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cover the bed with straw in case of severe frost, for the roots of 

 these are more tender and subject to be injured by the severity of 

 the winter, than either hyacinths or tulips. The bed should be 

 formed rather rounding, to cast oft' the wet, for which a good fall or 

 descent should be in some convenient direction. The roots may 

 remain two or three years in the ground without being disturbed; 

 but then it will be necessary to take them up to separate their off- 

 sets, which by being longer connected with the old roots, would 

 cause them to blow small and weak. 



Double-narcissus (daffodils) consist of several varieties; they are 

 hardier than the former, the Italian excepted, and may be treated 

 in a similar manner, but are in less danger from the effects of 

 frost. 



Jonquils, English, Spanish, and Persian bulbous iris: the three 

 first consist of several varieties, they may be planted from two to 

 three inches deep, according to the looseness of the soil and strength 

 of the bulbs, and treated in the same manner as the polyanthus-nar- 

 cissus: they are all hardy. 



Crown imperials, lilies, paeonias, and the ornithogalum pyra- 

 midale, or star of Bethlehem, should be planted now, if not done 

 before, and covered about four inches deep; these do not require to 

 be taken up oftener than once in two or three years, and then only 

 to separate their offsets. 



Martagons (lilies with revolute petals) consist of many species 

 and varieties, and may be treated as other lilies; they however make 

 the best appearance in beds by themselves, and will grow stronger 

 if the ground is well manured and the roots planted from five to six 

 inches deep. The lilies called martagons are, the Lilium chalce- 

 doniciim, or scarlet martagon lily, L. catesbxi, or Catesby's lily, 

 L. pomponhim, or poinponian lily, L. superbmn, or superb lily, 

 L. martagon, or purple martagon lily, L. canadense, or Canada 

 martagon lily, and L. japonicum, or Japan white lily, with their 

 varieties; the latter obtained by sowing the seeds of the different 

 species. 



If not done in the preceding months, you should no longer defer 

 the planting of spring crocuses, snowdrops, hardy gladioluses, 

 Persian fritillarias, erythroniums, pancratium maratimum, orchises, 

 limadorum tuberosum, snake's-head iris, musk, feathered, grape, 

 and other hyacinths; the scilla maritima, or officinal squill, scilla 

 peruviana, or starry hyacinth, together with all the other kinds of 

 hardy bulbous or tuberous-rooted flowers which you intend plant- 

 ing before spring. These may be planted separately in beds, or 

 along the borders of the flower garden and pleasure grounds, and 

 covered from two to three or four inches deep over the crowns of 

 the roots, according to their respective size and strength, and the 

 lightness or stiffness of the soil. 



In planting any of the above or other sorts in borders, observe 

 that the lowest growing kinds are to be planted next the walks, and 

 the larger farther back, in proportion to their respective growths, 

 that the whole may appear to advantage, and none be concealed 

 from the view. Likewise observe to diversify the kinds and 



