The Management of the Double Tulip, nvith fome Dire^ions 

 for breaking of Breeders into beautijul Tulips. 



THE double T-iilips I planted In my Hyaeinth ground, 

 wliich 1 ftirred up froni the time I hfted my Hya^ 

 f/nr/>j-, adding a fourih of fine white fand, prepared for the 

 purpofe, and as foon as they appeared, I treated them in 

 the fame manner 1 did my oiherTulips. 



In ten days after their bloom was over, 1 carefully nip- 

 ped off their feed veflels; and when their ftalks were en- 

 tirely withered, I lifted them; this I did with a fmall 

 blunt iron inftrument, thatlljiould not wound their roots, 

 laying them in the root-roonij and as foon as they were 

 dry, cleanfed them from old (kins, old earth, and rotted 

 fibres, which were not To proper to be taken from them' 

 when jufl: lifted; obferving not to take off any off-fets 

 from them, but fuch as came from them freely, and were 

 fully formed. This I obferved as a general rule in regard 

 to the off-fets of all my bulbous rooted flowers. In the 

 root-room they were preferved by the free admiffion of 

 air, and not by any other expedient, which I have ever 

 found to fucceed bcit. 



In refpecl to Breeders, I mufl: not omit a praflice I 

 obferved in Holland, to force them to break their co- 

 lours, for which purpofe a Gentleman of my acquaint- 

 ance prepared a very lean, fandy, and gravely foil, 

 v.'herein he planted them eight inches below the furface, 

 from which he- had forty 5«^?/^/'j-, extremely well broken, 

 moff of which retained their flripes to their fading, and 

 had entirely thrown off their original colours. The au- 

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