136 PERENNIAL FLOWERS, 



With refpefl to the proper feafon for plant- 

 ing them, it is performed in the Spring, and 

 Autumn, though the Spring feafon i^ rather 

 more advifeable, in which to plant the gene- 

 ral fupply, principally in February and 

 March, or occafionally in April ; generally 

 before the plan.ts advance confiderably in 

 their top growth ; but many, or moil of the 

 forts may alfo be planted in Autumn, after 

 they have done liovvering, and the llalks 

 decayed, from about the middle or latter end 

 of September to the fame time in November ; 

 but as in Odober, November, and December, 

 moil forts will be pall flowering, and finiihed 

 their year's grov/th, they may be fuccefbfully 

 tranfplanted. 



In removing them for planting in the dif- 

 ferent compartments intended, moil of the 

 lihroLis-rOoted kinds may be taken up with 

 fmall balls of earth about the roots,, whereby 

 they v.-,;i lefs feel their removal, and which 

 may be more particularly advifeable in tranf- 

 planting: many of the more curious kinds, or 

 for late Spring planting in general, efpecialiy 

 if any are to be removed after the plants ad- 

 vance in the top ihoots, or Hoover ilems, Sec, 

 as alfo in occafionally removing any pnrticuhr 

 forts after they are advanced for liovvering, or 

 in flower ; as many forts of low or moderate 

 growing perennials of the mod fibrous-rooted 

 kinds will admit of removal, on particular 

 occafions, after they Ihoot in Spring for 

 flowering, by removing them wiih good balls 

 of earth, though it is always moll advifeable 



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