94 OF FLO WE SS. SECT. XVI II. 



crease in size, and every time they are shifted, let it 

 be carefully, with some earth about their roots ; 

 though a warm bed will soon make them strike, if 

 without mould. Let them be shaded from sun a few 

 days ; i. e. till rooted in their new habitation. As 

 these tender annuals do not rightly bear the full open 

 air till Mid-summer, give them resolutely as much 

 of it as possible in the frames, (by degrees) even to, 

 taking off the glasses in fine mild days. Keep up, 

 a heat in the third bed as long as can be, that the 

 plants may continue in a growing state, and not get 

 stunted by cold at bottom. To this end, a fourth 

 bed, for some of the sorts, as globes, coxcombs, &c. 

 "would be a greater advantage as to size, especially 

 if the weather is unkind. 



It is hardly necessary to hint that the beds must 

 be larger, and frames deeper, every time the plants 

 are shifted. As the first frame was a one light, let 

 the second be a two light, and the third a three 

 light, which may be raised upon bricks, or boarded 

 round the bottom, as occasion may require. From 

 the small pots, let them be transplanted into bigger 

 in time, or (as soon as they can safely be) into warm, 

 borders, where, if covered with hand-glasses, set on, 

 bricks for a while, it would secure them from bad 

 weather till got a little hardened. In this change- 

 able climate of England, there is hardly any know- 

 ing when tender plants may be exposed safely ; yet 

 too much housing and covering is to be avoided as 

 much as possible. Many flowers will need support. 

 See page 56. For the method of shifting plants, 

 from pots, as into bigger, or to the open ground, see 

 page 1:95, and do the work carefully. 



Some of the tender flowei;s in pots may be plunged 

 to the rims in the ground, to keep their roots cool, 

 and for the sake of being conveniently covered ; ia 

 which case, it is proper to put a bit of tile under- 



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