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they should be inured by degrees lo the full air, so as that they may 

 be removed into it fully about the beginning of June, choosing mild 

 cloudy moist weather, if possible, for the business; taking up such as 

 grow in the beds, with balls of earth about their roots, and planting 

 them in the borders; but those in pots may be lurnetl out with tlie 

 whole ball entire, and planted in that way. Some should also be 

 removed into large pots for moving into parlicuiar situations. 

 Water should be directly given, and occasional sluule to such as 

 rccpaire it, repealing the waterings to the Avhole, till they have struck 

 IVesh root and begun to grow, when they will not require any further 

 culture, except the occasional support of sticks, which is most neces- 

 sary in the last sort. 



As the seed ripens well, it will frequently prevent the trouble of 

 preserving the roots. 



But when llicsc are taken out of the ground in autumn, and hud 

 in dry sand during the winter, secure from I'rost, and planted again 

 in the spring, they grow much larger and flc^ver earlier than the 

 seedling plants: or when the roots are covered in winter with tanner's 

 bark lo keep out the frost, they often remain secure iti the borders, 

 where the soil is dry. When the roots thus taken out of the ground 

 are planted the following spring in large pots, and plunged into a 

 hot-bed, under a deep frame, they may be brought forward, and 

 raised lo the height of four or live feet, and flower much earlier 

 in the season. 



In collecting the seeds, care should be taken not to save any from 

 the plants which have j)lain flowers; and in order to have variegated 

 flowers, the plain flowers should be pulled off' from those plants 

 which are intended to stand ibr seed. 



As the second sort is less hardy than the first and third, unless 

 the plants are brought forward in the spring they seldom flower till 

 very late, and their seeds do not ripen perfectly. 



All the sorts are proper for the principal borders of pleasure- 

 grounds, being very ornamental in their large branchy growth, as 

 well as in their extensive flowerino-. 



The root of all the sorts is a strong purgative. 



