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full supply of water, as often as may be neccessary. In these cir- 

 cumstances it frequently attains a considerable size, especially in dry 

 seasons. 



The two last species are capable of being raised upon warm dry 

 borders with tolerable facility ; but they neither attain the full growth, 

 afford such large flower-spikes, or appear in such early perfection, as 

 when managed in the manner of the above. 



In preserving the seed of the last five sorts, some of the largest 

 and finest spikes should be collected, as they ripen towards the latter 

 end of September, and exposed to the full sun in some dry airy situ- 

 ation until they become perfectly dry, when the seeds may be rub- 

 bed out and put by in a dry warm place. 



Persons who are curious in raising these annual plants in great 

 perfection, find it convenient to have a glass case erected, with up- 

 right sloping glasses on every side, having a pit in the bottom for 

 tan, in which the pots are plunged. If this be raised eight or nine 

 feet to the ridge, and the upright glasses are five feet, there will be 

 room and light enough to raise these as well as many other plants of 

 a similar growth to great perfection: and, by such a contrivance, 

 many of those tender annual plants, which rarely perfect seeds in 

 this climate under other circumstances, may be brought forward so 

 as to ripen their seeds in a perfect manner. 



All these plants are highly ornamental, the more tender sorts be- 

 ing mostly distributed in mixture with others of the showy kinds in 

 places immediately about the house; while those that are more 

 hardy afford much ornament and variety in the borders, clumps, and 

 other situations in gardens or pleasure-grounds. They should have 

 rather open exposures, and be distributed towards the fronts, espe- 

 cially those of the low growing kinds. 



