a NATURAL HISTORY. | 
COLUMBINE. |. 
“Tuts plant is called aquilegia, from a@quila, an 
eagle, in confequence of the leaves of its flower. being 
hooked like the beak and talons of that bird. The 
columbine fhoots indented leaves of a blueifh green, 
and growing to long ftalks. In the middle, rifes a 
{tem of eighteen inches long, which is flender, and of 
a reddifh colour: From this ftem fprout feveral little- 
{fprigs, which fupport a flower compofed of five flat 
and five hollow leaves, coloured with red, blue, 
white, chefnut and carnation. Columbines require a 
rich foil and are cultivated by fowing the feeds very 
thinly in September, in beds well dug, where it re- 
mains until the plants are ready to be removed to the 
plots ofa parterre. The columbine is one of thofe 
lafting plants which is kept alive by its roots, and will 
live a long time in the earth, without requiring to be 
fown again. 
OQ 
DOUBLE MARYGOLD. 
"Tins plant has been admitted into our gardens, 
from the richnefs of the colour, and the beautiful 
form of the numerous leaves. Nothing can be more 
fplendid than their golden hue. With refpect to the 
difpofition of the leaves, they feem as if Flora had 
particularly difpofed them into the form of a crown, 
tor her own embellifhment. The leaves are not only 
beautiful in themfelves, but they are allowed, by 
phyficians and botani{ts, to poffefs great medicinal 
