286 The Pleasure, or [June. 



when that is done, the principal roots may, if thought 

 convenient, be immediately planted again in the places 

 where they are to blow. 



All the bulbous roots, at leaft the choicer kinds, Aich 

 as tulips and hyacinth?, fliould always be taken up once 

 every year, in order to feparate the off-fets from the prin- 

 cipal roots ; and the moll proper time is> foon after the 

 bloom, when the leaves and fcalks decay, for then the 

 roots draw no fort of nourilhment from the ground ; and 

 when they are in an ina<5tive liate, it is mofc certainly the 

 bell; time to remove them. 



The common forts of bulbous roots, when taken up and 

 parted from the ofF-fets, may then, either be planted again 

 diredlly, or may be dried and cleaned, as before faid, and 

 put in boxes, and kept three, four, or five months. 



But the tulip roots, and hyacinths, in particular, fhould 

 be kept above ground till about Michaelmas time, or a 

 month longer ; for they will fhoot much ftronger, and 

 produce larger flowtirs, than the roots that aie in the 

 ground all iummer. ' * . 



And aifo the crown imperials, orange lilies, narcifTufes, 

 bulbous iris, jonquils, and the like, that are taken up at 

 the decay of the leases, will like;vife bear to be kept above 

 ground leveral months. 



Guern/ey Lily-Rccts. 



Tranfptant Guernfey and Belladona lily-roots ; the 

 leaves will now be decayed, which is the proper time to 

 remove them. . ^ 



But thefe need ilot be taken up oftener than once in 

 two or three years, efpecially the Guernfey lily, which is 

 then moil necefiary to be done, to feparate them from the 

 increafed parts, or ofr-fets ; and by taking them up, and 

 parting them, and then planting them fmgly into a new- 

 dug bed, or pots of new compoil, ir will encourage them 

 greatly, and they will ftioot and flower much ilrongeri 



The ofF-fets fhould alfo be planted in a bed, or pots, or 

 boxes by themfelves, and will be flrong enough to flower 

 in two or three years. 



Thefe roots fnould be planted in a bed, or pots of light 

 fandy earth. 



They commonly flower in September and Odlober ; at 

 which time they fhould be flicltered occafionally, in very 



wet 



