rtRJNVlAL FLOWERS. ItJ 



•rder, the talleil in the middle, the h-xeli 

 towards the front, in a proper gradation, ac- 

 cording to their growth. 



Some principal ornamental /lowering forts 

 fhould ulfo be planted in pots, both for the 

 convenience of removing to adorn any parti- 

 cular compartments, and that fome of the 

 more curious double-fiowered kinds may be 

 placed under fhelter of frames, &c. in Winter, 

 to proted them more efFectually from the ri- 

 gours of fevere froft. And in fome particular 

 ^fpecies, as auriculas and carnations, a collec- 

 tion of the capital varieties are commonly 

 potted for Itage or prize flowers : that is, when 

 they begin to flower, being then placed upon 

 a ftage or rtand defended with an awning at 

 top, and to remain there duiing the time of 

 their flowering, in order that the flowers may- 

 be protefted from the fun, rains, $cc. to pre- 

 fcrve the luftre and beauty of the flowers longer 

 in full perfedlion. 



The propagation or method of railing the 

 ▼aripus forts of fibrous-rooted perennial flow- 

 ers, being occafionally both by feed in many 

 forts, and alfo by cfl'-fets, flips of and part- 

 ing the roots, fome by cuttings of roots and 

 jRower-flalks, others by flips of the flde top- 

 ihoots of the branches, and feme by layers 

 and pipings of the bottom flioots ; though in 

 regard to feed, that notvvirhflanding many forts 

 of perennials may be raifed by that method,^ 

 it is praftifed principally only to fome parti- 

 cular forts thAt da not encreafe freely by off- 

 fets, &ic, and in others to obtain a larger 



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