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| Make a Box of dca Boards, 4 Yard and 
half long, a Yard broad, and fourteen Inches deep. 
Bore half a’ dozen Holes “at Diftances in’ the’ 
Bottom, and “cover them ‘with fome- rough’ 
Gravel, that the Water - may always have ‘free: 
Paffage. Pour in the Mould, and fet the Box 
‘upon fome Brick Supports, one. ae se Thicknefs 
abdve the Ground. x 
» By that Time all this is ready, the Heads will 
Feb. 
, nae hardened on the Shelf, end the Seeds ready to | 
fall out of them. 
«Let them be all clear’d out, and fpread at a 
little Diftance ; and after they have lain” four 
Days, and the Mould in the Box is fettled, 
level the Surface, 
carefully. i. 
"The “firft Week in ue: ‘is the beft Time for 
this fowing. The Seeds muft be covered a 
Finger’s Breadth with the fame Compoft fifted 
over them; and the Place where the Box {ftands 
muft not bev ‘open to the Noon Sun, but the 
heater ne i : | 
- Let the Gardener obferve from time to time 
dry, give it in an Evening a very gentle Wa- 
: tering * 
ing be hung over the Box; and let Care be 
taken to deftroy all ‘Shoots of Weeds as foon | 
as they appear. . ‘ 
At the Approach of Winter he ie fae be 
_ removed to a Place where it an have’ all’ the: 
SUN it) CaMe., ee 
In Spring it muft be removed into the former 
Situation, and treated as before. ‘The Trouble 
is not much, and the Foundation is thus laid for 
a fine Variety of Flowers. “Weeds and Mofs are 
to be cleared off as they rife, and the young 
Plants are to, have frequent and as ‘eeerle 
Waterings. Te 
and ‘Tcatter ‘them ig ‘it, 
if very hard Rains come, let a Cover- 
Box be again removed into its “fanhy Situation. 
"The ‘fuéceeding Summer, when the Leaves 
are decay’d, let the Mould be all carefully broke’ 
and loofen’d i in the Box. A Border muft now be 
dug up for the Roots; and the beft Soil is com- 
Feb. | 
-mon Garden Mould with fome freth Pafture Earth: 
dug in among it.” ‘Let as much of this Soil, 
as eal: make two Inches in depth, be kept off, 
and let Lines be drawn lengthwife, and acrofs 
-at three Inches Diftance, and the Earth well 
broken that lies out. , 
This Border being ready, let all the Mould 
from the Box, which was -before loofened for that 
Purpofe, be carefully fitted, and the Roots ta- 
ken out. 
Let one of thefe be fet ans in yng Centre 
of every Square marked upon the Border by 
‘| thefe Lines; and let the Mould be fifted upon 
them, which was left out for that Purpofe. 
Thus let them remain, keeping the Bed clear 
from Weeds till Spring ; and then let the Mould 
be carefully and gently ftirred at the Surface, 
-and a quarter of an Inch of frefh fifted on. 
the Temper of | the Mould; and when it is too | 
Let the’ fame be done in Autumn, when the 
Leaves are decayed ; .and the next Year they 
will return all this Care by a fair Promife of 
fine Flowering. 
Thus will be produced an original Stock of 
the fineft Kinds ; among which chard is no dotibt 
of meeting with many new ones : 
they may be multiplied by parting the Roots. 
and after this 
This fhould be done once in three Years. 
Their proper Management then is this. E- 
very Off-fet muft be planted in a feparate Hole 
two Inches deep: not made in the common 
Way with a Dibble, for that hardens the Earth 
about them; but with a Trowel, that the Mould 
may lie as 
duce Off-fets fhould be fuffered to remain in the 
thofe which are intended to pro- 
Plate 
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oAWheh , dis Blais are decayed, let Cie frefh |. Ground the full Time we have mentioned. The 
Earth be fifted over the Roots, about a quarter of | others fhould be taken up when the Leaves are 
an a in in Thicknef, and toward Yk inet let the wee and Bin Wes again in September. 
® geeil ee, 
my te Tia 
me) EREWT. FLOWER'D PULSATILLAY 
“Tt is not common for a Native of our own 
there oftener : equal to. the Grama of the 
Country’ to make a Figure in our Gardens ;. 
Fig. 4, but this is one of a few Inftances that. Na- 
ture has not denied us Plants as fpecious in 
their Afpect, as thofe we fous from Africa or 
India. , 
The Palfoila “which! covers with its living 
Purple whole Spots of the ‘Gogmagog Hills near} 
Cambridge, and Bernak Heath and Lowthorp Com- 
mon near Stamford, which paints the dry Pa- 
ftures of Leadftone-hall near Pontefract Ty Lae 
glows, though lefs regarded, on the rugged 
Hills of Wales, 
tains, is the fame Plant we fee in Gardens un- 
der that Name, and which deferves to- be feen 
* Ray’s Synopfis of Brit Plants, Ed. 3. p. 260. 
and the cold northern Moun- } 
Anemonies, to whofe F amily .indeed it belongs ; 
from the Effect of good Culture varying its Co- 
lour through all the Changes of purple, vio- 
let and crimfon, ‘into flefhy white; and admit- 
ting even the Grace and Glory of accumulated 
Petals, in what we call the double F orm. 7 
~*Tis in the fingle State we here fpeak of it: 
_as the Flower fhews itfelf in early Spring in our 
Gardens, altered in nothing from its native wild 
State, but that the good Soil makes the Petals 
larger. © 
‘Its common Name with us 
Flower. ° 
Authors know it under the Title of Pul/a- 
is the Pa/que 
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