4o5 The Pleasure, or [Aug> 



Remonje bulbous Roots • 



This IS Hill a proper time to remove where required, 

 feveral forts of late flowering bulbous roots, now out of 

 bloom, fuch as the roots of martagons and red lilies ; the 

 ftalks and leaves of white lilies alfo now decay, and that 

 is alfo the moft proper time to remove thefe bulbs. 



When the ro©ts are taken up, the off-fets mult be all 

 feparated from them ; and when this is done, the princi- 

 pal roots may either be planted again now in the proper 

 places, or may be dried and cleaned, and put up till 

 Odlober, and then planted* 



But the bell of theofF-fets fliould be planted in nurfery 

 beds, each fort feparate, and there to remain a year or 

 two ; and then may be planted among the other flowering 

 roots. 



Bxlbotts £ind Ferfian irifis. 



Remove alfo where neceflary, the roots of bulbous and 

 Perfian irifes where it was omitted lail month ; and the 

 bulbs of narcilTufes, fpringcrocufes, and jonquils, fritil- 

 larias, and moft other bulbs whofe kaves are decayed, 

 and the roots have not put out new fibres, may ftill be re- 

 moved, if required, either for frelh tranfplan ting them, 

 where neceffary, or to feparate the encreafed off-fets 

 when grown into large branches^ 



For as obferved in the two or three former months, 

 it is neceflary to take up the beft forts of bulbous-flower- 

 Toots, at leail once every two or three years, in order to 

 feparate the increafed parts or off-fets from the large or 

 principal root; and it fhculd always be done as foon as 

 ithe flower and leaves fade, or at leall in a ftiort time after; 

 for at that period the roots are at red, and draw no nourifli- 

 ment, but will bear removal without the leaft check. 



But on the contrary, when the roots are permitted to 

 remain in the ground any confiderable time after the de- 

 cay of the ftalks and leaves, they will k\\ fend out new 

 iibres, and even at that time, begin t^ form the bud for the 

 next year's flower ; and if the roots were after that to be 

 taken up, they might receive fo great a check by the re- 

 moval, that fome forts would not produce flowers the 

 fucceeding year ; or, at leaft if they did, the flower 

 would be \'^TY poor and weak. 



