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from their nature not being so liable to suffer 

 from damp as gross, quick growing articles, 

 may be sown with every prospect of success in 

 the Autumn. Indeed for heaths, I prefer a Sep- 

 tember sowing, towards the end of the month. 

 If the seeds are good, they soon vegetate, and 

 will acquire sufficient strength to carry them 

 through the winter; and being so small, they 

 stand more detached ; therefore they dont damp 

 or rot each other : whereas if they are sown in 

 Spring, they are not fit for potting off until it is 

 too late in the Autumn to attempt it, and conse- 

 quently they are left for the winter in their 

 seed-pots : when, from their encreased size, 

 they will have become so close as to inevitably 

 injure each other, perhaps, even to the destruc- 

 tion of the whole, crop. Those sown in the 

 Autumn are not of sufficient size to be potted 

 off until July or August in the ensuing year. 



The day being resolved on, let a quantity of 

 the different sized pots be filled in the precise 

 manner directed for Tropical seeds ; Chap. I. 

 Sect. I. in the preceding part of this work ; 

 with the mould best suited to the nature of the 

 seed to be sown ; as on other similar occasions, 

 it must be pressed down pretty tight to^about 



