304 The Gardener's New Director. 

 Role Charn-.ante PafTa Keyfers Croou 



Roie Migniarde Soleile du Monde. 



I fliall likewife introduce here the early and late Mow- 

 ing Oriental Ndrci([uSy with feme particulars neccflary 

 lo be more exacily attended to, extracted from the 

 general Direction in page 293. 



The riyacinths and PoJyanthos Narcijf'u!, feveral gen- 

 tlemen complain, never hloffom fair but in the firft ipring 

 after they are brought from Hcllajid^ which I miift at- 

 tribute to mifmanagement, as I have frequently raifed 

 them to carry feventeen, twenty, and twenty-four 

 flower-bells of moft extraordinary beauty, as large and as 

 fragrant as ever I met in Holland or Flanders ; when? 

 on their firfl: coming over, they had not more than nine, 

 ten, and fome fourteen bells of flowers upon their llem. 



The year before I received my roofs from Holhmd, I 

 colleded a good quantity of frefti, fandy, black-colouied 

 earth ; if it was not as fandy as I could wifh, I added a 

 fourth part of good white fea fand ; to this a third of old 

 well rotted cow dung, and a fourth of well rotted tan ; 

 then, having taken out the natural earth to the depth of 

 three feet, 1 filled the pit with the compoil, firll laying 

 the depth of eight or ten incjies of pure, old, well rotted 

 covv^dung, which is referved for the purpofe, when pre- 

 paring the corapotl, as directed in page 274, and to be 

 only fix inches from the bottom of the Narciffus'' bulbs, 

 to receive their long fibres. 



The bulbs I planted five inches deep, and, in very fe- 

 vere winters, covered the tops of theie beds with three 

 or four inches of tan to keep out the froll. Some of 

 thefe bulbs I lifted the firft year, efpecially if they had 

 made oPi'-fets, (and moft of .hem had two or, three) re- 

 planting them again in O^ober, in new earth ol the fame 

 compofition ; and their off-fets I planted in the l^ime 

 manner in the nurfcry-garden, but them I did not lift 

 until ihey were to be planted in the great flower-garden 

 with the old roots. 



If you perceive that your Oriental Narcijfiu'' have ijiot 

 any off-fets, yoix may let them remain in the ground tor 

 two years ; but when this happens, I am certain it is ow- 

 \nz to fome usiikilful management ; lb that they ftiould 



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