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•with my hand, that the riddling of the earth, with 

 which they were covered, would not turn them on their 

 fides ; with the compoft I gave them a covering two 

 inches and an half; in this fituation they remained until 

 the froft fet in, when I covered them with rotted tan, 

 near two inches thick, filling the alleys of the beds with 

 the fame, to the tops of the beds, doing the fame with 

 ihe beds where the old roots were planted, to prevent 

 the froft entering the fides or ends of the beds ; and 

 beyond the ends of the beds I laid the old tan two 

 feet thick, for the better protefting them from the 

 frofl. 



Before I planted thefe young roots, I took fome flakes 

 of timber, in which were fixed ftaples to admit the 

 ends of hoops, thefe were drove down in the path- 

 way, near the two fides of the bed, at four feet dif- 

 tance ; and oppofite to each other, in the fpring, you 

 are to fet in your hoops, and acrofs them fecure fome 

 rods to fupport mats as a fhade from the fun and 

 weather, to prote8: the flowers and leaves of the plants. 

 Before I fet up the hoops, I removed the tan-covering 

 with the hand, and had laid on half an inch of good 

 ftifF, garden, clayifh mould, without any mixture of 

 fand ; the ufe of this is, that in watering the beds, 

 (which may be neceffary) the loofe fandy earth may 

 not be wafhed from the roots of the plants. — Some 

 of them v/ill fhew flowers this feafon, which, as loon 

 as they appear, flick down by their fides long wires 

 painted green, which are made for this purpofe, to 

 which gently faften them, when their flower-fiems 

 rife, firft below their bells, and afterwards, as they 

 rife, between their bells, with a piece of bafs-mat, 



but with great care, marking the good flowers. 



They muft continue in that pofition until the lifting fea- 

 fon, when they are to be treated in the fame way as you 

 do your full-grown roots, as directed in pag. 272. 



I fhall now proceed to defcrlbe fome of the befl: forts of 

 the double flower?, in the fame manner as I have done 

 the fingle. 



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