BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 5! 



©f being kept two or three months, or more, 

 out of the ground ; but the bulbous kinds are 

 confiderably the moll numerous, and moft of 

 which produce very ornamental flowers in 

 locg fucceffion in the different fpecies and 

 varieties, flowering from February, March, 

 and April, till Odober ; and according as the 

 di^crent forts have done flowering in Summer 

 and Autumn, the leaves and llalks decay, 

 and ahb the fibres of the roots, which having 

 then terminated their year's growth, remain 

 for fome time in a dormant Itate, and which 

 is the moft proper period for removing or 

 tranfplanting thofe^kind of flowering plants, 

 as alio to propagate them by detaching the 

 fmali ofr-fets from the main roots, either an- 

 nually, or once in two or three years, efpeci- 

 ally when cncreafed by the ofF-fets into large 

 bunches ; and the roots may either be planted 

 again diredly, or in a month or two after, 

 cr, as being taken up at the above ftate of 

 declined growth, they admit of being dried 

 and houfed till Autumn, September, Oclober, 

 or November, being the principal planting 

 feafbn, or a portion of fome forts may be re- 

 tained out of the ground till the Spring, if 

 thought necefiary, for fucceilional flowering, 

 then in February, or early in March, wholly 

 planted, all for flowering the enfuing Spring, 

 and Summer. And of the bulbous kinds, 

 there is a fmall tribe which flower late in Au- 

 tumn, about September and 06lober, and 

 the leaves continue till April or May foHow- 

 ing^, then decay, and which is the proper 

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