200 The Gardener's New Director. 



CLARY. 



TFIE common garden Clary muft be fown in March 

 upon a bed of treOi earth, to be tranfplanted in 

 fune, on beds of the lame foil, where, by keeping it 

 clear of weeds, it will continue for fome years. 



C O L L I F L O Vv E R S. 



TO have very early Collyflovvers in this country for 

 the market, where a gardener cannot get more 

 than one lliiliing, or tv^o at rnoft, for a flower, is not 

 worth his pains ; but as this performance may fall into 

 the hands of fuch as purfue gardening more for pleafure 

 thati profit, I fhall lay before them my practice, with 

 fome obfervations. 



You muft be provided with feeds of the earlieO: kind, 

 which are to be fown upon an old Cucumber or Melon- 

 bed, the tv/entieth o'i Auguji at fartheft; in hot funfliine, 

 fiiade the bed, and in dry weather water them gently; 

 for, fliould tliey be hurried up, thev become too long in 

 the (hanks. So foon as they have fix leaves, tranfpfant 

 them into a fpot of frefh earth, fhade and water them, 

 until they begin to grov/ : obferve that where you tranf- 

 plant them, that the foil is not over-rich ; for if they are put 

 into too rich earth, it hurries them on to flower, which 

 I have obferved fome to do in mild winters : about the 

 tniddle of October, tranfplant moft of this fowing into 

 }ip;ht earth, made up into fuch beds, as you can, in very 

 i'cvere weather, cover with fome of your Cucumber- 

 frames; obferving, when you cover them, to take off all 

 their decayed leaves, and in all temperate days, to give 

 them as much air as you can. With refpe(5l to fuch 

 plants as ypu would have early, plant three of them, 

 under one of your largeft bell-gkfFes, in rich ground, 

 and others upon a very rich fouth-afpefted border, 

 iiear a wall, to take their chance for the winter; but 



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