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FRITILLARY 
{ Sa plant that has a ftem about a foot high, round, 
fmooth, and of a deep green colour. It is garnifhed 
with about fix or feven leaves, placed irregularly, 
and which are long and narrow. At the top of the 
ftem grow one or two flowers, hanging down in the 
fhape of a bell: Thefe are fpeckled with feveral col- 
ours, and arécompoied of fix leaves. ‘The colours, 
being placed ifthe form of a chefsboard, have caufed 
this plant to be called the Fritillary, Freri//us, which 
fignifies achefsboard. fFritillaries are multiplied by 
bulbs and feeds. ‘ihe bulbsare planted in Septem- 
ber. They fhotild be placed three inches deep, and 
at the fame diftance from each other. They flower 
im April. 

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_JESSAMINE. 
A LTHOUGH all the fpecies of Jeffamines grow 
in a very irregular form, and are never fubmitted to 
the pruning knife, they are a beautiful ornament to 
amy garden. Of the Jeffamines there are too many 
forts to be here defcribed ; we fhall therefore con- 
fine ourfelves to the common jeffamine, which is fo 
great a decoration to our gardens. itis a fhrub that 
thoots forth feveral {mall branches; which are adorn- 
ed with leaves oblong, pointed, placed in pairs along 
each branch, which terminates with a fingle leaf: At 
the end of the branches grow the bloffoms, in form 
of umbrellas, confifting of five delicate white leaves, 
which poffefsa moftagreeabledmell. When the jed- 
