SECT. XIX. LISTS OF TREES, &C. 



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protection to preferve the flowers in beauty, as a band" 

 glafs may be advifeable. A plant or two potted (large 

 pots as it fpreads) is agreeable enough, at fuch a feafon, 

 to houfe when in blow. 



Columbine comes in great variety, and the feed fhould 

 be well chof 1, which, when fown in fpring, is rather 

 apt to mifs. Autumn is therefore preferable; and 

 thefe plants will from this fowing be much ftronger. 

 The plants Tumid not Hand above two years after 

 flowering, a* afterwards they get unfightly, and plain. 



Cowjlip American is commonly potted, as indeed 

 fome plants mould be, as it thus appears to advantage ; 

 but it is hardy, and grows beft in borders that are fome- 

 whai fhady, not having the afternoon fun. 



Dragon s bead mould have a moift fhady fituation. 



Figzvort, the plants are fomewhat tender, and may 

 be only expefted to ftand through ordinary winters, 

 in a warm foil and fituation. Let fome be potted, for 

 houfing, left thofe abroad be cut off. 



Fox-gloves do beft in a fomewhat ftrong foil, and 

 fhady fituation, and will be found a ufeful flower in 

 Ihrubberies, &c. in all its varieties. 



Geranium, (ox crane's bill, fo called from the fliape 

 of the feed veffel) the exotic forts are tender, Africa 

 being their native climate. As favourite flowers, the 

 different forts are cultivated by all defcriptions of peo- 

 ple, as opportunity affords to preferve them in winter. 

 They are properly green-boufe plants. The principal 

 kinds are as follow, claffed according to their ordinary 

 height of growth : 



1. Flaming, or Vervain mallow leaved, fcarlet. — > 

 Three coloured ; i. e. red, black, and white. — Ladies 

 mantle leaved, whitifh and bluifli. — Sweet-fcented mal- 

 low-leaved, white. — Goofeberry-leaved, reddifh. — Ca- 

 raway leaved, or variable geranium, red, crimfon, pur- 

 ple, white, &c. — Vine leaved, red and white. — Night- 

 imelling, yellowifh with dark fpots, three forts. — ^Pin- 

 nated, or proliferous, of different colours. 



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