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OMer^ when the Seeds are ripe, 

 you fhould cut off the Heads v/ith 

 a fmall Part of the Stems, and hang 

 them up in a dry airy Place for 

 about a Month j by which Time 

 the Seeds will be perfectly dry and 

 hard, when you may eafily rub 

 them out, and put them up in Bags, 

 or Papers, preferving them from 

 Vermin until the Seafon for fow- 

 ing them. 



The other perennial Sorts rarely 

 produce Seeds in 'England^ but moft 

 of them do increale very faft at 

 their Roots, efpecially the common 

 and creeping-rooted Kinds. The 

 eighth Sort, which is the moft 

 common in the Englijl) Gardens, is 

 the largeft and moft valuable Flower, 

 and is a very proper Furniture for 

 large Borders in great Gardens, as 

 alfo for Bofquets of large growing 

 Plants, or to intermix in fmali 

 Quarters with Shrubs, or in Walks 

 under Trees where few other Plants 

 will thrive : It is alfb a great Or- 

 nament to Gardens within the 

 City ; where it doth grow in De- 

 fiance of the Smoak better than 

 moft other Plants j and for its long 

 Continuance in Flower, deierves a 

 Place in moft Gardens, for the fake 

 of its Flowers for Bafons, c^r. to 

 adorn Halls and Chimnies in a 

 Seafon when we are at a Lofs for 

 other Flowers. It begins flower- 

 ing in 7«»e, and continues until 

 OBober, 



The 9th, loth, nth, nth, 

 igth, 14th, ij-th, and 16th Sorts 

 may alfo have a Place in ibme ab- 

 ject Part of the Garden, for the 

 Variety of their Flowers ; which 

 though not io fair as thofe of the 

 common Sort, yet will add to the 

 Diverfity 5 and as many of them 

 are late Flowerers, fb we may con- 

 tinue the SuccefTion of Flowers 

 longer in the Seafon. 



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Thefe Sorts are all of them very 

 hardy, and will grow in almoft any 

 Soil or Situation ; They are propa- 

 gated by parting their Roots into 

 fmall Heads, which in one Year's 

 Time will fpread and increafe 

 greatly. The beft Seafon for this 

 Work is in the Middle o^ October y 

 ibon after their Flowers are paftj 

 or very early in the Spring, that 

 they may be well rooted before 

 the Droughts come on, otherwile 

 their Flowers will be few in Num- 

 ber, and not near fb fair, and by 

 this means their Roots will be 

 v/eak j but if they are planted in 

 October you will fave the Trouble 

 of watering them ; their Roots be- 

 ing fiirely fix'd before the dry Wea- 

 ther, they will need no other 

 Trouble than to clear them from 

 Weeds. 



The yerufalem Artichoke is pro- 

 pagated in many Gardens for the 

 Roots, which are by fome People 

 as much efteem*d as 'Potatoes, but 

 they are more watery and flaihy, 

 and are very fubjed: to trouble the 

 Belly by their windy Quality, 

 which hath brought them almoft 

 into Difufe. 



Thefe are propagated by plant- 

 ing the fmaller Roots, or the larger 

 ones cut into Pieces, (obferving to 

 preferve a Bud to each feparate 

 Piecej either in the Spring or Au- 

 tumn, allowing them a good Dil- 

 tance ; for their Roots will greatly 

 multiply : the Autumn following, 

 when their Stems decay, the Roots 

 may be taken up for Ufe. Thefe 

 fhould be planted in fome remote 

 Corner of the -Garden, for they are 

 very unfightly while growing, and 

 their Roots are apt to over-run 

 whatever grows near them, nor 

 can they be eafily deftroy'd when 

 they are once well fix'd in a. Gar- 

 den. 



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