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-wind and rain, will continue in beauty a considerable time. The 

 plant may now be propagated, by offsets, which it produces freely. 



flowering Plants in Pol*. 



Such annual and other flowering plants, as are in pots, must now 

 be carefully supplied with water ; some kinds requiring it twice a 

 day, in very dry weather, others once a day, and a few sorts not so 

 often. As to the consumption of water, there is an astonishing 

 difference in the constitutions of plants, some absorbing and dis- 

 charging it so quickly, as to excite surprise, and others but very 

 slowly ; therefore, you must supply each respective kind, according 

 to its habit and necessity. 



Ordinary Attendance. 



Give water, as often as necessary, to all the young plantations of 

 herbaceous flower-roots ; cut down the stems of such as are past 

 bloom ; loosen the earth in the tops of all your pots containing 

 flowering-plants ; clip hedges, if omitted in the last month ; clip 

 box edgings, and trim the various other kinds used for that pur- 

 pose, into a neat and becoming form ; but let this be done early in 

 the month, and, if possible, in moist or cloudy weather. Mow 

 grass-walks and lawns, once a week or fortnight, according to the 

 growth of the grass. Sweep, dress, and roll, the gravel-walks once 

 a week ; hoe and clean, the flower-borders, beds, alleys, and shrub- 

 bery compartments ; and let the weeds be raked up and carried 

 away immediately out of the garden, &c. Trim and tie up any 

 loose growing or straggling plants ; dress disorderly growing 

 shrubs, and inoculate such kinds as you wish to propagate in that 

 way. 



Gather flower-seeds, as they ripen, and preserve them till the 

 season of sowing ; most kinds will keep better and longer in their 

 pods or husks, than when rubbed out. 



Sowing Auricula, Polyanthus, Anemone, and Ranunculus Seeds. 



I find in almost every treatise on gardening, that I have met with, 

 even in the celebrated works of Mr- MILLAR, directions for sowing 

 the above seeds in this month, and September : I have tried the ex- 

 periment for many years, but was generally unsuccessful ; princi- 

 pally, on account of the seeds vegetating on the approach of win- 

 ter, and these minute plants always being destroyed before spring, 

 by earth-worms, slugs, snails, or by other accidents ; therefore, 

 have given up that practice as a bad one, and adopted sowing them 

 in December, as there directed, or in January or February, from 

 which sowings I have uniformly been successful. I have noticed 

 this subject here, in order to correct what I conceive to be an erro- 

 neous practice, lest the pursuing of it, would disappoint, and, con- 

 sequently discourage, those who have a taste for these elegant 



