ffig LISTS OF TREES, &C. SECT. XIX» 



5/of^, or flock gilliflower, is apt to get too rampant 

 Hn fome fcafons) before winter, and when killed by 

 fro ft, it is chiefly owing to this circumfiance ; for no- 

 thing ftands fcvere weather well, that has grown very 

 freely. Hence it ufeel to be the cnilom of ilorills- to 

 traufplant them feveral times in the Cummer ; (even at 

 every full moon) but to keep them down, and hardy, 

 by this means, tends directly to weaken the blow, if 

 not to kill the plant. 'The mod reasonable method in < 

 this bufiaefs is, not to fow too earl)', (or before the 

 fiiit week in April) to thin them, and to prick them 

 out in time, that they may not be drawn up long 

 logged; and by no means to let tliem have a dungy 

 foil to grow in, or a very rich one. Prick them out 

 the fir Jr. cool weathei 1 after they have fix leaves, at fix 

 or eight inches afunder, where let them remain till 

 A'igujr, choofihg a fhowery time, (rather about the 

 middle) to plant them out where they are to blow ; 

 but let not this be into a moill foil, or damp fituation : 

 It is a good way to mix half fand in the mould that 

 lies about the (hanks above the roots ; and when wet 

 and fro ft comes, to lay coarie, or dritt fand, round 

 about them, three or four inches high, which remove 

 at fpring. Some of the weakcit plants may remain in 

 the nurfery bed till fpring, which putoutin cool ground, 

 for in f'uch a foil they blow bell, though they do not 

 frand the winter well in ire Stocks blow much finer 

 in a ihowery iummer than in an hot one. It will be 

 a great advantage to thole moved at fpring, to Ikve 

 balls of earth to the roots, though they do not well 

 retain it. To difpofe theiri to it, ami make them fi'ficr 

 to tranfplant, they may be cut round m autumn, with 

 a long knife, five or lix inches deep, and about three 

 inches from the item, making one ILmting cut under 

 the root, at fix inches depth, to cut ihote afunder that 

 itrike directly down. This is a practice that would 

 aufwer in molt things that arc to be removed at fpring ; 

 and if not, it would generally be of fervice,.as the cut- 

 ting 



