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it time enough beforehand, let it 

 lie mix'd lix or eight Months 

 before: it is ufed, turning it fe- 

 veral times, the better to incor- 

 porate the Part, 



Obferve, I'hat although I have 

 mentioned this Mixture as the beft 

 for thefe Flowers, yet you mufl 

 not exped to blow your Flowers 

 every Year equally large, in the 

 fame Compolition : Therefore, 

 ibme People who are extremely 

 fond of having their Flowers fuc- 

 cecd well, alter their Compofitions 

 every Year, in this manner j viz. 

 one Year they mix the freOi Earth 

 with Neats-dung, which is coldj 

 the next Year with rotten Horfe- 

 dung, w^hich is of a warmer Na- 

 ture adding thereto fome white Sea, 

 Sand, to make the Earth lighter. 



But, for my Part, I fliould ra- 

 ther advife the planting two or 

 three Layers of each ot your bell 

 Kinds in a Bed ot frcfh Earth not 

 over-dung'd ; w^hich Plants fliould 

 only be fuffer'd to fhew their Flow- 

 ers, to prove them right in their 

 Kind i and when you are fatisfied 

 in that Particular, cut off the Flower 

 Stems, and don't iuffer them to fpend 

 the Roots in blowing i by which 

 means you 11 greatly ftrengthen your 

 Layers. And it is from thefe Beds 

 I would make choice of fome ot' 

 the bell Plants for the next Year's 

 blowing, always obferying to have 

 a SuccelTion of them yearly j by 

 which means you may blow every 

 Year fine, fuppoiing the Seafon 

 favourable: For it is not reafonabie 

 to fuppofe that the Layers taken 

 from fuch Roots as have been ex- 

 haufted in producing large Flowers, 

 and have been forc'd by Art beyond 

 their natural Strength, Ibould be 

 able to produce Flowers equally as 

 large as their Mother-Root did the 

 Year before, or as iiich Layers as 



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are frefh from a poorer Soil, and 

 in greater Health, can do. But this 

 being premis'd, let us proceed to 

 the potting of thefe Layers, which 

 (as I laid before) fliould be done in 

 Augufl, 



The common Method ufed by 

 moll Florills, is, to plant their 

 Layers, at this Seafon, two in each 

 Pot, (the S'lZQ of which Pots are 

 about nine Inches over in the 

 Clear at the Top ; ) in thefe Pots 

 they are to remain for Bloom ; 

 and therefore, in the Spring of- the 

 Year, they take ofFas much of the 

 Earth from the Surface of the Pots 

 as they can, without difturbing 

 their Roots, filling the Pots up 

 again with the fame good freO^ 

 Earth as the Pots were before fiU'd 

 with. But there is fome Ditficulty 

 in flieltering a great Quantity ot 

 thefe Flowers in Winter, when 

 they are planted in fuch large Pots, 

 which in moil Winters they will 

 require, more or lefs : My Method 

 therefore is, to put them fingly in- 

 to Halfpenny Pots in Autumn, and 

 in the Middle of OJ?(}i'i?r to fct thefe 

 Pots into a Bed of old Tanners 

 Bark which has loll its Heat, and 

 cover them with a common Frame 

 (liich as is ufed for raifing Cu- 

 cumbers and Melons); and in one 

 of thefe Frames, which contains 

 three Lights, may be fct an hun- 

 dred and fifty of thefe Pots : In 

 thefe Frames you may give them 

 as much free Air as you pleafe, by 

 taking off the Lights every Day 

 when the Weather is mild, and 

 putting them on in bad Weather, 

 and great Rains : And if the Win- 

 ter fiiould prove fevere, it is but 

 only covering the Glafies with Mats., 

 Straw, or Peafe- haulm, which will 

 eftcclually preferve your Plants in 

 the utmoil Vigour. 



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