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hes felt bring feeds, thericheft fcarlets, pale 
commended by Ferargus, are chiefly to be preferred, . 
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of odtober, and the-purples a moneth longer, and ther fet in the 
fame manner as the others ; thofe with broad leaves ‘will come up 
before Winter, and thofe with natrow leaves about the end of Febra- 
ary, or fooner it the Winter be mild, in Marchand April, if thefeafon 
be dry, they muft be watered, which will caufe them to thrive much 
the better, and to bear the fairer flowers, 
~ Tfyou find they like their entertainment, grow ftrong, bear fait 
flowers on tall ftalks, and profper well, you may forbear to take up 
their roots untill the end of Fune or Fuly, but on the contrary, if 
the green leaves are few, the flowers (mall, and ftalks fhort, it is a 
manifeft fign of their diflike, and that the foil is either too cold and 
poor, or elfe too hot and rank, which is far more dangerous ; in this 
cafe they muft be taken up as foon as the green leaves turn yellow. 
the roots put into fand, and fo kept in fome dry place for a moneth 
at the leaft, and then taken out, and kept in papers in fome cool dry 
place, until the time of planting, for fhould the roots remain in the — 
round any timeafter they have loft their fibres, the earth be- 
ing over-hot, they would all, or moft of them rot and confume 
away, efpecially ifany ftore of rain fall upon them; in the taking 
ap of theif roots, care muft be had that they be not broken, e{pecial- 
ly thofe with broad leaves, which muft not be divided nor broken, 
untilthey part of themfelves, thofe of the other kind with narrow 
Jeaves may be broken or parted. with lefs prejudice, buc the wholer 
they are kepr, the better they will thrive; and although the times 
before mentioned be beft for the planting and fetting the roots of 
~ both kinds of thefe rare flowers, yet the more ordinary kinds may be 
kept out of the pow until theend of February, which fome ufe 
to-doto caufe them to.flower late after others are gone ; in this 
practife it will be neceflary to fteep the roots four’and twenty hours 
before you fet them in warm water, and toplant them with fome 
Willow earth under and over them, and ina more fhady place than 
ordinary, elfe the heat of the Sun in the time of their flowring, will - 
much diminifh their beauty ; fo if you have two beds ftored with 
choice varieties of Anemonies, that fet laft more fhaded than the 
firft, and the fore-mentioned rules obferved, you will befure to en- 
joy the delight-of their delicate flowers part of March, all April, and 
the greateft part of May, unlefs your Garden ftand infome {moky 
place, where neither art nor induftry will caufe them to profper, 
unlefs fet ina hot bed in Famuary, as fome about Londoz ule to doe, 
“Now for the raifing of new varieties of Asemones from feeds, 
choice muft be made of the Flowers, as in Tulips, fome of the double 
T eaeples. pink, white, 
and sky-colours are the@eft: but in the fingle Tenwifelias there is _ 
more choice, as red, and fcarlets with deep white edges, all that are _ 
variegated or ftriped with white, and in thefe the deepeft velvet pur- 
ples are the beft ; but aboveall others thofe that have two or three 
rowes of leaves, and that excellent velvet fingle blew, defcribed and 
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