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are propagated by feeds, fown on a hot-bed early in the 
fbring. When the plants come up, plant them on afrelh 
hot-bed to bring them forward. After'they have taken 
root in the hot-bed, they fhould have very little water. 
When they are large enough to tranfplant again, plant 
each in a l'mall pot filled with light frelh earth, but not 
rich, and plunge them into a hot-bed of tan, fhading 
them in the heat of the day until they have taken new 
root, and then giving them plenty of frelh air. At the 
end of June feme of the plants may be inured to the open 
air, and afterwards may be turned out of the pots and 
planted in a warm border,where they will thrive and fpread, 
but will not be very productive of flowers; fome there¬ 
fore muft be continued in the pots, and removed to the 
fhelves of the ftove, that they may flower plentifully and 
produce good feeds. 
The perennial forts are eafily propagated by cuttings 
during any of the fummer months. Such of them as 
have fhrubby ftalks and branches, very readily take root 
when planted in a bed of light foil, and covered either 
with mats or glalfes; but, when they are covered with 
the latter, they mull be fhaded every day when the fun is 
warm j thefe cuttings of the fhrubby forts need not be 
cut from the plant more than five or fix days before they 
are planted, during which time they fhould be laid in a 
dry room, not too much expofed to the fun, that the part 
which was feparated from the old plants may heal over 
and dry before they are planted, otherwife they are apt to 
rot. Thefe may be planted at about three inches diftance 
from each other, and the earth prefled clofe to them; but 
none of their leaves fhould be buried in the ground, for, 
as they abound with moifture, if they are covered with 
the earth, it will caufe them to rot, and that often de- 
ftroys the cuttings ; therefore, when the cuttings are 
taken from the old plants, they fhould be diverted of then- 
lower leaves, fo far as may be necefl'ary to allow a naked 
ftalk of fufficient length for planting. When the cut¬ 
tings are planted, it will be necefl'ary to give them a lit¬ 
tle water to fettle the ground abotit them, but it fhould 
be done with caution, for too much wet will fpoil them ; 
if thefe are fhaded every day from nine or ten o’clock till 
three or four, when the fun is warm, it will prevent the* 
ground from drying too fart, fo that the cuttings need 
not be watered oftener than once in a week ; but, if there 
fhould happen fome gentle fhowers of rain, it will be pro¬ 
per to take off their covers, and let them receive it, but 
they fhould be fereened from hard rains. The cuttings 
thus managed will have put out good roots in about fix 
weeks, when they fhould be carefully taken up, and each 
planted in a feparate finall pot filled with light fandy 
earth, and then placed in a fhady fituation, giving them 
a little water to fettle the earth to their roots; in this 
place they may remain about ten days or a fortnight, by 
which time they will have taken good root, and may be 
removed to a fheltercd place, where they may have more 
fun, in which they may remain till autuiim. During the 
fummer months, thefe may be watered twice, or, in very 
hot weather, three times, a-week, but it muft not be given 
them in too great plenty ; arid, as the fun declines in au¬ 
tumn, they lhould not have it oftener than one a-week ; 
for, it they are often fupplied with it, the plants will grow 
luxuriant; their leaves and branches will be fo replete 
with moifture, that the early frofts in the autumn will 
deliroy them. The forts which grow very freely fhould 
be fhifted three times in the fummer, to pare.off their 
roots, and keep them within compafs; and thefe fhould 
never be planted in rich earth for the reafons before 
given; for, if the earth be frefli, it will require no dung 
or other compoft, unlefs it is ftrong ; in which cafe, fea- 
fand, or lime-rubbifh, will be a good mixture; the quan¬ 
tity of either muft be in proportion to the ftiffnefs of the 
ground, always being careful to render it fo light, as that 
the wet may eafily pafs off. 
