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\vith broad petals, get all others out of the garden, 

 and plenty of good seedling plants, self-sown, will be 

 annually obtained. But to insure a succession of 

 the best breed, (and the method applies to the double 

 flowering, which yields no seed, and cannot otherwise 

 be preserved,) about the beginning of July pinch 

 off a hundred slips or young shoots of five or six 

 inches in length, taken only from the finest stocky ; 

 crop the leaves and strip the rest of the stem bare ; 

 dibble the slips, so prepared, into a bed newly dug, 

 and shaded by trees or a north wall. Sprinkle them 

 with water and shade any part to which the sun has 

 access. Not one will go back ; and in this way a 

 bountiful profusion of one of the sweetest flowers, 

 and the best of its kind, may be had from year to year. 

 For the critical description of certain flowers, and 

 some other items not familiar to his experience, the 

 author has made use of the excellent article, Horti- 

 culture^ of the Edinburgh Encyclopedia. 



