524- C.REEN-HOUSE DISPLATIO. 



for early vegetation next Spring and Sum* 

 mer. 



Or flips or cuttings of myrtle may be 

 pricked in fquare patches, for hand-glafles, 

 in a bed of fine natural earth, and cover down 

 each patch clofe with a hand-glafs, to remain 

 there all Summer and Winter, defended with 

 faid glafles ; and in Wintej^ when froHy wea- 

 ther, have the glalTes cov^d with mats and 

 ftraw litter, a competent thicknefs to guard the 

 cuttings effe<^ual]y from the froll, but unco- 

 vered daily in mild weather, keeping the glaffes- 

 conllantly over the cuttings ; and by next 

 Summer, or Autumn, they will be well rooted 

 and have (hot at top, when, if well advanced, 

 they may be potted off, to move to ihelter of 

 a Grcen-houlc or garden-frame .the Winter 

 following. 



Or in planting the cuttings or flips of myr- 

 tles in beds of natural earth, as above, if 

 doubtful of the ground being wet or very cold 

 at bottom in Winter, liable to rot the cuttings, 

 may previoufly bed the bottom with a llratum 

 of coal-cinderi> and aflies, three or four inches 

 thick, with fix inches of good earth over this, 

 in which to plant the cuttings. The Uratuni 

 of cinders and aflies below will keep the foil 

 dry and warm, to preferve the plants more 

 cffedlually, thar they may ilrike more freely. 

 ' As to geraniums, cuttings thereof of the 

 former and fame year, or two or three years 

 growth, will grow, and may be planted in 

 Spring or Summer, either in pots feveral in 

 each, till wd\ ftruck for .tranfplanting, wa- 

 tered, and ihaded from ihe Summer's fun, or 



planted 



