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v\ hich is the bed feafon for removing all thefe plants-; 
tut they ihould not be reni^oved or parted oftener than 
every third year, if they are exp.etded to produce ftrong 
dowers. 
The id, 34tli, and 35tli, with a few others not in cul¬ 
tivation at prefent, require the protection of the green, 
houle : the i( 3 tli and two or three others, little known, 
mult be railed in a hot-bed, and kept in a dove ; the red 
ureh.irdy, and, were they not difficult to preferve, many 
of tliom would be very acceptable in borders of flowers, 
'i'he fecond delights in a light loamy foil and a iliady 
dtuation, where it will thrive much better tlian in a 
light dry foil, or an open expol’ure ; it is propagated by 
feed, which Ihould be fown in pots foon after it is ripe, 
tor it it is kept till the fpring, it will not fucceed ; thefc 
pots ihould be placed in a diady dtuation, and kept clean 
from weeds ; in the fpring the plants will appear, when 
they mud be duly watered in dry weather, and kept 
clean from weeds till the following autumn ; then they 
Ihould be carefully fliaken out of the pots, fo -as not to 
break or injure their roots ; and a fliady border of loamy 
earth Ihould be well dug and prepared to receive them, 
into which the plants lliould be put at about dx inches 
didance each way, obferving to let tlie top of the roots 
be a little below tlie I'urface of the ground, then prefs 
thiC eartiiclofe to the roots; after tliis they will require 
no farther care, but to keep them condantly clean from 
weeds; and if the following fpring (houlcl prove dry, 
they Ihould be duly watered, which will greatly forward 
their growth. In this border the plants may dand two 
years, by whicli time they will be dt to tranfplant where 
they are dedgned to remain ; therefore in autumn, fo 
loon as their leaves decay, they may be removed; but 
as the roots of thefe plants run deep into the ground, 
like carrots, there mud be great care taken in digging 
them up, not to cut or break their roots, for that will 
greatly weaken, if it does not kill them. After the 
plants are well fixed in their places, they require no 
ether culture, but to dig the ground about tliem early 
in the fprin'g before they begin to (hoot, and in the fum- 
mer to keep them clean from weeds; the roots of thefe 
plants will continue many years, but the dalks decay 
a:very autumn; the fame roots do not flower two years 
together, nor leldom oftener than every third year; but 
when they flower drong, they make a fine appearance ; 
and as thefe delight in lhady moid ground, where but 
few ornamental plants will thrive, they fliould not be 
wanting in good gardens. 3 to 13. may be propagated 
and cultivated in the fame manner. Pallas fays, that 
the qih is eadly railed from feed in the Ruifian gardens. 
The 9th and fome of the others' mud have a moid 
loamy foil, otherwil'e they will not thrive. Clufius re¬ 
lates, that he made the 9th flower in a garden, but that 
it drooped, and lod much of its native vigour and ele¬ 
gance. The nth, not driking its root fo deep into the 
ground as the officinal yellow gentian, ntay be tranf- 
planted with lefs Itazard, efpecially if it be removed 
with a good ball of em th to the roots; in a drong moid 
foil this wiil flower annually. The fourteenth is com¬ 
monly propagated by parting the roots, but it mud not 
be often rranfplanted or parted, in order to have it 
flower drong; it Ihould have a loamy foil and a fliady 
dtuatioii ; it may alfo be increafed by feeds fown in au¬ 
tumn ; in a good foil the plants will be drong enough to 
dower tlie lecond year, and thefe fecdling plants will 
flower mucii dronger than thofe which are propagated 
from Offsets. Tliis is'One of the fpecies bed known, and 
mucii edeemed for the brilliant azure of its flower, fo 
hirge in proportion to tlie dze of the plant. Ray ob- 
ferves,, that although it be a native of the highed Alps, 
yet it readily admits cultivation ;.and that it was iiiucli 
foiigiii after in his time by gardeners and florids for the 
beauty of the flower. 44 and 45 may be increafed and 
treated as 14. 
The other alpine gentianellas may be alfo increafed 
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and treated.in the fame manner: in common, with other 
alpine plants, thefe love a pure air, an elevated dtuation, 
and a loamy foil, moderately moid ; they do not profper 
therefore very near London. Clufius affirms, in parti¬ 
cular, that G. verna, No. 22, rejefts all culture. 
