natural history. 
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HEART’S EASE. 
^ J|_^ HIS flower, by the Latins, is called vio- 
la tricolor, from being adorned with three 
colours. It bears Items which have a ten- 
dency to creep along the ground ; and are 
full of leaves, and rather oblong ; the Items 
branch into boughs ; at the top of which 
grow the flowers, which are placed under 
the fpecies of violets, compofed of five 
leaves, from bearing a cup divided into five 
parts: each flower is white, blue and yellow- 
coloured. It is multiplied by feed fown in 
beds as thinly as pofllble. When fufficiently 
raifed, it is removed into pots, where it makes 
a more agreeable appearance than it does in 
its native humble fituation, where it is loft 
and overlooked, like modeft merit, amid, 
its greater and more fplendid neighbours. 
AURICULA. 
^ I ^ HIS flower has been the greateft pride of 
all gardeners. One root of it has fold for 
twenty guineas. Thefe flowers are indeed 
very delightful, both in feent and beauty. 
They bloifom in April, and are in full bloom 
about the 20th of the lame month. The 
numerous variety of their flowers, are diftin- 
guiflied 
