In the Parterre, and Flower Garden.
Slip Stocks and other lignous Plants and Flowers: From henceforth to Michaelmas you may also lay Gilly-flowers and Carnations for Increase, leaving not above two, or three spindles for flowers, with supports, cradles, and hooses, to establish them against winds, and destroy Earwigs.
The Layers will (in a moneth or six weeks) strike root, being planted in a light loamy earth mix’d with excellent rotten soil and seifted: plant six or eight in a pot to save room in Winter: keep them well from too much Rains: but shade those which blow from the afternoons Sun, as in the former Moneths.
Yet also you may lay Myrtils, and other curious Greens.
Water young planted Shrubs and Layers, etc., as Orange-trees, Myrtils, Granades, Amomum, etc.
Clip Box, etc., in Parterres, knots, and Compartiments, if need be, and that it grow out of order; do it after Rain.
Graff by Approach, Trench, or Innoculate Jasmines, Oranges, and your other choicest shrubs. Take up your early autumnal Cyclamen, Tulips and Bulbs (if you will Remove them, etc.) before mention’d; Transplanting them immediately, or a Moneth after if you please, and then cutting off, and trimming the fibres, spread them to Air in some dry place.
Gather now also your early Cyclamen-seeds, and sow it presently in Pots.
Likewise you may now take up some Anemonies, Ranunculus’s, Crocus, Crown Imperial, Persian Iris, Fritillaria, and Colchicums, but plant the three last as soon as you have taken them up, as you did the Cyclamens.
Remove now your Dens Canivus, etc.