S2t LISTS ©r TREES, &C. SECT. XIX'. 



merit a place in the garden- but is chiefly curious for 

 the elaftic property of its feed pods burflingwith force, 

 when juft pre fled between the fingers, throwing the 

 feeds to a diltance. 



Chinefe hollyhock mould be brought forward (efpeci- 

 ally norchwards) to enfure a timely blow. See p. %iti. 



Chryfanthemum, to preferve fome of the fined doubles, 

 plant cuttings, or flips, the beginning of September, in 

 pots, and houfe them before November, leA the froff. 

 come; and they will generally furvive the winter, and 

 flower much earlier, though not fo fhong as thofefown 

 in fpring. 



Convolvulus major will need fupport* by a wall, (take, 

 or otherwife, to be trailed, or run up, as a fcarlet bean. 

 The deep blue fort is called convolvulus nil, or anil. 

 The major convolvulus makes a good fhew, and may; 

 be fown in April, in the places defigned to flower;' 

 but it is the befl way to fow three or four feeds in a 

 frhall pot, which being placed on a gentle heat, will be 

 much forwarder and finer, and maybe turned out whole 

 (when about three inches high) into open ground; tor 

 this flower (as manv other annuals) does not tranf- 

 plant well: Nil will not do without heat to bring 

 it up. 



India pink is now brought to blow much more double 

 and variegated than formerly, and it is a very neat, 

 engaging flower, lailing a long time. Prick the plants 

 out when quite fmall," (for they readily ftrike) that they 

 may not be "drawn up weak, and It t them grow in 

 fengle detached plants, in a dry light foil, and they 

 will be ftrbng. If cut down as foon as the principal 

 blow is over, they will ftand another year. 



Marigold, the African, growsilrongly erecl:. There 

 is a variety in the form of the flower, and the quilled 

 forts are moftly admired . The French fort grows 

 weakly fpreading, but there are beautiful varieties of it 

 from feed, which fhould be carefully faved from the 

 jnoit double flowers, having had no fingl ones growing 



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