lists $f trees, &c. sect. xix. 



•merit a place in the garden; but is chiefly curious for 

 the elaftic property of its feed pods buriting-with force, 

 when juft pr.effed between the fingers, throwing the 

 feeds to a diftance. 



Ckinefe btilljhotk mould be brought forward 'efpeci- 

 allv northwards) to enfure a timely blow. See p. 280. 



Chrxfantkemnm, to preferve fome of the fineft donh.es, 

 plant cuttings, or flips, the beginning of September, in 

 pots, and houfe them before N(rwni>er\ left the troll 

 come; and they will generally fafviva the winter, and 

 flower much earlier, though not fo ftroiig as thofe fown 

 in fpring. 



Convolvulus major will need fupport by a wall, flake, 

 or otherwife, to be trailed, or run up, as a fcarlet bean. 

 The deep blue fort is called convolvulus nil, or anih 

 The major convolvulus makes a good fhew, and may- 

 be fown in April, in the places defigned to (lower ; 

 but it is the beft way to fow three or four feeds in a 

 final] pot, which being placed on a gentle heat, will be 

 much forwarder and finer, and mav be turned out whole 

 (when about three inches high) into open ground; for 

 this flower (as many other annuals; does not trans- 

 plant well; A7/ will not do without heat to bring 

 it up. 



India pink is new brought to blow much more double 

 and variegated than formerly, and it isaveiv neat, 

 engaging flower, tailing a long time. Prick the plants 

 out when quite final], (for they readily ftrike; that they 

 may not be drawn up weak, and let them grow in 

 fingie detached plants, in a dry light foil, and they 

 will be -ilrong. If cut down as foon as the principal 

 blow is over, they will flaud another year.. 



Marigold, the African, grows jftrongly erect. There 

 is a variety in the form of the flower, and the quilled 

 forts are moftly admired. The French fort grows 

 weakly Spreading, but there are beautiful varieties of it 

 from feed, which fhould be carefully fayed from the 

 molt double Howers, having had no fingl ones growing 



near 



