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after they become ripe, or in the spring; but the former is the best 

 season, as the plants rise stronger and with more certainty. The 

 plants should afterwards be kept perfectly clear from weeds, and 

 have their stems cut down and cleared away every year in the au- 

 tumn, as well as the earth dug round them in the early spring. 

 Some, however, advise the roots of the plants in the first autumn to 

 be taken up and planted out in small beds at six or eight inches 

 distance each way, to stand two or three years till they are strong 

 enough to flower, when they are to be carefully taken up in the au- 

 tumn, and placed where they are to remain. They continue for a 

 great length of time, and require little culture except that of being 

 kept free from weeds, and trimmed as above in the autumn. 



They are plants well suited to the middle parts of beds, border*, 

 clumps, and other parts of ornamented grounds. 



