434 The Pleasure, vr [Sept. 



advantage of dripping weather; and many of thofe 

 which were pricked out from the feed-bed, into nuriery 

 beds, two or three months ago, may now be readily 

 taken ,up with balls of earth about their roots, and 

 planted in the places allotted them. By this pradice'the 

 plants will not feel their removal. 



Do not forget, as foon as planted, to give each plant 

 a moderate watering: this will clofe the earth properly 

 about the roots. 



Sonving Seeds of Bulbous Flo<vjer Rcots. 



The feeds of tulips may Hill be fown, and alfo the 

 feeds of hyacinths and crovvn imperials, with the feeds 

 of fritillarias, and of moft other bulbs 



Thefe feeds may be fown in beds or boxes ; they will 

 fucceed in either: let the earth be rich and light, and 

 broken very fiue, and lay the furface perfedlly Imooth. ^ 



Then {qw the feeds feparattly on ihe furface, and to- 

 lerably thick, and cover them with light fifted earth, 

 near half an inch di^c^, or tliereabouts. 



Cut Box Edgings. 



Clip box edgings where it was omitted in the two for- 

 mer months,' but let this be done as foon in the month 

 as poffibie, that the box may have time to recover a little 

 before winter. 



• Fiant Box. 



Now is the time to begin to plant box where new 

 edgings are to be made, but tiiis fhould not he dene till 

 fome tim.e after the middle of the month. 



There is no tim.e in the year in which box will take 

 root better thao this ; but as foon as an edging is planted 

 it will.be proper to give a hearty watenng. See Odo- 

 ber, &c. 



Likewife where there are edgings of box, that have 

 grown large, thick and clumfey, they fhould now be 

 taken up and replanted"; obferving, when the box is for 

 that purpofe taken up, let a proper quantity of the beft 

 be flipped and trimmed, and immediately planted again. 

 To as to form a clofe, low, neat edging. See OclO. 

 ber, &c. 



This is alfo a good time to repair any former planted 

 box edgings vvKSre wanting; therefore^ where there are 



any 



