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w6uld injure them;) when they are two inches high, 

 tranfplant them into another moderate hot-hed, ob- 

 ferving to fiiadc the plants, and to water them often, 

 but gently, until you perceive they have taken new- 

 root ; the more air they are indulged with every fine day, 

 the better they will profper. When they are (even 

 or eight inches high, tranfplant them into beds in the 

 open ground, covering them with double mats laid upon 

 arched hoops; here they may remain until the middle or 

 end o^Mt/y; then prepare a bed of good, rich, light, 

 fandy eatth, and obierve to throw out the fingle flower, 

 which you will know by their long narrow flower-pods ; 

 the double have their pods much fwoin ; tranlplant them 

 into nurfcry beds, lifting them with balls of earth, or into 

 pots to adorn rooms, or court-yards, thofe in beds at 

 fifteen inches afunder, where they will flower and feed 

 to great perfe6tion: Thefe I defigned for leed, I nipt 

 off their fide branches, and never fiifl-ercd them to bear 

 more than three or four heads, and tied their ftalks up 

 to wires or rods to fufl:ain them from being broken by 

 winds, ^c. By which method I raifed many feminal 

 varieties of both forts, obferving to plant mofl: of the 

 fweet fcented forts in pots for rooms, the others having 

 a difagreeable fcent. By this management, and fetting 

 them for three weeks into the glafs-cafe, I have had 

 them five feet high, which rather appeared like flower^ 

 rng fhrubs than annual plants; thofe in pots continued 

 flowering all the winter in the houfe, and thofe in the 

 open borders until the frofl; nipped them; — they will do 

 indiff^erently well, if fown in the open ground, but will 

 not bear a large flower. 



137. Flos Principis Jiore albo-, but its true name is the 

 Amaranthus /pica albejlente habitiore, Martin, bijl. Ama- 

 ranthus with a great whilifli fpike of flowers. 



138. A feminal variegation of the former, as is alfo 

 the 139th. 



Thefe require the fame culture with the Amaranthus, 

 and thrive with lefs forcing, but as there is no gre^t 

 beauty in thofe plants, they fcem at prefenl to be much 

 negleded in our EngUflj gardens. 



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