94 THE PLEASURE, OR [JAN. 



RANUNCULUSES AND ANEMONES. 



The beds or frames in which are planted your choice kinds of 

 ranunculuses and anemones, sfiould be carefully protected from frost 

 by laying tan, earth, or litter round the outsides of the frames, and 

 carefully covering them at nights and in severe weather with glasses, 

 or with boards laid lengthwise or across the frames, with mats or 

 other covering on top, but carefully observing to give them plenty of 

 air every day that the weather is tolerably mild, for if too much con- 

 fined they will draw up and be good for nothing. 



Plant ranunculuses and anemones in mild, dry, open weather, if 

 you have any now out of the ground, and the frost will admit of your 

 working it ; these now planted will succeed those which were put into 

 the ground in October or November. 



For their reception choose a dry situation where the ground is of 

 a light, rich nature. Let it be well digged, breaking the earth fine, 

 and form it into beds of three an4 a half or four feet wide ; rake the 

 surface smooth, and then plant the roots. These roots, after plant- 

 ing, should be protected, as above, from severe frost and too much 

 wet; either of which would, at this season, materially injure them. 



For the particular method of preparing the beds and planting roots, 

 see the work of October. 



In warm, dry, and well sheltered situations, in the middle States 

 and generally in the southern States, these beautiful flowers may be 

 planted in the open borders in small patches with other kinds, and 

 will there make a very agreeable appearance. You may plant four 

 or five roots in a small circle of about six inches diameter, one in 

 the middle and the rest round the extreme part of the circle ; and let 

 these patches or clumps be from two or three to five, ten, or twelve 

 feet asunder, and the roots be covered from one to two inches deep, 

 according to the lightness of the ground. 



The above practice, however, of planting those roots in patches 

 about the borders is meant principally for the common sorts ; for it 

 is necessary to plant the fine varieties together in narrow beds or 

 frames, as above, in order both to have the opportunity of protecting 

 them occasionally in severe weather, and that when in flower they 

 may display a spacious show together in their various colors, stripes, 

 and tints, in the different varieties ; and also in the spring, when the 

 plants are in bloom, they can be more readily sheltered from great 

 rains or too much sun, both of which would hasten the decay of the 

 flowers ; and as the pleasure of admiring the bloom is the only inten- 

 tion of cultivating these flowers, no pains should be spared to protect 

 the more beautiful sorts. 



PLANTING TULIPS. 



Tulips, if you have any out of the ground, should now be planted 

 the first settled open weather, to blow late, and to succeed those 

 planted late in autumn. 



Let this be done as soon as the weather will permit ; for if these 



