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When the Stems of the Flowers 



are advanced to their Height, before 

 the Flowers are expanded, you 

 fhould place a (liort Stick down by 

 each Root, to which, with a Wire 

 form'd into a Hoop, the Stem of 

 the Flowers (hould be hften'd, to 

 fupport them from falling, other- 

 wile when the Bells are fully ex- 

 panded, their Weight will incline 

 them to the Ground, efpecially if 

 they are permitted to receive a 

 Shower of Rain. 



During their Seafon of flowering, 

 they Ihould be cover'd in the Heat 

 of the Day from the Sun, as alfo 

 from all heavy Rains ; but they 

 Ihould be permitted to receive all 

 gentle Showers, as alfb the Morn- 

 ing and Evening Sun i but if the 

 Nights are frofty, they muft be 

 conftantly defended therefrom : 

 With this Management you may 

 continue your Hyacinths in Beauty, 

 at ieall one whole Month, and 

 fometimes more, according to their 

 Strength, or the Favourablenefs of 

 the Sealbn. 



When their Flowers are quite 

 decay'd, and the Tops of their 

 Leaves begin to change their Co- 

 lour, you muft carefully raife the 

 Roots out of the Ground with a 

 narrow Spade, or fome other handy 

 Inflrument, and then raife the Earth 

 of your Beds into a high, (harp 

 Ridge, laying the Roots into it in 

 an horizontal Pofition, with their 

 Leaves hanging out, by which 

 means a great Part of the Moifture 

 contain'd in thick fucculent Stalks 

 and Leaves will evaporate, which 

 if it were permitted to return back 

 to the Roots, would caufe them to 

 rot and decay after they are taken 

 up, which has been the general 

 Defeat of moft of the Hyacinths in 



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In this Pofition the Roots fhould 

 remam until the green Leaves arc 

 intirely dried up, which, perhaps, 

 may be in three Weeks time, then 

 you muft take them out of the 

 Ground, and wipe them clean with 

 a foh woollen Cloth, taking off all 

 the decay'd Parts of the Leaves and 

 Fibres, putting them into open 

 Boxes where they may lie iingly, 

 and be expos'd to the Air ; but they 

 muft be prefer v'd carefully from 

 Moifture, nor fhould they be fuf- 

 fer'd to remain where the Sun may 

 fhineiipon them : In this manner 

 they may be preferv'd out of the 

 Ground until September, which is 

 the Seafon for replanting them 

 again, at which Time you muft 

 feparate all the ftrong flowering 

 Roots, planting them in Beds by 

 themielves, that they may make 

 an equal Appearance in their Flow- 

 ers i but the Off-fcts and fmaller 

 Roots Ihould be planted in another 

 feparate Bed for one Year, in which 

 Time they will acquire Strength, 

 and by the fucceeding Year will be 

 as ftrong as the older Roots. 



The imglc and femi-double Flow- 

 ers, fhould be planted alio in a Bed 

 by themfelves, where they fliould 

 be carefully fheltered, as was di- 

 ledled before, from the Froft, until 

 the Flowers are blown, at which 

 time their Covering ftiould be in- 

 tirely removed, and they fuffered 

 to receive the open Air, which 

 though it may loon deface the 

 Beauty of the Flowers, yet is abfb- 

 lutely neceftary to promote their 

 Seeding i and when the Seeds are 

 quite ripe, you muft cut off the 

 VelTels and preferve them with 

 the Seeds therein until the Seafon 

 for fowing it. But you muft ob- 

 ferve, that after thcfe Flowers have 

 produc'd Seeds, they feldom flower 



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