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woody, the pipings do not ftrike root fo 
foon, or form afterwards, fuch hand- 
fome plants as when they are piped at 
the fecond joint from the extremity of 
the (hoot. 
New forts of Carnations are obtained 
from feed, which fhould be procured and 
raifed in the following manner. 
Thofe flowers which have but few petals, 
or, as it is more commonly exprefled, 
are thin of leaf, generally produce moft 
feed, and therefore are moft to be de¬ 
pended on for a fupply; but they fhould 
be poflefled of the beft properties in 
other refpefts, viz. their petals fhould 
be large, broad, fubftantial, and perfe&ly 
entire at the edge, and their colours 
rich, and regularly diftributed, and in 
due proportion, throughout the whole 
bloffom. 
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