F I 



before they are rooted, for much 

 Wet will certainly deftroy them. 



When the Plants have taken 

 Root, -which will be in about a 

 Month's Time, you fhoald expofe 

 them, to the open Air gradually : 

 Thofe which were planted in Pots, 

 may be drawn out of the Hot-bed 

 at fir ft, and remov'd into a Glals 

 Stove, where they may be inur'd 

 by degrees to bear the Weather: 

 But thofe planted upon the old 

 Hot-bed may remain unremov'd 

 unt'l Augufty when they Ihould be 

 carefully taken up, and planted in- 

 to Pots fill'd with hght frelh fandy 

 Earth, and fet in a Situation where 

 they may enjoy the Morning Sun 

 only, until they have taken frefii 

 Root, when they may be expos'd 

 to the open Air until the latter 

 End of September, or the Beginning 

 of October \ at which time they 

 muft be' remov'd into the Conier- 

 vatory, which fliould be a light 

 airy Glafs-cafe, fo built and con- 

 triv'd as to admit of a large Por- 

 tion of free Air whenever the Wea- 

 ther is mild ,• but in hard frofty 

 Weather, the Cold may be exclud- 

 ed. The Stru<f^ure of this will be 

 dcfin'd under^ the Article Stove^ to 

 which I Ihall refer the Reader. 



During the Winter Seafbn you 

 muil carefully obfcrve to open the 

 GialTes every Day when the Wea- 

 'ther is mild ■■, for if you keep them 

 clofely fliut up, the Planis will 

 grow lickly, and drop their Leaves. 

 You muft alio obfcrve to pick off 

 all decay'd Leaves as often as they 

 appear, which, if fuffer'd to re- 

 miin upon the Plants, would com- 

 municate a Diftemper to them, 

 and be very apt to rot them. You 

 fliould alfo give them frequent Wa- 

 terings in mild Weather, efpeciaily 

 (iich of them as arc woody ; but 

 do not give them too much at 



F I 



once i for when the Earth, in Pbt5- 

 ivhich are placed in the Houfe, io- 

 too much faturated with Moifture, 

 it will not dry again during the 

 Winter Seafon, for want ot the 

 Benefit of the Sun and Air, whicb 

 are the two great Inftruments in 

 diiripating Humidity j and this is 

 often the intire Deftruftion of the 

 Plant : whilft on the other hand, 

 fome People, out of too great Care- 

 to theie Plants, let them fufter for 

 want of Water and free Air in- 

 Winter, under a Notion of their 

 being ib very tender, as to be im- 

 patient ot the leaft Cold or Moi- 

 fture : whereas, in fadt, they are 

 very hardy, and are feldom de- 

 ftroy'd with lels Cold than hard 

 Froft; for I have had fome Sorto 

 endure the open Air in a warm 

 Border for two or three Winters 

 which prov'd mild 5 amd fuch of 

 thefe Plants as had thus endured 

 the Cold, produc'd a much greater 

 Quantity of Flowers, than thofe 

 which had been prefer v'd in a Stove 

 with great Care: and it hath been 

 chiefly owing to our managing 

 them tenderly in Winter, that wc 

 annually loft \o many of them j for 

 lince I have treated them in a dif- 

 ferent Manner, I have rarely loft a 

 fmgle Plant. 



The laft mention'd Sort is an. 

 Annual, and requires to be fbwn 

 every Year. This Sort is a very 

 beautiful Plant, being all over fet 

 very thick with tranfparent Cry- 

 ftaj-like Drops, as if cover'd with 

 fmall Ificles j from whence it \^ 

 by fome cali'd the '^rojtj Tico'ides, 

 The Seeds of this Plant fliould be 

 fown very early in the Spring upon 

 a good Hot- bed j and when the 

 Plants are come up, they muft be 

 planted into fmall Pots fiU'd with 

 freili light fandy Earth, and plung'd 

 into another Hot-bed 3 and as that 



Hot' 



