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from being broken or blown down by flrong 

 ' winds, which often reign at this feafon. 



The pots of annual plants mufi: now be duly 

 watered in dry weather, otherwife they will 

 foon lofe their beauty 5 and fuch of them as are 

 tender (liould be removed into (heltei* when the 

 nights begin to be cold, that they may perfeift 

 their feeds ; which in bad ieafons feldom ripen 

 v/ell, if they are not proteded from the incle- 

 mency of the weather, particularly the Double 

 Stramonium, Double Balfamine, Quam.oclir, 

 Deep blue Convolvulus, with fome oth^r ten^ 

 der forts. 



Toward the latter end of this month you 

 fhould begin to prepare your beds to receive 

 your choice Hyacinths, Tulips, and Ranucu- 

 lufes, that the earth may fettle before the roots 

 are nla ued ; othervv'ife, when the earth finks 

 unequ dlv, there will be holes on the tops of 

 the beds, which will detain the water, v.'here- 

 by the roots in thofe places will be rotted. If 

 thefe beds are made three feet deep, and fome 

 very rotten neats dung laid in the bottom, the 

 fibres of thefe roots will ftrike down into it in 

 thefpring; and, receiving great nourifhment 

 from the dung, it will caufe them to flower 

 very ftrong ; but the earth of thefe beds fhould 

 pot be fcreened very fine, but only the larger 

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