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wind and rain, will continue in beauty a considerable time. The 
plant may now be propagated, by offsets, which it produces freely. 
Flowering Plants in Pots. 
Such annual and other flowering plants, as are in pots, must now 
be carefully supplied with water; some kinds requiring it twice a 
day, in very dry weather, others once a day, and a few sorts not so 
often. As to the consumption of water, there is an astonishing 
difference in the constitutions of plants, some absorbing and dis- 
charging it so quickly, as to excite surprise, and others but very 
slowly; therefore, you must supply each respective kind, according 
to its habit and necessity. 
Ordinary Attendance. 
Give water, as often as necessary, to all the young plantations of 
herbaceous flower-roots; cut down the stems of such as are past 
bloom; loosen the earth in the tops of all your pots containing 
flowering-plants; clip hedges, if omitted in the last month; clip 
box edgings, and trim the various other kinds used for that pur- 
pose, into a neat and becoming form; but let this be done early in 
the month, and, if possible, in moist or cloudy weather. Mow 
grass-walks and lawns, once a week or fortnight, according to the 
growth of the grass. Sweep, dress, and roll the gravel-walks once 
a week; hoe and clean the flower borders, beds, alleys, and shrub- 
bery compartments; and let the weeds be raked up and carried 
away immediately out of the garden, &c. Trim and tie up any 
loose growing or strangling plants; dress disorderly growing 
shrubs, and inoculate such kinds as you wish to propagate in that 
way. 
Gather flower-seeds, as they ripen, and preserve them till the 
season of sowing; most kinds will keep better and longer in their 
pods or husks, than when rubbed out. 
Sowing Auricula, Polyanthus, Anemone, and Ranunculus Seeds. 
I find in almost every treatise on gardening, that I have met with, 
even in the celebrated works of Mr Millar, directions for sowing 
the above seeds in this month, and September: I have tried the ex- 
periment for many years, but was generally unsuccessful; princi- 
pally, on account of the seeds vegetating on the approach of win- 
ter, and these minute plants always being destroyed before spring, 
by earth-worms, slugs, snails, or by other accidents; therefore, I 
have given up that practice as a bad one, and adopted sowing them 
in December, as there directed, or in January or February, from 
which sowings I have uniformly been successful. I have noticed 
this subject here, in order to correct what I conceive to be an erro- 
neous practice, lest the pursuing of it would disappoint, and, con- 
sequently discourage, those who have a taste for these elegant 
