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O&ob. they will now juft be ready for fhooting the firft 
Fibres toward their fucceeding: flowering, . 
a Next let the Gardener vifit his Beds of Seed- 
lings, for a Succeffion of bulbous rodted Flow- 
Two Things are required: to clear them | 
ers. 
from Weeds, which would exhauft the Earth of 
the Nourifhment intended for their Support; and | 
to defend them from the Frofts that would ‘de-— 
ftroy them. A little Trouble anfwers the Pur- 
pofe in each Refpect ; ; and though it is fome. 
Time before thefe Seedlings come to flower, the | 
Number and the Variety of them, when they 
are arrived at that Condition, amply repays the 
‘Trouble. hee 
~~ As for their Prefervation now, the firft Pare is to 
“De eff ected by pulling up all Weeds by Hand; 
. and this done, fome fine Earth is to be fifted | 
over them for the other. 
This will cover them from the Inclemency | of 
the Seafon, and ftrengthen them in the Ground.. 
The Livac is a pretty Shrub, and if kept in| 
i = Order has great Beauty in its Time of flow- 
ering. The principal Difadvantage attending it 
is great Number of Suckers ane the Root ; J 
and this is the Seafon for removing them. 
We fee a Foreft of thefe about the Roots of 
Lilacs in illmanaged Gardens; and from this 
Caufe the Tree is fickly, and flowers languidly. 
‘The Nourifhment which fhould fwell the Blof- 
foms is drawn by thefe Suckers, which are there 
ufelefs ; but there is not one of them. but might — 
make a handfome Tree like its Parent. 
This Week take them all carefully off, and 
have a Piece of Ground in the Seminary dug | 
ready to receive them: plant them feparately, 
and leave them to Time and their own Vigour. 
They’ will only require to be fometimes cleared | 
of Weeds, and in a few Seafons they will very 
amply reward the Labour. 
_ This is a Seafon, when the Decay of Leaves, . 
on all but Ever-greens begins. For afew Weeks. 5 
it affords an agteeable "Brofped to the Eye, 
from the en Colours: fome fade fooner, 
and fome later ; and while one Kind “changes i its 
-Green for a Yellow, another clows in its. Decay 
with Purple. ) 
The Imagination ears the Pleafare of oe 7 
Senfe in this, by recollecting that naked Branches 
follow. : 
Painters prefer ‘iy: various Hue, to’the too 
| picked off. 
uniform Green of the perfeé Summer ; ‘but the | 
Gardener has other Confiderations. oe 
He fees the Beauty of his Plantations decaying; | 
and the Verdure of his Grafs, and Brightnefs-of | 
his Gravel are in Danger from the fathe Caufe. 
The! Leaves will prefently’ begin to fall, and 
every one that: lies ‘where: it ‘falls, leaves a Stain. 
They foon rot, and tinge in their aekay beg 
Thing near’them. 
| Lefs Ufe is perhaps aide of the Walks ‘at this, 
than many other Seafons; but there is at no 
‘Time moreCate required in cleaning them forthis 
~ -Reafon. 
When all is thus clean’d, planted, and fecured 5 
we fliall lead ‘thé Gardener to. another Patt be- 
longing to: this Article of Pleafure. © The Ma- 
nazement of the Stove and Green-houfe Plants. 
O€ob, 
We have obferved under the feveral Arti~ ——__ 
cles already nam’d, that as the Danger of Cold 
approaches, many Plants muft be removed into 
their Shelter. 
We have directed the chufing a dry Bis 
foe bringing in the tenderer Kinds; cleaning their 
Stems, their Branches, and .the ‘Tubs and Pots 
in which they are planted. : 
Te will be proper now to look over fuch again, 
to fee if there be any dead Leaves then forgot, or 
any fince decayed. Thefe mutt be carefully 
_ The Mofs we then Sireeted to be taken ee 
the Top of the Earth in the Tubs, and we 
are. now to inftruct the Gardener to prevent 
the Growth of more. 
This is a Mifchief that very naturally harper 
ie Plants are kept up,. and it is of great Da~ 
mage, as weli as of an ill Look. 
Let a Mixture of Cow- dung pee Coal-afhes 
be well wrought together, and forinkled over the 
Surface of the Earth in the Pots and Tubs. It 
will prevent the Growth of this hurtful Matter, 
| and at the fame Time ftrenothen the Soil. 
~ The tenderer Kinds Keine been thus fecared | 
and ftrengthened, thofe which are a little hardyer 
and are fet out, muft be taken into the Hout. 
Of this Kind are’ feveral of the African Gera- 
niums, Solanums, Sifyrinchiums, and many others. 
Thefe will be in Danger, if they are permitted 
to ftand out when the Nights grow frofty i in any 
Degree. 
A particular Care hae be taken of thefe, for 
as they will bear the Air longer than others, fo 
they require more of it. 
~ When they are houfed, they muft have as 
-imuch as canbe fafely given them at proper 
_ Times; otherwife, they grow fickly, their Leaves 
turn yellow, and they not only decay themfelves, 
but fpread an Infection among: the reft of the 
Plants. 
They muft now and then have Water alfo, 
and. they fhould be cleaned as the others. 
All decayed Leaves fhould be picked off, and 
-| the Earth ftirred lightly onthe Surface of the Pots, 
and fome of the fame Mixture of A thes and Cow- — 
dung fprinkled over, and mixed in by br eaking 
‘thei together. 
- We have directed the taking many of the ten-_ 
- derer Plants early into the Stove, in fpeaking of 
their feveral Cultures. 
There are a Number of thefe which very well 
bear the Summer. out of Doors, and thrive the 
_ better for it with us, but can by no Means en- 
| dure the-firft Colds of our Winter’s approach. 
The Erythrina and Lantana figured in this 
Number; are of this Kind; and many others. 
| They are to be removed out of the open Air, on- 
the firft Cold’; and it is too common a Practice to 
take them‘at once ‘into the Stove: but this is fo 
violent a Change, that Nature does not well béar ir, 
The beft: Method is upon the firft Threats of. 
Cold, to remove them into the Greeh-houfe; and — 
from thence, after about ten Days, into the Stove. 
This is the Seafon for their Jatt Removal, 
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