Volume 1
The gardeners dictionary. Containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery, as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture ... together with directions for propagating and improving from real practice and experience, all sorts of timber trees / by Philip Miller.
- Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.
- Date:
- 1764
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The gardeners dictionary. Containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery, as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture ... together with directions for propagating and improving from real practice and experience, all sorts of timber trees / by Philip Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ns they have Vent for them. There are others like wife, who do not take them up fo foon as the Haulm decays, but let them remain much longer in the Ground ; in which there is no Hurt done, provided they are taken up before hard Froft fetsin, which woulddeflroy them, un- lefs where the Ground is wanted for other Crops; in which Cafe, the fooner they are taken up the better, after the Haulm is decayed. When thefe Roots are laid up, they.lliould have a good Quantity of Sand or dry Earth I tid between them, to prevent their heating; nor fhould they be laid in two large Heaps, for the fame Reafon. LYCOPUS commonly called Water Horehound. This Plant grows in great Plenty on moifl Soils by the Sides of Ditches, in mott Parts of England, but is never cultivated in Gardens, fo that it would be needlefs to fay any Thing more of it in this Place. LYSIMACHI A. Tourn. In ft. R. FI. 141. Tab. 59. Lin. Gen. PI. 188. Loo If rife; in French, Corneille. The CharaFlers arc. The Empalsment of the Flower is permanent, and cut into 5 acute Segments which are ere Ft. The Flower is of I Petal, cut into 5 oblong oval Segments to the Bottom, which fpread open plat. It hath 5 Apjl-fhaped Stamina about half the Length of the Petal, terminated by acute-pointed Summits. In the Center is fttuated a roundijh Germen, Jvpporting a fender Style the Length of the Stamina, crowned by an ob- tufe Stigma. The Germen turns to a globular Capfule with I Cell opening with 10 Valves, and filed with final l an¬ gular Seeds. The Species are, 1. Lysimachia p'aniculaia, racemis terminaiibus. Lin. Sp. PI. \if>. Paniculated Looffrife with Bunches of Flowers terminating the Stalks. Lyfimachia lutea, major, qua Diofcoridis. C. B. P. 245. Greater yellow Loo- If rife of Diojcorides. 2. Ly sim a chi A racemir latei alibus pedunculitis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 147. Looffrife with lateral Bunches of Flow¬ ers growing on Foot Stalks. lyfimachia bifolia, fore gp.bofo, luteo. C.B.P. 242. Two leaved Looffrife with a yellow globular Flower. 3. Lysimachia fpicis terminaiibus patulis, lanceolatis, ftaminjbus corolla longioribus. L>n. Sp. PI. 147. Looffrife with Spear-fhaped fpreading Spikes of Flow ers terminat¬ ing the Branches, and Stamina longer than the Petals. Lyfimachia Orientals anguftifolia fore purpureo. Tourn. Cor. 7. Narrow leaved Eaffern Loolfrife, with a purple Flower. 4. Lysimachia racemis fimplicibus terminaiibus, pe¬ tals s obtufis, ftaminibus corolla brevioribiis. Lin. Sp. PL 146. Looffrife with Spikes of Flowers terminating the Stalks, obtufe Petals to the Flower, and Stamina fhorter than the Petal. Lyfimachia Orientalis minor, folijs glan¬ ds, annuentibus, fore purPureo. Hort. Pif Smaller Eaffern annual Looffrife, with nodding grayifh Leaves, and a purple Flower. 5. Lysimachia petiolis cilia t is, ft or thus cernuis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 147. Looffrife with hairy Foot Stalks-and nodding Flowers. Lyfimachia Canadenfis, falappce foliis. Sarr. Canad. Canada Looffrife with a Jalap Leaf. 6. Lysimachia fpied fnnplici ereFlo terminal], petalis evatis, ftaminibus corolla longioribus. Looffrife with a {ingle eretf Spike terminating the Stalk, oval Petals, and Stamina longer than the Flower. Lyfimachia fpicata, fore albo, falicis folio. Tourn. Inf. R. H. 141, Looffrife with a Spike of white Flowers, and a Willow' Leaf. 7. Lylimachi a foliis fubcordatis, foribus folitariis, caule repente. Vir. Clif, 1 3. Looffrife with Leaves nearly Heart-lhaped, flowers growing fmgly, and a creeping Stalk. Nummularia lutea major, C. B. P. 309. Greater yellow Moneywort. 8. Lysimachia foliis ovatis acutiufculis, pedunculis folio longioribus, caule repente. Lin. Sp. PI. 148. Looffrife with oval acute-pointed Leaves, Foot Stalks longer than the Leaf, and a creeping Stalk. Nummularia minor pur- purnfeente, fore. C. B. P. 310. Smaller Money-Wort with a purplifh Flower. 9. Lys 1M A ch : A foliis ovatis, acutis,foribus folitariis, caule procumbent e. Hort. Cliff. 52. Looffrife with oval acute pointed Leaves, Flowers growing fingly, and a trailing Stalk. As a gall is lutea nernorum. C. B. P. 252. Yellow Pimpernel of the Woods. 10. Lysimachia foliis fubquaternis, pedunculis ver- ticillatis uniftoris. Lin. Sp. Pl. 147* Looffrife with Leaves generally placed by Fours, and Foot Stalks placed in Whorls round the Stalks, each fuftaininga Tingle Flower. Lxftmacbia lutea minor,foliis nigris pun Flat is no tat is, C. B. P. 245. Smaller yellow Looffrife with Leaves marked with black Spots. The 1 ft Sort grows by the Side of Ditches and Rivers in many Parts of England, fo is not often admitted into Gardens, becaule the Roots creep far in the Ground, and fend up Stalks at a great Diffance, whereby it be¬ comes often a troublefome Plant, otherwife for the Va¬ riety of its Flowers, it might deferve a Place in large Gardens, efpeciallyin moiff Places, where better Things will not thrive. It rifes with upright Stalks from 2 to 3 Feet high, garnifhed with fmooth Spear-fhaped Leaves placed fometimes by Pairs oppofite, at others there are three, and frequently 4 of thefe Leaves placed round the Stalk at each joint. The upper Part of the Stalk divides into feveral Foot Stalks, which fuffain yellow Flowers growing in a Panicle ; thefe have 1 Petal deeply cut into 5 Segments, fpreading open. Thefe appear in June and July, and are fucceeded by roundifh Seed VefTels, filled with fmall Seeds which ripen in Autumn. This is placed in the LUf of medicinal Plants. If the Roots of this Plant are taken up from the Places where it grows natu¬ rally in the Autumn, and planted in a moiff Soil, they will thrive faff enough without Care. The 2d Sort grows naturally in the northern Parts of England ; this hath a perennial creeping Root, which fends up feveral eredt Stalks near a Foot and a Half high, garnifhed at every Joint by two pretty long narrow Leaves placed oppofite, whole Bafefits clofe to the Stalk ; they are about 3 Inches long, and more than half an Inch broad toward their Bafe, leffening gradually to the End, which terminates in acute Points; the Foot Stalks of the Flowers come out by Pairs oppofite on each Side of the Stalks, they are an Inch long, fuffaining at their 'Fop a globular or oval Thyrfe of yellow Flowers, whofe Stamina are much longer than the Petals. This flowers at the fame Time with the former Sort, but feldom produces Seeds, for the Roots creep fo much as to render it barren. It is but feldom kept](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30415019_0001_0778.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
