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will know by their leaves becoming erect; after 

 which, give them air, by degrees, till you can 

 venture to take the glass quite off. 



I have told you what to do, but it is not my 

 practice to pot all my layers ; though-I gene- 

 rally keep a few carnations in pots, lest a very 

 severe or wet winter should destroy those left 

 out in the borders. I therefore take off half my 

 layers when they have rooted, and set them in 

 a bed as I do pinks, and protect them during 

 the frosty and wet weather with hoops and a 

 mat, in the same manner as I have before 

 directed ; the other half I leave on the parent 

 plant, and in the spring transplant them into 

 the borders. 



You may lay Indian pinks, sweet-williams, or 

 any plants of a like natuie. Indian pinks, 

 however, are rather tender, irid do not so well 

 stand a hard, or wet winter. 

 10 N 



