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of the former year, plant them in pots, fevc*. 

 ral in each, and plunged in a hot-bed, they 

 will loon arikc root and grow ; or the gera- 

 niums will Urike in natural earth without ar- 

 tificial heat, as likewife the myrtles, by flips 

 or cuttings of the fmall young {hoots of the 

 year, in June and July, and will fucceed with*. 

 out hot-beds. 



In the myrtles particularly, the fetting gar- 

 deners in the vicinity of London, who raife 

 amazing quantities annually for fale in- the 

 markets, &c. of that metropolis, always raife 

 them principally by flips or cuttings of the 

 fmall young flde-flioots of the fame year, per- 

 formed generally in Summer, from about the 

 middle of June, or in July, till Auguft, whea 

 the flioots are a little hardened ; then either 

 flip off a quantity by hand, or cut them with 

 a knife, about tvyo or three to four inches long» 

 detaching all the under leaves ; and thus pre. 

 pared, and having fome iargifti wide pots 

 filled with rich light fine earth, or wide fliaU 

 low earthen pans fix inches deep, made at the 

 Potteri for that purpofe, for thofe who raiie 

 large quantities, filling them with earth as 

 above ; and in either of which prick the flips 

 or cuttings one or two inches afunder, in* 

 ferted within an inch or lefs of the tops. Give 

 a light watering ; then cover each pot down 

 clofe with a hand-glafsj they will probably 

 linke the fame year, or, if late planted, not 

 completely till following Spring, &c. Or if 

 plunged in a moderate hot-bed under a 

 frame and glafl^es, or placed in the bark-bed 

 i^ tke iUve, and alfo covered down with a 



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