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earlier, they will fpr'ing up before the froft comes on, 

 which will endanger them, either by throwing their 

 young roots cut ot the ground, or by cutting off their 

 leaves. 



I then prepared boxes for them, much in the fame 

 manner as I did tor the lecdling Hyacinths, but fomewhat 

 fliallower; the feed is to be fown thin, and to be protect- 

 ed as much as poflible from the froft, which the cover of 

 the boxes much afRft in. 



The young plants, by this management, wiji begin 

 to appear by the firft of Mcircb, when the feverity of the 

 frofts is over, when the boxes are to be removed into a 

 fituation where they may enjoy the benefit of the 

 fun, until eleven o'clock only. I prefer boxes for 

 thefe as well as mod: other flower-feeds, as the wood is 

 warmer than any earthen ware; I always took care to lay 

 fome very fine riddled rotten tan over the ground, be- 

 fore the froft fet in, which alfo kept down the light eartii 

 in watering, fo that it was preferved about their roots. 

 In "June they are to be lifted out of the boxes, to be re- 

 planted about the middle oi No'vember, giving them new 

 earth and larger boxes, to be covered as before with rot- 

 ted tan. The boxes for this purpofe were one foot and 

 an half deep, and in length according to your nuinber 

 of roots, to be planted at two inches d:ftance, root from 

 root, and near two inci.es deep, in the fame fort of com- 

 port before ufed. I planted tliem in boxes for this fecond 

 year, rather than in beds, the better to protefl them 

 from the feverities of the weather; they appeared in 

 Adarchy and fome of them flowered: Thofe which \vere 

 fingle and of an ordinary colour, I pulled up when thcv 

 were in bloom ; the good ones I allowed to remain in the 

 ground until the lifting feafon; fuch as flowered in the fe- 

 cond year, were only femidoubles, excepting two dozen 

 of fine doubles, of which I took particular care, and 

 planted them among the fineft doubles, being extra- 

 ordinary fine flowers, and fo much efceemcd as to be 

 placed in the Dutch catalogues. 



About the middle of December, or the beginning of 



'January, the feediings which I laid in the root-room, I 



planted into a long bed two inches deep, in the compoft, 



whioji wai laid two feet deep, and four broaii, which I 



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