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Nigella damascena
Nigella damascena. Garden Fennel-flower, Love in a mist, Devil in a
Bush
Class and Order
Polyandria Pentagynia
Generic Character
Cal. nullus. Petala 5. Nectaria 5. trifida, intra corollam. Capsulæ
5 connexæ
Specific Character and Synonyms
NIGELLA damascena floribus involucro folioso cinctis. Lin. Syst.
Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 506. Sp. Pl. p. 753.
NIGELLA angustifolia, flore majore simplici cæruleo. Bauh. Pin.
145.
The great Spanish Nigella. Park. Parad. p. 287.
Is an annual, and grows wild among the corn in the southern parts of
Europe; varies with white and blue flowers, both single and double.
"May be propagated by sowing their seeds upon a bed of light earth,
where they are to remain (for they seldom succeed well if
transplanted); therefore, in order to have them intermixed among
other annual flowers in the borders of the Flower Garden, the seeds
should be sown in patches at proper distances: and when the plants
come up, they must be thinned where they grow too close, leaving but
three or four of them in each patch, observing also to keep them
clear from weeds, which is all the culture they require. In July
they will produce their flowers, and their seeds will ripen in
August.
"The season for sowing these seeds is in March; but if you sow some
of them in August, soon after they are ripe, upon a dry soil and in
a warm situation, they will abide through the winter, and flower
strong the succeeding year; by sowing of the seeds at different
times, they may be continued in beauty most parts of the summer."
Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.
The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden
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