PERENNIAL FLOWERS. I35 



air either by tilting up, or taking ofF the 

 g!afles ; and when the whole are properly 

 rooted, and advanced in fome tolerable 

 ftrength in gro^vth in five or fix weeks after 

 planting, they Ihould be tranfplanted, in 

 which, take up the whole with their full 

 roots, cut the ilraggling topse^en, and then 

 plant them in any beds or borders five or fix 

 inches diftance, and watered ; and in which 

 beds let them remain in growth till Oftober, 

 ScC. or following Spring, when feme of the 

 firongeft may be removed with balls cf earth, 

 and planted in the fiower borders, or fome 

 alfo in pots, the others may continue in the 

 beds; they will all flower the enfuing Sum- 

 merj but in greater perfedion the year fol- 

 lowing, and all produce the fame fort of 

 flowers as thofe of the refpeOive parent varie- 

 ties, from whence they were propagated. 



Thus far concluding the diiverent methods 

 of propagating and raifing the various forts 

 of herbaceous perennial flov\ers ; next follows 

 fome general obfervations on the order of 

 planting them in the different border-, beds, 

 pots, &c. in the flower garden and pieafure- 

 ground. 



When the plants, raifed by any cf the 

 different methods in Spring, or Summer, 

 Sec. and pricked or planted in nurfery beds to 

 obtain ftrength, they will generally be of 

 proper growth for final tranfplanting in the 

 following Autumn or Spring, in the beds, 

 borders, and other compartm( nts where they 

 Si-TS. to continue for flowering. 



N 2 Witk 



