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OF FLOWERS. 



SECT. * VI I** 



frames, produce fnrprifmg plants of the tender annual 

 clafs; fo that the globe amaranthus has been railed 10 

 three, and the giant coxcomb, and tricolor, from three to 

 five or fix feet high. Tender flowers deugned to gather 

 Jeed from, mould begin to have feme prote&ion of 

 glafs- about jSlid-Augujij at leait on nights, till they are 

 fully ripened in September. 



Scoop trswels , oi two or three fizes, will be found 

 very ufeful in the Slitting of flowers in general, but 

 particularly of the hot bed fort; and as they (hould be 

 cleau from dirt when ufed, fo alio fhouid they be free 

 from ruft, by which they will work much pleafanter, 

 and more fuccefs fully : In fhort all garden tools were 

 better kept bright, as well for ufe as neatnefs. Before 

 a trowel is ufed, in tbe removal of a plant, it is a fafe 

 way to cut ftrait down round the root, and to the 

 bottom, with a large, clean,- and not verv blunt knife ^ 

 fo will the trowel take all up* whole, and the fibres will 

 not be lacerated, or barked : But attempt not to take 

 -up more earth in a bail than is Kkelj to hang together,- 

 left all drop* by its weight. Tranfplant (if poliible) 

 always m moiil, or cloudy we ther. 



hjriiaU watering pot, \ \, e. from IWO to three quarts) 

 with a finely pierced rofe, is alfo neceffary, to give 

 refrefhment without bending down the plants, or har- 

 dening the furface oi the earth. The form of many a 

 good flower is fpoiled in its infancy by rough watering,, 

 and particularly cap[icu?ns ; to avoid which evil, what- 

 ever pot is ufed, let it be onlv half fulL 



The potting of plants is often carelefsly, but onght 

 to be mo ft carefully performed, that a* little check as 

 poffible may be felt by the roots, Fill the pot one 

 third, half, or more, full, (as the cafe may require} and 

 then make a hole in the middle, adapted in lorm to re- 

 ceive the plant, with its bail of earth ; and be fure do it 

 right at fhil, fo as not to be too high, or too low, for 

 once put in, it will not be fafe to take it out again, left 

 the mould drop from the roots, Do not prefs the ball 



