534 '^^^^ GAUDtKER's New Director. 

 under the frames, over which are fpread tarpawlins, fu 

 as to ktep off fun, rain, and froft, whereby they can 

 \iew the {lowers without being at the trouble of taking 

 off or turning up the tarpawlins, or being incommoded 

 by the fun or rain, which cannot be avoided where the 

 covering is low ; befides, by thus raifing the covers, the 

 flowevs have a greater fhare of air, fo that they are not 

 drawn fo weak, as they are when the covering is low 

 and clofe to them, but thefe frames, being expenfive, 

 can only be ufed by perfons of fortune ; however, there 

 may be fome of wood contrived at a fmaller expence, 

 which, being arched over with hoops, may anfwer the 

 purpofe a? well as iron frames, though they do not ap- 

 pear fo well, nor are fo lafling. 



'* But after the flowers are faded, the heads of alt the 

 fine forts fhould be broken off to prevent their feeding ; 

 for if this is not obferved, they will not flower near lo 

 well the follovving year, nor will their ftripes continue 

 fo perfed; and this will alfo caufe their ftems to decary 

 fooner than otherwife they would do, fo that their roots 

 may be taken up early in Ju'te; for they fhould not re- 

 main in the ground after their leaves are decayed. In 

 taking the roots out of the ground, you muft be very 

 careful not to bruife or cut them, which will endanger 

 their rotting, and if poffible, it fhould be done a day or 

 two after rain. When thefe roots are taken out of the 

 ground, they muft be cleared from their old covers, and 

 all forts of filth, and fpread upon mats in a fhady place 

 to dry, after which they fhould be put up in a dry place, 

 where vermin cannot get to them, obferving to keep 

 every fort feparated, but they fhould not be kept too 

 clofe from the air> nor fuffered to lie in heaps together, 

 fell: they fhould grow m.ouldy, for if any of the roots 

 ©nee take the mould, they commonly rot, when they are 

 planted again. 



'* The off-fets of thefe roots, winch are rot large e- 

 yiou"h to produce flowers the fucceeding year, fliould bt: 

 alfo put by themfclves, keeping each fort diftlnft; theie 

 fhould be planted about a month earlier in autumn than 

 the blowing roots, in particular beds by themfelves in 

 the flower nurfery, where they may not be e^ipofed to 

 public view; but' the earth of the beds fliould be pre- 

 pared for ihem in tf.e fame manner as for larger roots, 



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