346 LISTS OF TREES, &C. SECT. XIX. 



February, or beginning of March) on a gentle heat : 

 and being soon thinned a little, they should be pricked 

 out in about a fortnight upon another moderate hot- 

 bed, at four inches asunder, where they may grow 

 till this distance is thought too crowding ; but the 

 best rule is, to give them their final station as soon 

 as they have acquired six or eight leaves. 



The second sowing should take place on a little 

 heat, when the first plants are picked out ; and let 

 this sowing be presently thinned to an inch asunder ; 

 prick the plants out in the full ground, (or on a mo- 

 derate hot-bed, if you wish to forward tnem) at six 

 inches asunder. Here they may grow till either put 

 out when they have eight leaves, or stand till their 

 Jlower bads appear, which soon shew whether they 

 will be double or single ; the double having full 

 round buds, and the single long thin ones. But if 

 every other is drawn with eight leaves, the rest will 

 do the better, and may be taken up with large balls 

 of earth ; concerning the method of doing which, see 

 page 298. Or, every other being taken up from the 

 bed, the rest may remain to make a grand shew in 

 flower. All the single ones not wanted for seed, 

 should be pulled, or cut up ; then those left for the 

 purpose will more certainly produce good seed, i. e. 

 seed disposed to come double. 



The third sowing is to be upon cold ground, in a 

 warm border, or rather under a hand-glass, the be- 

 ginning of May. Let the plants be thinned in time, 

 so as not" to draw one another up weak, and pricked 

 out at four inches, as soon as may be, as to showery 

 weather, for stocks will safely transplant very young ; 

 and when eight leaved, us above, let them be planted 

 where they are to blow. It is a good way (in fur- 

 nishing borders), to plant three or four stocks toge- 

 ther, at four' or five inches from one another, and 



