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Sun all che Winter, and with Glaffes defend them from over much 
wet, but donot houfe them, for they willdo better in the open Air, 
Ac the Spring when they rife to flower remove them into a place more 
fhaded , and after the flowers are paft (except thofe you leave ta 
feed) you may difpofe in fome fhady place out of the way, to make 
room for pots with G/Aiflowers, 
_ The raifing varieties of them from feeds is a fecret wherewith 
few are well acquainted, and it is tobe performed with fomething 
more than common diligence, according to the rules following ; Afcer 
the flowers are paft , and the ftalks begin to grow yellow, you may 
obferve in the top of thar little round feed-veffel, a {mall hole, and 
then you may be affured the feed isalmoft ripe, and if you do not 
carefully look to it, will be all thed before you are aware ; therefore 
as foon as you perceive it'té be ready; cut down the ftalks ; keeping 
the tops upright; for if you turn them downwards, all the beft feeds 
will-fall out; ‘then binde them in bundles , and place them upright to° 
the Glafsof fomeé South Window, where (by fome benefit they will 
receive from the Sun) they will harden; ‘and be much the better ;- to~ 
waids the edd of Auguft or beginning of September, prepare fome 
f{quare box or boxes according to your ftore ot feeds, that are nine or 
ten inches deep, and of what breadth youpleafe, with fome holes 
inthe bottom to let out water, which fill three parts full with fine 
fandy fifted earth; one half thereof being well rotted Neats dung, 
which mingled well together, and laid fmooth with your Trowel, lay 
thereon a fingers thicknefs of fine fitted Willow earch, or fot want 
thereof dried Cow-dung beaten fmall, mingled with alittle good earth 
and fifted3 and fow your feeds. thereon, mingled with Wood-afhes, 
which by their colour will direc you to fow them the more fuitably4 
they muft not be fowed coo thin, for all will not come up, if they 
do they may eafily be removed to another placesafter the feeds are 
thus (owed, cover them half a finger thick , with the fame you put 
next under them, which prefs down lightly, and lec them remain in 
the Sum and Air untill they begin to come up, which will beabout 
April, and then they muft be removed into the fhade, and often 
gently watered; as foon as they are grown toany confiderable bignefs 
take fomeof them up, where they aretoothick, and fet them pre- 
fently in fome bed prepared for that purpofe, fix or eight inches afun- 
der, where they may remain untill they come to bear flowers; and 
thofe you leave iff the box may be tran{planted in the end of Augu/t 
afcér the fame manner, and fo thé box will be ready again to fow 
more feeds; fome of them will bear the Spring following, others about 
Augujt the year after they were fowed:; and the reft the Spring ther 
next following, provided the ground you fet them in be rich and good, 
otherwife you will lofe ali the delight ot yourlabors, Some ate ot 
opinion that the beginning of odober, others the end of February, is 
the beft time to fow them, but having tryed all thofe times, I finde 
that before mentioned tobe the beft, for the feeds are fo {mall thae 
if they be kept any timeout of the ground, they will be all deady 
Now above all things you muft be fure to get the feeds of good 
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