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fm.Vil tompafs, is the befl method to have them 

 handfonic ; but then thefe flieered plants will not pro- 

 duce any flowers, for which reafon that fort with 

 double flowers fhould not be clipped, becaufe the 

 chief beauty of that confifts in its flowers ; but it will 

 be neccflfary to fuffcr a plant or two of each kind to 

 grow rude, for the ufe of their branches in nole- 

 gays, &c. for it will greatly deface thofe which have 

 been conftantly fheercd to cut off their branches. 

 As thefe plants advance In fl:ature, they fhould an- 

 nually be removed into larger pots, acording to the 



abroid, k would endure the coM as well as any of the 

 other fores, it being a native of the fouihein puru 

 of France. This, and the Orange-leaved kind, arc 

 the moft difficult to take root from cuttings ; but if 

 they are planted toward the latter end of Jujie, mak- 

 ing choice of only fuch flioots as are tender, and th* 

 pots are plunged into an old bed of tanners bark which 

 has loft moil of its heat, and the glaflfes fhaded every 

 day, they will rake root extremely well, as I have 

 more than ^ once experienced. The Oran<ye-leaved 



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fize of their roots ; but you mufl: be careful not to put tenderer than the ordinary forts, and fhould be houfed 

 them into pots too large, which will caufe them to a little fooner in autumn, and placed farther from the 



windows of the green-houfe. 



llioot weak, and many times prove the deftruftion of 



them ; therefore when they are taken out of the former j The eighth fort is at prefent rare in Europe, fo is in 



pots, the earth about their roots fliould be pared off, 

 and that within fide the ball muft be gently loofened, 

 that the roots may not be too clofely confined ; and 

 then place them into the fame pots again, provided 

 they are not too fmall, filling up the fides and bottom 

 of them with frefh rich earth, and giving them 

 plenty of v/ater to fettle the earth to their roots •, 

 which fhould be frequently repeated, for they require 

 to be often watered both in winter and fummer, but 

 in hot weather they muft have it in plenty. 



gardens. This fort was by Dr. Linn^us 

 leparatea from the Myrtles in the former editions of 

 his works, and had the title of Myrfine applied to it- 

 but in his Species of Plants, he has joined it to that 

 genus again, to which, according to his fyftem it 

 properly belongs ^ for the number of peuls, ftamina, 

 and ftyle, do agree with thofe of the Myrtle, but it dif. - 

 fers in frutSification, this having but one feed in each 

 fruit, and the Myrtle has four or five. 

 This plant is with difficulty propagated, which oc- 



The beft feafon for ihifting thefe plants is either in j cafions its prefent fcarcity, for as it does not produce 

 April or Auguft, for if it be done much fooner in the [ ripe feeds in Europe, it can only be incrcafed by lay 

 fpring, the plants are then in a flow growing ftate, and ' ^. i ^ 



era or cuttings. 



^ By the former method the layers 

 fo noY capable to ftrike out frefh roots again very foon ; \ are commonly two years before they take root, and 

 and if it be done later in autumn, the cold weather f the cuttings frequently fail, though the latter is pre- 

 coming on will prevent their taking root ; nor is it ad- i ferred, when performed at a proper l^afon and in a 



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vifeable to do it in the great heat of fummer, becaufe 

 they will require to be very often watered, and alfo to 

 be placed in the fhade, otherv/ife they will be liable to 

 droop for a confiderable time -, and that being the fea- 

 fon when thefe plants fhould be placed amongft other 

 exotics, to adorn the fevcral parts of the garden, thefe 

 plants, beiAg then renipved, Ihould not be expofed 

 until they have taken root again, which, at that time 

 tif the feafon be hot and dry) will be three weeks or 



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In Oftober j "^Keii' the nights begin to be frofty, 



7: ySu IKbuld remove the plahts intt) the green-houfe ; 



but if the weather proves favouraSle in autumn (as it 



f often happens) they may remain abroad until the be- 



' * of November i for if they are carried into the 



right method •, the beft time to plant the cuttings is 

 in May : in the choice of them, it ihould be the 

 Ihoots of the former year, with a fmall piece of the 

 two years w6'od at bottom •, thefe ihould be planted 

 in fmall pots, filled with foft loamy earth, for iinall 



'tfi are to be preferred to large ones for this pur- 

 pofe, and- they Ihould be plunged into a very mo- 

 derate hot-bed of tanners bark j and if the pots arc 

 each covered with fmall bell or hand-glafles, fuch as 

 l'^ -"fiave been ufed for blowing of Caniahons' to exclude 

 the air, it Will be of great fervice to promote the cut- 

 tings putting out roots, though they arc covered with 

 the glafles of the hot-bed above themj the cuttings 

 Ihould be ftiaded from the fun in the heat of the day, 



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greeri-nbure too 'R)bni and thd autumn Ihould prove 

 warm, they will make frefh fhoots at that feafon, which 

 will be weak, and often grow mouldy in winter, if the 

 weather ftiould be fo fevere as to require the windows 

 to be kept clofely fhut, whereby they will be greatly 

 defaced •, for which reafon they fhould always be 

 kept as long abroad as the feafon will permit, and re- 

 moved out again in the fpring before they fhoot out 5 

 and during the winter feafon that they are in the 

 green-houfe, they fhould have as much free air as pof- 

 fible when the weather is mild. - , 'y^' :- I 



The three firft-meritioned forts 1 have feert planted 

 abroad in warrti fituations, and upon a dry foil, where 

 they have endured the cold pf pur winters, for ^feyeral 

 years very, well, with only being covered in very hard 

 frofts with two or three mats, and the furface of the 

 ground about their foots covered with a little mulch 

 to prevent the froft frorft entering the ground ; but in 

 Cornwall and Devonfhire, where the winters are more 



means 



have too much wet 5 thofe cuttings which fucceed, 



bear 



July 



it will be proper to remove them about the middle 



be 



ftreilgtKened 



tings till fpring; the pots muft be removed into a^tcm- 

 perate ftove in autumn, and during the winter the 

 cuttings muft be gently refrefhcd with water. In the 

 fpring they fhould be carefully talcen iip, arid each 

 planted in a fmall pot filled with light earth from a 

 kitchen-garden, and plun^e^d into a moderate hot- 

 bed to forward their taking frefh root ; then they 

 ftould be gradually hardened, and in Tuly placed in 

 the open air in a fheltered fituation, where they may 

 reriiain' till the end of September, and then be rc- 

 ihoved into the flove. 



;^ ,^^ -, .. — -.-. - , This plant will hot live thfoUgh the winter in Eng- 



;*' favourable than in moft other parts of England, there land in a green-hotife, but if it is placed in amooerate 



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large hedges of MyrtI 



-:fcyeral years, and are very tliriving and vigorous. 



Tome of which are upward of fix feet high -, and I be- 



• flieve^ if the double flowering kind were planted 



degree of warmth, it will flower well in winter ; ana 



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