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Feb: to grow, and Experience fhews this only can give 
it the due Strength. 
Gardeners are fond of tranfplanting, but it | 
is often attended with Damage to the Plants: 
fome bear it unhurt, others are affifted by it, 
but there are many to which it gives a check 
never perfectly to be recover’d: and this is 
one. | 
It is wonderful the Gardeners have not found 
eut this obvious Method: they are all fenfible 
A GCOMPLEAT BODY 
that the Removings of this Plant are prejudicial Feb. 
to it; and even the moft vulgar of them fay 
if they are often removed and parted they dic : 
Yet they advife the fowing the Seeds of the 
fingle Kinds in Boxes; and propagating the 
double by parting of the Roots. 
Judicious Reader, what is your Remark on 
this? — that there are Men to whom their own 
Experience is ufelefs? 
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The Management of 
the Flower-Garden. 
i AST Week our Gardener clear’d his Bor- | their Roots. 
ders; and put the whole Ground into a 
Spring Afpect: let him now fee what is want- 
ing that can be fupply’d from the Nurfery of 
Flowers, or from other Parts of the Ground. 
Ifthe autumnal Plantation of the fibrous root- 
ed Kinds have been omitted, or if the Wetnefs 
of the Ground have render’d it more proper to be 
_ delay’d till this Seafon, let him now bring in the 
feveral Kinds of Golden Rods and Afters : after 
thefe let him plant Columbines, Sweet-williams, 
and the fcarlet and other perennial Lychnis’s ; 
and this done, let him, if needful, beftow his 
Care on the humble Thrift, and the proliferous 
Daify. ae 
If the Plantation of thefe Kinds have been 
made in Autumn, let him look over the Ground 
and fee that all holds good ; where a Root feems 
decay’d, let him take it up and place another; 
and where any one only appears weak, let him take 
it back into the Nurfery, and put a ftronger 
and more fecure one into the Place in the Bor- 
der. | 
Let him look over his Box edgings; and if. 
there be any bad Part he omitted to mend in 
Autumn, or any of his new Plantation of that 
Time that feems weak, let him take the Pieces up 
and mend them. 
In this Plantation of Box he muft take Care 
to clofe the Earth very well about the Roots, 
or there will be Danger. 
dle of good Days; otherwife when they are ex- 
poled to it at once, tho’ in a more advanced 
Seafon, the great Change may utterly deftroy 
tI 
This Week fhould be the Time for fowing the 
tender Annuals upon Hot-beds. | 
It is a Thing of great Importance, for all the 
Beauty of the Autumn depends upon it; and 
upon the putting in the Seed thus early, depends 
the Crop of the fucceeding Year ; for this bring- 
ing the Plants forward in good Time, gives them 
Opportunity to ripen their Seeds. They are 
therefore greatly to blame who direct the Gar- 
dener to defer this Work till March. 
A Fortnight now is an Advantage that no- 
thing can equal, or when loft recover; and we 
can affure our Pupil in the praétical Part of this 
Work, that there requires no more Trouble to 
bring them forward thus early, than thofe take 
who raife them later. : 
We have directed the making of a Hot-bed 
for this and other Purpofes of like Nature in 
a preceding Number, and in our laft we ad-- 
vifed the Gardener to get it ready for fowin 
by this Time. 
We fuppofe therefore that the Bed is made, 
and is cover’d four Inches and a half with rich 
Garden Mould, and that it is juft in a Condition 
to receive the Seeds. i 
The Thicknefs of Mould we dire& is more 
than Gardeners commonly ufe, but it is a very 
effential Article for the Succefs of the Growth. 
Seedlings fhoot deeper than is commonly thought, 
and every Fibre which reaches the Dung perifhes ; 
not like one that is cut off, which fends out 
more ; but never to vegetate again. The Thick- 
nefs of Mould we dire will prevent this, by 
giving them Depth enough for the Time they 
fhould remain in the firft Bed. 
Let the Mould be perfectly levelled on the 
Surface, and as much drawn off as will ferve 
to cover the Seeds; then let the Seeds be fcat- 
ter’d carefully upon the Surface, and fift over 
them a Quarter of an Inch of the Mould raked 
off for that Purpofe. The Seeds of the Gom- 
phrena, Amaranth, Balfam, French and African 
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