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quite fo tender. All feedllngs that can be brought up 

 in the open air, make much finer plants. The tender 

 forts fhould be put out in nurfery-beds, and occasionally 

 protected by covering, and fome potted to be occafionally 

 houfed. 



Poijon trees, even the touch of the leaves of thefe 

 plants will affett the {kin, but the lap is very (even 

 dangeroufly) acrimonious. 



Pomegranate muff have a good fouth wall, and rich 

 foil. The double fort fhould be occafionally mated in 

 fevere froft. In very favourable fituations (however) 

 they have fucceeded in ejpaUers, dwarf, half, and even 

 full fianclards. The bell feafon for planting the pome- 

 granate is in fpring, when jufi beginning to (hoot. It 

 is rather rude of growth, and mull therefore have 

 timely training. The principal pruning fhould always 

 be in autumn, and from time to time all draggling, fu- 

 perfluous growths taken off, that fhoots may be encou- 

 raged to put out ftrong bloffoms, in the fullnefs of 

 which the great merit confifts. Thefe bearers fhould be 

 fix inches, or rather more, afunder. The mode of 

 flowering is at the ends of the young fhoots: nothing 

 equals this plant in finenefs of blow. The double fort 

 is more commonly planted; but the fmgle flower is very- 

 beautiful, and its fruit, which will ripen in fnug fa- 

 vourable fituations and feafons, makes a fine fhow alfo, 

 cfpecially when burft. Both flowers and fruit are of a 

 very fine fcarlet. 



Rofe claims precedence of other fhrubs. In its 

 varieties it fhould be planted in all fituations ; but the 

 Provence more particularly. This fhrub, in raoft (if 

 not all its forts) does beft in a cool ftrong foil. 



The order of blowing may be reckoned thus: Cin- 

 namon, (fometimes called the May -rofe J monthly damajk, 

 burnet, Scotch, Penfylvanian, apple, &c. Then the kteft 

 rofes we have, are thofe of the monthly again, and the 

 mujk. Occafionally ever)- fort may bear a few late 

 ones, but chiefly the Provence. To encourage this 



fhrub 



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