» farther. 
OS TE ce Oe eee OT gE ee TT POE Ie Li on Go 7 eet iene pas a ni 
Impregnation. 
The Rudiments of Seeds in’ the Verge, ate to 
be impregnated by the Duft of the tubular Flof- 
cules in the Difk; and they will as readily re- 
ceive that Duft from the Flofcules of another 
Plant, of the fame Species, as from thofe of the 
fame. 
The Gardener will now perfeétly underftand the 
Reafon of tearing up all poor Flowers among the 
good ones he leaves for Seed ; 
be fecure of a good Kind. 
There is a Way. of improving. his Stock yet 
We. know a Property. in, Nature, of 
which we cannot explain the Reafon: it is that 
Seeds of the fame Kind of Plant grow better 
upon a remote Ground, than in that whereon they 
were produced... The Farmers know it in re- 
gard to their Wheat ; ; and dealing upon good 
Faith, with one another, they. make Exchanges 
for that Reafon. 
It willbe wife in the Gardener to do the fame 
in this Inftance : at. he knows another who will 
take the fame Care .in faving Seed from. his 
Plants, there will be, Advantage to both in 
changing» 7 
The Miaastinent of elt Seed Plants: miuft be 
the fame we have ditected on other Occafions : 
they muft not be fuffered to exhauft themfelves 
by too much flowering ;\ but after a good number 
of. Flowers are fet for Seed, all that offer after- 
wards. muft be taken’ off in the Bud. The 
whole Effort of Nature will that way be di- 
rected to the. filling. of the Seeds; and this the 
Gardener is to promote farther, by clearing away 
the Bed to fome Diftance about them, and giving 
them frequent moderate Waterings. 
| Thefe aré:to be continued all the Timé the Seed 
is taking its Growth ; but when it has acquired 
the full Bignefs, the whole muft be left to Na- 
ture; as nothing is required but a ciara harden- 
ing of the Seed. 
When the Seed is fipé and harden’d, let the 
Heads be cut off carefully, and fpread upon a 
Shelf, cover’d with Paper, in an airy’ Room. 
Let them lie at a good Diftance from one ano- 
ther; and let them be turned at leat olice a 
Day. 
When they have ne thus a Fortnight pick out 
the Seeds, and fpread them alfo upon a Shelf to” 
dry and harden farther. Turn them often; let 
them lie a Week, and then tie them up in ‘Paper 
Bags : they are in a Condition for keeping; till 
the Seafon of fowing : , and in this State the. 
Change fhould be made between one Gardener 
and another, each being fare the other has taken 
the fame regular Method of managing them. In 
thefe Bags they are to bé kept till Spring. 
" Th the Middle of Mareh let 2 Hot-bed be pre- 
pared for them ; and coverifig it five Inches with 
fine Mould, when it is ‘of a due Temper, the 
Heat géntle, and the Mould wartned through, 
let thefe Séeds be fcatter’d on with an even 
Hand, and a Quarter of an Inch of: the fame 
OF GARDENING 
and he will thus | 
Oétob. we fee Nature has intended this various kind of Mould be fifted over them. 
6 ey 
Octab, 
When the young Plants appeat, let then be ———— 
thin’d where they rife too clofe; and from this 
| Time let the Glafles of the Bed be raifed more 
and more evety Day, that the Plants may be 
habituated to the Air. 
The common Error is. the keeping then too 
clofe in this firft Bed, and then retioving them 
to another of the fame Kind. Let the Gardener 
avoid this Miftake. 
They are to be planted out from this Bed 
into the open Ground, though it muft be in a 
well chofen Spot, and their Sickle depends upon 
the hardening them in the very firft- Period of 
their Growth. 
~ If they are drawn up weak, tall; and tender 
at this Time, they will be check’d greatly upon 
removing into the Air, and Infeéts will feize 
on them; they never will have their full Big- 
nefs, nor their true Shape. 
- There is not a handfomer Plant than a full 
gtown China After, cover’d with Flowers; but we 
fee for one fuch a Thoufand diftorted Dwarfs, all 
owing to Mifmanagement, and this is the firft 
- Article of it in moft Gardens. 
Let's Pidte of Ground be chofen in the Semi- 
nary that is well thelter’d from cold Winds, and 
/ open to the Morning Sun. 
Let a Bed be well dug up in this a full Spade 
deep, and the Mould perfectly broke. 
When the Plants on the Hot-bed ate three 
Inches high, let this Bed be mark’d out into 
Squares of ten Inches Bignefs ; and in the Even- 
ing of a cloudy Day, let the Plants be taken up; 
each with a good Ball of Mould; and Holes be- 
ing ready ofentd for their Reception in this new 
Bed, let them be planted one in the Centre of 
each Square. 
Let the Mould be carefully sacheted about 
/ thems; ahd let them have a moderate Watering. 
Shelter them with a Reed-hedge to defend them , 
from the Wind and Sun till rooted; and pro- 
mote this by frequent moderate Waterings, 
Every Evening let thefe be repeated, unlef§ 
hatural Showets do the Bufinefs for the Gar. 
dener; and let him proportion the Quantity of 
watering to the Condition of the Mould; it mutt 
never be made wet or Pappy nor ever fuffer’d to 
be very dry. 
Once in four Days fet the Ground be broke 
by a Hoe; and if any Plant among them appear 
blighted, let the injured Part be cut off; and 
Nature left to her Chance for renewing it. *Tis 
better to cut down. a Plant on this Occafion, 
within one Joint of the Ground, than to fufer 
it to continue in that difeafed State; there will 
a better Plant rife from the Bottom than could 
| have been. made from the whole. | 
Six Weeks the Plants fhould retiiain in this 
Bed; and after that they will be fit for removing 
to the Places where they are to flower. 
Some keep them longer out of the Garden, 
but it is wrong, for they bear removing worfe , 
and the Flower Buds -being form’d, the Beauty 
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