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abundantly sup[)licd with water, t\ir, heat, and sufficient pot 

 room, to obtain them in lirst-rate perfection. As a succession, 

 seeds of all those sown last month should be again sown, and 

 managed as therein directed. 



As they M ill now be increasing in size, and the number ne- 

 cessary in an extensive place being considerable, a separate frame 

 or frames should be appropriated for them, where they can be 

 cultivated with greater advantage to themselves imd less injury 

 to other plants. It may be now also necessary to sow in con- 

 siderable quantities seeds of all this denomination of plants, as 

 many of them will succeed well, if planted out in the borders of 

 the flower garden. 



PROPAGATING PLANTS. 



As the spring and autumn months are best calculated for 

 this purpose, exertions should be made to forward the putting 

 in of all cuttings intended to be propagated, as after next 

 month the sun becomes too powerful for them to succeed well 

 without a great deal of shading, which is not only trouble- 

 some, but never answers the end in view so effectually. 

 However, as we have already observed, there are some that 

 require to be put in every month of the yean Our observation 

 above is applicable to a general process of propagating only. 



PROPAGATING ERICAS. 



This very interesting and numerous genus is best culti- 

 vated, as we have already observed, in a house dedicated 

 exclusively for themselves ; and where such is the case, such 

 house is known by the appellation of heath-house or heathery, 

 and to be complete should contain from two hundred and fifty 

 to three hundred species, which will afford a considerable 

 share of bloom throughout the year. Heaths are compa- 

 ratively of late introduction ; for we find that, in Miller's time, 

 few were known, and those only of the hardy kinds : none of 

 the Cape species being at that time introduced. To His late 

 Majesty George the Third we are considerably indebted lor 

 the hitroduction of this charming genus of plants. That mo- 



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