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OF GARDEN ING. | as 
Feb. Marygold,; China After ; and the reft are to be | Heaps of Compoft fuited to the Nature of the Feb. 
fown in this Manner. 
Let the Gardener then leave them to the Ef- 
fect of Nature; they will fhoot in twelve, four- 
teen, or more Days, according to their feveral 
Kinds, the Condition of the Bed, and the New- 
nefs of the Seeds; and we fhall in the fucceed- 
ing Weeks tell him how to manage them. 
The Green-houfe will now require the Gar- 
dener’s greateft Care and Attention; for on his 
Conduct in this and the fucceeding Weeks will de- 
pend the Condition of the Plants for the fuc- | 
ceeding Summer. 
' The fevere Weather has made it feted for 
a Continuance of Time to keep them very clofe; 
and in confequence of this we have directed the 
Gardener to allow them very little Water. 
Air and Water are the two great Agents, af- 
ter Heat, in Vegetation: they have been with- 
held fo long, that the firft Opportunity mutt 
be feiz’d ef admitting them more freely ; : and 
probably this will be the Time. : 
No Day or Week can be in Books fet down 
for this: it muft depend upon the Nature of the 
Seafon. . | 
If the Weather continue fevere, the fame De- 
fence in all Refpects muit be given them, and 
Water muft be withheld in Proportion ; all that 
we direét being in fuch Cafe defer’d longer: but 
if the Air be mild, the middle of the Days warm, 
and the Nights not very fharp, let this needful Af- 
fiftance be immediately given them. The Shut- 
_ ters muft be kept back the firft Day or two; 
and the next, the Glafies muft be open’d a 
little. 
' 
Great Caution is neceflary in doing this, for 
-otherwife the tenderer Kinds will perifh. They 
are the lefs able to bear the Air becaufe they 
have been fo long fhut from it, and it mutt at 
firft be only a very little of the mild Air of a 
from this — 
they muft be inur’d to more and more by flow 
{till and warm Day that is let in: 
Degrees ; and in proportion they muft have Wa- 
ter. It muft be given them at firft by very fmall 
~and it muft be encreafed afterwards. 
Vegetation is now to be fuppofed acquiring 
every Day new Strength in the Plants; and this 
_is to be favour’d every Way. Befide the Af- 
fiftances of Air and Water, which we have di- 
rected to be given in this gradual Manner, Clean- 
nefs and a little frefh Mould are the two great 
Articles. 
The Gardener remembers what we directed 
him fome Weeks fince to, do to his Auricula 
Pots, let the fame now be repeated here ; but 
let it be done with great Care. 
Let the Mould on the Surface in the Pots 
and Tubs be carefully ftir’d with a blunt Trowel; 
and when it is well loofen’d to fome little Depth, 
let it be taken ‘off. 
Let fome Earth from one or other of the 
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“repeated occafionally : 
feveral Kinds, be brought into the Green-houfs ~ 
two Days before, that it may have loft the 
Chilnefs of the open Air; and with this fup- 
ply the Place of what is taken out as.we have 
Girettedh 
As foon as the Earth is taken away, let the 
Surface below be examin’d; and if any Fibres 
of the Roots are feen, let them be carefully 
cut off with a fharp Knife: immediately upon 
this let the frefh Mould be pour’d on, and Jet 
it be carefully fpread over every Part. 
' From this Time the Waterings , are to be 
they will wath in the 
finer Parts of this new Soil; and with the Ad- 
miffion of a mild Air at the fame Time, the 
|, Trees and Plants will be very happily fet on 
growing for the Summer's fhew. 
To affift this farther, the great Article of 
Cleanlinefs is to be thoroughly regarded.  Pro- 
bably the Clofenefs needed to keep out the 
Winter’s Air, will have hurt fore of the Plants, 
and the Scent of their decaying Parts will be 
perceived, 
In this Cafe let Hoh which are tainted he 
removéd out of the Green-houfe into fome other 
Place of Shelter, where their Recovery may be 
attempted ; and the Infection thus kept from 
fpreading. » 
Then let al dead or decaying Leaves. be nie 
fully pick’d off; and if Foulnefs of any kind... 
Mouldinefs or Infeéts be found on any of the 
Leaves or Branches, let it be wafh’d and wiped 
carefully away. 
Let this Care alfo fe continued to the 
| Stove. 
The prefent Stock being thus put into a good 
Condition, let the Gardener prepare for a Suc- 
ceffion of fome, and for an Additian of other 
Kinds, 
The Propagation of the far greater Part of 
Green-houfe and Stove Plants, we have fhewn j 2 
bett effected by fowing their Seeds; and the Sea- 
1 | fon of doing that is now at hand. 
Quantities at a Time; and according to their 
feveral Natures, fome requiring more, fome lefs, 
Some raife 
them wholly upon Hot-beds of Dung ; ; but the 
| far greater part fucceed much better fown in- 
Pots of Earth, fet up to the Rim in a Bark 
bed. | 
In treating of the common Hot-bed with 
Dung, we mention’d this with Bark as ufeful 
on many Occafions, and we fhall here fet down 
the Conftruction of it; not’ after their’ Direc- 
tions, who, while they pretend to inftrud, wifh : 
to miflead ; but from Experience. 
In general, we hall advife the Gardener fa ; 
raife i in the common Hot- -bed the Annuals for his 
open Borders : ; but the more delicate and tender 
Kinds, intended for the Stove and Greenhoufe, 
in the Bark-Bed; of yhich the following is the 
true Conftruction, 
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