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trailing, creeping, and climbing growths. 

 Numerous forts are of the woody, or fhrub 

 and tree kird, us before intimated, all with 

 continuing Hems and branches, of great va-» 

 riety in diineiifions, leaves, flowers, &c, 

 many forts are of the fucculent tribe, having; 

 ficfhy ftalks and leaves, nioflly of a durable 

 nature, by the fame ftalks, &c. continuing i 

 aU very replete with humidity or moifture, and 

 of various, curious, and fingular ftrudures, 

 form.s and different fizes, from a few inches 

 to feveral feet, in upright, and trailing, and 

 creeping growths; likewife many are curious 

 herbaceous exotics, confiiling of fibrous and 

 flefhy rooted flowering perennials, with dura- 

 ble roots, but moilly either renew their ftems 

 annually, lefs or more, or fome continue fer 

 veral years, and with feveral genera and fpecie* 

 ofcurious bulbous and tuberous-rooted flowers ; 

 ^nd in which difl^erent tribes, nearly one 

 mode of general culture is applicable to the 

 whole, all planted in pots of any good rich 

 garden mold, except the fucculents, which 

 on account of their naturally humid ftate, 

 ihould be planted in d/y light fandy earth, or 

 a compoft ( f that, and any dry rubbiihy foil. 



Green-houfc plants are raifed by various 

 diiferent metiiods, as by feeds, cuttings, lay- 

 ers, fuckers, ofF-fets, parting roots, budding, 

 grafting, &c. as hereafter explained. 



General obfenvations on planting the different 

 forts, 

 AS above fuggefted, all the plants of the 

 green houfs collection mull alwayj be kept in 

 X X 2 pots^ 



