52 BULBOUS-ROOTED F^OWER^. 



lime for removing thefe forts, where intended, 

 both to feparate the oiF-fets, and either tQ 

 plant them again dircdly, or in June, July,' 

 or beginning of Auguft at latcft, to flower the 

 fame year, in Autumnf-^forefaid. 



As this clafs furnilhes numerous very beau- 

 tiful-flowering plants, both of the bulbous 

 tribe, and fome tuberous kinds, but moll abun» 

 dantly of the bulbous roots, they confift of 

 roundifli, globular, and ovalilh bulbs, fome 

 tunicated, or of many involving tunics or coats, 

 like the onion, ©thers folid, and fome compofed 

 of many fleihy fquama or fcales, imbricated, 

 or placed over one another, as in crown irnpe* 

 rial, white lily, martagons. See. and the 

 tuberous-rooted kinds confift of knobbed, fo» 

 Jid, fleihy roots, and tubers* as in anemones, 

 winter aconites, tuberous iris, ranunculus, 

 fome in a Angle knob or tuber, others of 

 many fmall tubers connedled at top, as in 

 the ranunculus in particular. 



They are mollly all of a hardy nature tQ 

 plant in the open ground, in beds, borders, 

 pots, &c. of many year's continuance in tha 

 root, which propagates abundantly by flde oft> 

 fets annually, proper to detach in Summer, 

 &c. when the flowers and leaves decay, either 

 every year, or once in two or three years, «i« 

 may be thought expedient or convenient. 



All the different fpecies and varieties are 

 arranged in their proper families, in the foU 

 lowing order : 



