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their place, to be covt-red witii rnatts. As foon as I per- 

 ceived the bells of the flower well feen, and that they 

 had opened the tunicle or thin fkin which covers them, 

 I watered the plants and earth, when I lifted two roots 

 together, [)lantin2[ them with a clump of earth into 

 two penny oofs filled with the fame fort of earth ofi' the 

 bed, fettling the er.rih well about the roois: when fome 

 vere placed in the green-hculc, ?.nd others i : the bed- 

 chamber, which they af:;reeably perfumed; and when 

 their bloffoiTis t-xpandedj I kept their pots moift for their 

 more perieclly flowering, taking tvery opportunity of 

 giving them fun. 



Of late years tiie double flowering Tuberofe has beer, 

 raiftd from the ke6, by Monfieur Le Cour, at Leyden : 

 to this gentleman the curious are much indebted for his 

 many improvements in gardening, on exoticks, and upon 

 our indigenous plants. This great curiofity he kept with 

 the fame aillduity, as the late duke of Tufcavy did the 

 great double-bloifomed Arabian jeflamine at Pifa, where 

 centinels always attended, that cuttings (by which it can 

 be propagated) might not be taken away. 



However, morf. Le Cour is row become m.ore commu- 

 nicative of th.is his favourite flower, by which means 

 it has reached Edinburgh. Its culture is the fame as that 

 for the Angle, (which I think for fmell is preferable) 

 except vuth this difference, that I pot the double at firfi: 

 planting, fettin^ them in a very moderate tan-bed. 

 Their cfF-fets, from which flowers are only to be pro- 

 duced, T planted in March in the fame cnmpofl; I ul'ed 

 for hyacinths, fetting them in a gentle bed ol" tan-bark; 

 in ynne I removed the glafs-covers, and in their place 

 ereOcd hoops covered wiih malls; in September or Oc- 

 tober, when their leaves were quite down, I took them 

 up, preferving them in a dry warm place, until Mnrch 

 or April the feafon for planting. As foon as their flow- 

 ers open the tunicle upon the head of the flems, put 

 them into a green-houfe, or in a chamber that is well 

 txpofed to the fun, where they will expand their blof- 

 foms w ith furprifing beauty and vigour. 



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