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that have been raised from seed last year, will 

 blow about this time; and such as are not 

 worth preserving ought to be rooted up whilst 

 you can distinguish them. Any shoots of the 

 good ones, that are fit, may be laid. 



I need not, I think, repeat every month my in- 

 structions concerning watering (in dry weather) 

 those seedlings, or newly planted roots, that 

 may require it. You will always be the best 

 judge yourself of what absolutely wants water; 

 and I need only caution you not to give too 

 much, especially where the soil is strong, or 

 close, as over watering will occasion the plants 

 to grow too much, and thereby exhaust their 

 strength in leaves ; in which case the flowers 

 will be but poor and few. 



You must continue to take up such bulbous 

 roots as have lost their leaves, and put them 

 away till the time for replanting arrives. 



