38 The vegetable S Y S T E M. 
products are the double, and proliferous flowers ; to which, though 
they are the great delicacies of the Floriil, Botany allows no better a 
name than Monflers. 
Undfr thefe two kinds of Flower and Leaf Monllers are contained 
the great varieties ; tvhich may be thus underftood. 
I. Of F L O W E R S. 
The Tulip when In its natural Rate has a Flower formed of fix 
Petals, and furnifhed with fix Chives : but when Culture fends up 
more nourifhment to it; or when accident produces a Bloom before 
the Stalk has reached its due heighth, the Chives grow broad and be- 
come fo many Petals ; and after this, fpliting flatwife once or more, 
they form a multitude of inner Petals, and the Tulip becomes Double. 
See PI. 12. Fig. i. This reprefents a double Tulip which blowed 
the laft Seafon, in the Nurfery Garden of Mr. Lee at Ham- 
mersmith. 
In the fame manner the Rofe in Its native wildnefs Is fingle ; that 
is it confifts only of one range of petals furrounding a multitude of 
Chives : but when luxuriant nourishment is given to the Root, thefe 
Chives, as in the Tulip, fpread out into Petals, in many feries : and 
thus the Rofe becomes double, juR as that Flower. But that is not 
the utmoR effedt of Luxuriance in this InRance ; for the Stalk which 
fupports this double Role may be urged to grow through its centre, 
and on its top will be produced another Flower like the firR ; and 
often a Leaf between them. This Is the Rate which is called Pro- 
liferous. See PI. 12. Fig. 2. It reprefents a proliferous Rofe which 
blowed in my Garden at Westbourn-green, 1756. 
There is alfo a peculiar MonRrofity belonging to the Compofite 
Flowers, as the Daily, Marygold, and others ; which, after they 
have been rendered perfedtly double by the extenfion of their tubular 
Flofcules in the Centre into flat and long ones like thofe of the Rim, 
fend out a young Offspring from their Bafe. I'his is the Ipecles of 
proliferation which affords the Hen and Chicken DAisy, and the 
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