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Retardation, or hindring Plants from running to 

 feed, is likewife of ufe for the prefervation of the 

 Root and Leaf; for there are many Plants, whofe 

 laft endeavor being to bear Seed, prefently die in ail 

 parts of them affoon as the Seed is perfected. 



Of this kinde are your beft Carnations and Gilly- 

 flowers, the hope of whofe continuation is onely by 

 thofe Slips that are not like .to bring Seed the preienc 

 year ; to this kinde alfo belong divers Herbs, fuch as 

 are Parfely, Scurvy-grafs, &c. The Spindles there- 

 fore of all fuch are timely to be cut off, the younger 

 the better, in choice Plants, for fear of killing the 

 Root 5 and hereby plenty of Branches and Off-fets, 

 or fide-Plants, will arife from the old Stem, Stool or 

 Root. Nay, 'tis obferved by our Gardeners, as like 

 wife by Ferrari™, in his Chapter of the culture of 

 Tulips, That if thofe Flowers are fuffercd to grow to 

 Seed, the Bulb thereby is certainly much emaciated, 

 and fometimes utterly perifheth ; and therefore, on 

 all hands it is counted good to gather Tulips as foon as 

 may be. 



Some of the ways of Retardation are generally 

 known, as particularly the experiment of plucking off 

 Rofe Buds as often as they fpring, until the time you 

 intend they ftiall proceed to flower ; or the making 

 the Branches of the Rofe Tree bare of Shoots once or 

 twice in the Spring, for this purpofe, are not unfre- 

 quently prailiced. And I have been informed by a 

 Perfon of Credit, that at Brlfiol he faw Rafpes fold 

 for four pence the quart ac Michaelmas, which were 

 thus retarded, by fetting the Plants late in moift 

 ground the fame year : All which ways, I fuppofe, 

 may well be transferred to other Plants of like nature, 

 snd this laft way is not fo common. I have before 



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