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which should be put over them after the cuttings 

 have been well watered, and closely shut down, 

 drawing the earth round the rim of the glasses to 

 exclude the air : then the glasses should be shaded 

 with mats every day when the sun is hot ; and if 

 the cuttings are gently refreshed with water once in 

 seven or eight days, it will be sufficient, for too 

 much moisture will cause them to rot : when these 

 are watered, the glasses should be closely shut down 

 again as before : with this management the cuttings 

 will put out roots in five or six weeks, and will be- 

 gin to shoot above ; then the glasses should be 

 gently raised on one side to admit the air to them, 

 and so gradually harden them to the open air, to 

 prevent their drawing up weak. When these have 

 made good roots they should be carefully removed, 

 and planted in an east border, at about eight or 

 nine inches asunder, observing to shade and water 

 them till they have taken new root ; after which 

 they will require no other care but to keep them 

 clean from weeds till the autumn, "when they may 

 be transplanted into the borders of the pleasure- 

 garden where they are designed to flower. 



" The roots which are thus cut down will send 

 up more stalks than before, and when these are of 

 a proper height they may be cut off, and treated in 

 the same way, so that if the roots are sound, there 

 may be two or three crops of these cuttings from 



