will put out roots 
by autumn, when they may be cut from the old 
plants, and each transplanted into a feparate fmall 
pot, and then plunged into the tan-bed, where they 
fhould be fhaded from the fun till they have taken 
new root. 
If thefe plants are propagated by cuttings, they fhould 
be planted from May to Auguft, into pots filled with 
the before-mentioned earth, and plunged -into a mo- 
derate hot-bed of tanners bark. The pots fhould be 
pretty large, and there may be ten or twelve cuttings 
planted in each ; if thefe pots are clofely covered with 
bell or hand-glaffes to exclude the air, it will greatly 
promote their taking root they muft alfo be fhaded 
from the fun in the heat of the day, and gently re- 
freflied with water when the earth is dry with this 
management the cuttings will have taken root by Au- 
guft, when they may be tranfplanted into feparate 
pots, and treated in the fame way as the layers. 
Thefe plants may be preferved in a moderate degree 
of warmth, but if they are plunged into the tan-bed 
of the bark-ftove, they will thrive much better, and 
produce a greater quantity of flowers ^ and as the 
leaves continue all the year, the plants will make a 
fine appearance in the ftove at all feafons, and produce 
flowers great part of the year. 
The fecond fort requires the fame treatment, but is 
much more difficult to propagate, fo is very rarely 
found in the European gardens ; there were two or 
three of thefe plants brought from Florence a few 
years fince, but they were put into the hands of tin- 
Ikilful perfons, fo were loft. 
NYMPHAiA; Tourn. Inft. R. H. 260. tab. 137, 
138. Lin. Gen. Plant. 579. [is fo called, bec'aufe it 
grows in water, which the poets feign to be the refi- 
dence of the nymphs.] The Water Lily, in French, 
Nenufar. 
The Characters are, 
The empalenient of the flower is compofid of four or five 
coloured leaves , and is permanent. The flower hath many 
petals which are [mailer, than the empalenient, fitting on 
the fide of the germen , for the mofl part in a fingle fi- 
nes. It hath a great number of [sort, plain , incurved 
flamina , with oblong fummits, like threads , growing to their 
borders It hath a large oval germen , but no flyle , with 
an orbicular , plain, target-foaped fiigma , fitting clofi , 
whofe border is crenated and is permanent. The germen 
afterward becomes a hard , oval , flefhy fruit , with a rude 
narrow neck , crowned at the top , and divided into ten or 
fifteen cells full of pulp, with many roundifh feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion 
of Linnsus’s thirteenth clafs, which contains thofe 
plants whofe flowers have many male parts and but 
one female. 
The Species are, 
1 . Nymph^a ( Lutea ) foliis cordatis integerrimis, calyce 
petalis majore pentaphyllo. Flor. Lap. 218. Water- 
Lily with entire heart-jhaped leaves , whofe empalenient 
conffls of five leaves larger than the petals. Nymphsa 
lutea major. C. B. P. 193. Greater yellow Water Lily. 
2. Nympiihsa {Alba) foliis cordatis integerrimis, calyce 
quadrifido. Lin. Sp. Plant. 510. Water Lily with 
heart ficped entire leaves, and a four-pointed empalenient. 
Nymphaea alba major. C. B. P. 193. Greater white 
Water Lily. 
There are fome other fpecies of this genus which, 
are natives of warm countries, but as they cannot 
without great difficulty be cultivated here, fo I flu all 
not enumerate them for unlefs there is a contrivance 
for ftanding water in the ftove, in which the plants 
may be planted, they will not grow-, and fuch a place 
would be injurious to mofl; other plants in the ftove, 
by occafloning damps ; fo that unlefs a ftove was con- 
trived on purpofe for fome of thefe aquatic plants, it 
would be imprudent to attempt their cultivation; 
The two forts here mentioned, grow naturally in 
, ftanding waters in many parts of England ; they have 
large roots, which are fattened in the ground, from 
which arile the ftalks to the furface of the water, 
where the leaves expand and float ; they are large, 
roundifh, and heart-fhaped. The flowers arife be- 
tween the leaves, and fwim upon the furface of the 
water. The white fort has a faint fweet fcent ; thefe 
appear in July, and are fucceeded by large roundifh 
feed-veffels, filled with fhining black feeds, which 
ripen toward the end of Auguft, when they fink to 
the bottom of the water. 
The belt method to propagate thefe plants is, to pro- 
cure fome of their feed-veffels juft as they are ripe 
and ready to open ; thefe fhould be thrown into ca- 
nals, or large ditches of ftandingwater, where the feeds 
will fink to the bottom, and the following fpring the 
plants will appear floating upon the furface of the wa- 
ter, and in June and July will produce their beauti- 
ful large flowers. When they are once fixed to the 
place, they will multiply exceedingly, fo as to cover 
the whole furface of the water in a few years. 
In fome fmall gardens I have feen the plants cultivated 
in large troughs of water, where they have flourifhed 
very well, and have annually produced great quanti- 
ties of flowers ; bqt as the expence of thefe troughs 
is pretty great (their infides requiring to be lined 
with lead, to preferve them) there are but few peo- 
ple who care to be at that charge. 
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