Following fpring : but if thefe fhould be killed ifl the 
winter, fome feeds fhould be fown in the fpring, on 
a border of light ground,, and when the plants come 
up they fhould be thinned, and kept clear from weeds ; 
thefe will flower in July, and their feeds will ripen in 
Auguft:. 
The forty-fifth fort grows naturally in Portugal and 
Spain ; this is an annual plant, whofe lower leaves are 
heart-fhaped, and divided into three lobes •, the foot- 
ftalks of the flowers are placed on the fide of the 
branches, which extend a foot and a half each way •, 
thefe incline to the ground. The foot-fcalks fuftain 
many bright red flowers, which are fucceeded each by 
five feeds, having pretty long beaks. This flowers 
and feeds about the fame time as the former fort, and 
requires the fame culture. 
The forty-fixth fort grows naturally in Egypt. This 
is an annual plant, having oval fawed leaves of a gray 
colour ; the branches extend a foot in length, adorned 
with fmall leaves placed alternate, and toward the end 
have three or four foot-ftalks produced from their 
fides, fuftaining feveral pale blue flowers, which are 
each fucceeded by five feeds, having long feathery 
beaks. 
This fort is much tenderer than the two former, there- 
fore if the feeds are fown on a moderate hot-bed in the 
fpring, and when the weather becomes warm, the 
plants are carefully tranfplanted on a Iheltered border, 
then? will be greater certainty of their perfecting 
feeds. , * 
The forty-feventh fort grows naturally in Carolina, 
and is an annual plant, greatly refembling our common 
Dove’s-footCrane’s-bill, but is fmaller, and the branches 
are fhorter •, the flowers are very fmall, of a pale blue 
colour; thefe are fucceeded by five feeds, having Ihort 
ereCt beaks, which are black. If the feeds of this fort 
are permitted to fcatter, the plants will arife without 
farther care; and if thinned and kept clean from 
weeds, will produce flowers and feeds. 
The forty-eighth fort has fome refemblance of the 
forty-fifth, but the leaves are more of an oval heart- 
Ihape ; the flowers are alfo of a bright red colour. 
This grows naturally at the Cape of Good Hope; the 
plant is tender, therefore will require the fame treat- 
ment as the forty-feventh fort, with which they will 
produce flowers and feeds, after which the plants 
decay. 
All the forts of African Crane’s-bill may be propa- 
gated by feeds ; thefe may be fown upon a bed of 
light earth toward the end of March, where the plants 
will appear in a month or five weeks after, and by 
the beginning of June the plants will be fit to remove; 
when they fhould be carefully taken up, and each 
planted into a feparate pot, filled with light kitchen- 
garden earth, and placed in a fhadv fltuation till the 
plants have taken new root; then they may be removed 
into a fheltered fltuation, and placed among other of 
the hardier green-houfe plants, where they may remain 
till autumn, when they mull be removed into the 
green-houfe, and treated in the fame manner as other 
hardy kinds of green-houfe plants. 
But thefe who are defirous to have their plants large, 
and flower foon, fow the feeds upon a moderate hot- 
bed in the fpring, on which the plants will come up 
much fooner, and will be fit to remove long before 
thofe which are fown in the open air ; but when thefe 
plants come up, there muft be great care taken not to 
draw them up weak ; and when thefe are tranfplanted, 
the pots fhould be plunged into another moderate hot- 
bed, obferving to fhade them from the lun till they 
have taken new root; then they muft be gradually 
inured to bear the open air, into which they fhould be 
removed the beginning of June, and placed in a fhel- 
tered fltuation with other exotic plants. If thefe 
plants are brought forward in the fpring, moft of 
the forts will flower the fame fummer, and the plants 
will be very ftrong before the winter, fo will make a 
better appearance in the green-houfe. 
