' TREATISE o n 



and plant them in lines, two feet diflant, and a foot afunder in: 

 the line, watering them at planting, and three or four times 

 foon after if the weather is dry,, when they will require no fur- 

 ther trouble than keeping the ground clean, and digging it be- 

 tween the lines in the fpring of the two following feafons, being; 

 to remain here two years. 



From this nurfery they may be tranfpl anted to where they- 

 are meant to remain for good ; but if delired larger, they may 

 undergo one other remove, and be planted in lines, three feet 

 and a half diftant, and eighteen inches in the line, treating 

 them as formerly : But here they rnufl continue only two years 

 for as thefe plants do not naturally produce fpreading roots, 

 and not agreeing either with thefe, or the branches being much 

 cut, but rather that they fliould grow in a ragged diforderly 

 manner, with heavy tops, they do not properly admit of being 

 planted when large. 



The fecond and third forts, though they will alfo rife in the 

 open ground, are yet fomewhat fhyer, and will appear fooner, 

 and make better flioots, being alTifted with a very moderate hot- 

 bed, on which they may be fown the middle of February. When 

 the feeds appear, give them very gentle but frequent waterings, 

 and let the frames be raifed all the day-time, that the plants 

 may have plenty of air ; fcreen them from the mid-day fun till 

 about the beginning of Angufl, when the frames may be remo- 

 ved till the winter's frofl fet in, and when they lliould be again 

 replaced, but the glaffes always drawn off in mild weather. 



The fucceeding fpring, in the beginning of April, remove 

 thefe plants, and treat them as has been diredcd for the Tulip— 



