yzo The Gardener's New Director. 

 vour carnation pots at tliis rime of the year, but not more 

 than three or icur in a pot, and they dole to the fide 

 of it; obfervc always before you put them, to place 

 convex oylle.-i"htlls over the holes in the pots, to let off" 

 the water, the -earth in your pots you mull never fuiier 

 to be drv, the plants are now to be placed under trames, 

 glafles, or m;Us, keening them free from froft and too 

 much lun, and clear of vermin. 



The fecdlings are lo be placed, where they may have 

 the ojoiniiig fun, until ten o'clock, as their pla-.^ts will 

 begin to appear, and fiiould they be expoled to the full 

 fun but one day, it would deftroy them i water is to (^e 

 j^iven them in dry weather, but in a gentle manner, lell 

 you wufa them out of the ground. 



Jlpr'tl. Tills fiowcr comes on now very forward, fo 

 that yoa may ftage many in a day: fuch of your tv/o 

 years "old plants as will not blow, pull to pieces, and prune 

 to the quick, i. e. cut the red fpeck out of their roots, 

 and prune their fibres; fetting two or three in a pot, ac- 

 cording to their fize : The plants which were taken off 

 the laft Augv.Ji^ raife out of the pots with their earth to 

 them, to be put into fmaller pots, obferving that the 

 bodies of the plants rife above tne mould ; then water 

 with the rofe to lettle the earth, but afterwards water 

 without it ; they are to be let in the fliade until Augufit 

 obferving to keep them moift; the reafon for not ufing 

 the rofe is, that it wafhes the meal into the heart of the 

 plant, which occafions them to rot, this danger is not 

 ' to be Seared from rain, unlefs very violent, and attended 

 with ftorms ; the pots are now to be fet in the frame. The 

 plants from which you expert to have feed, ffiould be 

 removed into the open air as they are now in full blow, 

 and placed where they may have the morning fun, with* 

 out which they will not produce good feed. Your feed- 

 lings mud be carefully proteSed from the fun, and kept 

 in the tliade until Augujl^ when they may be planted cut ; 

 at this feafon they muft be frequently refreflied with 

 ■water. 



May. Your blow being now over, remove your plants 

 from the ftage, placing them in fuch a fituation as they 

 will meet the morning, or a little of the afternoon fun, 

 to be watered every other day if required, and kept 



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