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July. thorough Air; but the Pods mutt not be expofed great the Advantage would be of being fecure July. 
to the Sun. 
~ Tn this Time they will acquire that Hardnefs 
_ of. always preferving thofe Seeds through Winter, ———— 
which fhoot foon after they are put into the 
which will preferve them from flight Accidents of Ground. 
Damp; and to prevent this farther, they mutt 
not be put up in Drawers, as is the ufual Way, 
nor all in one large Parcel. = 
- To preferve Seeds in a Condition to vegetate, 
free Air is the great Article, and this they are de- 
ny’d in that confin’d Way of laying them up. 
On the contrary, let the Quantity, if large, be 
divided into three or four Parcels, and each tyed 
up in a Bag of Cartridge Paper. Let thefe Bags 
be hung up in the Air in the fame Room where 
they were dry’d. Me : 
The beft Way is to draw feveral Lines acrofs 
the Room, a Foot and half below the Cieling, 
and two Foot diftant from one another ; and the 
Bags being firft written upon, to fhew what they 
contain, fhould be ty’d up to thefe Lines a Foot 
afunder. i ee ae 
The Air will thus play freely about them and 
among them, and the Pods will preferve them 
from Injuries: they will remain in good Condi- 
tion a great while; and fome which I have kept 
by way of Experiment, have been very good four 
Years. ‘ 
There is no Way in which Seeds can be kept 
in every Refpect fo conveniently as this: befide 
their being liable to Damps and to Heat, when 
laid in great Parcels together in Drawers, they 
are often eat by Infeéts. In this Way they take 
up little Room, and they are free from all Kinds 
of Accidents. | 
‘Thefe are the Advantages we have found from 
preferving Seeds: in this Manner; which we have | 
named at this Time, becaufe.’tis now to be put 
into Ufe; and-we need not tell the Gardener how 
about them all Winter, 
In all thefe Matters Nature is to be the great 
Guide; and we fee in her CGiconomy how vaftly 
ferviceable a free Air is to preferve the vegetative 
Life in the Seed, and prevent Accidents. 
In many Cafes, the Seeds intended for falling 
to the Earth in Spring, are preferved thro’ Win- 
ter in their dry’d Pods upon the dry Stalks of the 
Plant: The Rains wet them, but the free Air 
dries them again, and there is no Difadvantage, 
The rough Winds of Spring blow them off, and 
they fhoot. Thefe naturally droped Seeds have 
many Difadvantages, to which thofe fown by the 
Gardener are not liable; but with the free Air 
they fucceed againft them 
aus Svig 0? REL ge li oh. 
_ Every Week therefore as the Seeds ripen, let 
‘the Gardener lay them upon the Shelf to dry; 
and where there are many Kinds, he will do well 
to divide: every Shelf by Ledges of the fame Pa-_ 
per, into feveral Partitions. 
As one Parcel of the fame Kind dries, let it be 
ty’d up feparately in Bags, and thefe wrote upon, 
and fixed in their Places: thus every thing will go 
on regularly ; and he who beftows this Degree of | 
Attention on the Subjeét, will make few Com- 
plaints. | y* 
_ All the Time Seeds are thus gathered from fuch 
Plants as are ripening them, let thofe in F lower, 
and thofe which are taking their Growth for 
Flowering, be watered with Care: thofe in F lower 
a little at a Time, and often: thofe, whofe Growth 
is the principal Object of Attention at prefent, 
This we have explained under the pre- 
ceding Articles in our laft Number. 
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The Management of the NURSERY, for this Week 
Othing farther will require to be done in the 
open FlowerGround for the prefent Week ; 
we fhall therefore proceed to the Nurfery, and con- 
fider the Management and Encreafe of thofe more 
-tender Shrubs and Plants of foreign Growth, which 
‘we preferve in Stoves and Greenhoufes. 
_ Many of thofe will bear to be 
cording to the different Kinds. 
The Gardener who would rationally go about 
this Work, muft confider his Exotics according 
to their different Degrees of Hiardynefs, as of 
two Kinds; the firft comprehending fuch as will 
bear our open Air the beft, and the other the 
more tender. | 
This is a very effential Diftin@ion; for the 
Temperature of Mould in our Gardens being the 
| and Shelter. 
fame with that of the Air, or at leaft dependent 
on and regulated by that, thofe Plants which in 
their State of Growth will not endure the Chillnef 
of our Air, will not in the Cuttings fend out any 
Roots in the cold Ground. 
This throws the Management of Exotic Cut- 
tings into two Regulations: the firft or hardier 
Kinds, will ftrike in the common Mould, pro- 
vided it be good, and they have due Attendance 
The other or more tender Kinds 
will not ftrike, unlefs the Mould into which they 
are put, be heated by Dung beneath. 
The hardier Kinds therefore are to be raifed in 
a Bed of good Mould, the others on a Hot-Bed. 
We fhall lay down firft the Method of treating 
thefe, and afterwards that of the other, in which 
there is little effential Difference. 
Chufe 
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