igo CARNATIONS. 
Each pot fliould contain at leaft three 
or four plants, and be placed under an 
arch of hoops, where they can be covered 
with mats, in cafe of exceffive rains, till 
the feverity of the weather renders it 
neceffary to remove them into their win* 
ter repofitory, which is to be conftrufiled 
in the fame manner, and have the fame 
afpefl as that defcribed for Auriculas. 
When the layers are properly rooted, 
which will be the cafe with moll forts 
in about three weeks or a month after 
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laying, provided due care be taken to 
keep them regularly raoift, and to lhade 
them from the heat of the meridian fun : 
they are then to be cut off from the old 
plant, with about half an inch of the 
ftalk, which connefls them to it, and 
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be immediately planted in the manner 
before defcribed. 
Carnations 
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