86 The Pleasure, or [Feb. 



may be pricked out, either in a flight hot-bed, which 

 will forward them confiderably, or upon a warm border, 

 three inches afunder ; and when they have ftood a month, 

 they Ihoald be planted where tiiey are to remain. 



Hardy Annual Floiver-feeds, 

 About the end of this month, if the weather be mild 

 and dry, you may fow many forts of hardy annual flower ■ 

 feeds in the borders, and other parts of the pleafure-gar- 

 den. 



The forts proper to fow at this time are lark-fpur and 

 fios-ldcnis, convolvulus, lupines, fvveet-fcented and Tan- 

 gier-peas, candy-tuft, dwarf-lychnis, Venus -looking- 

 glafs, Lobel's-catch-fly, Venus-navel-wort, dwarf-pop- 

 py, nigcllri, annual fun-flower, oriental mallow, lavatera, 

 and hawk-weed, with many other forts. See the Cata- 

 logue of Annuals at the end of the book. 



All the above feeds iruft he fown in the places where- 

 you intend the plants ihall fiower ; they mull not be-. 

 tranfplanteJ, for thefe forts wil? not fucceed well by that 

 prafcice. The following is the bell method of treating them ^ 

 Dig with a trowel lome fmall patches,. at due diitances, 

 each patch being fix or eight inches over, breaking t!ie 

 earth well, and making the furface even; di-aw a iitfle- 

 earth off the top to one fide, then fov/ the feed thin, and 

 cover it with the earth that was drawn off, obferving ta 

 cover the fmall feed about a quarter, or near half an inch 

 deep, according to their fize ; but the fweet peas, and. 

 fuch like large feed, muft be covered an inch deep. 



Vv'hen the plants have been come up fome time, the 

 larger-growing kinds fhould, where they lland too thick, 

 be regularly thinned ; obferving to allow every kind, ac- 

 cording to its growth, proper room to grow. 



For in fiance, the fun-flower to be left one in a place ; 

 the oriental mallow, and lavatera, not more than 

 three; the lupines, four or five in a patch; the convol- 

 vulus the fame number; the reft may be left thicker.. 



Blo'zving An7iuals early in a Hct-houfe. 



Many forts of annuals may be flowered early in a hot- 

 houfe wdth little trouble, fowing the feeds in pots, and 

 pliice them in the bark-bed, ^<c. 



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