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the Day-time, while the Sun u hot ; 

 but in the Evening, when the Sun 

 declines, they begin to open, and 

 continue expanded till the Sun fiiines 

 warm upon them the next Day ; To 

 that when it happens to be cloudy 

 Weather, as alfo late in Autumn, 

 when the Weather is cool, the Flovv- 

 - ers will remain open mod Part of 

 the Day. 



As the Flowers are produced fuc- 

 cefiively almoh: every Day, fo the 

 Seeds are in a Inert time after ripe, 

 and do foon fall to the Ground ; fo 

 that when your Seeds begin to ripen, 

 you muft carefully look for them 

 upon the Ground twice a Week ; 

 otherwife, if they lie too long upon 

 the Ground, and there mould fall 

 forne Rain, they will fprout, and be 

 good for nothing. In fowing thefe 

 Seeds, you mould be careful to 

 take them from fuch Plants as pro- 

 duced the greateft Variety of Flow- 

 ers ; for if you fave them from 

 fuch as produce only plain -colour'd 

 Flowers, the Seeds will always pro- 

 duce the fame Sort; and thefe with 

 yellow and red variegated Flowers 

 will cor.itantly produce the fame ; 

 thefe never varying from the Red 

 and Yellow to the Purple andWhke, 

 tho' they will fometimes degenerate 

 into plain yellow or red Flowers, 

 as will the other into plain Purple 

 or White; but they will conftantly 

 retain one or both of their original 

 Colours. 



Altho', in the above-written Cul- 

 ture of thefe Plants, I have directed 

 their Seeds to be fown on an Hot- 

 bed, yet they may be propagated by 

 fowing them in a warm Border of 

 light Earth toward the Latter end 

 of March ; and when, the Plants 

 come up, they fnould be tranfplantcd 

 as before directed: in which Me- 

 thod they will fucceed very well ; 

 jbut will- not Hower fa fgon by a 



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Month or fix Weeks as thofe rai fed 

 on the Hot-bed, nor will the PlanU 

 grow fo large. 



When the Froll has pinch'd the 

 Leaves and Stems of thefe Plants, 

 you ihould take up their Roots, 

 which mould be laid to dry, and 

 then may be preferved in dry Sand 

 all the Winter, if fecured from the 

 Froft } and in the following Spring 

 thefe Roots mould be planted into 

 large Pots, and plunged into a mo- 

 derate Hot-bed, to promote their 

 taking Root ; and when the Shoots 

 appear above-ground, they mould 

 . be treated as was directed for the 

 Seedling-plants, hardening them by 

 degrees to endure the open Air, 

 The Plants fo raifed will be mucb 

 larger than the Seedlings, and will 

 flower earlier in the Year. 



The Sort with purple and white 

 Flowers is by much the molt beauti- 

 ful : however, a few Plants cf the 

 yellow and red Sort may be inter- 

 mixed with them,- for Variety. 

 Where any Perfon is very curious 

 to preferve the beft Seeds, they 

 mould conftantly pinch off all ths 

 plain Flowers from thofe Plants, 

 which they intend for Seed : if this 

 is carefully done, there will be fcarce 

 any of the Plants produced from this 

 Seed with intire plain Flowers. 



The two lali Sorts are very com- 

 mon in the Iflands of America r 

 where by the Englijh they are call- 

 ed the Four o'Clock Flower, from 

 the Flowers opening about that time 

 in the Afternoon ; and by the French 

 they are called Belie de Nuit, from 

 the Flowers making a fine Appear- 

 ance in the Night ; but the Flowers 

 of both of thefe are fmall, and ge- 

 nerally plain-colour'd ; and the 

 Plants are alfo much tenderer than 

 thofe of the other Sorts ; fo that 

 thefe are feldom cultivated in Eng- 

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