293 OF FLOWERS. SECT* XVIII. 



tion may be easily given them. Others it may be 

 desirable to pot, for the sake of moving them into 

 particular places, when in blow, and to have some 

 ready to put into the ground, where others are gone 

 off, so as to keep certain favourite borders and walks 

 always well furnished ; but do not have too much to 

 do in this way. 



A second sowing of tender annuals should take 

 place three or four weeks after the first, according 

 as that was made, late or early ; for their beauties 

 are certainly desirable, as long as the season will 

 permit us to behold them, and they are the Jlorisf-s 

 chief dependence in the autumn, when, if he is 

 emulous to do well, he may make a noble creditable 

 shew. See list 7, in next section, with the obser- 

 vations. 



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The LESS-TENDER annuals should have a slight 

 bed (about two feet thick) made for them about 

 Mid-March, or a little after, being sown and ma- 

 naged as directed for the tender sorts. When they 

 are one or two inches high, (according to their na- 

 ture) they should be taken up with a small tin scoop 

 trowel, so as to keep a little ball of earth about their 

 roots, and either transplanted on another bed, about 

 one and a half foot thick of dung, or into the cold 

 ground ; the small kinds at four or five, and the lar- 

 ger at six or eight inches asunder, in a good well 

 broke soil. Let them be immediately watered and 

 kept moist, and shaded from sun till well settled. 

 Here they may grow till their leaves begin to meet, 

 when they should be cut between their roots with a 

 knife, arid lifted up neatly with a trowel, to be potted 

 or planted where they are to flower : If this business 

 is done well, they will receive but little check in 

 their transplantation. Spindle rooted plants should 

 be set where they are to blow, quite young: but 

 jibrous rooted ones may be shifted much older. 



