39$ LISTS OF TREES, &C. SECT. XIX. 



Sf.cckj or ffock gilliflower, is apt to get too rampant 

 (in fame feafons) before winter, and when killed by 

 froft, it is chiefly owing *to this circum fiance ; for no- 

 thing Hands fevere weather well, that has grown very 

 freely. Hence it ufecl to be the cuftorn oi florifts to 

 tranfpkmt them feveral times in the Cummer ; (even at 

 every kill moon) but to keep them down, and hardy, 

 by this means, tends directly to weaken the blow, if 

 not to kill the plant. The inoft reasonable method in 

 this bufinefs is. not to fow too earlv, (or before the 

 fir it week in April) to thin them, and to prick them 

 out in time, that they may not be drawn up long 

 legged; and by no means to let them have a dungy 

 foil to grow in, or a very rich one. Prick them out 

 the firii cool w-eather after they have fix leaves, at fix 

 or eight inches afunder, where let them remain till 

 Augujl, choofmg a (howery time, (rather about the 

 middle) to plant them out where they are to blow ; 

 but let not this be into a moi'fl foil, or damp fituation : 

 It is a good wav to mix half fand in the mould that 

 lies about the ihanks above the roots ; and when wet 

 and troll comes, to lay coarfe, or drift fand, round 

 about them, three or four inches high, which remove 

 at fpring. Some of the weakeft plants may remain in 

 the nurieryvbed till fpring, which put out in coo! ground, 

 tor in fuch a foil- they blow belt, though they do not 

 ftand the winter well in it : Stocks blow much finer 

 m a ihowery fummer than in an hot one. It will be 

 a great advantage to thofe moved at fpring, to have 

 balls of earth to the roots, though they do not well 

 retain it. To difpbfe them to it, and make them fitter 

 to tranfplant, they mav be cut round m autumn, with 

 a long knife, five or fix inches deep, and about three 

 inches from the ttem, making one Riming cut under 

 the root, at fix inches depth, to cut thole afunder that 

 Arike directly down. This is a practice th.t would 

 anfwer in moll things that are to be removed at fpring ; 

 and if not, it would generally be of fervice, as the cut- 

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