INTRODUCTION. 25$ 



If the gentlemen of our own, or other countries, 

 took delight in luch obfervations, they might 

 amufe chemielves very agreeably, by giving up 

 fome of their time to things of this kind ; an i x 

 am mod certainly perfuaded, that this fo night a 

 Iketch, gaining continually new additions, would 

 at laft produce a work of great ufe ; as it might 

 furnifh materials for directing private ccconomy, 

 and the more fo as the times for fowing of feeds, 

 for reaping, and mowing, and for gathering fruits 

 of various kinds, might from thence be beft 

 fettled. 



Gardeners might thence learn at what time of 

 the fpring, they ought to lay the roots of plants 

 bare, when to fow their feeds, when to expofe to 

 the open air, and when to put under fhelter their 

 tender plants, and how to furnifti the garden w^itli 

 flowering plants -, fo that there might be a per- 

 petual blow all pofTible months of the year •, thus 

 the lilac follows the cherry^ the mock orange fol- 

 lows the lilac ^ and the late rofes follow the mock 

 crange, 



THE ORDER OF BLOWING OF THE 

 BULBOUS PLANTS IN BORDERS, AND 

 THEIR DURATION. N. B. The plants are 

 numbered from the firft day of budding, by 

 the figures bered on the left hand, the other 

 figures on the right hand fhew the duration of 

 their blow*. 



* The meaning Is this, as explained to me by Mr. Solan- 

 der ; fuppofe the Jno^v-drop buds on any given day, then the 

 crocus will bud the fecond day after it, the hjacinth the 12th 

 day after it, kz, 



2 I. Snow- 



