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choosing a day without sun for taking them up. 

 They should be suffered to dry on a boarded floor 

 in an airy place ; when perfectly dry, the fibres 

 should be rubbed off the stems, and separated from 

 the bulbs, which should be laid by, distinctly and 

 safely, the offsets being also taken off until the season 

 for planting them in the compost prepared for them, 

 as recommended in page 23. 



SPECIES OF TULIPS. 



There are forty-one varieties named by Miller, 

 but they are all resolvable into early and late flow- 

 ering ; of the former sort, the Van Thols are chiefly 

 used ; in order to flower in April, they should be 

 planted in September, and in pots or boxes if to 

 embellish the drawing-room or green-house. The 

 Me are divided into Baguets, By-blowers, and Bi- 

 zarres. The Baguets are tall, their cups correctly 

 shaped, with white bottoms, broken into fine brown, 

 all from the same breeder. 



By-blowers have cups with white bottoms, broken 

 into a variety of colors, from different breeders, and 

 are much variegated and broken. Those flowers 

 denominated breeders are from seed, and are self 

 or single colored, with a white or yellow bottom. 

 They are very uncertain in their time of breaking 

 or producing a variety of colors ; but this result is 

 said to be produced by their being planted in a poor 

 and gravelly soil, in order that by a deficiency of 

 nutriment in the earth, the luxuriance of the plant 

 may be checked, by which it breaks out into varie- 

 gations in the first, second, and third years ; and 

 when the breaking of the color is once effected, if 



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