14-0 PERENNIAL FLOWERS. 



According as the dift'erent forts go out of 

 bloom, and the flowers and ftems decay, the 

 decayed flowers ana ita!ks Ihould be cut down 

 clofe, and all decayed leaves and littery parts 

 cleared away. 



And in Autumn, about 0£lober and No- 

 vember, when the whole will be palt flower- 

 ing, cut down all the decayed items, and 

 clear away all decayed leaves ; then either hoe 

 the borders, '&c. cutting up ail weeds, and 

 rake thcni oiF, and the furface of the ground 

 neatly raked even ; or the borders or beds 

 may be digged between the plants, to remain 

 clean and decent for the Winter, and will 

 prove beneficial to the plants in general. 



The plants in pots, in Autumn, having the 

 decayed iiower-ftalks cut down, fhould have 

 the earth at top loofened an inch or two down, 

 taking out fome of the loofened earth, and 

 fill up with frefli mold; then, in the begin- 

 ning of Winter, about the end of Odober, 

 or any time in November, fhould be removed 

 in the pots to a warm fituation in the full fun, 

 to remain till the Spring : or fome of the 

 choicer forts may be placed in a garden-frame, 

 in order to have protection of the glafles, and 

 other covering in fevere weather, in the above 

 feafon. 



Jn the Spring, about February or March, 

 the borders fhould be neatly digged, and 

 raked fmooth, both to encourage the growth 

 of the flowers, and to have a neat appear- 

 ance ; and the plants in the pots have the 

 earth loofened again at top, and, if not done 



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