ilSTS OP TREES, &C. SECT. 



may be shifted every year. The more common prac- 

 tice is to move all in August. 



To raise auriculas from the seed, in February, fill 

 boxes, or pots, with fine sifted middling compost; 

 smooth the top perfectly level ; scatter the seeds 

 evenly, and cover not more than the thickness of a 

 shilling. Set the pots, c. on tiles, or boards, under 

 a warm wall, and keep the surface moist. It is a. 

 good way -to mix the seed with a like quantity (or a 

 little more) of fine !; wood -ashes ; and to lay some 

 small pieces si furze, or light thorns over. Remove 

 them (as weather dictates) to shelter, or protect them 

 from cutting wind, much frost, or heavy rain, &c. 

 and by May expect them to appear, when take the 

 furze off, and cover with a net; let them have only 

 the morning sun, keep them moist, and when they 

 have got six leaves, prick them out three inches asuri- 

 der, in boxes, or pots ; and early in the next spring, 

 plant them at six inches asunder, and protect from 

 wet and frost. 



Carnation is usually propagated by layers, (some- 

 times by pipings or cuttings, as pinks) about. Mid- 

 summer, Or as soon alter m the season as they will 

 admit of it, by their length and strength, and the 

 work' is thus :" Strip off the leaves from the lower 

 part of the shoot ; at the middle of it, close below 

 the joint, cut it half through by an upward direction, 

 with a thin, narrow, sharp knife, and continue the' 

 slit exactly 'up the middle from half to three fourths 

 of an inch ; peg the shoot down into the earth (be- 

 ino- before well loosened) as low as it will bear bend- 

 ing, setting the layer upright. This business must 

 be done with a careful hand, lest the layer should 

 snap off. Now, or rather before, cut off the ends- 

 of the longest of their top leaves, that the worms- 

 may not draw them in, and disturb the layer. .The 



