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-they {houM be preferved until their worth can be well 

 afcertaincd. 



«< In this method many ibrts of new breeders will be 

 annually raifed, from which there will always be fine 

 broken flowers, which, not being in other hands, will en- 

 hance their vaiiie ; and it has been entirely owing to this 

 qiethod of raifing new flowers that the Dutch have been 

 fo famous, amon<il1; whom the paiTlon for fine Tulips fome 

 time ago reigned fo violently, that many of the florifts 

 near Haerle?n have often given a hundred ducats for one 

 fingle root, which extravagance was the occafion of an 

 order being made by xht States, to limit theutmoft price 

 that (hould be afterwards given for any Tulip root, were 

 it ever fo fine. 



*' Having thus given an account of the method of rai- 

 fin"" thefe flowers from feeds, 1 fliail now proceed to the 

 management of thofe roots which are termed breeders, 

 fo as to have fome of them every year break out into fine 

 flrlpes. 



*« There are fome who pretend to have a fecret how 

 to make any fort of breeders break into fliripes whenever 

 they pleafe, but this, I dare fay, is without foundation: 

 for from many experiments which I and others have made 

 of this kind, I never could find any certainty of this mat- 

 ter. All that can be done by art, is, to remove the roots 

 every year into frefh earth of different mixtures and a 

 different fituation \ by which method I have had very 

 good fuccefs. 



*< The earth of thefe beds fhould be every year differ- 

 ent, for although it is generally agreed that lean hungry 

 frelh earth ha'ftens their breakings and caufes their 

 flripes to be the finer, ^nd more beautiful, yet, if they 

 are every year planted in the fame fort of foil, it will 

 not have fo much effeft on them, as if they were one 

 year planted in one fort of earth, and the next year in a 

 very different one, as I have feveral times experienced ; 

 and if fome fine ftriped luUps are planted in the fame 

 beds with the breeders intermixing them together, it will 

 alfo caufe the breeders to break the fooner. 



" The befl: compoft for thefe roots is a third part of 

 frefh earth from a good patlure, Vvhich fliould have the 

 {ward rotted «ith it: a third part of lea fand, and the 



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