THE SCOTS GARDENER 



they have borne a flower. Plant out your layers at 

 spring, and give these in pots fresh earth, as the 

 orenge-tree, and yearly cleanse the old roots of 

 withered, dead, and rotten leaves, and leave not 

 above three or four spindles for flower (if choice) 

 and nip off superfluous buds, lest they blow and 

 bear themselves to death ; andif any burst, slit them 

 as I directed with the double-yellow rose. At mid- 

 summer, shade from afternoon's sun a little; these 

 that blow support them against winds ; set hoofs 

 among them for catching earwigs, their enemies ; 

 water well in drought, sparing their leaves; pre- 

 serve the choicest from too much raines, by laying 

 the pots on their sides ; strick off the snow when it 

 lyes too weightie on them; these you incline not to 

 bear seed, cut their stalks as soon as past the flower. 



Raise stock-gelly-flowers by seeds or cuttings ; 

 the seed of the single will produce double, but the 

 more flowers and leaves the mother hath, the more 

 double shall the product be: sow and plant them 

 with carnations or July-flowers ; they affect the 

 same soil with them. 



Prim-roses, cowslips, and bears-ears, by off-sets 

 in spring, or when the flower is past, viz. in July; 

 they affect a good natural earth, well mixt with 



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