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prepared to receive them, into which they should be put at about 

 six inches distance each way, the tops of the roots being kept a little 

 below the surface of the ground, and the earth pressed close to the 

 roots. If the following spring prove dry, they should be duly watered, 

 to forward their growth. The plants may remain here two years, by 

 which time they will be fit to transplant where they are designed to 

 grow, removing them in the autumn, as soon as their leaves decay, 

 great care being taken in digging them up, not to cut or break their 

 roots, as that greatly weakens them. They require afterwards no 

 other culture, but to dig the ground about them early in the spring 

 before they begin to shoot, and in the summer to keep them clean 

 from weeds. The roots continue many years, but the stalks decay 

 every autumn; the same roots not flowering two years together, or 

 seldom oftener than every third. When they flower strong, they 

 have, however, a fine appearance. 



The first is mostly propagated by off-sets or parting the roots, 

 and planting them where they are to remain in the early autumn ; 

 but in order to have the plants flower well, they must not be often 

 transplanted or parted. 



They are also capable of being raised from seeds managed as the 

 first sorts. 



They all succeed the most perfectly in moist loamy soils, where 

 there is a degree of shade. 



All the sorts are useful as ornamental plants, for the various 

 clumps, borders, and quarters of pleasure-grounds; those of low 

 growth being planted towards the fronts, and the latter kinds more 

 backward. 



