Excerpt from The Gardeners Dictionary, Vol. 2 of 3: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving All Sorts of Trees, Plants, and Flowers, for the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens; As Also Those Which Are Used in Medicine
The firfl of there Plants is propa gated in Gardens for medicinal Ufe and the (econd and third Sorts are only Varieties of the firll, from which they only differ in the Colour oftheir Flowers; and are, for Va riety, preferved in fome curious Gardens: but the fourth Sort is a dillina Species, having much larger Leaves, Flowers, and Pods.
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