Chap* 669. ‘Englijh Herbs, 1109 
Foreign Countries and Warm Climates grow 
Wild. 
X III. The Times. They begin to Flower in 
April, and are in their greateft Glory in May 
and June but many ot rliem continue flowering 
all the Summer, till they are Check’t by Frolts. 
Some of the fingle kinds will continue flowering 
in a manner all the Year throughout, in Tome 
places, if they ft.ind warm and are defended from 
Frolts and Cold Winds. The ingle kind, at Sett. 
VII. whofe SeeJ bears double Flowers, as well as 
lingle. Flowers ufually late, and keeps flowering 
umiL Winter , till the cold Weather orFrofty Sea- 
fons nip it. The double as well as the fingle are 
railed from Seed, which if the Seed is good, and 
of the right kind, is to be Sown at the Full of the 
- Moon in April in your dower Nurfery, not too 
thick, by any means. But if they are Sown in 
March , it ought to be on hot Beds, in fmall 
llrait drills, drawn crofs, and then covered with 
One- hand (after the Seed is Sown) as thin as 
pofiible. 
XIV. The Cultivation, r. Being Sown in their 
proper Seafons, when the Plants are grown to be 
about 4 or 5 Inches high, you ought (in fome 
Rainy Seafon) pull them up, then turn the Bed 
over where they grew, and let them again in Rows 
at convenient diltances. After they have Itood 
ft fome time, and begin to grow lvgh, take them up 
® again as before, ai.d fee them again the fecond 
time } by this means they will become more hardy, 
not grow fo high, and fpread out more into 
Branches, have more llretlgth ro endure Winter, 
and at Spring, be lar better Plants to remove, 
than thole which run up to a great height with 
long Stalks, which are l'eldom able to endure the 
Frolts in Winter. 
XV. 2. Among thefe raifed from Seed, you 
will have many with double flowers, which may 
be perceived in the buds, which will be rounder 
and larger than thofe which will prove to be fingle : 
thefe double ones you ought to remove into your 
Garden, taking them up carefully, not breaking 
the Roots, and with fome Earth about them, 
which being a while Shaded and Watered, will 
grow and bear fio ers, as well as if they had 
not been at all removed. Thofe with fingle flow- 
ers mult (land for Seed, which is to be Sown every 
ear, to preferve the kinds for after they have 
iorn flowers both double and fingle commonly d ve. 
XVI. 3. The other fort of dculle Stock Gilli- 
flowers, which bear no Seed, nor have any fingle 
of the kind, are to be encreafed by flips only .- 
Thefe double kinds, being not only more apt to 
grow, but alfo continue longer than thofe which 
are raifed from Seed ^ but as it is in Carnations 
and Clovegilliflowers, fo ir is in thefe-, thofe from 
fets, being more cafily obtained, has caufed the 
latter from Seed, to beneglefted, and almolt quite 
loll; notwirhltanding that one Plant from letting, 
is a much more noble kindj and worth five of 
thofe railed from Seed. 
XVII. 4. Some think that the Double kind 
raifed from Seed, are not to be preferv’d longer 
than their firlt year of bearing flowers, but that is 
a miltake * lor many of thole double Plants have 
been raifed from the Hips or cuttings of this kind, 
as well as the other. 5 Tis true, the Old Plant be- 
ing run up all to flower, dies commonly the next 
Winter ^ but the cutting will grow, and bear the 
next Spring following, almolt as well as thofe 
railed from Seed, which is to be done in this man- 
ner following. 
XVIII. 5. Make choife of fuch Branches as do 
l 
not bear Flowers which cut off fome diltance 
from the Stock, fo that they be not too long • 
then lilt down the balk at the end of the flip, a- 
ftarn ft al £ an I Il ch ’ , m 3 or + p |aces > equally di- 
ltant from each other, according to the bignefs 
thereof, which Peel as fat as it is flit, and turn 
up ; then cut oft the naked woody parr clofe to 
the Kind which is turned up : make a wide Hole 
m the Earth, and fet the flip therein 3 Fingers deep 
with the bark fpread open, round about the end 
thereof i then covet it, which let be (haded for fome 
time, and watered; if the Ground is any thing good 
iTh'l fT 'a This certainly 
is the beft and moll abfolute way to raife double 
Stocks of any of the kinds: and in like manneryou 
nl ?l r ?!? a If 1 Sll ps °F Wallflowers, ot of any 
other Woody Plant which will grow of flips. They 
may alfo be encreafed by laying the flips after the 
manna of Carnations and ClovcgiWflowers. 
, o’ A < en the p l ants begin to rife out of 
the Earth from Seed, you ought to fecure them 
from trolls, and Cold Nipping Eafterly Winds 
by covering them with dry Dung, Mats, or Glaffes! 
If you cover them with Glafles in order to for- 
ward their growth, take care not to uncover them 
all at once : for after having been enclofed in a 
Warm place for fome time, if you expofe them to 
the Air too fuddenly, you run the hazard of kil- 
ling them : whereas if you gradually expofe them 
to the Ait, they will the better encounter thehard- 
(hip theieof and gather a fufficient ltrength, foas 
1 e v !J ore ea W t0 admit -of a Tranfplantation. 
XX. 7. The fourth fingle Stock, which we 
prelerve for Seed, we always retrench in its Pods 
leaving no more to ripen than we think fit for our 
neceflity ; fo will the remaining Seed be fairer 
larger, and ftronger, and make more noble and 
beautiful produaion of Flowers. It ought alfo 
to be gathered when the Pods are quite dry and 
begin to open of themfelves: for the Seed being 
then in no danger of fhrinking, you may Sow it 
with expedation of excellent Plants. 
XXI. 8. Before you Plant your young Stocks, 
do not fet them immediately in the defigned places 
for them but fill whole Beds with them, placing 
them at half a Foot diltance one from another 
where they continue as in a fhort Nurfery. The 
Stocks begin to difeover themfelves towards the 
atter end of September , if Planted in feafon- 
lometimes it is later, and now and then not be- 
ore Winter For they are in no Efteem, unlefs 
they be double ; and fince Nature has not impart- 
ed to them all that advantage, this Method is 
taken ^ that having raifed them, and found out 
which of them are double, we may order them ac- 
cording to the following Diredions. 
XXII. 9. As loon as the Stock appears to be 
double, prepare Pots or Boxes 1 6 Inches Wide 
every way, which fill with one half Earth the 
other half Old Mould mingled together * and 
prers’d down with your hands, leit it fhould 
chance to fink after the Flowers are Planted and 
fo make an unevennefs in the fuperficies, which 
ought to be avoided : fill the Pots, &c. no higher 
than within four inches of the Top, for the Va- 
cancy which is left is to receive the Foot of the 
Gilliflower, which we draw up either in Tutf or 
with no more than its Roots. 
XXIII. io. If it is raifed with the Turf or 
Earth about it, then fink a Spade down, within 
4 inches of the Matter Stem, and plucking the 
Spade up, do the fame on the other fide, direfting 
it fo, that it may go Hoping under the Roots; 
and at every turn heave the flower a little, by 
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