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by layers or pipings, and will generally keep to their original colours j 
but when propagated by seed, very few will be found to possess the 
same colours and properties as the mother plant. 
Double Sweet-Wiliiam. 
The fine kinds of double sweet-william may now be propagated, 
either by slips or by laying the young shoots, as directed for car- 
nations; in either way, they will root freely, but if the slips are 
planted, they will require shade as well as occasional waterings for 
ten or twelve days after. 
Transplanting Annuals. 
You may now transplant into the borders and other places where 
wanted, all the different kinds of annual flowers that succeed in that 
way, and that stand too close where they had been sown; such as 
French and African marigolds, China asters, cocks-combs, chry- 
santhemums, China pinks, China hollyhocks, balsams, amaran- 
thuses of various sorts, gomphrena globosa, and many other kinds, 
observing to do this in moist or cloudy weather, if possible, and to 
give them shade and frequent refreshments of water till newly 
rooted: let them be taken up and transplanted with as much earth 
as possible about their roots, whether into flower-pots or elsewhere. 
Thinning and Supporting Flowering Plants, &i'C. 
Wherever you have sown annual flower seeds in patches, &c. 
and they have grown too thick, you must thin them to proper dis- 
tances, according to their respective habits of growth, so as to allow 
them full liberty to attain the utmost perfection. 
Place sticks for the support of the various kinds that require it, 
whether annual, perennial, biennial, or climbing plants, as directed 
in page 397", observing the method there recommended. 
Cut off, close to the ground, the decaying flower-stems of such 
perennial plants as are past flowering, and clear the roots from 
dead leaves; but where intended to save seed from any of the kinds, 
leave for that purpose some of the principal stems. 
Trim, dress, and tie up any disorderly growing plants, pick off' 
all withered leaves, and cut out decayed parts. 
Propagating Fibrous-rooted Plants by Cuttings. 
You may still continue to propagate the double scarlet-lychnis, 
double-rocket, lychnideas or phloxes, with many other like kinds, 
by cuttings of the flower-stalks, as directed for the scarlet-lychnis 
in page 397. 
Transplanting Seedling Perennials and Biennials. 
Transplant from the seed-beds the early sown perennial and 
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