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OF GARDENING. 
great trifid Head.  Thefe refer it to the Triandria 
firft Se€tion. 
Culture of ibis Ints. 
The Propagation and Management of the tu- 
berous Jris’s is much alike; nor need we repeat 
here what we have directed concerning the Suan 
and other Kinds, All that is particular relating 
to this, is the delicate Colouring of the Flower, 
which muft be preferved by a light Soil, and by 
avoiding too much Moitture. 
I have feen the Roots of this produce deep vio- 
let Flowers, only from being two or three Seafons | 
planted in common rich Gadus Mould, and tho- 
roughly watered, by an unfkilful Gardener. 
The beft Method of managing the Plant, 1s 
with the common Regulations, only to give very 
little Water, and to mix a Peck of dry Sand with 
every Bufhel of the Compoft: in this, Seeds of 
the common Violet Dwarf Jris are to be fown, 
or of fome good Flower of this pale red Kind 
cate Flower. 
before raifed from fuck Seeds. 
The Method is to fow a large Quaritity ; and 
among the Plants which rife, there will always be 
_a Variety of Colouring ; from thefe the paleft are 
to be preferved for Seed, and that fown again. 
When the Plants faifed from this, are of a 
Bignefs to be brought into the Garden, a Bed 
muft be prepared for them in fome Place where 
_they may have a great deal of Sun, but not that 
of the full Noon-day; and the Compoft being 
thus lighten’d by a Mixture of Sand, they mutt 
be planted at a very flight Depth, and the ftirring 
of the Ground about them, muft in general fervé 
inftead of Watering. 
The Dews will be thus detained in the Mould; 
and they are the proper Refrefhment of this deli- 
If the Soil at any Time becomé 
fo dry that it vifibly declines, a little Water mutt 
be allowed: but let the Gardener, as an evérlaft- 
ing Rule, keep in Remembrance that the Delicacy 
of the Flower depends upon the Roots not being 
too. coarfely nourifhed. 
POIIOKIOOIOI HONOR NOHO HOR IORI HOMO HORI OIRO III IO 
CHAP, I. 
The Care and Management of the Ground. 
HE Borders being all clean and in Order, 
Care in faving the Seeds of Plants as they ripen: 
or Pods which are mature. 
Seed-vefiels, or the Seed, if naked, are of their full 
Bignefs, and are a little loofe. 
firm in their Places while the Juices are flowing 
into them; but when Nature has done her Work, 
and they only {tand to harden, they begin to grow 
moveable. 
Let. him make a Diftinétion vifeh thofe Ss 
Pods are gathered, between fuch as are to be. 
fown in the fucceeding Autumn, and thofe which 
are to be kept till Spring. 
The former Kind, after they have lain fome 
‘Time upon the Shelf in the Pods, muft be fhook 
out, and fpread feparate and naked ; but thofe 
which are to be preferved through Winter, are beft 
kept in the Pods. 
For thefe there is moft Attention vedic for 
they have the longeft Time to be kept out of the 
Ground; and that the moft precarious, becaufe of 
the Variety of the Seafons. : 
They muft be thoroughly dry’d, sae it 
mutt be done very gently. If they are laid in the 
Sun, as I have known fome practife, the Principle 
of Vegetation will be extremely weakened or de- 
ftroyed; and if they be put up damp they will 
grow mouldy, and that Way be fpoiled. The 
true Method is to. allow them Time enough, and 
Room enough. 
-. {It is a common Obfervation among Gardeners, 
They are ufually ' 
| that certain Seeds if kept till the following Spring 
this Week let the Gardener continue his | 
| fown in Autumn, though aan to the Nature 
let him once in two or three Days go over the 
Ground, and take from every Plant thofe Heads 
will not grow. ‘They are therefore directed to be 
of the Plants. 
T have found by repeated Trials in thefe Kinds, 
to prevent their being kept good through Winter, 
and growing in Spring, but that the “Unfkilfal- 
nefs of the Gardener has deftroyed that Principle of 
Life in them, which Nature would under a better 
Regulation have very well preferved. 
_ On examining Seeds of thefe feveral Kinds in 
the Gardener’s Seed-Rooms, I have fhewn them the 
Matks of their having been many Times damp, 
and dry again, during the Courfe of the Winter. 
Every Time they grew damp, there came on a 
Fermentation : and there is no Probability that fo 
tender a Thing as the firft. Bud or Rudiment of a 
Plant, contained in its Seed, could ftand thefe 
Injuries unhurt. | 
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| that there is nothing in the Nature of thefe Seeds — 
The Rule to know this, is to obferve that the - 
This is the Caufe of | thefe Seeds failing in the | 
common Way ; and the Gardener will find it a 
great Advantage to underftand certainly how to 
preferve them : it depends entirely upon this har- 
dening of them; for when once they have been 
fubjeét to Damps afterwards. 
The Method is to fpread them in the Pods at 
-confiderable Diftances, one from another, upon 4 
broad Shelf or Table covered with Cartridge- 
Paper; and with a rais’d Ledge of the fame Paper 
_carry’d all round, to prevent their blowing off: 
In this Place they are to lie a F ortnight, or longer; 
according to their Bignefs; and every Day they 
_ are to. be moved about: the Room muft have a 
thorough 
_thoroughly and properly cured, they will not be _ 
