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' same order in the box as they are to be set 

 'in the bed; and when they are taken up, to be 

 ' replaced in the box as before.' This plan is at 

 once simple and convenient, and I believe generally 

 adopted. The bulbs, he says, must be taken up 

 every year, or they will degenerate and come to 

 nothing; and if transplanted every year into fresh 

 ground, that has been turned three or four times, 

 they are the better for it in every respect. 



Persons who have valuable collections are in the 

 habit of hooping them over in very wet and in very 

 sharp frosty weather, and of covering them during 

 such periods with mats, yet avail themselves of every 

 opportunity to give air. Heavy hail-storms in par- 

 ticular must be guarded against. The same precau- 

 tion against bleak, chilling easterly winds in February 

 and March ought to be adopted as is recommended 

 by the Dutch florist in the treatment of his Hyacinths 

 at the same season. Those winds chill and stagnate 

 the sap, arrest the progress of vegetation, and do 

 infinite mischief every way. 



To bloom Tulips in perfection, an erection ought 



