55C LISTS OF TREES, &C. SECT. XIX. 



Ranunculus, fee crowfoot, laft lift 

 i Saxifrage, granulous rootedf double white, May 



1 Snow-drop, fingle, femi-double, and double, white, Feb. 



3 ■ great, fpring, fummer and autumn forts 



4 Spider-wort, fa voy, (Bruno's lily) and others, wh. June, m, 



4 Virginia, (tradefcants) blue, pur. &c. ditto 



4 Squill, or common fea-onion, white flower, June, d, 



4 Star ofBethlehe?n, pyramidal Portugal, white, June 



4 Arabian, or Alexandrian lily, ditto 



I common wild, greenifh white. May 



i ditto, with yellow flower, April 



3 Tooth-wort, bulbiferous, feven lobed, purple, June 



4 Tuberofe, fingle and double flowered, white, July 



4 Tulip, double, a variety, yel. and red ftriped, &c. June 



4 parrot, or hooked-leaved, ditto, June 



4 Turkey forts, ftriped, great variety, May 



2 ditto, early dwarfs, a variety, April 



2 wild European, fmall yellow flower, April 



* # * The propagation of flowers in this lift, is generally 

 by offsets, or pieces of roots, having an eye, or bud, to it. 

 Moil of them may be raifed alfo from feed ; but this is a 

 tedious method, and not ordinarily praftifed, except by 

 curious florifts. See page 284. 



Some of this lift, as moft of the bulbous and tuberous roots, 

 may be kept out of ground a long time, others a fhorter ; 

 (fee page 286) but thofe denominated flejby roots, muft 

 either be planted immediately, or at lcaft in a few days. 

 It is common to them all to be taken out of ground for 

 removal, as foon as their leaves decay, the roots then being 

 in a ftate of rejl, which is naturally longer, or (hortcr, in 

 different plants ; and if they ftay in the ground till new 

 fibres are Ihot, they are always removed with damage, if 

 not death. 



OBSERVATIONS ON PARTICULAR FLOWERS. 



Albuca is too tender a bulb to endure much wet and 

 froft, and therefore is ufually planted in pots, for put- 

 ting under fhelter (as in a frame, &c.) in winter; but 

 may be protected in the open ground, by covering with 

 a glafs, or garden-pot, towards the end of autumn, to 



keep 



