BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS, 6^ 



Muary, February and March, fuch as the 

 j Winter aconite, fnow-drops, crocules, cycla- 

 ! men; others in April and May, as anemones, 

 I ranunculuies, daffodils, crown imperials, tu- 

 I lips, hyacinths, dwarf Spring iris, &c. and 

 I thefe will be lucceeded by others in June, 

 July and Augull, and the autumnal bulbs ia 

 September and 06tober. 



According as the different forts finilh their 

 flowering in their refpeflive feafons, the ftalks 

 and leaves will decay, and as the roots then 

 decline growth for a fliort time, and which, 

 as before obferved, is the only proper period 

 ■fbr taking up the roots where intended, either 

 every year, to feparate the ciF-fets, and new- 

 prepare the beds or borders, for replanting 

 the roots again the following Autumn, or 

 fome forts foon after, efpecially the fcaly buJbs 

 of lilies in particular, or once in two or three 

 years, when encreafed coniiderably by cff- 

 fets ; though it is advifeable in the principal 

 fine varieties of hyacinths, tulips, polyanthos- 

 rarcifius, anemones, ranunculufes, or any o- 

 ther capital forts, to take up the root's annu- 

 ally at ihe above-mentioned period of rell after 

 flowering, both to feparate the off-fets for en» 

 creafe, and to have the opportunity of freftx 

 digging and preparing the beds, borders, &c. 

 and that by being cleared from the cff-fets, and 

 replanted in frelh-prepared earth, they -will 

 flower ilionger, and in greater perfection, the 

 following feafon. However, in the general 

 (^f f V ^^ coinmou buibs, &c, tjie^ may either 



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