Odb, of the Blane is often fosiled ay the fobacle they 
Pi. 55. 
Fig a 
receive at that Time. 
"Tis beft to have one large Bed for thefe 
Plants, not to difperfe them in the Borders. The, 
inferior Kinds may be placed in that Manner, but 
the fine ones fhould be preferved feparate, and 
there cannot well be conceived a nobler Appear- 
ance than a large Bed of double 4fers of this 
Kind, intermixed at Nature’s Pleafure, in their 
various Colours, and glowing with all the De-. 
prees of purple and crimfon down to white. | 
' Tt mutt be left to Nature to mix thefe Co- 
lours ; for, according to our Rule of removing 
at this Period for tee laft Time, there is no 
knowing what they will be. 
Therefore when the Plants have had fix Weeks 
Growth in their fecond Bed, let a fine warm 
Spot be chofen for them in the Garden, and a 
Bed dug up two Spade deep, the Mould fine 
and refs 
At the fame ee alfo,, let fome ike be 
open’d in different Parts of the ‘common. Bor- 
ders. Let the Bed be mark’d with Lines Jength- 
way and acrofs, at a Yard Diftance, and in the 
- Centre of each open a large Hole. 
In a cloudy Evening take up the Plants out 
of the erie Bed, ‘path with a - good Ball of 
Earth. 
act! as in fpite of all Care have been da- 
snag?d, are to be planted in the Borders; the 
fine ones in thefe Holes, one Plant in each: the 
Mould muft be well clofed about them, and they 
‘muft be here as at firft, fhaded, and water’d every 
Evening till they have taken Root. 
_ Ay fhowery Seafon is a. ereat Affiftance at the 
Time of this tranfplanting ; but if Natute with- 
holds this Benefit, the Gardener muft fupply its 
Place by frequent Waterings. Though a fhowery 
Time is a great Advantage, he muft not. defer 
the Worle in Expectation of it; for on the make- 
ing this. laft Tr anfplantation in good Time, | de- 
nets the future Succefs of the. Plants. 
When they are well rooted in the new Bed, 
they will require no more Care than to have the 
Ground between them at. all Times. kept clear 
from Weeds, and once in ten Days very. well 
broke, to the Depth of an Inch or two, with a Oétob, 
Hoe. The Waterings muft alfo be repeated 
frequently ; and all Care taken to keep the Plants 
in Health. 
In this Manner, and in no other, the China 
After will be brought to flower in its full Per- 
fection. 
The Compafs we allow fot the Rost is much 
more than commonly fuppofed neceffary for that 
Purpofe, but the Plants will thus cover the 
whole Ground. 
When they come to flower there will ufually 
appear one Flower upon the Head of the main 
Stalk, larger, but lefs double than the others : 
this fhould be taken off as foon as it appears, 
for’ being lefs double it fhould not ftand for 
Seed; and the Effort of Nature, unlefs it be 
taken off, will be moft employ’d that Way be- 
caufe it is the firtt. The taking this off is there- 
fore no Injury to the next Crop! and it greatly 
increafes the Bloom. upon the other Parts or ine 
Pian: 
of Nature is immediately directed thither for the 
ripening it: but in double flower’d Plants in 
general,’ this Method fhould be obferved, of pul- 
In all fingle flower’d Pilate this firft Flower 
fhould be mark’d, and Kept for Seed, for the 
very Reafon we have juft given, that the Effort 
_ This is not known: they who have 
‘Jing it off; and moft of all in the China After. 
Skilk 
enough not to fave Seed from this Flower, yet 
leave: it upon the Plant; not confidering 
that 
although. they do not intend to preferve the 
Seed of this Flower, Nature will be at the 
Pains to ripen it; and’ that. it ftarves, in 
degree, all the others. i 
The fame Care muft be taken to crop the | 
fame 
fome 
Flowers off from all the Plants, except thofe 
faved for Seed as they fade; for on that depends 
the Succeffion of others; this Method; and good 
Watering, will keep the ‘Plant in sgietcatie till the 
Froft deftroy it. . 2. | 
It is but about five ae twenty. Years we 
“Hi 
been acquainted with this Plant; and a much 
lefs Time that we have feen it with double 
Flowers. 
2, DOUBLE CRIMSON HOLLYHOCK. 
There wants only Scarcity to place the Holly- | 
The Plant is 
hock among the choiceft Flowers. 
of exalted Stature, and of regular Growth. The 
Flowers are large, double, and in.the Bast Kind © 
moft elegantly colour’d. 
The Eye of juft Obfervation, will fee its Beau- 
ty, however frequent Obfervation may have dulled | 
| Garden Rofe Mallow; and malva rofea folio ig 
firft Knowledge of the Plant, had, it will always | 
thofe of others; and as it has always from our 
retain a Place in our Plantations. 
_ The old Writers have been well acquainted 
with the Plant, and they have refer’d it to the 
Mallow Kind; diftinguifhing it by the Epithets 
arborea, from its Stature; and hortenfis from its 
Culture; as alfo by a Variety of other Names 
from its Form and Colouring i in the Flower. 
Doponzus calls it malva hortenfi s: the 
den Mallow: others, malva rofea hortenfs : 
a. 
he 
tundo: the roundifh leaved Garden Mallow, in 
Diftinétion, from another Kind which has a Fig- 
like Leaf, and is called therefore Sius folio, 
Lin- 
