Feb. The Gardeners Kakndar. 5 7 



If your' Auriculas in pots were not frefli 

 earthed the laft month, that fhould be no 

 longer deferred, the manner of doing this is 

 dire<Sed in January; for now their flower- 

 buds will begin to (hew apace, fo that if it be 

 not done in a fliort time, their flowers will not 

 be improved by it; and, in frofty weather, 

 thefe flowers muft be covered with mats efpe- 

 cially every night tb^ prevent their tender flow- 

 er-buds from being injured, otherwife many 

 of the flower-buds will be killed, fo that the 

 trufes will be thin of flowers. 



Toward the end of the month, if the feafon 

 proves favourable, ftir thefurface of the ground 

 of your flower-beds, and clear them from 

 weeds, mofs, and whatever filth may appear 

 thereon ; which will be very ferviceable to the 

 flowers, and add a neatnefs to the garden. 



Dig and prepare your ground in the flower- 

 nurfery for fowing of feeds, and to receive 

 plants the next month, when you will have 

 much bufinefs of different kinds to do ; fo 

 that if you do not get things in forwardnefs 

 this month, you will be fo much hurried in 

 the next, that many things mufl: be omitted, 

 or but flightly performed. Therefore it is a 

 good method to dig the ground at all leifure 

 times, laying it in trenches, which will be of 



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