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plant them, you may either cut 

 off the Sides of the Basket, or if 

 they are but loofely made, luffer 

 them to remain intire, for they 

 will foon rot in the Ground. 



You muft alfo be very careful to 

 fupply your new-planted Hollies 

 with Water, for the two firft Years, 

 if the Seafons prove dryj after this 

 time there will be little Danger of 

 their mifcarrying. 



AQUILEGIA. Columbine. 

 The Chara£krs are ; 



h hath Leaves like the Meadow 

 'B.ue ; the Jclovpers are pendulous., 

 and of an anomalous Figure j the 

 T'lfiil of the FJovper becomes a mem- 

 braneous Fruit, confifting of many 

 Husks or Tods j each of which con- 

 fains many finning black Seeds. 

 The Species arej 



1. AoyiLEGiAi fylveftris. C. B, 

 The Common wild Columbine. 



2. Aquilegiaj flellafa, fore vio- 

 laceo. Hort-Eyjl. The fcarry Co- 

 lumbine, with violet coloured 

 Flowers. 



3. Aquilegia^ hortenfis, [implex, 

 C- B. The lingle Garden Colum- 

 bine. 



4. Aquilegia ; montana, magna 

 fiore. C. B. Mountain Colum- 

 bine, with large Flowers. 



5-. Aquilegiaj Canadenfis, frd- 

 c»x, procerior. H. R. Par. Early 

 flowering Canada Columbine. 



6. Aquilesiaj pumila, pr£cox, 

 Canadenjis. Cornut. Dwarf early 

 flowering Canada Columbine. 

 ' 7. Aquilegia 5 hortenjis, multi- 

 ple^y fiore magno c&ruho. C. B. 

 Double Garden Columbine, with 

 large blue Flowers. 



There are great Varieties of this 

 Plant,- Vv^hich are preferv'd in curi- 

 ous Gardens j the Flowers of which 

 are very double, and beautifully 

 variegated with Blue, Purple, Red 

 and Wkite. Tlieie are very orna- 



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mental Phnts in Borders of large 

 Gardens, producing their beautiful 

 Flowers in May and Jum-y and are 

 very proper to mix with other 

 Flowers, for Pots to adorn Chim- 

 nies or Hails, at that Seafon. 



They are all rais'd by ibwirg the 

 Seeds, or parting the old Roots, 

 but the former Method is chiefly 

 pradis'd j for the old Roots are 

 very apt to degenerate after they 

 have blown two Years, and become 

 quite plain. 



The Seeds fliould be Town in a 

 Nurfery Bed in Augufi or Septem- 

 ber i for the Seeds kept till Spring 

 do feldom grow well j in the March 

 following your young Plants will 

 appear above Ground, you muil: 

 therefore clear them from Weeds, 

 and if the Seafon flwuld be dry, 

 refrefli them with Water, that they 

 may gather Strength. 



In the Beginning of May thefe 

 Plants will be flrong enough to 

 traniplant; you muft therefore pre- 

 pare fome Beds of good frefh un- 

 dung'd Earth, planting them there- 

 in at eight or nine Inches Diftance 

 every way, keeping them clear 

 from Weeds, and retrefliing them 

 with a little Water, as they may 

 require it. 



At Michaelmas you may remove 

 ■ them into the Bortiers of your 

 Flower Garden, and the May fol- 

 lowing they will produce Flowers; 

 but if you mtend to maintain their 

 Roots, you fliould not fuffcr them 

 to feed, but crop oft all their Flower- 

 Stems ib foon as the Flowers are 

 paft. 



But in order to be fure of have- 

 ing no iingle or had Flowers in 

 your Borders, you may luffer them 

 to remain in the nurfery Beds un- 

 til they have blown, at which time 

 you may flick a Stake by each Root 

 you fancy to prefervc, and pull out 



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