VII. LIST OF FLOWERS. 



Orange. Double, Marriage de ma FMe, double red, double 

 yellow. Of single late-blowers there are upwards of six 

 hundred named varieties, so I give none of these. For 

 borders, they are sold by the Florists at five shillings the 

 hundred. All are propagated in the same way : by offsets 

 or by seed ; but most commonly by offsets, because to 

 do it by seed is expensive and most tedious, as the seed- 

 ling plants do not come into flowering till the fifth or 

 sixth year. By offsets : When you take out your old 

 bulbs to plant, break off the largest offsets from the sides, 

 and plant them at two or three inches apart in a bed of 

 sandy loam with a sub-stratum of rotted cow-dung at 

 about eight inches beneath the surface. Let the bed be 

 raised a few inches above the adjoining ground and 

 rounded so as to turn off rains, and have it hooped over 

 so that, in severe frosts or long-continued rains, you may 

 throw over a covering to guard against either. By 

 seed : Procure the seed from those plants that have the 

 tallest and straightest stems, the flowers the most even, 

 the most clear in the cup, and of the purest colours : and 

 let the seed remain on the plant till the pod in which it 

 is contained becomes of a brown colour, and begins to 

 burst. Sow and manage in the manner directed for the 

 Hyacinth, which see. For bulbs that are already blowers, 

 most Florists choose square beds, in which they plant 

 them in rows at seven inches asunder j the beds being first 

 prepared in this way : they are marked out according as 

 the dimensions are determined on ; then the earth is 

 digged out completely to the depth of twenty inches or 

 more ; a layer, ten inches thick, of good fresh earth from 

 a rather sandy pasture is put in, and upon it a thin coat 

 of well-rotted cow-dung 3 on that, another layer of the 



