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and this is only by letting them where the Sun hath not much 
power, as in fome places where Trees keep off the violence 
of the Sun, or by planting them where they may not have a- 
bove a quarter Sun, and that in the moft temperate time of 
the days and this is one of the chiefeft ends of letting flowers 
in pots, bccaule they may fo eafily be removed from one 
place to another, as the weather or time of the year requires, 
for the Sun haftens flowers to perfe&ion,caufing them quick¬ 
ly to flower,and quickly to fade,and fo to perfect their feed 3 
alfo in cafe of much rain, it is good either to remove your 
pots of flowers under fome (hade, or to lay them fide-ways, ♦ 
on the ground 3 and although much wet be an enemy to 
choice flowers, yet convenient moifture is fo neceffary, as 
without it the earth cannot give life and vigour to your 
Plants. 
Again for my part, when I have principal relpeft to the 
increafe and improvement of my Plants 3 I do not love to 
confine them within the bounds of a Pot, but rather plant 
them in fome indifferent temperate Situation, where they 
may not be fubjeft to any extreams. 
Another thing praftifed amongft thole that delight in the 
fairnefs and trim growing of their flowers, is pretty timely 
to crop off divers of the Ipindles from their Plants, in cafe 
many do fhoot forth, as in fome forts there do '3 as alfo di¬ 
vers of their Buds for flowers whilft very young, leaving but 
a few, to the end they may be the larger. 
Alfo for thole that are apt to break the Pod too much up- 
one-fide 3 you are for the more handfom and graceful blow¬ 
ing of your flowers, before they are too much crackt, to 
open the pods a little equally on each fide, yet fo as not to 
bruileor deface theflowei in the bud3 alfo befides the open¬ 
ing of the Pod, fome ufe to wrap about them a thing cal¬ 
led Ox-gut, which being a little wet, will flick and keep the 
flower from breaking 3 others ufe other things, though not fo 
handfom, as the Bark of Afhen flicks wrung offbeing green 
and lappy, and cut into leveral rings as it were, which lerve 
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