343 NATURAL HISTORY, 
famine is in bloom, nothing can be more pleafing than 
the contraft-of the green ground with the ftarry flow- 
ers with which it is fo numeroufly ftudd@d. 
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Durse are called, by the Greeks and Romans, 
the white violet, from being of the fame fpecies with 
refpect to the flowers. The Gillyflower is reckoned 
one of the moft principal ornaments of our gardens. | 
The variety and great number of its flowers feem to 
have acquired it this diftinétion. The leaves of tlie 
ftem refemble thofe of fage : Irom the middle of the 
root, the {tem rifes about eighteen inches, and then | 
runs into feveral branches, tufted with beautiful fow- 
ers, compofed of four leaves, in the form of a crofs,. 
which have a moft fragrant {mell. This plant is raifed 
from feed fown in March, in hot beds, in {mail drills 
drawn acrofs each other: The feed being fown, 1s 
covered, with the hands, as lightly as potlible. When 
the plants appear, they muft be fecured from the froft 
by glaffes, matting, or dry dung. Among the gilly- 
flowers is ranked what is commonly called the carua- 
‘tion, old blowers, &c. 
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"Tats flower cannot be efteemed lefs than a mira- 
_€le, fince God has thought proper to.deferibe on it 
the principal emblems of the death and paffion of our 7 
