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spring. Some of the weakest plants may remain in 

 the nursery bed till spring, which put out in cool 

 ground, for in such a soil they blow best, though they 

 do not stand the winter well in it : Stocks blow much 

 finer in a showery summer than in an hot one. It 

 will be a great advantage to those moved at spring, 

 to have balls of earth to the roots, though they do 

 not well retain it. To dispose them to it, and make 

 them fitter to transplant, they may be cut round in 

 autumn, with a long knife, five or six inches deep, 

 and about three inches from the stem, making one 

 slanting cut under the root, at six inches depth, to 

 cut those asunder that strike directly down. This is 

 a practice that would answer in most things that are 

 to be removed at spring ; and if not, it would gener- 

 ally be of service, as the cutting off the end of a 

 downright root, occasions it to throw out several 

 others of a more fibrous nature. 



Sweet William (or bearded pink) is distinguished 

 into broad and narrow leaved sorts. This flower 

 comes very diversified from seed, some plain, others 

 beautifully striped, and & few double, perhaps one 

 in thirty or forty. But the single ones are generally 

 so ornamental, that the want of doubles is not much 

 lamented. The double sorts are propagated from 

 layers, as carnations. The sweet William is peren- 

 nial, but as the plants cease to be handsome (and iii 

 some cases die) after the first blow, it is necessary 

 to raise some every year for ordinary use. 



Wall-flowers, raised from seed, produce some 

 doubles ; but the chance is not great for fine ones, 

 which are to be continued from slips or cuttings in 

 Mai/, June, or July, plant them in a rich soil, and 

 shade till rooted. The double zchite wall- flower is 

 tender, and should be potted for housing, as indeed 

 other good sorts of this flower should be, and gener- 

 ally are. 



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