36 T H E P L E A s u R E, or [Jan, 



fweet-williams, alfo cuttings of double chryfanthemums, 

 and any other of the choice^ kinds of perennial plants in 

 pots, {hould be well fecured from fevere frofts. If thele 

 plants in pots are placed in frames, let the glaffes, or other 

 covering, be kept over them at all times when the froft is 

 keen, or occafionally in very wet weather; but in mild, 

 dry weather, the plants muft not be covered. 



Take care now alfo of all other choicer kinds of fibrous- 

 rooted perennial plants in general, which are in pots, to 

 fecure them from froft. 



Such as the double rofe campion, double fear let lychnis, 

 tand all other fuch like kinds. 



Thofe plants which are in pots fliould, where there is 

 Tiot the convenience of frames, be plunged to their rims 

 in a dry and warm border, and in fevere weather covered 

 with long litter ; but if you do not plunge the pots, they 

 ihould be well defended, or moved into fome flieltered place 

 at the approach of fevere froft. 



Seedl'r/ig Flo-zvcrs. 



Boxes or pots of any tender or choice kinds of feedling 

 flowers Ihould be covered in frofty weather, either with 

 mats, long litter, or fern, or the like, which fl:iould be 

 laid a good thicknefs over them, and clofe round their 

 iides, or remove them under a garden frame and glaffes, 

 &c. 



Likewife beds of the more tender and curious forts of 

 ieedllng flowers, in the common ground, fhould alfo be 

 covered in hard froils, with long litter ; but be fure to re- 

 move the covering when the weather is foft and mild. 



Protc^ing FloKverbig-fmrubs from Froji, 



If you have hardy flowering ftirubs or ever-greens, in 

 pots, you fnouid, to protecl their roots from the froft, 

 plunge the pots to their rims in the ground. Chufe a dry 

 jpot to pluitge them in ; that is, where water is not apt to 

 Itand. 



Protect alfo the roots of the choicer kinds of nev/-plnnted 

 trees, ilowering-flu-ubs, and ever-grcens from frolt, if it 

 il ould fet in hard. This is done by laying dry mulchy 

 litter on the furfrice of the ground, round the ftem of the 

 trees and flxrubs, as far as tlicir roots extend, or rather far- 

 ther. 



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