A COMPLEAT: 
Auguft. of the sonaitetaihich Clafs under the Article 
Hisiscus, will perfectly underftand that he is to 
refer this Plant to the fame Place: and obferving 
that jits Filaments are ten,“he will know, ‘that 
having referred it to the fourteenth Clafs, it be- 
longs to the fecond Section of it, and i$ ‘ones. 
of fie’ Monadelpbia Decandria. 
There are befide this a Number of other Arr 
CAN GERANIUMS, which we fhall particularize | 
and as they are all to be raifed by the © 
hereafter’: 
fame Kind of Culture, we fhall deliver the Me- 
thod of it at laree. 
gr be Culture of bi pofvitnie Grlewiusk: 
The Soil in their native Place of Growth is) 
fo unlike what we have ufually i in Gardens, that — 
the Care of theit Culture muft be begun farther — 
back than is needful for many other Plants. 
“This is neglected, and yet Gerantiums live: 
but we -propofe to tell the Poffeffor of them 
more’ than to make them tive ; how he thall 
caufe them to thrive and flourifh. eo 
their natural Climate. 
pally where the Ground is warm, dry, and light, 
and. yet] has fome Richnefs. 7 
Such a Soil they find, formed of their own | 
decayed Stalks, and others, mixed it ina very fandy | 
se one 
~ to imitate it. 
out, Experience has very happily confirmed ; 
and we fhall therefore give it freely to the Reader. 
_ About the prefent Seafon let an artificial Soil be 
-prepared for thefe Plants thus.  ~ 
Pare off the Surface of fome Gr ound on which 
_an old Stack of Wood has ftood, and take on- 
ly what is light and mellow. | 
This is a Kind of Earth colsaetlt of rotten | 
Wood, and is like that of Willows, but more 
‘yich. ‘To one Load of this add two Loads of 
good Garden-Mould, 
middling Sand, and half a Load of burnt Grafs 
Turf. Mix all thefe well together with Spade 
and Rake, and pile the whole in a Ridge, and - 
det it thus. lie til) the Month of January. 
‘Then let it be thoroughly dug up and turned, 
and thrown together in a Rides again, where 
it is to lie till the lucceeding, Summer, ‘the 
Time of ufing it. 
During this Interval, if Weeds appear upon it, 
they muft be cut down with a Hoe, for they will | 
Plant. 
exhauft it; and the Intent is, that all its Richnefs 
fhould go to the Nourifhment of the Plants. 
The artificial Soil being thus . prepared, the | 
Method of propagating the Plants comes under 
Confideration. 
to a perfect Maturity with us, and the cut- 
_ting grow eafily-:. For this Reafon it is beft to 
Ve them for Propagation ; and a large Number 
of Plants may be raifed this Way with Speed and 
Succefs in the following Manner. 
Chufe a Part of the Nurfery which is warm 
3 
» Nature directs thus, and ’tis the Bufinefs of Art 
What Reafon in this Cafe points 
move. 
a Load and- half of 
Their Seeds do not often come 
Ba) Y 
and well fheltered, and is not too much expofed Auguft. 
to the Sun..” Here prepare a Bed four Foot and: 
a half wide, of what Length you pleafe, and let 
it have a Foot and Half Depth of the fineft 
Mould. Let the Mould lie “half a Foot within 
the Ground, and a Foot above it;and fet it 
be well broken aid laid’-perfectly even. 
At Diftances place »Hoops, ‘that the whole 
‘may on Occafion be covered with Matting ; and 
| on the Surface draw Lines for planting the Cut- 
tings at ‘two Foot Diftance Row from Row, 
and two and a half in the, Rows.’ 2 
Let the practical Gardener take this Maxim 
as he.goes, That Regularity.of Planting is ufé- 
ful, even where the Things are never to be — 5 
for befide the common Purpofe of Beauty, >i 
ferv esto diftribute the Nourifhment equally. . 
Toward the End of Ady is the Time for 
this Work; and when the Bed is thus prepar’d, 
let Cuttings be taken carefully from feme good 
Kinds of Geranium, and from the-moft flov- 
, | rifhing Plants. 
~The Cuftom is to raife them | in Pots of good : 
INwuld and‘ they will be very beautiful” that 
Way: but in the Method “we fhall propofe 
they will rival the glowing Beauty they wear in | 
There they grow princi- | 
: ce thefe be sinmmediatels plactd-i in. the Mould, | 
five Inches deep, and well fet.: ‘Then give the 
Bed a Watering, and draw the Mat over it.: 
At Sun-fet let the Mat be taken off, and fo 
every Night; only drawing’ it on an Hour after 
Sun-rife in the Morning. This wiil give them 
the Advantage of the Dews; and they are to be 
uncover’d in the fame Manner in the Day, when- 
ever there falls a modérate Shower. . 
They mutt alfo be water’d frequently and’ mo- | 
derately, as the Condition of the Ground re- 
quires; and, by this Practice, in five Wee eks, 
they will take good Root. | 
If the Cuttings were planted the third Week in 
May, they will thus have taken tolerable Root 
at the lattet’ End of Yume, and they will, ina 
Month more, have fhot fo many additional 
Fibres, that they will be in a Condition to re- 
Therefore, the lat Week ia Fuly will be 
the proper Time for that Operation. 
“The artificial Soil is now to be once again 
_very well work’d over; and the Pots, into which 
the Geraniums are to be put, mutt be filled with 
it. Thefe fhould be of a middling Size. 
Bring them ‘to- the Bed, and after Sun-fet 
plant in the young GrRANIUMS. 
taken up carefully, with as much Earth to the 
Roots | as will hang about them; in this Condi. 
‘tion it is to be fet upright in the Middle of the 
Pot, which is to be half empty’d for that Pur- 
pofe : then the Remainder of the artificial Soil 
is: to be carefully put in, and clos’d about the 
~ When they are thus fix’d in the Pots, they mutt 
have a gentle Watering; ; and the Pots muft be 
fet upon ihe Bed hte the Plants ftood, and in 
the Morning the Mat drawn over them. 
They mutt be manag’d exactly as the Cuttings 
‘were, when firft put into the Ground, til] they 
are very well rooted in the Pots: they muft 
then be brought out into a more open Place, 
and water’d occafionally, as the Condition of the 
| Earth requires. 
About ten Days fixes th 1em 
Vel ry 
Each is to be 
