SECT. XIX. LISTS OF TREES, &C. S.C5 



near them. The fmeLl of thofe commonly fown is 

 unpleafant; yet there are fweet-fcented forts. 



Marvel of Peru is confidered as an annual, yet is na- 

 turally perennial in root — as our climate makes it an- 

 nual, lithe roots of thofe growing abroad are taken up in 

 Oclcber, and dried a few days, they may be packed in 

 dry fand r and kept in a dry place (from froft) till 

 fpring i when potted and placed on a gentle heat, they 

 will lhoot, and come forward. 



Pa/ma Chrifti, the large leaved (often a foot broad) 

 will grow from feven to ten feet high, according to 

 culture, as early fown, &c. AsMt is valued for its 

 noble ftature, and ample foLLge, fome gardeners bring 

 it forward as a tender annual, in order to pioduce a 

 giant \ but it is not advifeable. The fniall leaved grows 

 to about four feet high, and is an agreeable plant in the 

 leaf, in other refpects than fize. 



Najlurtmm is impatient of froft; hence it has been 

 confidered in this clafs, to have it flower early. Late 

 fown plants,, if potted and hcu fed, will blow in winter, 

 and live round to fpring. Cuttings of it will grow. 

 The dwarf fort is preferred by fome for flower borders, 

 but is not fo fforiferous as ihe large. There is a double 

 kind, fee page 254. 



Stock, ten week, (beautiful and fragrant) is the mod 

 important annual flower we have. Every one admires 

 it, and its abfence is always- felt. It therefore merits 

 every attention, to raife fine double flowers, to have ( 

 them early, a continued fuccefhon, and as late in the 

 feafon as poflible. 



There mould befiur lowing* of this flower in the 

 year. Let the firji be early in the fpring, (as Mid- 

 February, or beginning ot MarehJ on a gentle heat : 

 and being foon thinned a little, they Ihould be pricked 

 out in about a fortnight upon another moderate hotbed, 

 at four inches afunder, Where they may grow till this 

 diflance is thought too crowding; but the beft rule is, 

 to give them their final ftaiion as fooa as they have ac- 

 quired fvx or eight leaves. 



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