FBRENNIAL FLOWERS, I3I 



teber or November, when the root may be 

 cut or divided into parts as required, having 

 two or three eyes to each, and planted as 

 once where they are to remain. 



By Cuttings of the Stalks, — This is done 

 in Summer, about June, in fome particubr 

 forts, with tallifh fiower-ftaiks ; and when the 

 young fralks of the year are fliot a foot to fif- 

 teen or eighteen inches long, is the proper 

 period ; performed occafionally in double 

 fcarlet lychnis, lychnidea, fnap-dragon, dou- 

 ble rocket, and fome others of fimilar growth : 

 cutting the ftalks into lengths of about five or 

 fix inches, plant them in a fnady border, and 

 if covered with a hand-glafs they will root 

 iboner and more effectually ; giving water. 



By cuttings of the young fhoots of the 

 branches, may be performed in fuch forts as 

 continue in branchy keads^ as wall-flower and 

 llock-gilliPiOwer, &c. in the young fhoots of 

 the former or fame year, in April, May and 

 June, cut off three or four, to five or fix inches 

 long, and planted as dire^led for the flips. 



By Layers. — This is pradifed principally 

 to one or two particular fpecies, fuch as the 

 fine double carnations, clove-gilliflowers, and 

 double red fweet-william, and fometimes for 

 curious varieties of pinks ; is performed by 

 the young bottom fhoots of the year, in June 

 and July, when they are advanced of proper 

 length to admit of laying in the earth as they 

 remain on the mothei plants. The method 

 is, firll provide a quantity of fmali hooked 

 (ticks cf about three inches long, fuch as 

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