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 ftanlly : Whenever the leaves of the plant v/ere near 

 decayed, it it had off-fets, I removed the earth from 

 the bulb, until 1 was below it; then with my fingers I 

 took them off, which by that time were tormed into 

 bulbs, and, lakmg them up carefully, laici in fome new, 

 rich mould, when 1 laid all iniooth, without dirturbing 

 the mother-roots; the ofF-fets 1 planted either by them- 

 felves or in clumps, with other vernal flowers, in the 

 fame rich fandy fojl,obferving to preferve all their fibres : 

 I planted them three inches leep, opening the earth 

 as deep as their fibres were long; by this pradice the 

 qld roots flowered every year. If you are defirous of 

 maliing a nurlery of them, and to plant the off-fets 

 immediately, let the ground be wrought two feet deep 

 into a lott mould, that their long fibres may have fuffi- 

 cient room, and not be cramped by any ftiff foil, into 

 which they cannot penetrate, which will make them 

 flunt, not flower, and at laft entirely decay. I have alfo 

 had blows of them in pots to adorn chambers early in 

 the fpring, but obferved after the blow to plant them 

 in the open ground ; this work is beft done in June, 

 when you are to plant them, together with the earth 

 which was in the pot, without dilUirbing their roots in 

 any manner whatever. As loon as you receive thefe 

 roots from your florill, plant them, for if they lie any 

 time out of the ground, they will be in great danger of 

 rotting. 



Daffodilht or Pjeudo-Karciffus. 



THE firft of the Daffodilh which blows in the 

 fpring, is the 6w2iri Narci/fus with a double head, 

 called Narcijfus nanus, feu Fumilus inaximi capitif ; thus 

 it is named in the Voerhelms catalogues in FlolUind : 

 this kind does well to be planted in cliunps ol vernal 

 flowers, with Snozv-dropsy and others; it thrives well 

 in a rich light earth, but fhould not be lifted but 

 once in two or three years ; it has a yellow flower, a 

 very fliort ftalk, and a very large tnimpet-liLe cup, 

 fringed about the edges. 



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