34 The Pleasure, or [Jan, 



be planted the fir ft fettled open weather, to blow laie, and 

 to lucceed thole planted in lall autumn. 



Let this work be done as foon as the weather will permit, 

 for if thefe roots are kept much longer out of the ground, 

 they will blow very poorly. If they are to be planted m 

 beds, let thera be four feet wide, and lay the beds rounding, 

 both that they may throw off the wet of heavy rains, &c. 

 at this feafon more effeclaally ; and becaufe flower-beds 

 always look beft when they are raifed gradually about 

 two or three inches higher in the middle than on the 

 lides. 



In a dry mild day, in open weather, let the roots be put 

 ntr. the ground ; plant them in rows, nine inches diflant, al- 

 lowing fix or eight inches between the plants in each row, and 

 plant them three or four inches deep. If you plant fome 

 of the inferior roots in the borders, they may be put in a 

 row a;bout a foot from the edge, and let the roots be the fame 

 dillance from each other. 



But thefe flowers, when intended to be planted in the 

 borders, make the beft appearance in little clumps ; that is 

 to fay, in a circle about fix or eight inches broad plant four 

 or five roots, and about from five to ten or twelve feet far- 

 ther plant another fuch clump, and fo onto the end. 



Planting CrocuJJe 



Any forts of crocuffes may ftill be planted for an early 

 fpring bloom ; generally planting them along the edges of 

 the flower-borders next the walks, and in flower beds, &c, 

 commonly within five or fix inches of the edge ; though 

 thofe deligned for the borders ajjpear to grenter ady^antage 

 when difpofed in fmall patches, than in a continued row. 

 Draw a fmall circle with your finger, about four or five 

 inches diameter ; in the middle plant one root, and plant 

 three or four round the edge of the circle : about twenty 

 inches, or two or three feet farther, make another circle. 

 nnd plants the roots as above ; and fo proeeed to the end 

 of the border, &c. obferving, if you have different kinds, 

 to plant each fort feparate ; that i?, if you plant the firft 

 patch with yellow crocufles, plant the next with blue, 

 and io on to the end, 



Planthig various Sorts of Bulhs, 



Jonquils, narciflTufes,, hyacinths, bulbous iris, crown Im- 



perriih, or any other kinds of bulbous flower roots, that yet 



2 teniidci 



