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CARNATIONS. 
the compoft, and have a little fine mould 
fifted upon it, barely fufficient to cover 
the feed : at this feafon of the year, 
v artificial heat is not required, the pots 
fhould therefore be placed in an airy 
part of the garden, be (haded from the 
heat of the fun, and kept moderately 
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moift, but never very wet. As foon as the 
young plants appear with fix leaves, and 
become about three inches high, they 
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fhould be planted out on a bed of good 
. rich garden mould, at about ten or twelve 
inches afunder, and be defended from 
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excefs of rain, and fevere frofls, by mats 
on hoops, placed over the bed in the 
ufual manner : they will in general blow 
the following fummer. 
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Some perfons have advanced an opi¬ 
nion, that the feed of ran plants produces 
as great a proportion of variegated flow- 
ers as any other; but the validity of this 
D d alfertion 
