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the following summer. Some may however be sown at both 

 seasons. 



When the plants have attained some growth, in the spring-sown 

 sort, they should be pricked out in the places where they are to 

 grow, on beds, to be afterwards removed: and in the autumn-sown 

 sorts into nursery-rows, six or eight inches apart, to be removed into 

 the places where they are to remain, with balls about their roots, in 

 the following spring, being duly watered and kept free from weeds. 



The starry sort is best sown in patches in the borders or clumps 

 where the plants are to flower. 



The herbaceous perennial kinds may be readily increased by 

 sowing the seeds in a bed or border of good light earth, in the spring 

 season, the plants being planted out when they have attained a little 

 growth where they are to grow: they are also capable of being 

 raised by parting the roots and planting them out where they are to 

 grow in the autumn. 



The shrubby kinds may be readily raised by planting slips or 

 cuttings of the young branches in the spring or summer season, in 

 the former season in pots, and plunged in a moderate hot-bed, or 

 under a glass frame; but in the latter, in the open ground, being 

 well shaded and watered. They soon become tolerably well rooted, 

 and in the autumn may be potted off into separate pots filled with 

 light loamy earth, and managed in the same manner as other exotic 

 green-house plants during the winter. 



The annual and perennial sorts afford ornament and variety 

 among other plants of the flower kind in the borders, &c. and the 

 shrubby kinds produce variety in green-house collections. 