Several fpecies, as 28, 29, 30, growing on fpongy 
ground, it is difficult to cultivate them in gardens ; the 
feeds ii'iud be fown in pots, or upon a moid boggy 
ground in autumn, in the diade ; when the plants come 
up, the furface of the ground Ihould be covered with 
mofs, which diould be condantl}' kept moid. See Oro- 
BANCHE, SaBONARIA, SaROTHRA, and SWERTIA. 
GENTIA'NA PERFOLIATA. See Chlora. 
GENTIANEL'LA. See Genti-^na and Ruellia, 
GENTIANOI'DES. See Gentiana. 
GEN'TLLEjy. \_gentilis, Lat.] One of an uncovenanted 
nation ; one who knows not the true God.—Tribulation 
and anguiili upon every foul that doetli evil, of the Jew 
fil'd, and alfo of the Gentile. Rom, ii. 9.—A perfon of 
rank. Ohfoktet 
Fine bafil defireth it may be her lot 
' To grow, as a gilliflower, trim in her pot ; 
That ladies and gentiles, for whom we do ferve, 
May help him as iieedeth, poor life to preferve. Tujfer. 
The origin of the Gentiles is deduced from the Jews, who 
called all thofe who were not of their name a”p gei/w, 
i. e. gentes, which in the Greek tranflations of the Old 
Tedament is rendered ; in which fenfe it fre¬ 
quently occurs in the New TefLameiit; as in Matthew 
vi. 32. “ All thefe things the nations or Gentiles feek.’* 
Whence the Latin church alfo ,ufed gentes in the fame 
fenfe as Gentiles, efpecially in the New Tedament. But 
the word gentes foon obtained another fignificatioii, and 
no longer meant all fuch as were not Jews; but thofe 
only who were neither Jews nor Chridians, but followed 
the fuperditions of the Greeks and Romans, &c. In 
tills fenfe it continued among the chridians writers, till 
their manner of fpecch, together with their religion, 
was publicly and by authority received in the empire; 
vilxQvigentiles, ivom gentes, came into ufe : and then both 
words had two dgnidcations, viz. in treatifes or laws 
concerning religion, they figiiified Pagans, neither Jews 
nor Chridians; and in civil affairs, they were tiled for all 
fuch as were not Romans. 
Mr. Bryant lays, that all the myderies of the gentile 
world appear to have been memorials of the deluge, and 
of the events which immediately fucceeded. They 
confided for the mod part of a melancholy procefs; and 
were celebrated by niglit witli torches, in commemora¬ 
tion of tlie date of darknefsln vvhicli Noah and his family 
liad been involved. The fird thing at thel'e awful 
meetings was to offer an oath of fecrely to all who were 
to be initiated; after which they proceeded to the cere¬ 
monies. Thel'e began with a defeription of Chaos ; by 
which was figiiified fome memorial of tlie deluge.' Chaos 
was certainly tlie I'anie as BrOo?, tlie great abyfs. Of 
the rites above-iiieniioned we have an account in the 
Orphic Argosautica. V. ii, &:c. 
- Mf'oi opxia Mvrai? 
Afyatov iji-cv es-pcJla Xetov^ MiA,eya.pov a,voiyy.YiV, 
K«i Kfoyoy, o<; i'Koypevctv a.w^peo'iois'o v(p’ oAxiii; 
AiOepx, y.xt ^ttpvr. -c'EpiwTTsa: y.'Jcpov Epwla. 
The poet adds afterwards, that Eros had the name of 
Phaiies, becaufe he was the fird remarkable object which 
appeared to the eye of man, in confequence of this great 
event. Noah is fpoken of as a man of judice ; and this 
part of his character is continually alluded to by the my- 
ihologids, whenever they treat of his hidory. The 
author of the above-mentioned poem, among many facred 
rites to which he had been witnefs, mentions the orgies 
of jultice, or the perfon; and thofe of Arkite Athene, 
which were celebrated by nigJit: 
Opy;« np«|4^tx//5 Apeivvjj raxlo; V. 31 . 
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