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Salmon'j Herhd. Lib. 1. 



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 CXII. When you are a going to Plani 

 Roots, make a hole fot every one of them 

 your Finger, or an Iron made for that pur] 

 which let not be above ? Inches deep ii 

 Ground, and place the Root alwrays upon th 



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IveryourExpeaations. 



III. Or as Mr. Rea fays, put the Root into 



ing to the magnitude of the Pot) and this becaufe, 

 there may be found in thefc Pots wherewithal 

 *°CXV^TlfisSr?(ifany be) will be percei- 



1 as in your Beds. 



:XVI. The Flowers require to be Planted in an 

 open place, and by no means in a Oiady : becaufe, 

 fending forth a great many fibrous Threads or 





which they would be too fufceptible of in this cafe ■ 

 or elfe be broken with the Wind, which would do 

 a great damage to the Root it felf 



too much moifture, (which agrees not with them) 

 with skreens of Straw. They may be waterd 



yet when it happens to be very fevere, the Plants 

 ought to be covered with long dry Dung, or long 

 Straw : and your Pots ought to be alfo Planted or 



fprung up (as aforefaid) with Mats orPeafe Sc; /, 



there be no nipping North' NorthEaft, or Eaftwardly 

 Winds) to give them Air, and prevent Mouldinefs 

 (which is apt to happen to them, and) which has 



Plant, from which you might have expeQed very 

 admirable Flowers. 



IV. Of Chufing Plants for Seed. 



CXXI. There is fome fpecial choice to be 

 made of fuch Flowers whofe Seed is fitteft to be 

 taken: of the Latifo/ia's, the double Orange 

 Tawny Seed being Sown, yield many pleafant va- 

 rieties; but the Purples, Reds, orCrimfons, whe- 

 ther La/;/o/M's or Tenuifolia\ yield fmall or few 



are to becbofen for this purpofe ; as White, Alh- 

 color, Blufh or Carnation, light Orange, fimple 

 or parti-colored, fingle or double, (if they bear 

 Seed, as fometimes they do.) Thefe are they 

 whole Seed you are carefully to gather, but not 

 before it is throughly ripe, which you may know 



CXXIII. For when the Seed with its Wooli- 

 nefs begins to rife a little of it felf at the lower 

 end, it mult then be quickly gathered, left the 

 Wind carry it all away. After it is thus carefully 



which then being gently rubbed with a little dry 

 Sand or Earth, it will caufe the Seed to be fome- 

 what better feparated, altho' not throughly, from 

 the Woolinefs or Down which encompafles it. 



CXXIV. If there remains any Woolinefs in the 

 Seed, pull it afunder as well as you can, that they 

 may be perfeftly leparated ; for unJefs this be 



