OoFs GiAFRSD EsNvI ae: - 
Oétob., 
Tanner’s Bark. | 
Pieces of Stone Lime, and leave the Heap to 
the Weather. 
When it has lain ten Days; breaking and ftir- 
ring it every Day, and gently. watering it every 
chird Day, it will be fit to ufe. 
Pick out the Seeds carefully from one of the 
Cones that has been gathered ripe and kept 
found ; one Seed will be found under every 
Scale. 
Fill a Couple. of Pots with the Compoft, and 
fprinkle over the Surface of each a dozen of 
the Seeds. 
fame Earth,;* and put the Pot into a Bed of 
Every Evening let thefe Pots have a gentle 
Watering ; and in about a Month the Sends will 
fhoot. It will be longer if the Seed were old; 
and fometimes I have feen it earlier by five or fix 
Days. : 
- When the Plants appear, let them be once a 
Day gently watered, and take Care not to hurt 
their tender Shoot, which muft be the Stem or 
Trunk of the fucceeding Shrub. 
Few Gardeners confider the Importance of the 
Seed Shoot; and this is the Reafon we fee fo 
- few well-fhaped Shrubs in Eugi/b Gardens. 
Pi. VII. 
‘Fig. 6. 
In thefe Pots let the young Plants ftand till 
they are#three Inches high: then let there be as 
‘many {mall Pots prepared for them, as there are 
Plants. 
Put into each noe of the Compoft, and in i 
plantone ofthem; taking themcarefully upfromthe . 
firit Pots. Put more of the Compoft round them, 
and fee they be fet upright and firm; then give 
them all a very careful and very gentle Watering. 
Cover them half an Inch with the | 
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Riess this afterwards once a Day in the fame Oéteb. 
{paring Manner. 
As foon as the Plants are in the Pots, let them 
be put into a Bark Hot-Bed. 
Let this Bed be of a moderate Heat; fhade it 
with Mats, and thus let them remain till the 
next Evening. They will then begin to recover 
the Removal. 
The Bed is to Be fhaded at Noon every Day 
for ten Days or more; and after that, as the 
great Article of rooting will be over, they muft 
be watered at Times, and have Air by raifing 
the Glaffes. 
The clumfy Practice of our Gardeners is to 
do this by a Brickbat, and fo their Inftructors 
direct them: forming their Rules by what they 
} do, not what they fhould do, and conveying 
little Knowledge but what they have before. 
I have been ufed to prop the Glafles of my 
Bark Beds by a notched Stick, with Quarter 
Inch Divifions ; and by this Means can give my , 
Plants any Degree of Air that is neceffary. 
When they are thus by Degrees hardened, let 
them in the Middle of Summer, be fet out 
in the open Air, in a warm and well fheltered 
Place, and watered at Times. 
After this they require nothing but the com- 
mon Care of tender Plants. Fhey muft be re 
moved into larger Pots when they have more 
Bignefs; and in Autamn they muft be taken in: 
to the Green-houfe among others which require — 
that Protection. 
The great Care muft be to let them have as 
much free Air as they can bear; for on this de- 
pends the filvery Colour of the Leaves. 
6. PURPLE GERANIUM, with AURICULATED LEAVES. 
The Geraniums which we bali from the 
warmer Se. of the Globe, are well known, 
as Plants of great Beauty. 
This is one which adds Singularity in the 
Manner of its Growth, to the common . Cha- 
racter of. Elegance in the Flower; and therefore 
merits, on more Accounts ‘than one, we Place | 
among the Exoticks we raife in our Gardens. 
pie Characters of this Genus of Plants are 
~ fo ftrongly impreffed on the beaked Form of the 
Seeds, that all Authors have referred ‘hem to 
the fame Place.: 
Linw aus diftinguifhes this by the Name of 
Geranium calycibus aomepNlis: foliis oblongis integris 
tripartifque, pedunculis radicalibus: a hame con- 
taining the effential Parts of a Defcription: 
Geranium, with Flower Cups formed each of a 
fingle Leaf, and with the Leaves of an oblong 
Form, fome undivided, fome broken into three 
Parts, and with the Stalks of the Flowers rifing 
immediately from the Root. 
The Root is white and fibrous. The Leaves 
rife from it in Clufters, and fpread themfelves 
with a pleafing Irregularity upon the Ground. 
Each has its feparate long Foot-ftalk, which 
is naturally of a whitifh pretn, but often red- 
difh. 
The Leaves vary among themfelves ; fome are 
finiple, and others. formed as it were of three 
Parts, 
The fimple Leaves are oblong, broad, obtufe, 
and irregularly dented at the Edges: the others 
are of the faine Form, but they have befide a 
Couple of fmall Leaves at their Bafe. 
All are of a beautiful green, and make a — 
handfome Appearance. 
The Stalks rife in the Tuft, and they are lig 
and naked. About ten Inches is their ufual 
Height ; and at the Top there burft from a divided 
sedral Cup many flender feparate Pedicles, each 
fuftaining a fingle Flower. 
The whole Clufter forms a Kind MS round 
Umbel, and is very regular and handfome. 
Each Flower is large, and of a fhining purple, 
with a Tinge of fcarlet. 
We want Words in the higd ifp Language to 
exprefs the Diverfity of Colours; but this is as | 
near a Refemblance as can be given of the fin- 
cular mixed and beautiful Tinct of this Plant’s 
Flower. | 
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