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garden-pot, which is too violent for moft young plants. I 

 covered their bed with mats fuftained by arches of hoops, 

 until I perceiv-ed they had taken new roots; and in 

 about fix weeks after, I thinned them if too thick: 

 When they began to grow tall and fpire up for flower, 

 1 fet down iron-wires clofe by their ftems, to which I 

 tied them, by Avhich means they made a more beautiful 

 appearance than if they had trailed upon the ground. 

 They flowered in June and July* and many of their feeds 

 were ripe by the beginning of Augujl, which when I 

 perceived, and that their feeds were falling uppn the 

 ground, 1 flirred the furface of the bed with my hand 

 to cover them ; and in about fix weeks after, I had a 

 plentiful crop of young feedlings, which, about the be- 

 ginning of Oc'^ober, I tranfplanted ir^to large pots, and 

 put them under hot-bed frames to fave them trom the 

 feverities of the winter, by which management I had a 

 great many plants early in the fpring to plant out. 



I ufed alfo to plant pots full of them, to Sower in 

 chambers, and in the green-houfe in the fummer, with 

 Bal famines, Amaranthi, Tnherofes, l£c. 



The 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, -i^Oy 40, 41 and 

 42, are all feminal varieties of the Baljamina fcemina. 

 Female Ealfam, or BaJ jam Apple. All thofe feeds mufl: be 

 fovvn on a moderate hot-bed early in the fpring, obferv- 

 ing to give them much air, that they may not be drawn 

 flender and long by too much heat. So foon as they rife 

 to eight inches, lift them with a good ball of earth, and 

 ptit three of thofe plants into a three halfpenny pot; 

 but to have them in the greateft perfection, obferve 

 thefe few following rules. 



I mo. As to the four firft forts mentioned in t\\t Dutch 

 catalogues, 'Siz.. Balfamina fcemin:j fiore albo. do. incar^ 

 ratOi do. z-ariegato. do. purpurea. I did not chufe to pur- 

 chafe their feeds, as they are but fmgle flowers, and few 

 double blofioms are to he expeded from them ; and as 

 •we have the feeds of the double flowers fpecified in the 

 fame catalogue, I thought it more proper to purchafe 

 thofe, from which I might expect a fine blow. 



2do. In lifting tlvofe plants from their hot-bed, I ob- 

 ferved to not thofe only which had fpotted ftems, from 



which 



