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and when in beds, digging the alleys and throwing a little of the 

 earth over the beds. 



When necessary the plants may be removed into the pleasure 

 ground, with small balls of earth about their roots, either in the au- 

 tumn or early spring. 



The other tender kinds may be increased by planting slips or 

 cuttings of the young shoots, in the spring and summer months; in 

 the former season in pots of light earth, plunging them in a mild 

 hot-bed, but in the latter either in pots or warm shady borders; 

 water being immediately given and occasionally repeated in small 

 proportions, being covered down by hand-glasses in the latter case, 

 to expedite their rooting; being removed when the plants begin to 

 shoot at the top. In the autumn the plants may be removed into 

 separate small pots, and afterwards treated as the more hardy plants 

 of the green-house kind. 



The three first sorts are useful as culinary plants, as well as 

 ornamental in the borders of the pleasure ground: and the other 

 kinds afford variety in the green-house collections. 



