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When as many of thefe as will be required for 
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=——— the fucceeding Years flowering are brought into 
the Garden, “thie next Care is the propagating 
thofe already there.’ 
The polpacthiss is a very beautiful Flower, 
when of a good Kind. It has now grown to a 
large Tuft in each Place where it has vet a 
Seafon or two to flower. 
The Roots having encreafed, are to be parted ; 
and the Plants fet i in a fhady Place, and watered 
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‘Some of the Catch- Flies and Campanulas re-* 
quire the fame Treatment ; 3 and whatever other. 
ef the fibrous- rooted Plants, there are, which 
have ftood long enough i in their Places to have 
formed large Tufts. 
__ For every feparated Plant , there. mutt . be 
opened. a {mall Hole; and let the Gardener fee 
that the Earth be not cak’d, or ‘prred hard at 
the Sides. 
Let him cut off ‘te Ends of all the Rect : 
and then. fetting. the. new Plant upright, care- 
fully clofe,, the - Barth about . it, Covering it to 
‘a due Height, but leaving ; the Heart free and 
clear. ; ) } 
It is a Praétice 6F Sake Garters to defer 
the parting many of the fibrous-rooted Plants | 
till Spring ; but there is a great’ Advantage in— 
doing this in ‘Autumn: becaufe the new Plants 
will: flower with tolerable Strength the next 
Year. When it is done in Spring they fhould 
“be removed into the Nurfery, | and brought 
-- out into the Borders the Autumn following ; for 
a good Gardener will never load thefe with any 
thing that j is not to flower that Year. 
The Florift - has his Auriculas and his Carna- 
“tions at. this Time well fettled, and in good, 
Order i in their Pots. <4 
‘He ante obferve the Weailier and if much 
Rain fall, place them under Shelter. 
The common erroneous ‘Practice on this Oc- 
--cafion, is to lay the Pots ‘on one Side, that the 
‘Wet may not get at the Plants ; 3 and there are 
thofe who write to inform the. Gardener, that 
give him his Choice of either Praétice, as if the 
two were equal. : 
» We muft ouard. ee from fuch Errors. 
The Shoot for the next Year’s Stalk is very 
-early made ; and it is the Courfe of Nature that 
it will direct its Top ftrait upwards. 
This it begins from the Moment the Pot is 
laid upon its Side; and when it is fet upright 
again, the Shoot is to make another Turn to get 
a new Perpendicular. 
This difturbs ‘the Courfe of the Juices, and 
hurts the future Flower. 
The Seeds of many of the beft Flowers, aad 
_ other-curious Plants, which require no additional 
/°Heat, but only a good Soil ane Reft, fhould be | 
~~ fown this Week. ~ Oh a 
_ Prepare for this Purpofe ‘the following Com- 
ve poft, or artificial Mould, 
Mix equal Parts of rich Earth, taken’ from 
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mix thefe together, and. then add to’ them half a 
under the Turf in a good Pafture, and of the Sept. 
Bottom of a Wood Pile; 
fixth Part of fine Sand, and. fomewhat lefs of 
fifted Coal Afhes: mix this very well together, 
and fill with it fome ftrong fquare Boxes of 
coarfe Boards, made about ten Inches deep. 
When the Surface is perfectly level, .fcatter on 
the Seeds, and cover them a third of an Inch 
with the fame fine Soil. 
This is the Method to have fine advices 
and the Polyanthus and feveral others, at the 
Gardener's Pleafure ‘may be fown in the fame 
Manner. fs hie & PK fe Tg 
Let the careful Gardener, when he has planted e 
his Borders and fown his choice Seeds, go round 
the Ground, and obferve what Plants have paft | 
their. flowering. . 
Thofe from which he sheendls to. fave Seeds 
he muft mark for that Purpofe, tying them up | 
to Sticks ; but let him make ita univerfal Rule, . 
never to let any perennial Plant ripen its Seed, — 
unlefs he wants it; for there is nothing weakens 
the Root fo much. 
- The Stems of all thefe he mutt cut down 
clofe tothe Ground, and dig the Earth round 
about their Roots. 
This breaks off the Ends of their F ibres, pee 
which innumerable others fhoot out immediate- 
ly ; and it prepares a fine well-broken Earth to 
receive them, and to afford them Nodfithinent. 
It will alfo ftrengthen them farther, if a {mall 
Quantity of very fine Mould, well worked up 
with rotten Dung, be fprinkled * lightly over 
‘them, and fettled by a Tegular, and gentle Wa- 
tering. 
The laft Care ‘in. the common Zoek for this. 
Week will be the preparing. for planting. the 
Roots of Hyacinths, taken up when their Leaves 
were withered, and_ till this Time preferved out 
of the Ground. 
The Dutch excell us in - thefe Flowers ; and 
the Reafon -is partly that they .raife them from 
Seeds, whereas we commonly propagate them 
by Off-fets from the Root; and partly that 
they underftand the proper Soil for them; of 
which our Gardeners and their Inftructors are 
equally ignorant. 
The Dutch Compoft we fe made a Subject 
of great Enquiry, and are poffefied now of a 
Receipt for the Compofition ; which comes too 
well authenticated to bear a Doubt, and which 
perfectly agrees with Reafon. 
We have not had Opportunity of trying it 
fince we received it; but from the Credit of our 
Correfpondent ; and from the Nature of the 
Plant, and the Ingredients in the Compofition, 
we may venture to affure the Gardener of its Suc- 
cefs. It is this. 
Throw: upon an open ‘expos’d Spot of Greund 
one Load of common Mould’: add’ to it a Load 
of dry Mud from the Bottom of ftanding Water, 
and three-quarters of a Icoad of W iiiovt Farth : 
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add to thefe about one’ "+ 
