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the bed maybe arched over with hoops, and covered with 

 mats every night;, and in bad weather. When the plants 

 appear, let them have a great deal of free air, by taking the 

 covers entirely off every mild day ; but let them be fnel- 

 tered a-nights, and in bad weather aforefaid. 



Towards the middle or latter end of May, the plants will 

 be fit to prick out, which mufl be into beds of light earth . 

 in the natural ground; and when they have ilood there a 

 montJi or five v/eeks, they mufl be taken up with bails of 

 earth, and planted in the borders. 



Where there is not the convenience of hot-beds in which 

 to fow and raife this clafs of annual flowers, may fow moil 

 of them in a warm border ; efpecially towards the middle 

 or latter end of the month, or when the weather is become 

 fjttled and warm, or fowed in the beginning of the month, 

 a.nd defended on cold nights, &c. with mats. 

 Hr,rdy Annuals, 

 Hardy annual flower-feeds may yet be fown in the bor- 

 ders, and other parts of this garden, in the places where 

 they are to remain to flower^ and in pots, &c.. 



The forts which will yet fucceed, are convolvulus major 

 and minor ; the Tangier and fweet-fcented peas, and the 

 ieeds of nafturtiums. Lil^ewife lupines, larkfpur, fios 

 Adonis, and common fweet fuitans, poppy, hawk-weed, 

 alfo candy -tuft, dwarf lychnis, nigella or devil in a bufli, 

 and Lobel's-catchfly, Venus navel-wort andlooking-glafs, 

 Virginia Hock, fnaiis, hedge-hogs, caterpillars, crown-pea, 

 winged pea, dwarf and large annual fun-fiower, perficaria, 

 belv'idere or fummer cyprefs, lavateras, oriental mallow, 

 blite or ilrawberry fpinach, and other kinds of hardy an- 

 imals may ihli be fown. See the Lift of Plants at the end 

 of the book. 



Let the above hardy annual feeds be fown in fraall patches 

 in the borders, to remain, ip the manner mentioned in the 

 two former months, or fome Virginian ilock may be ibwed 

 ia a drill for an edging. 



Let them be frequently watered in dry weather, botli 

 before and after the plants are come up. 



When the plants have been up about a fortnight or three 

 weeks, let all the larger-grov/ing kinds be thinned where 

 they have rifen' too thick ; obferving to clear away the 

 weakeft, and leave the ftrongeil: plants Handing ; allowing 

 each kind, according to its iize, full room to grow. 



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