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at an improper feafon, they fhould be planted 

 again as foon as pofiible. 



According as you take up the different forts 

 of bulbs, &c. in Summer, Autumn, «5dc. as 

 they go out of bloom, and the leaves decay, 

 or on other occafions, fhould detach all the 

 fmall ofF-fets from the main or parent roots ; 

 and generally feparate the fmaller ofF-fets 

 from the larger, the former to plane again 

 foon after in beds, the others may be kept 

 longer if thought convenient, or the largell 

 retained for Autumn planting. 



Then the main bulbs taken up as above at 

 the proper feafon, at the decay of the fiowers 

 and leaves, as alfo the large off-fets, may be 

 fpread to dry moderately ; afterwards cleared 

 from earth, any loofe outer fkins, the decj^^ed 

 ftalks, leaves, and fibres at the bale of the 

 root, and then depofited in boxes or bafkets, 

 or upon flielves in fome dry apartment to 

 keep till Autumn for replanting again at that 

 feafon, in Odober or November, or occall- 

 onally in December, if dry open mild wea- 

 ther, or fome kept for Spring planting, where 

 not convenient to plant the whole in Autumn, 

 as alfo to obtain a fucceflional late bloom, 

 after that of the autumnal-planted bu-b?; 

 though it is proper to remark, that fome forts 

 will fucceed by late or Spring planting better 

 than others, fo as to flower the fame year in 

 their proper feafon, fuch for inftance, as cro- 

 cufes, hyacinths, jonquils, narcilfus, Perfiaa 

 iris, as alfo anemones and ranunculufes, bet- 

 ter than tulips, lilies, &c. but all Spring 



planting 



