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weeks time the plants will be fit to remove, when 
you muft prepare another hot-bed, covered with good 
rich light earth, about four inches thick; which 
Ihould be made a few days, that it may have a proper' 
temperature of heat ; then raife up the young plants 
with your finger, fo as not to break off the tender 
roots, and prick them into the new hot-bed about 
four inches diftance every way, giving them a gentle 
watering to fettle the earth to their roots : but in 
doing this, be very cautious not to bear the young 
plants down to the ground by hafty watering, which 
rarely rife again, or at leaft fo as to recover their 
former ftrength in a long time, but very often rot in 
the ferns, and die quite away. 
After the plants are thus planted, they mull: be 
fcreened from the fun till they have taken frefh root ; 
but as there Is generally a great fteam riling from the 
fermentation of the dung, which condenfes to wet 
againft the glaffes, and this dropping upon the 
plants, very frequently deftroys them ; fo the glaffes 
Ihould be frequently turned in the day-time, whenever 
the weather will permit ; but if the weather happens 
to prove bad, that you cannot turn your glaffes, it 
will be of great fervice to your plants, to wipe off all 
the moifture two or three times a day with a woollen 
cloth, to prevent its dropping upon the plants. When 
your plants are firmly rooted, and begin to grow, 
you muft obferve to give them air every day (more 
or lefs, as the weather is cold or hot) to prevent 
their drawing up too fall, which greatly weakens their 
ftems. 
In about a month or five weeks thefe plants will have 
grown fo as to meet ; therefore Ihould have another 
hot-bed, which Ihould be of a moderate temper, and 
covered with the fame rich earth about fix inches 
thick, in which they Ihould be planted (obferving to 
take them up with as much earth about their roots as 
poffible) at feven or eight inches diftance every way, 
giving them fome water to fettle the earth about 
their roots ; but be very careful not to water them 
heavily, fo as to bear down the plants, (as was be- 
fore directed) and keep them fhaded in the heat of 
the day, until they have taken frefti root ; and be 
fure to refrelh them often (but gently) with water, 
and give them air in proportion to the heat of the 
weather, covering the glaffes with mats every night, 
left the cold chill your beds, and ftop the growth of 
the plants. 
In the middle of May you muft provide another hot- 
bed, which Ihould be covered with a deep frame, 
that your plants may have room to grow : upon this 
hot-bed, you muft fet as many three-penny pots as 
can ftand within the compafs of the frame-, thefe 
pots muft be filled with good rich earth, and the ca- 
vities between each pot filled up with any common 
earth, to prevent the heat of the bed from evaporat- 
ing, and filling the frame with noxious fteams then, 
with a trowel, or fome fuch inftrument, take up 
your plants (from the former hot-bed) with as much 
earth as poffible to the roots, and place each fingle 
plant in the middle of one of the pots, filling the pot 
up with the earth before defcribed, and fettle it clofe 
to the root of the plant with your hands ; water them 
gently, as before, and fhade them in the heat of the 
day from the violence of the fun, by covering the 
glaffes with mats ; refrelh them often with water, 
and give them a good quantity of air in the day- 
time. 
In about three weeks more, thefe plants will have 
grown to a confiderable fize and ftrength, fo that you 
muft now raife the glaffes very much In the day-time ; 
and when the air is foft and the fun is clouded, draw 
off the glaffes, and expofe them to the open air, and 
repeat this as often as the weather will permit; which 
will harden them by degrees, to be removed abroad 
into the places where they are to remain the whole 
feafon ; but it is not advifable to fet thefe plants out 
until a week in July, obferving to do it when the air 
is perfectly foft, and if poffible, in a gentle Ihower 
of rain, 
Let them at firft be fet near the {belter of a hedge 
for two or three days, where they may be, fcreened 
from the violence of the fun, and ftrong winds, to 
which they muft be inured by degrees ; thefe plants, 
when grown to a good feature, peifpire very freely, 
and muft be every day refreftied with water, if the 
weather proves hot and dry ; otherwife they will ftunt, 
and never produce their plumes fo fine as they would 
do if taken care of. 
This is the proper management, in order to have fine 
Amaranths ; which, if rightly followed, and the 
kinds are good, in a favourable feafon, will produce 
wonderful large fine heads, and are the greateft or- 
nament to a good garden for upwards of two months : 
by this method, I have had plants five or fix feet 
high, with crefts near a foot in breadth ; and I ana 
perfuaded, if the kind is good, (and there is no want 
of dung, or conveniencies) in a kindly feafon, they 
will grow much larger. 
By the middle or latter end of September, the Ama- 
ranths will have perfedted their feeds, fo that you 
muft make choice of the largeft, moft beautiful, and 
leaft branching plants of each kind for feed ; which 
you Ihould remove under fhelter, (efpecially if the 
weather proves wet, or the nights frofty) that the 
feeds may be perfectly ripened ; in the choice thereof, 
be fure never to take any feeds from fide branches, 
nor from the neck of the plume, but fuch only as are 
produced in the middle thereof, which in many plants, 
perhaps, may be but a fmall quantity; but I do 
affure you, it is thofe only you can depend upon, to 
have your kinds good the fucceeding year. 
CEL SI A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 675.. The name was 
given to this plant in honour of Dr. Glaus Celfius, 
profeffor of philofophy and theology in the univerfity 
of Upfal, in Sweden, by Dr. Linnaeus. We have no 
Englifti name for it. 
The Characters are. 
It hath an obtufe permanent empalement , which is as Jong 
as the petal , divided at the top into Jive parts. " The 
Jlower is of one leaf \ with a very fhort tube , fpread' open 
above , and cut into five unequal parts ; the two upper 
being fmall , and the under larger. It hath four hairy 
Jiamina , which incline toward the upper fegmenis of the 
petal , two of which are longer than the petals and two 
are of the fame length , terminated by fmall roundif fum- 
mits. In the center is fituated a roundiflq germen , fipport- 
ing a fender ftyle , crowned by an obtufe ftigrna. 'The 
germen afterward becomes a roundijh cap file comprefftd at 
the top , fitting upon the empalement , having two cells 
which are filled with fmall angular feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedlion 
of Linnaeus’s fourteenth clafs, intitled Didynamia 
Angiofpermia, the flower having two long and two 
fhort ftamina, and the feeds being included in a 
capfule. 
There is but one Species of this genus at prefent 
known* which is, 
Cels 1 a ( Orientals ) foliis duplicato-pinnatis. Hort. Cliff. 
321. Celfia with double winged leaves. Verbafcum 
orientale Sophias folio. Tourn. Cor. 8. Eafiern Mullein 
with a Flixweed leaf. 
This plant 'grows naturally in Armenia, from whence 
Dr. Tournefort fent the feeds to the royal garden at 
Paris, where they fucceeded, and have been fince 
communicated to moft parts of Europe. In its na- 
tural place of growth, this is an annual ; but in 
England it will rarely ripen its feeds, unlefs the 
plants come up in the autumn and live through the 
winter. 
It fends out many oblong leaves, which are finely- 
divided almoft to the mid-rib on both fides ; thefe 
lie flat on the farface of the ground, and from the 
center arifes a roundifh herbaceous ftalk near two feet 
high, garnifhed the whole length with leaves of the 
fame fhape, but dimimfhing in their fize gradually 
to the top : tliefe are placed^ alternately, and at the 
foot-ftalk of each come out the flowers, more than 
half the length of the ftalk, which are of an iron co- 
lour on their outfi.de, but pale yellow within, fpread- 
