THE SCOTS GARDENER 



for other bulbous and tuberous roots ; keep them in 

 a cool, but dry place, till September or October, and 

 then plant them in a light sandy earth, with fat 

 soil, two or three inches below the bulb, so that the 

 fibres of the bulbs may reach it : remove every three 

 years, and of tener if they affect not the soil : they 

 may be raised from seed, but it's tedious. 



Anemonies, the very same as tulips, except that 

 they require a rich earth mixt with rotten manure, 

 so that it be not rank. 



Apply this also to ranunculuses of the finest sorts. 



Cyclamin roots may be carefully parted in July, 

 and set in the soil fit for tulips. 



Crocuses and colchicums as tulips ; but they re- 

 quire a mixt, rich, light soil : and so with 



Irish bulboses, which love a dry, rich bed ; and so 

 with narcissuses, ornithogalums, jacenths, hesons, 

 aconites, hellibors, &c. 



Likewayes Irish-tuberosus, crown-imperial, and 

 lilias of several sorts, peonies, cynosorches, &c. 



Indian-tuberose is tender. See Esq. Evelyn's kal- 

 endar. 



There are many annuals may be sowen in pots, 

 and plunged in hot-beds, and some under glass 

 covers ; especially these sowen in autumn, as, 



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