fifty feet; and if the front of the houfe be two hun- 
dred feet, the Parterre fhould be fifty feet broader ; 
but where the front of the houfe exceeds the breadth 
of the Parterre, it will be a good proportion to make 
the Parterre of the fame dimenfions with the front. 
Some do not approve of making Parterres very broad, 
becaufe it makes them appear too ihort •, when no- 
thing is more pleafing to the eye, than a contracted 
regular conduft and view, as foon as the perfon goes 
out of a houfe or building ; and a forward dire'ft 
view is the belt, whether it be either Parterre or lawn, 
or any other open fpace,. either two, three, or four- 
fold in the width •, and for that reafon, thofe defigns 
may juftly be difapproved, by which the noblenefs 
of the view is marred at the immediate entrance into 
the garden, the angle of light being broken and 
confufed. 
The making of Parterres too large caufes a great ex- 
pence, and at the fame time occafions a diminution 
of wood, which is the moll valuable part of a garden. 
As to the adorning and furnilhing thefe Parterres, 
whether it be plain or with embroidery, that depends 
much upon the form of them, and therefore mull be 
left to the judgment and fancy of the defigner. 
PARTHENIUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 939. Parthe- 
niaftrum. Niffol. Aft. Par. 17 11. Dill. Gen. 13. Baf- 
tard Feverfew. 
The Characters are, 
It hath a flower compofed of hermaphrodite florets and fe- 
male half florets, which are inclofed in a common five- 
leaved fpreading empalement. I he hermaphrodite flowers 
which form the dijk , have one tubulous petal cut into five 
parts at the brim they have five hair-like ftamina the 
length of the tube , terminated by thick fummits. I he 
germen is fituated below the floret , and is fcarce vifible , 
fupporting a fender ftyle having no fligma ; thefe florets 
are barren . The female florets which compofe the rays 
or border , are firetched out on one fide like a tongue ; 
thefe have a large . , heart-ftjaped , comprefled germen , with 
a fender ftyle crowned by two long fpreading ftigmas. 
Thefe are fucceeded by one heart-fhaped comprejfed feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fifth feftion of 
Linnaeus’s twenty-firft clafs, which includes thofe 
plants which have male and female, or hermaphro- 
dite flowers in the fame plants, whofe male or herma- 
phrodite flowers have five ftamina. 
The Species are, 
1. Parthenium ( Hyfterophorus ) foliis compofito-multi- 
fidis. Lin. Hort. Cliff. 442. Parthenium with many- 
pointed compound leaves. Partheniaftrum artemifia? fo- 
lio, flore albo. Hort. Chelf. 152. Baftard Feverfew , 
with a Mugwort leaf. 
2. Parthenium {Integrifolium) foliis ovatis crenatis. Lin. 
Hort. Cliff. 442. Parthenium .with oval crenated leaves. 
Partheniaftrum helenii folio. Hort. Elth. 302. tab. 
225. Baftard Feverfew with an Elecampane leaf. 
The firft fort grows wild in great plenty in the ifland 
of Jamaica, and in fome other of the Englilh fet- 
tlements in the Weft-Indies, where it is called wild 
Wormwood, and is ufed by the inhabitants as a vul- 
nerary herb. 
The fecond fort grows plentifully in feveral parts of 
the Spanifh Weft-Indies, from whence the feeds have 
been brought to Europe. 
The firft is an annual plant, which may be propa- 
pagated by fowing the feeds on a hot-bed early in the 
fpring *, and when the plants come up, they fhuuld 
be tranfplanted on another hot-bed, at about five or 
fix inches diftance, obferving to water and flbade them 
until they have taken new root-, after which time 
they mu ft have a pretty large fiiare of frefh air in 
warm weather, by raifing the glaffes of the hot-bed 
every day, and they muft be duly watered every 
other day at leaft. When the plants have grown fo 
as to meet each other, they ftiould be carefully taken 
up, p refer v in g a ball of earth to their roots, and 
each planted into a feparate pot filled with light rich 
earth -, and if they are plunged into a moderate hot- 
bed, it will greatly facilitate their taking freih root ; 
but where this conveniency is wanting, the plants 
PAS 
ftiould be removed to a warm flickered fituation, 
where they muft be fhaded from the fun until they 
have taken new root after which time they may . be 
expofed, with other hardy annual plants in a warm 
fituation, where they will flower in July, and their 
feeds will ripen in September. But if the feafon 
ftiould prove cold and wet, it will be proper to have 
a plant or two in {belter, either in the ftove, or un- 
der tall frames, in order to have good feeds, if thofe 
plants which are expofed ftiould fail, whereby the 
fpecies may be preferved. 
