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^IX.^ Obf. ?.' If you Sow the Seed in hot Beds, 

 ought to make them, obferving in Sowing the 



you refeivc places for other Flowers, much more 

 valuable. 



X. Obf. A. When you Tranfplant them, put 

 them among Flowers of the large kind, and fill 

 whole Beds with them, or at leaft adorn ^e mid- 

 fet off, fo that being planted regularly, and inter- 

 be Planted, nothing need be faid^ tor being put 



Weeds, or Weeds Enemies to them, which are apt 

 XII. Obf. 6. When after Sowing they firft begin 



XIII. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations 

 and Virtues, are the fame with our Common Aiuji- 

 ard, in aap. 51 1, faving that this Plant is not fo 

 vehemently acute, hot and (harp ^ and therefore 

 nuy be ufed with the more pleafure. 



CHAP. DCCXII. 

 Of the TUiEKO SE. 



l.'-jnHE Names. Tho'ithasnoknownGr(r<'/J 

 J. Name, being an Indian Plant, yet being 



Greek; andinLatine, Hyacinthutlndic,^, haiom 

 Modern Authors call it fimply, Tuberofa, qua ft 



in Englifh, The Tuberofe, fo called becaufe its Root 



" IL The Kinds. It is the Opinion of almoft all 

 Authors, that it is a Species of the Jacnths, but 



have difcourfed before in Chap, 391'. is very much 



the Defcription. 



III. Its Root is thick and Tuberous, which gave 

 occafion to its Name, with fame Fibres or Strings 

 iffutnsfrom it : From this Rootfhoet forth fever al 

 Leaves about half a foot long prait.fmooth, and 

 pointed at the end; m the middle of which rifes up 

 "S'en,, three or four Feet high, and about the 

 thicknefs of ones little Finger. On the top of this 

 Stem or Stalk, the flowers come forth like tillys, 

 fmgle Leav'd, and fhaped like a Pipe or Bell, 

 pointed, or notch d infix places, and looking almoft 



fsee'dtttjaTcot''.'"" """""'^'^ 



IV. The Places. It is 

 Indian Plant, but now al 



Originally a 



rally out of Italji, where they thrive and ptofper 

 Plant them in Pots, and fo place them in'our^Gar^ 

 the Seafon grows cold. 



V. The Times. If the Seafon is warm and tem- 

 perate, the Roots may be Planted in February 01 



OBSERVATIONS. 



[. Obf I. The Tuber of e delights wonderful- 

 il. Obf 2. Chufe fuch Roots as are hard and 



your Thunr 

 k, and i, 



^ith Earth 

 e third of 



X. Obf. 5. Thus managed, their J 

 low what they wiU be, fines Heat al 



