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if permitted to Hand, will produce flowers • and theft 
often ftarve and kill the grafts, fo that there will 
be only the common fort left ; and this has been the 
cafe with fome plants which he examined, therefore 
fuppofed the difference of the other fort was wholly 
owing to culture ; whereas, if he had only obferved 
the difference of their leaves, he would have certainly 
made two diftindl fpecies of them, which he has now 
done in the laft edition of his fpecies. 
This plant is propagated by budding or inarching it 
upon the common white Jafmine, on which it takes 
very well, and is rendered hardier than thofe which 
are upon their own flocks. But the plants of this kind 
being brought over from Italy every fjpring in fo great 
plenty, they are feidom railed here : I jfhall therefore 
proceed to the management of fuch plants as are ufu- 
ally brought into England from the place above-men- 
tioned, which are generally tied up in fmall bunches, 
containing four plants, and their roots wrapped about 
with mofs, to preferve them from drying ; which, if 
it happen that the fhip has a long paffage, will often 
occafion them to pufh out ftrong fhoots from their 
roots, which muft always be taken off before they are 
planted, otherwife they will exhaufl the whole nou- 
rifhment of the plant, and deftroy the graft. 
In the making choice of thefe plants, you fhould 
carefully oblerve if their grafts are alive, and in good 
health : for if they are brown and fhrunk, they will 
not pufh out, fo that there will be only the flock left, 
which is of the common fort. 
When you receive thefe plants, you muft clear the 
roots of the mofs, and all decayed branches fhould be 
taken off ; then place their roots into a pot or tub of 
water, which fhould be fet in the green-houfe, or 
fome other room, where it may be fcreened from the 
cold ; in this fituation they may continue two days, 
after which you muft prune off "all the dry roots, and 
cut down the branches within four inches of the place 
where they were grafted, and plant them into pots fill- 
ed with frefh light earth ; then plunge the pots into a 
moderate hot-bed of tanners bark, obferving to wa- 
ter and fhade them, as the heat of the feafon may re- 
quire. In about a month or fix weeks after they will 
begin to fhoot, when you muft carefully rub off all 
fuch as are produced from the flock below the graft j 
and you muft now let them have a great fhare of air, 
by raifing the glaffes in the heat of the day ; and as 
the fho6ts extend, they fhould be topped, to ftrength- 
en them, and by degrees fhould be hardened to en- 
dure the open air, into which they fhould be removed 
the beginning of June, but muft have a warm fitu- 
ation the firft fummer ; for if they are too much ex- 
pofed to the winds, they will make but indifferent 
progrefs, being rendered fomewhat tender by the 
hot-bed. If the fummer proves warm, and the trees 
have fucceeded well, they will produce fome flowers 
in the autumn following, though they will be few in 
number, and not near fo ftrong as they will be the 
fucceeding years, when the trees are ftronger and 
have better roots. 
Thefe plants are commonly preferved in green-houfes, 
with Oranges, Myrtles, &c. and during the winter 
feafon, will require to be frequently watered ; which 
fhould be performed fparingly each time, efpecially 
in cold weather, for too much wet at that feafon 
will be apt to rot the fibres of their roots; they 
fhould alfo have a great fhare of frefh air when the 
weather, will permit, for which purpofe they fhould 
be placed in the cooleft part of the green-houfe, 
among plants that are hardy, where the windows may 
be opened every day, except in frofty weather ; nor 
fhould they be crowded too clofe among other plants, 
which often occafions the tender part of their Wots 
to grow mouldy and decay. In April the fhoots of 
tnefe plants fhould be fhortened down to four eyes, 
and all the weak branches fhould be cut off; and if 
you have the conveniency of a glafs-ftove, or a deeo 
h ame, to place the pots in at that feafon, to draw 
them out again, it will be of great fervice in forward- 
ing their flowering ; yet ftifl you fhould be careful 
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hot to force them too much ; and as foon Us ihef 
have made fhoots three or four inches long, the 
glaffes fhould be opened in the day time, that the 
plants may, by degrees, be inured to the open air, 
into which they fhould be removed by the latter end 
of May, or the beginning of June; otherwife their 
flowers will not be fo fair, nor continue fo long. If 
the autumn prove favourable, thefe plants will con- 
tinue to produce frefh flowers until November ; and 
fometimes when they are ftrong, they will continue 
flowering later ; but then they muft have a great fhare. 
