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DOUBLE CRIMSON HiBiSCUs 
HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS FLORf pi pv 
^ i U E N O. 
T H I S elegant Shrub owes its beauty, as well as fingularity, to the for 
of tlie Bloom ; for nature has retrench’d fomething from the liighTr' ^ r 
the Flower fhews in its fingle Bate. This is a produce of the gardener’s artT"^ " 
ceding Plant ; and, as in fome other inftances, the Chinese gardeners tell T’ 
bring on the change at pleafure: but till they name the means wc hav-,. o ^ 
them. ’ to doubt 
The Shrub which yields thefe double Flowers, is fcarce of half the Iieitrlnh of rhar . • , 
has them fmgle. It forms a thicker Head, and the weak Branches are thus funn ' ' H ‘ 
a length, they would not otherwife bear. It flowers all the year, for no Seed rine^ 
a|^ they are careful to preferve the ftrength of the Plant, by adding manure to d! 
about Its roots, and frequently cropping the Flowers, and the e.xtrcam Branches. ' 
The fpecimen I received, came fo perfeft, that I had an eafy and very favourable n 
tumty of tracing the courfe of nature in doubling the Flower. This was an art^le of ^ 
more cunof.ty, beeaufe the Monadelphous Tribe have the Parts on which doublen r u ' 
pends, arrang'd in a peculiar manner. blenefs de- 
On comparing together the fingle and double Flower, I could perceive tb.t P r 
outer Petals ot the double were the fame with thofe of which the fLle FI 
pofed entirely; only they are, in this, fmaller and more curl’d. On 1 
double Flower, its whole length, I could perceive that the Tube or C 1 open the 
naked in the centre of the fingle Flower, was continu’d along the muJroVTht tho"'' 
a very unequal manner, and bury’d by the exuberant new Petals. 
The conftruflion of the double Flower in rl,:« .i r • n. 
fame principle, and from the fame Parts with that of thn’T^p" Col' h 
namely, from the Filaments only : as thofe Filaments were in thefetr^"’ I '"r 
Petals took their origination from the Bafe of the Flower ■ but in tf ^ 1 
being united into a long Tube, the additional Petals rofe from the f^‘ f ^'""^’ 1 , ' 
different heights. ™ furface of that Tube at 
This explains the peculiar lhape of the Flower of this Hihlf u- l • 
ncrahty of others round ; but conic obinnn a • ^ ° not as the ge- 
Tt 1„_|, „f ,1, ®'°™8 f"”"" “ ‘k' »P f»m . broad 
up the Flower. The larceft of thef l, r breaks off into Petals and fills 
pL-ea I the others, as thefrife htht ^ r moft 
The Anther® were quite obliterated in'ide"^^ ™ and they are more wav’d and curl’d. 
was perfea; but in the double HibifcuVfc^^^^^^^^^ "'7"’ 'he doublenefs 
5» a perceive fome remains of them. 
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