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grow fo faft, as to appear very un- 

 liffhtly, and will exhauft the Nou- 

 riVhment from the Earth. With 

 this Management thefe Roots will 

 flower very ftrong, Ibme of which 

 will appear in March, and the o- 

 thers in April -^ which, if fufter'd 

 to remain, will continue in Beauty 

 a full Month, and are at that Sea- 

 fbn very great Ornaments to a 

 Flower-Garden. 



After the Flowers are paft, and 

 the Leaves decay'd, you fhould ftir 

 the Surface of the Ground, to pre- 

 vent the Weeds from growing ; 

 and if at the lame time you lay a 

 little very rotten Dung over the 

 Surface of the Beds, the Rain will 

 wafti down the Salts thereof, which 

 will greatly encourage the Roots 

 the fucceeding Year. 



Daring the Summer-feafbn they 

 will require no farther Care, but 

 to keep them clear from Weeds 

 'till Ociober, when the Surface of 

 tlie Beds ihould be again ftirr'd, ra- 

 king oflf all Weeds, ^c. and laying 

 fome good frcfh Earth over the 

 Beds about an Inch deep, which 

 will make good the Lofs fuftain'd 

 by Weeding, ©r-f . and in the Spring 

 you mull mamge as was before di- 

 redled for the preceding Year. 



Thefe Roots Ihould not be tranf 

 planted oftencr than every third 

 Year j becaule the nril Year after 

 removing they never flower fo 

 ftrong as they do the fecond and 

 third J nor will the Roots increafe 

 fo fa ft: when they arc often tranf- 

 planted j but if you let them re- 

 main longer than three Years unre- 

 niov'd, the Number of OfF-fets, 

 which by that Time will be pro- 

 duced, will weaken the large Bulbs, 

 and caule them to produce very 

 weak Flowers ; therefore, at the 

 time of transplanting them, all the 

 fmall Off-fcts fliottld be taken off, 



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and planted in a Nurfefy-bed b^^ 

 themfelves, but the large Bulbs 

 may be planted again for Flower- 

 ing. If you plant them in the 

 fame Bed where they grew before, 

 you muft take out all the Earth a 

 Foot deep, and fill it up again with 

 frefh, in the manner before direct- 

 ed, which will be equal to remo-' 

 ving them into another Place : 

 This is the confl:ant Pradiice of the 

 Gardeners in Holland, who have 

 but little Room to change their 

 Roots i therefore they every Year 

 remove the Earth of their Beds, 

 and put in frefh, fo that the fame 

 Place is confl:antly occupy'd by the 

 like Flowers. 



The common Sorts of Bajfodil 

 are generally planted in large Bor- 

 ders of the Pleafure-Garden, where 

 being intermix'd with other Bul- 

 bous-rooted Flowers, do afford an 

 agreeable Variety in their Seafbns 

 of Flowering : Thefe Roots are ve- 

 ry hardy, and will thrive in almoll 

 any Soil or Situation, which ren- 

 ders 'em very proper for Rural 

 Gardens, where being planted un- 

 der the Shade of Trees, they will 

 endure feveral Years without tranf- 

 planting and produce annually, in 

 the Spring, great Quantities or 

 Flov/ers, which afford an agreeable 

 Profped:. 



The jonquils ffiould be planted 

 in Beds, or Borders, leparate from 

 other Roots ; becaule thefe require 

 to be tran (planted at leaft every 

 other Year, othcrwiie their Roots 

 are apt to grow long and flender, 

 and feldom flower well after 5 

 which is alio the Cafe, if they are 

 continued many Years in the fame 

 Soil 5 wherefore the Roots fliould 

 be often remov'd from one Part of 

 the Garden to another, or at leafl 

 the Earth fiiould be often renew'd, 

 which is the moff probable Me- 

 thod 



