136 The Englip Gardner. 
of ground, they will not thrive unlefs they be fet in pots, 
and have convenient Air, but little Sun, and that temperate^ 
your old roots muft be new earthed or moulded once a 
year at leaft, they are fo apt to work out of ground 3 if you 
do plant in pots, as moft do their choiceft, you are to fill 
your pot half full of good rotten Cow-dung, whereby yoUr 
flowers will be fair, and not ftarve in filch narrow bounds 3 ■ 
let them not want convenient watering 3 they are fome- 
timesapt to root, efpecially being planted in a wet feafon at 
the declining of the year 3 they are very apt to grow of 
flips, but the fpring is the beft feafon 3 for towards the de¬ 
clining of the year, the worms are more apt to turn them 
out of the ground: More might have been (aid as to the or¬ 
dering of this fort of flowers, and for the choice of Colours 
to bring the-moft and beft varieties 3 but being ftraitned,let 
this fiiffice. 
Of Primrofes and Polianters , &c. 
T He feeds of any ofthofo forts that bear feed, which are 
chiefly the Angle, of feveral forms and colours, being 
fown either in the Spring or Autumn 3 for I have fownin 
both Seafons, and have had very pretty varieties come, and 
fome contrary to their Mother-plant 3 their fituation ought 
rather to be Shade than Sun 3 if you fow in Autumn , defer 
not, that fo your Plants may get ftrength before the Winter, 
which will be apt to heave them out of the ground,and make 
you fome work to prick them in again: I have fown fome- 
thing late at that time of the year, and have had them come 
up very well in the fpring following. I have likewife fown 
in the Spring, and the next Spring after I have had fine vari¬ 
eties of flowers. The favingft way to fow, is in pots, or 
the like, and a fhady Situation is beft 3 they grow and in- 
creafe well of the flip, and parting of them, and new plant¬ 
ing of them once in a year or two, caufeth them to flower 
more frequent, both early and late, in cafe of temperate 
weather, 
* Hepa- 
