THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



Amaranthus, marvel of Peru, flos Africanus, con- 

 volvulus, &c. In Aprile you may sow them on the 

 cold bed, if good, fat, warme earth, together with 

 double mary-gold, cyanus, nigella, delphinium, an- 

 tirrhinum, double garden and corne-poppies, fox- 

 gloves, flos solis, flos-adonis, &c. 



But if you would be further satisfied in the 

 varieties of flowers, consult the learned and most 

 ingenious Mr James Sutherland's Catalogue, physic 

 gard'ner at Edinburgh. 



I spoke before of preserving plants by housing. 

 There are some that cannot endure the house, which 

 must be set at the south-wall, the pots sunk two 

 inches below the surface, covered with glass, first 

 clothing them with sweet and dry moss : or in pre- 

 pared boxed beds, with folding glass-frames to lift 

 up and down at pleasure ; because in all season- 

 able warme blinks of the sun and showres, they 

 may be discovered of all that covers them; thus treat 

 choice ranunculus, anemonies, amaranthus, &c. 

 Neglect not to repair their earth, as in the orenge 

 tree. 



Plants standing dry in winter, earthed up, or the 

 earth made firme about them, are good means 

 of preservation. Neglect not to cleanse all your 



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