We next proceed to treat of thofe forts whofe ftalks and 
leaves are very fucculent. The cuttings of thefe fhould 
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be taken from the plants ten days or a fortnight before 
they are planted, that they may have time for their 
wounded part to heal over and dry; the lower leaves of 
thefe fhould alfo be ftripped off, that their naked ftalks 
may be of a fufficient length for planting. As thefe arc 
moftly plants of humble growth, fo, if their ftalks are di¬ 
verted of their leaves an inch and a half, it will be fuffi¬ 
cient. The cuttings of thefe forts require to be covered 
with glalfes, to keep off the wet; they~mufl alio have lefs 
water than the other, but in other particulars require the 
fame treatment. The roots of thefe, not fpreading and 
extending fo much as thofe of the other, will not require 
to be fhifted oftener than twice a-year at moll; they muft 
alfo be kept in finall pots to confine their roots ; the earth 
in which they are planted fhould be rather light, and not 
rich. During the fummer-feafon they muft not have too 
much wet, and in the winter they muft have but little 
water. If thefe fucculent forts are placed in an open airy 
glafs-cafe in winter, where they may have free air admitted 
to them in plenty in mild weather, and are fereened from 
the froft, they, will thrive much better then when they are 
more tenderly treated. 
The other fhrubby forts may be fheltered in winter un¬ 
der a common frame, where, if they are protefted from 
froft and wet, it is'all they require ; for, the hardier thefe 
are treated, the greater quantity of flowers they will pro¬ 
duce ; and fome of the forts are lb hardy, as to live abroad 
when planted dole to a good-af'pefted wall, and in a poor 
dry foil; fo that, where there is room to difpofe them 
againft a wall, and the border is railed with lime-mbbilh 
to prevent their rooting deep and growing luxuriant, they 
may be preferved through the winter with very little ffiel- 
ter, and thefe will flower much better than thofe under 
cover. The hardieil forts are hijpidimi,Jiriatum, barbatum, 
crajjfolium, glaucum, uncinatum, and corniculatum. Thefe 
wiil lometimes abide f'everal winters on a dry artificial 
rock, or upon the top or at the foot of a dry wall. 
From about May to September ail the forts thrive beft 
in the open air, in a fheltered warm funny fituation, no 
more watered than juft to preferve their leaves from lhri- 
veiling. But, if the leafon be wet, it may be better to leave 
them in the houl'e, which during this leafon will be thin 
of plants, and have, the lights generally open. The gene¬ 
rality of the f'pecies are belt planted in finall pots, not larger 
than thirty-twos. They fhould be filled with a light fandy 
unmanured foil, that wiil not bind. The finallelt forts 
thrive ftill better in fixties. 
All the perennial and fhrubby forts may be increafed 
very readily in a ftove, either from feed or cuttings, not 
covered by bell-glaifes. Sow the leed, as foon as procured, 
unlefs it be in the depth of winter, in a poor light fandy 
foil, kept damp but not wet: its germination will be much 
affifted by the bark-bed. They all remain a long time in 
the feed leaf. When the young plants appear, they fhould 
hftve rather more water and air, until they have four or 
five leaves, when they may be tranfplanted in so the final left 
pots, kept in the fame gentle hot-bed until they have got 
frefli roots, when they fhould be gradually hardened to the 
open air, if it be fummer, or placed near the old plants, in 
the dry ltove, if it be winter. When they have filled the 
finall pots with their roots, they fhould be removed into 
larger ones. When raifed from cuttings, the fhoots need 
not be large, and the youngeft are the beft ; they fhould 
be divefted of a few of the old leaves, and, if veryfuccu- 
lent, laid in a dry fhady place, from one to twenty-four 
hours, to heal their wounds, after which, plant them in 
the foil mentioned above, with the earth preffed clofe ; 
water them very iparingly, and lhade them from the fun 
until they have llrUck root, but without covering them 
by a hand-glaf's. Their linking will be greatly accelerated 
by plunging them into a gentle hot-bed ; but moll or the 
forts will fucceed very well without that affiftance, if kept 
in the houl'e ; and many will do well during the fummer 
even in open borders, provided they are gently watered 
when dry. May is the moil favourable leafon for linking 
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