324 The Gardener's New Director. 



Manner of raifing the Serotines, Baj^uets, Bybloomens,tfn^ 

 Eifard Tulips, vjith Catalogues oj the bejl Floiuen. 



THE next plant, which attrafls our attention in 

 the fpring is the Tulip. 



Thefe are divided info Pr^coces or earlier, and Sero- 

 tines, or late blowers, whicli are divided into Baguetsy 

 Bybloomens , which are a fort of Baguets, and into Bi- 

 fards — The varieties of this flower are prodigious, and 

 to give a catalogue of them would be needlefs, fince 

 every year produces new ones. 



I had the beft kinds, from Mynheers Voerhrhns and 

 Van Zompelly Fhrifls at Haerlem, and nolwithftanding 

 the varieties of their (orts, they were always very dii- 

 tin6l. 



I bought from thenn a good number of the befl Pre- 

 cox, or early blowing Tulip, which I planted in the fame 

 ground I had the year betore blown my Hyacinths, llir- 

 ring up the beds, to the depth of two inches below the 

 path-way, and adding to them a fourth part more of fine 

 well prepared white fand, when I planted them three 

 inches deep, and nine inches root from root, and ufed 

 the fame covers in the fpring, as I had for my Hyacinths ; 

 for if thefe flowers which fhew their flower-buds by the 

 •firfl: of March, are not carefully covered, they blight, 

 and feldom come to perfection : The neglcft of them in 

 this particular, has brought them into the difcredit of 

 not being fure blowers, which is only to be attributed 

 to mifmanagement. Thsfe early Tulips mull be lifted tjjree 

 or four weeks fooner than the others, and properly diftin- 

 guifhed in the root-room. They are to be replanted in 

 the beginning of September ; obferving that their fituation 

 be rather dry than moift, and well flieltered from winds, 

 which in the feafon of their bloom, are very piercing and 

 cold. The depth given to thefe roots in planting, is the 

 better to enable them to fupport their long ftems, and 

 heavy heads when in bloom; and the covering them fo 

 early, as when their flower appears, is to prote6t them 



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