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ing fome good thick mats always in readinefs, let thefe 

 be drawn over the hoops to Ihelter the plants in bad wea- 

 ther. 



By plunging the pots into the bed of comport, it pre- 

 ferves the plants more fecurely from froft : for it then 

 cannot enter at the fides of the pots to hurt the roots. 



The plants are to remain in this bed, and in the fame 

 pots, till the latter end of February, or the firft week in 

 March ; they are then to be turned out with the ball of 

 earth to their roots, and planted into the large pots 

 where they are to blow. See February and March. 



But the common carnation layers, that are intended to 

 be planted in the borders, fhould be managed in this 

 manner : 



When the layers are all well rooted, they are then to be 

 feparated from the old plant, trimmed as above diredl- 

 ed, and planted in a bed or border of rich earth. Let 

 them be fet about fix inches diftance every way from one 

 another, and diredly watered, and the waterings mull 

 be occafionally repeated, and the plants muft be Ihaded 

 from the mid-day fun till well rooted. 



The layers are to remain in this bed or border until 

 Odlober; by that time they will have gotten ftrength» 

 and may then be tranfplanted into the borders. 



Laying Carnations, 



This is ftlll a proper time to lay carnations and double 

 fweet-wllliams, but this muft be done in the beginning 

 of the month. 



Take off all fuch layers of double fweet-williams as 

 were layed five or fix weeks ago, and manage them as 

 direded for the carnations. 



Plant out Pink Pipings^ l^c. 



When the pink pipings c,r cuttings planted in June 

 are well rooted and advanced in growth, let fome be 

 thinned out and planted in three or four feet-wide beds, 

 in rows fix inches afunder, and give proper waterings ; 

 the reft will be fit to plant out next month, and they 

 will all acquire proper llrength for flowering the follow- 

 ing year : fee June. 



They will obtain a good bufhy growth by the end of 

 Odober, when, or in November or the following fpring,, 



fome; 



