36 MODERATELY TENDER ANNUA Lb. 



hot-bed, or under protedlion of a frame or hand- 

 glafles, awning of mats, &c. to forward them 

 more elfeftually, and fooner, to a proper fize for 

 i?owering; and by ranging them in the tribe 

 cf Hardy Annuals, implies that, in want of 

 hot- beds or conveniences of protcftion, they 

 may alfo be raifed in the open ground : like- 

 wife, fomc are arranged in the above Tender 

 clafs, which are alfo introduced in the collec- 

 tion of the Mofl-tender Annuals, fignifying 

 that, although they are rather tenderer than 

 the generality of the moderately-tender tribe, 

 they may alfo be raifed by the fame mode of 

 culture ; but that, where convenient to give 

 them the culture of the moft-tehder kinds, as 

 direded under that head, they may be raifed 

 to greater perfeflion. 



This coIle«Stion of Moderately-tender An- 

 nuals are raifed, by fowing the feed in a mo- 

 derate hot-bed, in March, or beginning of 

 April; or, in want of a hot-bed, they may 

 be fowed in a bed and pots of natural earth* 

 under a frame and lights, or hand-glafies ; or, 

 in default of thofe, defended of cold nights 

 with matts : but the plants will not be fo for- 

 ward for tranfplanting into the borders, nor 

 flower fo foon, as thofe forwarded in a hot-. 

 bed. However, in want of hot- beds, or the 

 convenience of frames, glafles, or other means 

 of cccafional flielrer, they may be moilly 

 raifed in a warm border, and in pots, fowed 

 the latter end of March and in April, when, 

 the weather is fettled in tolerably warm. 



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