BULBOUS-ROOTED I'LOWERS. ^3 



fomc larger oiF-fets will flower in tolerable 

 perfet^^ion tne year following. 



The I'eparatcd oil-lets muy either be planted 

 foon after fcparation, or within a month or two 

 at furthcft, efpecially the fmall ones, that they 

 may not waile and (brink in fubflance too inuch 

 to a weakly flate, or larger off- fets may be kept 

 for Autumn planting : all of which, efpecially 

 thefmaller, tobeplanteJ in beds, in roAs long- 

 ways chrce or four inches afunder; generally 

 drawing drills three inches deep, place them 

 in the drills two or rhree inches diftance, and 

 earth them over; and when they have had 

 one or two years growth, to acquire an eligible 

 fize for flowering in tolerable perfec'tion, they 

 may be taken up at the decay of their leaves 

 in Summer, for planting in beds and borders, 

 &C. at proper dillances, as directed for the 

 full-floweiing roots : or large well-grown of- 

 fets, feparated as above, may be planied at 

 once in Au;umn, &c. as full-flowering roots, 

 in tie principal borders and beds, to blow the 

 fqllowing feafon of Spring and Summer. 

 /oThe_ fcparation of off- fees may, in ibnie 

 large kinds of the bulbous tribe,' be occafio- 

 nally performed without removal of the parent 

 .bulbs, fuch particularly as white and orange 

 lilies, martagons, and other lily kinds, and 

 crown imperials ; when grown into large 

 bunches, the outward off-feta may readily be 

 4etached in thefe large forrs, without diilurb- 

 jng rhe main roots, either foon after the decay 

 o.f the flower and ftalks, as the moft eligible 

 »pd luccef.ful period, or at any other opnor- 



ity. 



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