5© DULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 



The feed generally ripens in Auguii andt 

 September; but as fomeiimes, ifa cold wet 

 Autumn, fome of the more tender forts pro- 

 duce it very fparingly; fuch as the cock's- 

 combs, tricolors, double balfams, double 

 llramoniums, &c. and of which it is proper to 

 place fome pots of beil forts in a deep frame, 

 «r two or more frames placed one on the 

 other, and the top defended with the glaifes 

 of nights, and rainy or cold weather, or 

 placed in an a'lry glafs-cafe defended with 

 glalfes above ; and in either of which the 

 plants will ripen feed in grea:er perfedioa and 

 abundance than thofe fully expofed to all 

 weathers. 



BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS, 



AND 



SoKe principal Tulerotis-t'ooied kinds, of the na^ 

 tiire of Bulls y by the ha-vcs decaying mchcn 

 the plants ha've done fio^iveringy and at that 

 period ad?nit of being taken upy and kept fs^xt 

 confiderable time out of the ground, 



THIS tribe of flowers are all perennia!, 

 or of many years duration in the root, 

 propagating and perpetuating their fpecies by 

 off- fets thereof, confilHng principally of bulb- 

 ous-rooted kinds, and fome of the tuberous- 

 rooted tribe, which, like the bulbs, lofe 

 their leaves and fibres when done flowering, 

 and that being taken up at that period, admit 



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