The fecond fort is a perennial plant, which dies to 
the ground every autumn, and {hoots up again the 
following fpring. The feeds of this fort were fent me 
by my good friend Dr. Thomas Dale, from South 
Carolina, where the plants grow wild. This may 
be propagated by parting the roots in autumn, and 
may be planted in the full ground, where it will abide 
the cold of our ordinary winters very well. This fort 
flowers in July, but feldom produces good feeds in 
England. 
Thefe plants make no great appearance, fo are feldom 
cultivated but for the fake of variety. 
P A S QJJ E-F LO W E R. See Pulsatilla. 
PASSERINA, Lin. Gen. Plant. 440. Th ymekea. 
Tourn. Inft. R. H. 594. Pluk. Sanamunda. Cluf. 
Sparrow-wort. 
The Characters are. 
The flower has no empalement ; it has one withered petal , 
having a fender cylindrical tube fwetting below the mid- 
dle , and divided into four parts at the top , which fpread 
open. It hath eight briftly ftamina fitting on the top 
of the tube , terminated by ere ff fummits almofl oval. It 
has an oval germen under the tube , having a fender ftyle 
rifling on one fide of the top of the germen , crowned by a 
headed fligma , fet with prickly hairs on every fide. The 
germen afterward turns to an oval feed pointed at both 
ends , inclofed in a thick oval capfule of one cell. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 
Linnaeus’s eighth clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have eight ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Passernia ( Filiformis ) foliis linearibus convexis 
quadrifariam imbricatis, ramis tomentofis. Lin. Sp. 
Plant. 559. Sparrow-wort with linear convex leaves im- 
bricated four ways , and downy branches. Thymekea 
Ethiopica, pafferinte foliis. Breyn. Cent. 10. fig. 6 . 
Ethiopian Spurge Laurel , with Sparrow-wort leaves. 
2. Passerina ( Hirfuta ) foliis carnofis extus glabris, 
caulibus tomentofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 559. Sparrow- 
wort with flefhy leaves , which are fmooth on their outfide , 
and downy ftalks. Sanamunda 3. Cluf. Hift. 1. p. 89. 
The third, Sanamunda of Clufus. 
3. Passernia ( Ciliata ) foliis lanceolatis fubciliatis erec- 
tis, ramis nudis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 559. Sparrow-wort 
with fpear-fhaped ere Si leaves having fmall hairs and 
naked branches. Sanamunda 1. Cluf. Hift. 88. The, 
firft Sanamunda of Clufus. 
4. Passernia ( Uniflora ) foliis linearibus oppofitis, fio- 
ribus terminalibus folitariis, ramis glabris. Lin. Sp, 
Plant. 560. Sparrow-wort with linear leaves placed cp- 
pofite , Jingle flowers terminating the branches , and fmooth 
ftalks. Thymekea ramofa, linearibus foliis anguftis, 
flore folitario. Burm. Afr. 1 3 1. tab. 48. fig. 1. Branch- 
ing Spurge Laurel , with narrow linear leaves and a flngle 
flower. 
The firft fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 
Hope, from whence it was firft brought to the gar- 
dens in Holland. This rifes with a ftirubby ftalk five 
or fix feet high, fending out branches the whole 
length, which, when young, grow ereft, but as they 
advance in length, they incline toward an horizontal 
pofition but more fo, when the fmall fhoots to - 
ward the end are full of flowers and feed-veffels, 
which weigh down the weak branches from their up- 
right pofition. The branches are covered with a white 
down like meal, and are clofely garnifhed with very 
narrow leaves which are convex, and lie over each 
other in four rows like the fcales of fiih, fo as that the 
young branches feem as if they were £bur~cornered'. 
The 
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