sect, xvni. of r LOWE as. 279 



The less-tender annuals fhould have a flight 

 bed (about two feet thick) made for them at Mid- 

 March, or a little after, beim* fown and managed as 

 directed for the tender forts. When they are one or two 

 inches high, (according to their nature) they muft be 

 taken up with a fcoop trowel, fo as to keep a ball of 

 earth about their roots, and either tranfplanted on an- 

 other bed, about one and a half foot thick of dung, 

 or into the cold ground ; the fmall kinds at tour or five, 

 and the larger at fix or eight inches afunder, in a good 

 well broke foil. Let them be immediately watered and 

 kept moiif, and fhaded from fun till well fettled. Here 

 they may grow till their leaves begin to meet, when they 

 fhould be cut between their roots with a good knife, and 

 lifted up neatly with a fcoop trowel, to be potted or 

 planted where the}- are to flower : If thisbufinefs is done 

 Weil, they will receive hut little check in their tranfplan- 

 ♦ation. Spindle rooted plants (asjlccksj ihould be moved 

 where they are to blow, as young as may be; but fibrous 

 rooted ones may be ffhfted much older. 



Plants will flag a little even when' removed with a 

 large ball of eaith ; becaufe fome of the fibres of the 

 roots are either broke or cut, and a plant is chiefiy fed 

 by the youngeft and moft extreme parts of the root. If 

 polTible, let all fummer tranfplanted flowers be Jhuded 

 from fun, by garden pots, (raifed a little) or otherwife, 

 till they have itruck frefh roots, which thev will foon 

 do; but uncover on nights. This will occafion fome 

 trouble ; yet the advantage attending it makes it very 

 advifable, if not ahfolutely necellary, and efpecially 

 when the plants are moved with none, or very little 

 mould about their roots, 



A hot-bed for thefo, as it is moderate, may be covered 

 with hoops and mats, and do very well, or rather better 

 than frames and glafs; for it often happens, that annuals 



are 



