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nature, the calyx will burft only on one 
fide, and its petals will confequently 
force their way through that aperture, 
and produce a loofe deformed flower; 
fome kinds are poffefled of fuch weak and 
jfhort pods that the calyx will entirely 
burft from top to bottom on one fide, 
and open fo very wide as to fuffer almoft 
all the petals to fall out, and hang down 
when they have been in bloom but a 
fhort time; fuch indeed hardly deferve 
to be clafled amongft the belt forts, let 
their properties in other refpe&s be ever 
fo defirable. When the flower ftems are 
grown fufficiently long, they fliould be 
fupported with fmall flicks, or wires, as 
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the fancy of the cultivator may dire£l; 
but thefe ought to be difpofed of in fuch 
a manner as to allow the blofloms to 
expand and blow perfe&ly diftinft from 
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