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remain where fowed, except on particular oc- 

 cafions, if required to fupply any vacant parts, 

 feme may be tranfplanted in their young 

 growth. 



In this tribe of hardy annuals, there are 

 many fpecies and varieties that produce beau- 

 tiful ornamental flowers, eligible to introduce 

 into the diiferent compartments of the Flower- 

 garden and Pleafure-ground, to adorn the 

 beds, borders, fhrubbery clumps, and to 

 Hower in pots, &c. many of which continue 

 flowering two or three months or more in the 

 fame plants, others are of fhorter duration, 

 but, take the whole together, they afford a 

 conftant fucceffion of flowers from May or 

 June till Odlober or November; then wholly 

 perifh, top and root, as formerly obferved. 



Though feme forts are eftimable principally 

 for their particular modes of growth, fmgu- 

 larity or curiofity of their foliage, feed-pods, 

 fruit, fweet fcent. Sec. more than for any 

 beauty of their flowers ; fuch as the belvidere, 

 for its upright thick pyramidal growth ; arti- 

 p!ex, or red fpinach, for the colour of its 

 leaves; flrawberry fpinach, for its ftrawberry- 

 like fruit; fpirting cucumber, and yellow 

 balfam, for their fpirting feed-pods; the ca- 

 terpillar plant, hedge-hog and fnail "^trefoil, 

 for the Angularity of their feed-pods of va- 

 rious vermiculated forms, &c. the gourds, 

 fq«aflies, pompions, &c. both for their large 

 extended growth, noble foliage, large flowers 

 and great variety of their fruit, of many dif- 

 ferent 



