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shoots. In the first method, the seeds should be sown upon a border 

 of rather poor, dry, light earth, about the beginning of April, being 

 lightly raked in. When sown on rich soils the plants seldom survive 

 the winter in this climate; but if they be put in on such as are of a 

 dry, rocky, or gravelly nature, and of a bad poor quality, they not 

 only withstand the cold better, but continue much longer, as they 

 are less succulent, and of course less affected by frosts in the winter 

 season. 



In this mode of sowing, the plants will be ready to be transplanted 

 in the beginning of the following autumn. The business should be 

 performed when the weather is not too moist. 



As the second kind rarely continues more than two or three 

 years in this climate, it must be often sown to preserve it; bu^ 

 Avhere the seeds are suffered to fall and remain upon the ground, the 

 plants often rise without any trouble or difficulty. 



In the third sort the seeds mostly ripen in July; but it is only 

 from the } r oung plants that they can be expected, as the old ones, or 

 those which are raised from slips or cuttings, rarely produce any in 

 this climate. 



The fourth kind mostly flowers from June to September, and the 

 seeds ripen soon after; which, if they be permitted to scatter, the 

 plants will come up, and require little care or trouble afterwards. 



The fifth and sixth sorts should always be sown where they are to 

 remain; and if they be thinned and kept clean from weeds, they will 

 flower in July, and perfect their seeds in autumn. 



But the seeds in the seventh sort should be sown in August, soon 

 after they are ripe ; and where a few of the plants are potted in Octo- 

 ber, and sheltered under a frame in winter, they will flower the fol- 

 lowing June, by which means good seeds may be obtained the same 

 year; as those plants, which arise early in the year, grow luxuriantly 

 in summer, but do not often ripen seeds, or live through the winter 

 season. 



In the second and third methods, or those by slips and cuttings, 

 the sets are best put in on dry borders about the latter end of April or 

 beginning of May, the mould being applied closely round them. 



