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ing. There is a plant of this kind in the Chelfea Gar- 
den, which is more than fifty years old, and has re- 
filled the fevereft cold without any covering, and 
produces great plenty -of flowers and fruit annually. 
Thofe plants which come up in the full ground will 
require no other care but to keep them clean from 
weeds, and thin them where they come up too clofe, 
giving them room to grow the firlt year ; and when 
-their ftalks decay in autumn, the furface of the ground 
fhould be covered with tan to prevent the frofl: from 
penetrating to the roots, or in frofty weather, they 
maybe covered with llraworPeas haulm, which will 
anfwer the fame purpofe, the young plants being fome- 
what tender ; and in the fpring, the roots Ihould be 
■carefully taken up, planting them clofe to a warm 
wall, as before direbled. 
The other three forts are too tender to live through 
the winter in the open air in this country, fo they mull 
be kept in pots, and houfed in autumn. Thefe plants 
may be propagated either by feeds or cuttings. 
The fecond and fourth forts ripen their feeds pretty 
well in England, fo thefe may be propagated by flow- 
ing them on a moderate hot-bed in the fpring •, and 
when the plants are about an inch high, they fhould 
be each tranfplanted into a fmall pot filled with light 
earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed, fhading 
them from the fun till they have taken new root ■, then 
as the fe&fon advances, they fhould be gradually hard- • 
ened to bear the open air, into which they fttould be 
removed the latter end of May, placing them in a 
warm fheltered fituation, where they may remain till 
autumn, when they fhould be placed in a dry airy 
glafs-cafe, where they will fuceeed better than in a 
green-houfe ; for they require a large (hare of air in 
mild weather, otherwife their flioots are apt to be weak 
and tender, fo are often injured by damp air in win- 
ter, but they do' not require any artificial heat. If 
they are fcreened from the froft, and have plenty of 
air, they will thrive very well. 
The third fort feldorn produces good feeds in Eng- 
land, fo is propagated by cuttings, and the two others 
are generaly increafed in the gardens the fame way, 
that method being very expeditious, though the feed- 
ling plants grow itronger, and rife to a greater height. 
Thefe cuttings may be planted in a bed of light earth 
during any of the fummer months *, if thefe are co- 
- vered clofe down with bell or hand-glafifes, and fhaded 
from the fun, they will put out roots in five or fix 
weeks, and then may be taken up carefully and pot- 
ted, placing them in the fhade till they have taken 
new root ; after which they may be removed to a 
warm fheltered fituation, and treated in the fame way 
as thofe plants raifed from feeds. 
Z YLOSTEUM. See Lonicera. 
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