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6hc^\y, or Toon after planted in beds, in 

 fmall (hallow drills, three or four inches 

 afunder, and two deep, placing the bulbs, 

 8cc, in the drills one or two inches afunder, 

 or very fmall ones may be fcattered thicker, 

 covering them over with the earth the above 

 depth, and in which beds permitted to have 

 one or two years growth, fpreading half an 

 inch or inch of earth over the furface in Au- 

 tumn, and when tht leaves decay in Summer 

 take up the larger roots, and rep]ant<:d at 

 wider diftances, the others in their advanced 

 growth tranfplant in the fame manner in beds 

 to remain till they attain a flowering ftate, 

 which in fome forts as hyacinths and tulips, 

 will be five, fix, or feven years before they 

 arrive to that perfeftion, anemones and ra- 

 nunculufes, and fome others will begin to 

 flower in half that time, and at which period 

 of powering, thofe producing good flowers of 

 new varieties fhould be marked, in order to 

 be taken up when the flowering is paft, and 

 the leaves decaying, for planting feparately in 

 beds, borders, &c. as already directed for the 

 full flowering roots ; and there to be encreafed 

 by ofF-fets to multiply the flock, permanent 

 in their refpsflive properties of their flower?. 

 But. as in tulips in particular, they being 

 not only generally the longefl: before they 

 flower, fometimes fix, or feven, or eight 

 years before they -blow in tolerable perfe£lion, 

 and then being principally of one colour, it 

 will often be one, two, or three years more 

 before they br?ak-into ftripes and 'variegations 

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