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morning Sun only, until they have 

 taken frem Root ; when they may 

 be expofed to the open Air until the 

 latter End of September^ or the Be- 

 ginning of Qttober ; at which time 

 they mult be removed into theCon- 

 fervatory, which mould be a light 

 airy Glafs-cafe, fo built and con- 

 trived as to admit of a large Portion 

 of free Air whenever the Weather is 

 mild i but, in hard frofty Weather, 

 the Cold may be excluded. The 

 Structure of tnis will be defcribed 

 under the Article Stove. 



During the Winter -feafon you 

 mull carefully obferve to open the 

 GlaiTes every Day, when the Wea- 

 ther is mild ; for if you keep them 

 rlofely (hut up, the Plants will grow 

 fickly, and drop their Leaves. You 

 mull alio obferve to pick off all de- 

 cayed Leaves as often as they ap- 

 pear, which, if fuffered to remain 

 upon the Plant?, would communi- 

 cate a Diiiemper to them, and be 

 very apt to rot them. You mould 

 alio give them frequent Waterings in 

 mild Weather, elpecially fuch of 

 them as are woody : but do not give 

 them too much at once ; for when 

 the Earth, in Pots which are placed 

 in the Houie, is too much faturated 

 with Moiilure, it will not dry again 

 during the Winter- fealbn, for want 

 of the Benefit of the Sun and Air, 

 which are the two great Inftruments 

 in diffipating Humidity; and this is 

 often the intire Detraction of the 

 Plant: whilft, on the other hand, 

 fome People, out of too great Care 

 to thefe Plants, let them fairer for 

 want of Water and free Air in Win- 

 ter, under a Notion of their being 

 fo very tender, as to be impatient 

 of the lead Cold or Moisture : where- 

 as, in fadt, they are very hardy, and 

 are feldom destroyed with lefs Cold 

 than hard Froft ; for I have had fome 

 Sorts endure ihe open Air in a warm 



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Border for two or thre e Winters 

 which proved mild; and fuch of 

 thefe Plants as had thus endured the 

 Cold, produced a much greater 

 Quantity of Flowers, than thofe 

 which had been preferved in a Stove 

 with great Care : and it hath been 

 chiefly owing to our managing them 

 tenderly in Winter, that we annually 

 loll fo many of them ; for fince I 

 have treated them in a different man- 

 ner, I have rarely loft a fingle Plant. ' 



The thirty-ninth and fortieth Sorts 

 are Annuals, and require to be fown 

 every Year. The thirty-ninth Sore 

 is a very beautiful Plant, being all 1 

 over fet very thick with tranfparent 

 cryftal-like Drops, as if covered 

 with fmall Icicles ; from whence it 

 is by feme called the Frofty Ficoi- 

 des. The Seeds of this Plant mould 

 be fown very early in the Spring - 

 upon a good Hot-bed ; and when 

 the Plants are come up, they mull 

 be planted into fmall Pots filled with 

 light frelh fandy Earth, and plunged 

 into another Hot-bed ; and as that 

 Hot-bed declines its Heat, they 

 Ihould be removed into a third Hot- 

 bed, which will bring them forward 

 towards Flowering; and in July 

 thefe Plants may be expofed to the 

 open Air by degrees, by which time 

 their Flowers will appear, and be 

 hereby rendered itrong, and capable 

 to produce good Seeds. But you 

 mould always confine in fmall Pots 

 fuch Plants as you defign for Seed, 

 never fuiTering them to root through 

 the Hole in the Bottom of the Pot 

 into the Ground, which would oc- 

 cafion their growing to be much 

 larger and ftronger Plants : but then 

 their Strength would be diverted 

 from the Seed-velfels to nourish and 

 produce ftrong Shoots ; fo that it 

 feldom happens, that the ftrongeir. 

 Plants produce good Seeds. But if 

 you would have fome cf thefe Plants 



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