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“March. will thew their full Glory. The Mould muft | frequent gentle Waterings muft be allowed, to March. 
cs be drawn up about their Stems as they rife, and | fwell the Flowers. 
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The Management of the Flower-Garden, Greenhoufe, and Stove. 
F any Part of this Ground be left vacant, or : 
require Variety, this Week the Gardener may 
plant many of the biennial and perennial Flowers : 
Golden Rods, "Perennial Afters, Columbines, Bupb- 
thalmums, and French Honeyfuckle, but.as the Sea- 
fon advances, more Care muft. be taken in the 
Plantation, or they. will flower weakly the firft 
Year. 
Let the Places be all mark’d and Holes open °d 
for the Roots before any are taken up: 
Holes be larger and deeper than at other Times ; 
and let the Mould at the Bottom be well loofen’d, 
and chop’d fine with a fharp Trowel. 
_ This done, let the Roots be taken up in the | 
Nurfery, with very large Balls of Earth, and 
brought carefully upon a Spade one at 2 Time: 
let them be fet even in the Hole ;.and when they | 
~ are in, let the extreme F ibres be fpread out with 
a Stick, cut fmooth for that Ufe, and their 
Ends then fnip’d off with a Pair of fharp Sciffars. 
‘Then let the Mould be thrown in lightly and 
carefully from the Blade of a Trowel ; and the 
Hole being fill’d up, let a little be fifted over | makes a longer Shoot in two Years, than an Oak 
the Crown of the Root: then give a gentle Wa- 
tering, and the next Day a larger. 
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thought: it is avoided by thefe Precautions. 
And when J have ftood over, the late Removals | 
of Plants myfelf, I have found them thrive the 
better for them; inftead of receiving any Check, 
With this Care, the Removal anfwers the Pur- 
pofe of that ufeful digging about the Roots which 
we have fo much recommended : and the Spring 
Plantation may probably exceed the Autumnal. _ 
“Little is known of this: no Part of the Gar. 
dener’s Bufinefs is perform’d fo’ ill. 
of opening the Hole, and the fibrous Roots are 
doubled in and forced down in this unnatural 
Condition with the fame Inftrument ; and mangled 
by its rough. Edge. 
Ts it a Wonder thefe Plants thrive amifs ? , 
Where can there be Hope in fuch a rude and i ig- | 
norant Plantation! Yet this is all. Tis there- 
fore wé read in thofe among. them, who have un- 
dertaken Authorhhip, the great Advantage of an 
Autumnal. Plantation, -The Roots, om they, 
have Time to. fix themfelves in the new Ground 
before Spring ; 
to overcome fach Management. 
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let the 
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the Ground with a Spade. is their common, ‘Way. 
and indeed a great deal is requir’d | 
In the Way we propofe, this Length of Time 
is not needful; and for thefe Plants we. have 
nam’d, and many others, the Spring Setting fuc- 
ceeds full as well. 
. Two Things conttitute the Difference between 
the Autumnal and Spring Plantation, in the Eye 
of Reafon ; ; the one is the Nature. of the Plant, 
- and the ‘other the Condition of the Ground: the 
firft is little known, and the other as little re 
garded. We hall propofe both fairly. 
With Refpett to the Nature of the Ground, it 
has. been. juftly determin’d by all Writers, that 
where that.is dry, the Plantation is. beft made in 
Autumn ; and where it is moift, in Spring. The 
Reafon is plain; for the Roots which fhould 
gtow, may, in the wet Soil, rot. This is known; 
and we need only caution. the. ‘practical Gardener 
to pay a fufficient Regard to it. 
As to the other, it depends upon the Principle 
of Growth, which in all Plants varies; and in | 
fome vaftly. ) 
A Willow Stake roots in the Ground, and 
in ten, As this Principle is ftrong or weak, 
-hafty or flow, in what appears Shale Ground in 
~ Quicknefs in the doing all this is a very great | Plants or Trees,- fo it is alfo with Regard to their 
The Air fhrivels up the | 
naked Roots, and does more Hurt than is ufually | 
Roots. All are to be cut off at the Ends ; in 
Planting; and all fhoot new Fibres from the Part 
thus wounded; but it is done flowly in fome, 
and readily «in others. On this depends the 
Choice of a Spring or an Autumnal Tranfplan- | 
tation for different Kinds, fuppofing the - er | 
equal. . 
This has not been regarded ; at leaft not dif. 
clos’d hitherto: but we have obferv’d it in va- 
rious Species; and what. we have feen the Pub-: 
lic fhall fhare with us. 
We. fhall direét the Spring or Autumnal Tranf. 
plantation of Plants and Trees according: to this 
Principle. | 
Where the Roots fox out new F suit lowly, 
the Autumnal is the fitteft Seafon ; 
We defire to give all Vigour to ‘the Plants? 
dering their Summer Shew ; and this depends: 
upon the Quantity of Nourifhment they draw: the 
new Fibres take in moft, and that never fo freely’ 
as when juft produced : their Mouths are then all? 
open, and. the new- broken Earth is. full of their 
proper Food. | 
On this depends the fwift Progrefs of Plants: 
upon 