of air when the weather is mild and will admit of it, 
otherwife the fiower-buds will grow mouldy and decay. 
But notwithftanding rnoft people preferve thefe plants 
in green-houfes, yet they will endure the cold of our 
ordinary winters in the open air, if planted againft a 
warm wall, and covered with mats in frofty weather ; 
they will alfo produce ten times as many flowers in 
one feafon as thofe kept in pots, and the flowers will 
likewifebe much larger; but they fhould not be planted 
abroad till they have acquired ftrength, fo that it will 
be necefiary to keep them in pots three or four years, 
whereby they may be fheltered from' the froft in win- 
ter ; and when they are planted againft the wall, which 
fhould be in May, that they may take good root in 
the ground before the fucceeding winter, you muft 
turn them out of the pots, preferving the earth to their 
roots ; and having made holes in the border where 
they are to be planted, you fhould place them therein, 
with their ftems clofe to the wall ; then fill up the 
holes round their roots with good, frefli, rich earth, 
and give them fome water to fettle the ground about 
them, and nail up their fhoots to the wall, fhortening 
fuch of them as are very long, that they may pufh out 
new fhoots below to furnifh the wall, continuing to 
nail up all the fhoots as they are produced. In the 
middle, or toward the latter end of July, they will 
begin to flower, and continue to produce new flowers 
until the froft prevents them ; which, when you ob- 
ferve, you fhould carefully cut off all the tops of fuch 
fhoots as have buds formed upon them, as alfo thofe . 
which have the remains of faded flowers left ; for if 
thefe are fuffered to remain on, they will foon grow 
mouldy, efpecially when the trees are covered,'" and 
thereby infedt many of the tender branches, which 
will greatly injure the trees. 
Toward the middle of November, if the weather proves 
cold and the nights frofty, you muft begin to cover 
your trees with mats, which fhould be nailed over 
them pretty clofe ; but this fhould be done when the 
trees are perfedly dry, otherwife the wet being lodged 
upon the branches, will often caufe a mouldinefs upon 
them, and the air being excluded therefrom, will rot 
them in a ftiort time : it will alfo be very neceffary to 
take off the mats as foon as the weather will permit, 
to prevent this mouldinefs, and only keep them clofe 
covered in frofty weather, and in the nights ; at which 
time you fhouldalfo lay fome mulch upon the furfaceof 
the ground about their roots, and fallen fome bands of 
hay about their ftems, to guard them from the froft ; 
and in very fevere weather, you fhould add a double or 
treble covering of mats over the trees ; by which 
method, carefully performed, you may preferve them 
through the hardeft winters. In the fpring, as the 
weather is warmer, you fhould by degrees take off 
the covering ; but you fhould be careful not to ex- 
pofe them too foon to the open air, as alfo to guard 
them againft the morning frofts and dry eafterly 
winds, which often reign in March, to the no fmall 
deftruftion of tender plants if they a~e expofed 
thereto ; nor fhould you quite remove your covering 
until the middle of April, when the feafon is fettled ; 
at which time you fhould prune the trees, cuttino* 
out all decayed and weak branches, fhortening the 
ftrong ones to about two feet long, which will caufe 
them to fnoot ftrong, and produce many flowers. 
There is a variety of this with femi-double flowers, 
which is at prefent more rare in England, and Only 
to be found in fome curious gardens ; though in 
Italy it is pretty common, from whence it is fome°rimes 
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