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curious sorts should be preserved distinct, and suffered to flower and 

 ripen their seed in a perfect manner, which should then be tjiken off' 

 in the pods when the weather is dry, and, after being hardened a 

 little, rubbed out and put up in a bag to be placed in a dry situa- 

 tion. 



Culture in the Fink Kind. — All the species and varieties of these 

 plants may be increased from seeds, and the perennial sorts likewise 

 l)y layers, slips, cuttings, and pipings. 



Where the best sorts only are grown, great care should be taken, 

 in providing the seed, that it be always had from the best and most 

 })erfect kinds. 



It should be sown in the manner directed for Carnations, in the 

 beginning of March or the following month, and the plants be ma- 

 naged in a similar manner, only, as being more hardy in their nature, 

 with less tenderness. 



The sixth species is best increased by sowing the seed on a very 

 gentle hot-bed the beginning of April, as the vegetation is thereby 

 nuich forwarded. When the plants appear air should be admitted 

 freely, to prevent their drawing up weak, and when of a little growth 

 they may be pricked out with good roots, if the weather be suitable, 

 on a bed of light earth, at about three inches distance, proper shade 

 and water being given. When they are of considerable growth, as 

 about the letter end of May, they should be removed with good balls 

 of earth about their roots, and planted where they are to remain for 

 flowering. 



The layers should be laid down in the latter end of July or begin- 

 ning of the following month, in exactly the same manner as has been 

 directed for Carnations, giving them the same culture in every 

 respect. 



Where there are large plants that spread considerably in a lateral 

 manner, their shoots may be covered with earth in the spring to the 

 depth of an inch or two; they will thus often take root, form good 

 plants, and be in a state to be planted out in the beginning of the 

 autumn. 



The slips of the young shoots either made from the sides of the 



