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a mat, in an airy dry place, uhcie llierc is not much s\in, being 

 spread out in a tliiu mamur. A\ hen ihey arc become quite dry, the 

 remainder of the earth should be rul)i)ed ofl'lhem, and ihey may be 

 ])ut up in bags or boxes, and phieed in a silualion where lliey can- 

 not be injured by vermin. Tlie rools sliould not be loo much parled 

 where they are intended lo flower strongly, and each pari sl-.ouid ho 

 furnished wilh a good eye. AVherc the taking up has biH-n delayed 

 till the roots begin lo make new shoots, it will be loo lale lo remove 

 them that season. 



In planting the rools or sels thus procured, or which have been 

 })ui chased from the seedsmen, such situations should be chosen for 

 blowing them in as are free from nuich moisture, and where the ex- 

 posure is open to the intluehce of the sun and air, and i'vcc from the 

 shade of trees. They will succeed and flower in lol('ral)Ie perfcclion 

 in any soil that is sutticienlly light and friable in ihe mouKI; i)iit in 

 order to have them blow in ihe greatest perfection, beds should be 

 prepared wilh earlhy mixtures, made by taking oil" ihe surface of 

 such lands as have been long in the slate of sward, to the depth of 

 eight or ten inches, where the earlh is of the light sandy or hazel 

 mould kind, throwing it up tor some lime that it may rot and be- 

 come perfectly mellow; Avhen rotten cow-dung, in the proportion of 

 one-third, should be incorporated wilh it, by having them thrown up 

 together into a licap, and iVequenlly turned ov(m- atterwards; the 

 stones and clods being carefully raked out aiul reduced; but the 

 earth should not be silled, as it is apt i)y such means lo become too 

 stitFand compact. Some advise the addition of drift or sea-sand, in 

 the quantity of about onc-fouiLh. 



With this earth beds must be formed for the reception of the 

 roots: these should be marked out to the breadlh of about three feet 

 and an half, with length sufficient for the (piantity of roots, having 

 alleys between them of from a loot to eighteen inches. The jjre- 

 pared mould is then to be dug or tilled in to the depth of twelve or 

 sixteen inches, leaving the surfaces of the hods iVom three to six 

 inches above the common level of ihe ground, according to the wet- 

 ness of the soil, giving them a little convexily when there is much 



