"0 BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 



AH the forts ripen feed in Summer ar.d 

 -Aulunm, and which may be foued foon after 

 it is ripe, or in A tiguil or September, butnit 

 )^ept logger than the following Spring; the 

 fowing Ts performed in beds, border.^, pot?, or 

 boxes of light earth, or that of a Tandy lo^iniy 

 nature ; ,'noderate fupplies may be fowed in 

 large pot?, 6r in box^-s of proportionable fizc, 

 fJlir.g them near the top vviih the above earth 

 or COrnpoft, fovv the feed on the furface, and 

 covered evenly with fine mould a quarter to 

 half ?;n inch or inch deep, according to the 

 fize and fubHancc of the diiferent forts of 

 feeds ; then the pets, kc. may be removed to 

 a Ihady border «il Summer, and in the full 

 iun in Winter, or larger quantities may be 

 foU'cd in beds, or an ealierly border, or if 

 fowed in an open bed, give a ihade of mats 

 from the inid-day Summer's fun in dry hot 

 ueathcr, jrivin^ fometimes in that feafon 

 moderate waterings and (hade. 



They will come up very llender the firfl 

 year, and the bulbs will be fmall: permitting 

 them wholly to remain till the fecond, only 

 obferving in Summer or Autumn, when the 

 leaves decay, fpread a little fine mold thinly 

 ever the fuiface of the earth of the pots or 

 beds, ScQ. itAviil add to the depth over the 

 young bulbs, aud.be a fmall fertilizing im- 

 provement to the foil, and encourage the growth 

 of the feedlings, which, when a year or two old, 

 rhe^bulbs of fome advanced ftate, they fhould 

 be taken up in Summer when the leaves de- 

 ca- ,the lar^e feparated from the fmaller, and 



direftly 



