130 PERENNIAL FLOWERS. 



pagated by parting the roots, either before 

 they Ihoot in the bpring, or after the flower- 

 ing is part, and the leaves decay. 



By flips. — This is e/Fedted either by detach- 

 ing or flipping fide off-fets of the roots or 

 heads, or root and cop together ; and in fome 

 forts, by unrooted flips of the young 

 fhoots of the heads, as in pinks, wall- 

 flower, &c. and which is the general me- 

 thod of propagating th? double kinds, to 

 continue them permanent in colour and dou- 

 blenefs ; obferving, however, in propagating 

 different fcrts by flips of the roots, fide- 

 heads, or by flips of the root and top-part 

 together, as in numerous forts, it may be 

 done principally in Autumn or Spring ; and 

 by unrooted flips of the young flioots of the 

 head, as in wall-flower, &c. aforefaid, it muft 

 generally be performed in the fmall flioots of the 

 former or fame year, in April, May and June ; 

 when three or four, to five or fix inches long, 

 flipping them off clofe to the branches, puli 

 away the under leaves, and plant them in a 

 iiiady border.and give frequent waterings : they 

 will foon emit roots and grew at top, make 

 good plants by Autumn for flowering next 

 year; planting fome in pots, of the double 

 bloody walls, Szc. to move under protcclioa 

 of a frame or glafs-cafe in Winter. 



By Cuttings of Roots.— -Some few plants, 

 with flefhy knotty roots, admit of this, as fome 

 monk's-hood aconites, Solomon's feal, tube- 

 rous helianthus, &c. which may be performed 

 either in the Spring, or in Autumn, in Oc- 



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