The fnrubby African Geraniums, from the twenty- 
firft to the thirty-fecond inclu five, and alfo the for- 
ty-firft and forty-third forts, are commonly propa- 
gated by cuttings, which, if planted in a fhady bor- 
der in June or July, will take good root in five or fix 
weeks, and may then be taken up and planted into 
feparate pots, placing them in the fhade till they have 
taken new root ; after which they may be removed in- 
to a fheltered fltuation, and treated in the fame man- 
ner as the feedling plants. The twenty-ninth, thir- 
tieth, thirty-firft, and thirty-fecond forts, have more 
fucculent ftalks than either of the other, fo the cut- 
tings of thefe forts fhould be planted into pots filled 
with light kitchen-garden earth, and plunged into a 
very moderate hot-bed, where they fhould be fhaded 
from the fun in the heat of the day, and fhould have 
but little water ; for thefe are very apt to rot with 
much moifture, fo they muft only be gently refreilied 
now and then with water. When thefe are well root- 
ed, they may be feparated and planted in pots filled 
with the fame fort of earth, and placed in the fhade 
till they have taken new root ; then they may be re- 
moved into a fheltered fltuation, where they may re- 
main till autumn. Thefe four forts fhould be fparing- 
ly watered at all times, but efpecially in the winter, 
for they are apt to take a mouldinefs with moifture, 
or in a damp air : they will thrive much better in an 
airy glafs-cafe than in a green-houfe, becaiffe in the 
former they will have more lun and air than in the 
latter, fo will not be fo liable to have a mouldinefs or 
rot. But all the other fhrubby forts are proper furni- 
ture for the green-houfe, where they will only require 
protedtion from froft, but fhould have a large fhare 
of free air when the weather is mild ; they will re- 
quire water every week, in mild weather once or twice, 
but it fhould not be given them in too great plenty, 
efpecially in frofty weather. Thefe plants fhould be 
hardened in the fpring gradually, and toward the 
middle or latter end of May, they may be taken out 
of the green-houfe, and at firft placed under the Shelter 
of trees, where they may remain a fortnight or three 
weeks to harden ; then fhould be removed into a fl- 
tuation where they may be defended from ftrong 
winds, and enjoy the morning fun till eleven o’clock, 
where they will thrive better than in a warmer 
fltuation. 
As thefe fhrubby forts grow pretty faft, fo they foon 
fill the pots with their roots ; and if they ftand long 
unremoved in fummer, they frequently put out their 
roots through the holes at the bottom of the pots into 
the ground, and then the plants will grow vigoroully; 
but when they are buffered to grow long in this 
manner, it will be difficult to remove them, for if 
their roots are torn off, all the younger branches will 
decay, and many times the plants are killed. There- 
fore the pots fhould be moved once in a fortnight of 
three weeks, in the fummer months, and the roots 
which may be then pufhing through the holes in the 
pots cut off, to prevent their ftriking into the ground. 
Thefe plants will alfo require to be new potted at leaft 
twice in the fummer ; the firft time fhould be after 
they have been three weeks or a month out of the 
green-houfe ; the lecond fhould be towards the end 
of Auguft, or the beginning of September, that the 
plants may have time to eftabhfh their new roots be- 
fore they are removed into the green-houfe. 
When thefe are new potted, all the roots on the out- 
fid e of the balls of earth fhould be carefully pared 
off, and as much of the old earth drawn away from 
the roots, as can be done with fafety to the plants j 
then if they require it, they fhould be put into pots a 
fize larger than thofe out of which they were taken, 
putting a quantity of frefh earth into the bottom of 
the pot ; then place the plants upon that, being care- 
ful the ball about the roots of the plant is not fo high 
as the rim of the pot, that fome room may be left to 
contain the water which may be given to the plants* 
Then the cavity all round the ball fhould be filled up 
with frefh earth, which fhould -be gently preffed down, 
and the bottom of the pot beaten upon the ground, 
to fettle down the earth; then the plant fhould be well 
watered, and the item fattened to a rail, to prevent 
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