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it merits a Place in every good Gar- 

 den : this commonly flowers in Octo- 

 ber ; and if the Seafon is not very 

 fevere, will continue in Beauty all 

 November; and at that Seafon, the 

 Branches are loaded with yellow 

 Flowers. 



The eleventh and twelfth Sorts 

 are alfo low Shrubs, which may be 

 admitted to make up the Variety in 

 Plantations of Shrubs, for their green 

 Appearance through the Year : and 

 although their Flowers are not very 

 beautif ul, yet, by the Contrail which 

 they make with the other Shrubs, 

 they will fet off the Plantation. 



All thefe twelve Sorts are hardy 

 enough to endure the Cold of our 

 Winters in the open Air, except the 

 third Sort, which is apt to fuffer in 

 very hard Froft ; though in the or- 

 dinary Winters this Sort will live 

 abroad, efpecially if it is planted in 

 a fheltered Situation: but as it is 

 liable to be deftroyed by hard Froft, 

 a -Plant or two mould be fheltered in 

 Winter to preferve the Kind. 



The thirteenth Sort is a Variety 

 of the firft, which has been acciden- 

 tally produced from Seeds, in fome 

 of the Gardens in Germany ; but at 

 prefent it is rare in England : this 

 may be propagated by inarching it 

 upon the common Sort, or by laying 

 down the Branches : but the firft Me- 

 thod is the fureft to obtain good 

 Plants. This doth not produce Seeds; 

 or if there were any, the Plants fo 

 produced would rarely happen to 

 have double Flowers. 



The other Sorts before mentioned 

 arc all propagated by Seeds, which 

 may be fown in the Spring, upon a 

 Bed of frefh light Earth, and treated 

 in the fame way as is commonly pra- 

 dliied for raifing of the Spanifb 

 Broom ; which is fo well known, 

 as to need no Inftructions in this 

 Place. 



All the Sorts of Brooms are very 

 apt to fend out long tough ftringy 

 Roots, which run deep into the' 

 Ground ; therefore, if they are not 

 tranfplanted young, they frequently 

 mifcarry ; for they have few Fibres 

 to their Roots; fo that when they 

 have flood long in any Place, the 

 Roots will have ftruck deep into the 

 Ground, which muft be cut or torn 

 off in tranfplanting ; and this is com- 

 monly their Deftrdclion. 



The fourteenth, fifteenth, fif- 

 teenth, feventeenth, and eighteenth 

 Sorts are Natives of Africa \ moll 

 of them grow near the Cape of Good 

 Hope : thefe are too tender to live in 

 the open Air in W T inter ; fo are pre- 

 ferved in Green-houfes ; but they 

 are moft of them very rare in Eng- 

 land at prefent. 



Thefe may all be propagated by 

 Seeds, which muft be fown upon a 

 very mcderateHot-bed in the Spring; 

 and when the Plants come up, they 

 fhould have as much free Air as the 

 Seafon will permit to be given them ; 

 otherwife they will draw up weak : 

 as foon as the Plants are ftrong 

 enough to remove, they fhould be 

 planted each into a fmail Pot filled 

 with light Earth ; and if the Pots 

 are plunged into a very temperate 

 Hot-bed, where the Plants may be 

 fhaded until they have tnken Root, 

 it will be the fafeft Method ; and 

 then they fhould be inured to the 

 open Air by degrees. In the Sum- 

 mer-time thefe Plants may be placed 

 abroad in a fheltered Situation ; but 

 in Winter they fhould be placed in 

 a good Green- houfe, where, in mild 

 Weather, they fhould have as much 

 free Air admitted to them as pofii- 

 ble ; for if they are lhut up too clofe, 

 and the Air excluded from them, 

 they are very apt to grow mouldy, 

 and then their Branches will decay. 



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