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LISTS OF TREES, &C. 



SECT. XIX. 



This bufinefs rrruft be clone with a careful hand, left 

 the layer fhould fnap off. Now, or rather before, cut 

 off the ends of the longeft of the top leaves, that the 

 worms may not draw them in, and difturb the layer. 

 The foil (fine and good) may be raifed about the 

 layers as occafion requires. Water them to fet the 

 earth clofe, and always keep it cool. In fix weeks, or 

 two months, they will be rooted, fit for tranfplanting ; 

 cut them from the old plant (at the peg) with a (harp 

 knife, and take them up carefully, that their very ten- 

 der roots may not be broken off, keeping a little mould 

 about them, if poftible : btit plant them not deep, as 

 they are then liable to decay. 



The foil proper for carnations, is a hazelly, or fandy 

 loam, procured from a pafture, by a fpit of about eight 

 inches depth, the turf being well broke, frequently 

 turned, and laid fo long together, as to be nearly con- 

 fumed ; then add a little lime, (or not) and one third, 

 or one fourth, of very rotten dung, [coivs belt) and 

 let this be well mixed, till thoroughly incorporated, 

 which will be fome months firft ; then fcreen it, or fift 

 through a coarfe fieve. The foil for carnations mull 

 be rich ; but yet dung is found fo injurious to carnations, 

 that fome florifts depend upon a good frefh foil alone ; 

 carnations are alfo (except in fummer) impatient of 

 much tvet. See to them in the ivinter and give pots of 

 them p rot eft ion from great fnows and froft, by frames, 

 or mats on hoops, fet rather high. Turf ajhes, or thofe 

 of any vegetable, may be mixed with a irefh maiden 

 foil, but not too freely for a compojl : A [mall quantity 

 of fine foot, or wood a/hes, may be alfo ufech Drefs 

 pots of carnations in March, as dire£led for the auricula, 

 Take care not to plant too fmall pots. 



To raife carnations from feed, fow thin in boxes, 

 or pots, (in a foil as above] early in April, and let 

 them have only the morning fun, When advanced a 

 little in growth, (as about Midfummer ) take the firft 

 opportunity of moift weather, and prick them out at 



three 



