The Gardener's New Director. 39.5 

 298. Ricinus Americanus^ cauk virefcentey H. R. P. 

 The greater Paima Cbrijlix with green (talks. This plant 

 Ihould be Town in March upon a moderate hot-bed, and 

 when they are two inches high, may be tranfplanted, 

 with a good ball ol' earth, into pots, in April into ano- 

 ther hot-bed, taking care to ihade them, until they are 

 well rooted ^ as they grow very quickly, they will require 

 foon two penny or three penny pots; for the purpole of 

 raifing them, force up the fliell which covers the hole at 

 the bottom of the pot with a fmall ftick, wjien they will 

 come up, earth and all; then plant them into the big pot 

 in frcfh light earth, fhading and watering them until you 

 perceive they grow again, giving them in good weather as 

 much air as you can, by which means they will be fit to 

 be fet out into the open air with Myrtles, Oranges, ^c. 

 about the middle of June, which fhould be in a 

 warm place, well fheltered from winds, as their large 

 leaves (which make a good appearance) would be 

 prejudicial to them: In O^lober remove them into 

 the green-houfe, with Oranges^ bV. where they will 

 flower and perfect their feed. When they are fet abroad 

 in the common air, I tied their ftems to fmall green wires, 

 to preferve them from the injuries of tlie weather, where- 

 by I have had them eight feet high in flem by the fecond 

 year of their growth. 



299. Scabioja altijfima annua, foliis agrimonies nonnihil 

 ftmilihus, H. L. the talleit Anmuil Scabious, with leaves 

 like Agrimony. 



The 300, 301, 302, 303, are all ferainal variegati- 

 ons of the fame plant; thofe forts 1 always (contrary to 

 the practice of many) chofc to fow at the end of Jiilyj 

 fo that they might be tranfplanted before winter into 

 the borders of the plcafure-gaiden, when they will be 

 ftrorg plants to endure the winter fevcritics, and flower 

 much better the fuccceding year than thofe which arc 

 fown and flower the fame year; and as it is a dry fcafon 

 commonly wlien they arc fown, I fowed them on a fliady 

 and moifl'foil, to halkn their vegetation, othcrwift they 

 will often fail. The forts here fet down in the Dutch 

 catalogues are what I ufed, efpecially the Scabioja proli- 

 Jera, ox Chihliiig Scabious, bccaiifc of ilb very uncommon 



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