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being freety admitted when the weather is mild and suitable. In this 

 way soiire plants of the hardy sorts will appear about the beginning, 

 of the following year, and of all the kinds in the spring. During tne 

 beginning of summer, when the \veather is hot and dry, slight water- 

 ings should be given occasionally; but when their leaves begin to 

 decline in the latter end, they should be removed to an eastern as- 

 pect, with only the morning sun, and, as their roots are then in an 

 inactive state, have little or no water. They should be kept tree 

 from weeds in the autumn, and have some fresh mould applied over 

 the surfaces of the pots or tubs in which they grow, protecting them 

 again in the winter as before, continuing the same management as 

 in the preceding 3"ear, till the decline of the leaves in the lalier part 

 of the summer, when they should be carefully taken up, and the 

 more hardy sorts planted out in the situations where they are to re- 

 main, as those of a warm, dry border; and the tender kinds removed 

 into pots, to have protection from frosts in winter. 



As the Persian sort is. the most impatient of cold and moisture, 

 it should constantly be kept in pols filled with light sandy earth, or 

 a compost of loam and lime-rubbish, and be placed in such situa- 

 tions in the frame or green-house as to have as much free air as 

 possible in mild weather in winter. Some of the sorts will generally 

 begin to flower in the. course of one or two years after being thus: 

 planted out; the first kind often about Christmas, which is succeeded: 

 by those of the Persian sort. 



The plants in the borders should have the protection of mats or 

 other contrivances, in severe winters, as by such means they produce' 

 a greater abundance of flowers, and .these more fair and beautiful. 



The varieties of the different sorts are best preserved and conti- 

 nued by planting pieces of the divided roots, immediately after they 

 have been separated in the summer season, in pots, tubs, or other 

 places, as above: but in this mode they do not increase in an expe-: 

 ditious manner. 



These plants are very ornamental, though of small growth, in 

 their variegated large foliage, as well -as their elegant flowers, which 

 'n some of the sorts are fragrant, as those of the spring kinds. 



