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and not contracting mould, let the glass stand for about ten days 

 Avithout being moved ; but, unless the weather be wet, water over 

 the glass every morning. At the end of ten days, take it off ; 

 let it be early in the morning if the weather be dry and hot ; and 

 turn the glass upside down that it may become aired. If you 

 perceive any pipings beginning to mould, pull them up instantly ; 

 give a little water through a fine rose : let the plants dry again 

 perfectly, and then again put on the glass. The weather being 

 favourable, give air every morning for half an hour or an hour ; 

 but never shut up whilst the pipings are wet ; and, if you have 

 showery weather, give air between showers, if it be but for five 

 minutes of a morning. In about six weeks they will be fit to 

 transplant into small pots ; make use of the same sort of mould ; 

 plunge the pots, or simply stand them, in another gentle bed, and 

 put frames or hand-glasses over them till your plants have struck 

 again ; and here they may remain till September, when you pot 

 them or plant them out. If you perform this work in the open 

 ground, choose a spot under a wall facing the east, where none but 

 the morning sun comes ; use the same preparation of mould, and 

 use a hand-glass, acting in all respects as prescribed in case of a 

 hot-bed. Pot off your plants in the month of March following ; 

 using pots of about tv\'elve inches wide at top, and eight inches wide 

 at bottom ; these should have good clean circular holes at tlie 

 bottoms, and, beside, two or three smaller holes in their sides at 

 about two inches from the bottom ; and these effectually prevent 

 water remaining about the roots of the plants. The same soil 

 that you struck your plants in will do to blow them in. I will 

 here give Miller's direction for a mixture, and then proceed 

 to the propagating by seed : Take mould from a good upland 

 pasture, or a common that is of a hazel earth ; dig out earth from 

 the first eight inches from the surface ; let this be laid in a heap to 

 mellow for one year ; then mix a third part of rotten neat^s dung, 

 or dung of an old cucumber bed ; mix them well together, turn 

 the heap every month for eight months, and it will be lit for use." 

 By seed. The seed of the carnation does not every summer ripen 

 in England ; but seed is procured from the continent in abun- 

 dance. Sow in pots of light earth, or on a cool bed with a frame 

 over it, in the month of April ; and cover it in the slightest pos- 

 sible manner. Shade the young plants from hot sun ; and, when 

 they have six leaves, prick them out two or three inches asunder, 



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