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 however good thefe precautions may be, you arc not to 

 expe8: a continuance of fine flowers from plants, that 

 are fpent in blowing, wherefore you muft have in re- 

 ferve fome ilrong plant?, whofe flowers h.ivc been ta!<en 

 ofF as foon as they fhow, for the purpofe of giving an 

 additional ftrength to their roots, that they may give 

 fine flowers the next feafon, not more than one of which 

 are to be expected on each plant, wherefore let all others 

 be taken from the lateral branches. By a continuance 

 of this procefs, you will ever be prepared to lliow the 

 finefl: flowers. 



Your compofl: being ready in Augup or September, I 

 would advife the taking off the layers, which are to be 

 fet fingly in halfpenny pots filled with it, your pots being- 

 of a fmall fize, you will the better be enanled to give the 

 plants prote£lion in the winter. In O^ober, let them be 

 fet in beds of tan bark, whofe heat is gone ofi", and then 

 covered with a glazed trame, whofe cover you are to 

 take oflFor keep on, according to the feafon, as the plants 

 muft be prote6i:ed from much rain and cold, and have 

 the air admitted in mild weather. About the latter end 

 of February, or as early as the feafon is favourable, 

 tranfplant your layers into pots of eight inches over, firft 

 laying an oyrterfhe'.l on the hole to carry oft any fuper- 

 abundant water; when you have half filled the pots with 

 your compoft, you are to raife your layers with a ball of 

 earth to their roots, which is to be taken drswn half way 

 the flock, and thinned in order to come at the extremi- 

 ties of the fibres, as they are 10 be taken oflF; then you 

 are to fet your plant in the middle ot the pot, with the* re- 

 mainder of' the compofi, gertly clofing it on the roots, 

 and watering ; obferve tliat the lowefl leaves of the plants 

 are to line with the upper edge of the pots, to which the 

 compoft is to rife after it is well fettled: Tlie plants are 

 to have a fituation that will protect them from Northerly 

 winds, and to have foft water given them, as the f^raloo 

 may require ; here they are to be kept untd April, wlun 

 they are to be rtaged for iilowing, having a South-eajl a1- 

 pe^, defended from Weflerly winds, by a fhclter al fome 

 diflance. About the middle of the month the plants will 

 begin to {hoot out for flower, which arc to lie fupported 

 wFth flcnder fticks^ to which the fhools are to be tied with 



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