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of the fecond clafs or lefs-tender or hardier kinds of annual 

 plants upon, which were raifed lall: month. 



The principal forts are, marvel of Peru, China aller?^. 

 India pinks, ten-week flocks, French and African mari- 

 golds, and chryfanthemums, likewife common balfams,. 

 bafil, capficums, and love apples, yellow fweet fultan, perfi- 

 caria, tree-amaranthus, purple amaranthus, prince's fea- 

 ther amaranthus, love-lies-bleeding, convolvulus major, 

 fcarlet convolvulus, palma-^chrifti, fcabious, alkekengi or 

 winter-cherry, tobacco plant, zinnia, Indian corn, gourds 

 in variety, &c. fee the catalogue of the Second Clafs of An- 

 nuals at the end of the book : all of which, if pricked out 

 upon a moderate hot-bed, may be forwarded confiderably 

 to a flowering ftate. 



Therefore it is advifeable to prepare a moderate hot-bed^ 

 about the middle or any time of this month, to prick out 

 a quantity of each of the above forts ; make the bed only 

 about two feet thick of dung ; and having fet on a frame, 

 earth the bed five or fix inches thick ; then draw out of the 

 feed-bed fome of the flrongell plants, and prick them in 

 the new bed, four inches diftant each way, and give a little 

 water ; then put on the lights, and allow fhade from the 

 fun, till the plants have ftruck root ; being careful to admit 

 frefh air daily, and repeat the waterings occafionally. Ob- 

 ferve, that in default of frames, &c. to place over the above 

 hot-bed, fix fome hoops acrofs the bed,, and let mats be 

 drawn over them every night, and alfo, occafionally in the^ 

 day-time when the weather is wiy cold, by drawing them, 

 over the north fide particularly, to break ofl^"the cutting air,, 

 and leave the front next the fun open. The plants are to 

 remain in this bed for about month,, or five or fix weeks ; 

 then let them be taken up, with a ball of earth about their 

 roots, and planted in the borders, or where they are to re- 

 main to flower, and fome in pots. 



The feeds of French and African marigolds, and chry- 

 fanthemums may yet be fown ; likewife baifams, marvel of 

 Peru, China after, and India pink, love-apples, capficum, 

 and of all the other kinds before mentioned. See tiie Lijl 

 of the Second Clafs of Annuals. 



Let the above feeds be fown in a moderate hot- bed, in 



the firfl or fecond week of the month ; let the bed be often 



refrefhed with light fprinklings of water, both before and 



after the plants appear. Where there is no frame to fpare,. 



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