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lofs, they are increafed by parting their roots either in their 
growing feafon, or when they are taken up afterward 3 eve¬ 
ry little crum being apt to grow if they be not too much 
wither’d or dry’d : alfo they are increafed by the (owing of 
their feed, which the (ingle fort afford pretty well ( but not 
the double that I know of) whereby many varieties are 
railed3 if you defire to make increafe by (owing, you are to 
take notice of your feed when it groweth near ripe, which 
you may know by its parting a little near the ftalk, (b that 
in a little time after it will be fit to gather, otherwife the 
wind will quickly blow it away with the doun in which it is 
wrapt 3 and being ripe and pretty well dried,you are to part 
it and gently rub it between your hands with a little dry 
find, the better to feparate it, and then to (ow it in (bme 
Pots or Boxes for the purpofe in fome very fine fifted mould, 
if you add a little fine willow mould with your earth, I 
think it will be the better 3 do not (ow your feed over thick, 
and then cover it about an inch deep with the like fine 
mould 3 the moft gainful feafon to (ow it in, is as foon as it 
is ripe 3 let the fituation be rather (hade than Sun, let them 
be kept moderate moift 3 you may likewife (ow your (eed 
in the Spring 5 if your feed be (own pretty forward, and the 
earth and fituation very (utable; they may be forward 
enough to prick out in fome thinner order, time enough to 
get ftrength before the Winter following 3 but if you are 
not forward enough, then you muft take the Spring, you 
muft take (bme care of them in cafe of hard weather, for 
I have known many mifearry in a hard or (harp Winter 3 
the feafon to Plant your bearing roots that were taken up in 
their fit feafon is in Auguft or September , (bme of them may 
Flower before, or in the Winter, if the weather be any thing 
temperate, but chiefly forward in the Spring 3 but if you 
keep fome of your roots, and Plant fome in February , if wea¬ 
ther permit, and fome in March or April, you (hall have 
them flower in feveral feafons according as you planted them, 
only remember that thofe you Plant to Flower in the more 
