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tumn following, he planted ihem in h.s richefl garden 

 mould, where moll of them retained their fine colour?, 

 and were vaflly beautiful. The occafion of his changing 

 the foil the fecond year, was, that where they were firft 

 planted, the fize of their roots were fo diminifhed, that 

 he was apprehenfive their flowers would be likevvife 

 fmail, therefore he planted them in the rich foil to en- 

 large their roots. This experiment fucceeded very well ; 

 for the roots recovered their former fiz,e, and mofi: of 

 them retained their beautiful ilripes into which they had 

 been broken. 



Direclions for the Culture of the Anevione. 



TO the Tulip fucceeds the Anemone, or Wiud-fozv- 

 er. This flower is one of the beauties of the fpring, 

 which I would advife to be got from France or Holland, 

 as they have greater varieties of them, than are with us, 

 ■whofe colours are confined to reds and w hites ; whereas I 

 have fecn there great varieties of blues, purples, and 

 brownifh colours, moil admirably intermixed, and of moft 

 other colours, excepting yellow. It is called JVind-flo-Mer, 

 from its feeds being contained in down, which are eafi- 

 ly carried away by the wind. 



They are diftinguiflied into the narrow and broad- 

 leaved kinds: I renewed their beds every year with tl.e 

 compofl I ufed for Hyacinths, to wiiich I added a fourth 

 part more of a frefli yellow marlifh earth. For a full 

 blow, I planted them the end of January, in beds two 

 feet deep of compofl:, ten inches root from root, and 

 two inches deep. To plant them fooner, I found was 

 expofing them too much to winter frofts, which had dc- 

 flroyed many of mine: Sliouid thie winters prove mild, 

 you will have a greater increafe of roots by planting 

 ihem early; but this I found too hazardous, fo that I 

 did not plant them earlier than December or January. 

 In planting, I always obferved to put their rofes (as their 

 flower-buds are termedj uppcrmofl, and in Marih and 

 April, in dry weather, I often refrefhcd them in the 

 evening, or early in the morning with water, and this 

 I found to be the only proper timed" doing it. 



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