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Methods of propagating or raifing the dif. 

 hreat foru of plants in the Green Houle 

 colleftion. 



The propagation, or methods of raifing 

 Green Houfc plants, is by feed, cuttings, 

 flips, layers, fuckers, off-fets, parting rootf, 

 and fome by budding, as in oranges, lemons, 

 jafmines, &c. and fome by grafting and m- 

 arching. 



By feed many of the Green Houfe plants 

 produce it abundantly in this country, as ge- 

 raniums, &c. and of many others is obtained 

 from abroad, and both of which fow in pots of 

 rich light earth in Spring, March, April and 

 Mav; and if the pots are plunged either in a 

 baric-bed or dung hot-bed, under frames and 

 glaifes, it will forward the vegetation of the 

 feed and young plants, though in want of hot- 

 beds place the pots under giaffes in a frame, 

 or in the Green- Houfe; and when the plants 

 are two, three, or four inches high, prick 

 ihem in fmall pots. 



By cuttings of the young (hoots of the laltor 

 fame year, many of the Gree^ houfe exotics 

 are abundantly raifed, fuch as myrtles, gera- 

 cioms, and various other fhrubby kinds; alfo 

 nanv of the herbaceous, and mod of the iuc- 

 colent plants, are alfo raifed by cuttings : and 

 bv which myrtles and geraniums, as aforefaid. 

 are raifed in abundance, in the neighbourhood 

 of London. Take ofFeither cuttings in Spring, 

 in March, April, or May, of the young (hoo^s 

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