322 The Gardener's New Director. 



The beginning of this month tranfplant your feedling-i 

 into a bed or boxes of the fame fort of foil, as they were 

 fown in, to be fet at the diftance of three inches fquare 

 from each other, watering them after planting, and if in 

 beds, they mufl: be fhaded every day, until they are well 

 rooted, but if in pots or boxes, they may be removed to 

 a (hady fitnation. 



The latter end of this m,ontli is the befi time to few the 

 feed, whether in pots or boxes, the latter mufl: not be lefs 

 th'.'.n fix inches deep; in them lay two inches of fea-coal 

 cinders, and over them fpread good frelli light fandy 

 earth, mixed with very rotten cow-dung, or tanner's 

 bark, to the depth of three inches; over which fift foine 

 earth taken out of hollow willow trees, until the pots or 

 boxes are full, and then fow the feeds on the top, with- 

 out any covering of earth, only prefllng them into ilie 

 mould with a piece ot fiat board, to fettle them below 

 the edges of the box, &c. that in watering the feeds may 

 not fl<>at over their brims: this feminary muft be conti- 

 nually refrelhed v^^ith water, in fmall quantities at a time, 

 fo that it may never be without a conftant moifture, 

 other wife the feeds will not come up. It is neceffary to 

 cover the boxes, ^c. with a net or wire, to prevent the 

 cats or birds from dedroying or burying the feeds too 

 deep. Set your pots, &c. where they may have no more 

 than the morning fun until O^oher. 



September. Your young plants are now to be brought 

 out of the (hade, which you are not to fufi'cr to be too 

 dry, keep the froft from them, and they will grow all . 

 the year, fome of them will fhow flowers in the fnring. 



Oflober. The diredions of the lafl: m.onth to be ob- 

 ferved in this, tho' more trufles will appear. 



The boxes, &c. of feedlings are to be removed to a 

 fituation where they will have the noon fun. 



November and December. As the froft now begins to 

 come in fevere, which is very injurious to thefe plants, 

 the fun melting it into the body of the plants, which 

 freezes again at night, fome ftielter is abfolutely 

 neceffary, either with mats, boards, or glaffes; v/hen 

 thefe are wanting, lay the pots on their fides, as the 

 plants will be lefs injured than if they flood upright ; 

 they are to be kepi dry until "January. 



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