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Tue violet produces, from its root, tufts of leaves 
almoft round, indeated on the edges, and of a beau- 
tiful green. -In the middle of. thefe leaves grow the 
flowers, confifting of feveral irregular lips, thaped 
like a butterfly: The two uppermoft refemble a 

ftand ; and thofe on the fide are like wings; and the 
two lowermoft are formed like a little bark. Thus 
curioufly formed, it has been equally the pride of the 
peafant, prince and poet. itis one of the moft early 
beauties with which Flora prefents reviving nature, 
It grows in any fort of ground, and is. particularly 
pleafing upon the borders of fmall’ gardens. “Vhe 
flower is as agreeable to the {mell as to the fight, 
which has caufed it to be fo univerfal a favourite. ic 
fhould be replanted every three years, and kept from 
weeds, Seinholt is the chief trouble the culture of the 
violet requires. The double violet is only that which 
is raifed in our gardens. 
~ ee MEME 
PINK. 
‘Tuns plant fhoots long, ftrait, thick, hard leaves, 
of a blueifh green. in the middle rifes the {tem, 
long, round and jointed at a certain diftance : On the 
top of this the flowers grow, confifting of {everal 
variegated leaves, fupported by a hollow membran- 
ouscup. Such is reckoned the beauty of this flower, 
that it has been the firft fludy of the moft eminent 
gardeners, to ee in the greateft perfection. 
