LISTS 0? TREES, &C SECT. XIX. 



to an eye. If a hand-glafs is not ufed, lay fomemofs 

 round the cuttings to keep the ground cool. In gene- 

 ral it may be proper to keep the cuttings out of ground 

 a day, or two ; but the foft and fucculent ones fhould 

 by all means, in order to dry the ends, and fo heal the 

 wound, which, if put dire&ly in the ground, might 

 decay and rot. 



The proper feafon for planting is from Mid-May to 

 Mid- July : a little earlier, or later, may however do : 

 Some chufe to forward them oh heat, in March and 

 April ; but they muft not be kept clofe. It is advife- 

 able to take cuttings from towards the top of plants, in 

 order to keep them down ; but where they can be beft 

 fpared (as to the form of the plant) is the general rule. 

 Pot them in Augujl or September, according to the 

 time the cuttings were put in : The former time is 

 much the beft, and June cuttings will be rooted. 



The management of geraniums is, to keep them from 

 frofi, and as much as may be from harjh winds, par- 

 ticularly in the fpring ; as after being houfed all win- 

 ter, they are then tender, and far lefs able to bear 

 unkind weather, than in autumn ; when having been 

 ufed to the external ajr, and the colder weather 

 coming on by degrees, they are feldom hurt much, 

 but by abfolute froft. In the fpring, they muft be 

 brought to bear air by degrees, and the more carefully, 

 according as the winter has occafioned them to be 

 more or lefs deprived of the external air being let in 

 upon them. When the weather is mild in April, let 

 them be taken out in the day, (if convenient) and put 

 in on nights ; and venture them not wholly abroad till 

 Mid-May, or after. In the fummer, they fhould be 

 placed in (belter and jhade \ but not under trees, or any 

 roof : The morning fan is all they (hould have, for 

 more of it dries the mould in the pots too fall, and 

 fades the flowers. They will want frequent watering, 

 fee page £77. They may take up their jurnmer refi- 

 dence about Mid-May, (as direfted) but the feafon 

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