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them • In this Place they may re- 

 main till Michaelmas, when they 

 (hould be reraov'd into very warm 

 Borders ; and if they are plac'd quite 

 clofe to the Wall, where it is com- 

 monly very dry, they will fucceed 

 the better ; as alfo planted on a dry 

 rubbifhy Soil, for the Leaves of this 

 Plant are very thick and fucculent, 

 as are all the Stems, ib that it is 

 as impatient of Wet as the Sedum 

 or Houfeleek; and I do not certainly 

 know whether this Plant would 

 not bear a greater Share of Cold, 

 if it was planted upon an old Wall 

 or Building, where it might be 

 always dry, and not have too much 

 Nourifhment from the Ground. 

 The following Summer this Plant 

 will produce its Flowers, (which 

 though they are not very beautiful, 

 yet for the Oddnefs of the Plant it 

 may have a Place in a good Gar- 

 den) and the Seeds generally ripen 

 in Auguji : It may alio be propa- 

 gated by planting Cuttings in any 

 of the Summer Months, which will 

 take Root, and may be afterwards 

 xnanao;'d as the Seedling-Piants. 



The Myrtle-leav'd, flirubby Cam- 

 pion may be propagated by Seeds 

 as the former, or increased by plant- 

 ing Cuttings in any of the Summer 

 Months, v/hich will loon after take 

 root, and become ftrong Plants ■■, 

 iorzt of which fhould be planted in 

 Pots, that they may be H^eiter'd in 

 Winter for fear of being loft, tho' 

 they will endure the Cold of our 

 Climate very well, if planted on a 

 dry Soil There is no great Beauty 

 in this Plant, but it is prefer v'd for 

 Variety Sake in feverai curious 

 Gardens. 



The twenty-leventh and twenty- 

 eighth Sorts are abiding Plants, 

 and may be propagated either by 

 ^ctdi or parting their Roots, in the 



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Manner which has been direfted 

 for the Rofe Campion, and other 

 Sorts before-mention'd : They are 

 very hardy, and will grow upon 

 almoft any Soil or Situation : They 

 produce their Flowers in June and 

 July, and their Seeds ripen foon 

 after. 



The other Sorts are all of them 

 annual Plants, which may be ealily 

 propagated by fowing their Seeds 

 either in March or Auguji, when 

 the Plants will foon come up, and 

 may be tranfplanted, while young, 

 into the Places where they are de- 

 lign'd to remain j or the Seeds may 

 be fcatter'd in Patches upon the 

 large Borders of the Flower- Gar d en j 

 and when the Plants are come up, 

 they may be thin'd, leaving fome 

 of the llrongeft to flower in the 

 fame Places, and the other Plants 

 may be remov'd into other Parts of 

 the Garden. 



Thofe Plants which come up in 

 Autumn will be much larger, and 

 flower earlier and ftronjjer than 

 thofe fown in the Spring, and will 

 produce good Seeds ; whereas it 

 fometimes happens, in bad Seafons, 

 that thofe fown in the Spring do 

 often decay before their Seeds are 

 pcrfcdfcd, tho' it is a good Method 

 to low at both Seafons, becaule 

 hereby there will be a Succcffion of 

 their Flowers, and two Chances for 

 good Seeds. 



The Dwarf lychns has been by 

 fome recommended to be fown for 

 Edgings in large Gardens, but I 

 think it by no means proper for 

 that Purpole j for when the Plants 

 grow very clofe together, they 

 draw up weak, fb that in hard Rains 

 they arc beaten down flat to the 

 Ground, and the Flowers feldom 

 continue long in Beauty, fo that it 

 does not afford any Plcafare above 



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