Jan. 
———- feveral Years, require to be taken up and'part-' 
ed. 
GOMPLEAT BODY 
Beds of this for fuch. Roots hag having . ftood 
and let him at the fame Time fill fome 
Boxes with it, for raifing the Plants from Seed. 
“Tn the latter End of September let the part-— 
ed Roots be planted in thofe Beds, covering 
them two Inches. a | 
After this, they are’ to be fheltered in 
extreme fevere Weather, and kept clear from 
Weeds. | ve 
The Seedlings are to be treated as other 
bulbous Kinds. | 
only a quarter of an Inch at fowing; the young 
Plants muft be kept clear from Weeds’ and 
Mofs, ‘and in’ Winter’ muft have the full: South’ | 
Sun, but inthe Summer, only the Morning Sun 
for two Hours. 
The Seeds. are to be ‘covered: 
Compott,’ “an Tick and a half deep, ‘and at five 
Inches diftance. 
They will gather Ske Wokily in this 
Place, and shin they flower, there will be 
found a great deal of Variety. I have thus raifed 
from the fame Seeds, blue violet and white - 
Flowers. : ; 
“ As* foon’ as ‘they have flowered, the worft 
Kinds muft be taken up and. planted in com- 
mon Borders, where they will be lefs regarded. 
The ‘fine ones will’ be thus kept together; they 
will be thinn’d fo. as.to lave good Room for 
Nourifhment, 
| will fendupthree or moreStalks from every Root.. 
* They. muft every Autumn have.a flight Co~- 
-vering of frefh Compoft fcattered. over the 
and the fucceeding Years ithey 
| Becks: and: be ae clear’ from Weeds at all 
_ When they are thus nurs’d up. to the Time of | Fiméses's «3 
planting, that is to be done in a Bed of the fame 
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3 the Managenent f the Flower ee 
J E have fpoken in a particular Manner [ 
on many-Occafions of the Art to pro- 
long the Appearance of Flowers, by planting 
chive Roots later or earlier than the common 
‘Time. : 
What we . advifed for 2 late mentioned Spe- 
cies, is now to be put in Practice, for many 
of thofe whieh are to paint the Borders for 
Spring, | 
and the firft Months of Summer. 
~~ Let the Gardener take the Advantage of a fine 
Day, and plant fome Ranunculus’s, Bee other 
the Spring Flower Roots. The Confequence will 7 
be, that. when the reft are decayed and gone, 
thefe will come in Seafon, and continue the 
Spring Products to the Time of the Summer 
I lowers. 
There will require more Care to be taken | 
at" at’ a- due Dittance, 
upon Occafion ; 
of thefe, than of fuch as are planted at bet- 
ter Times. But we expect our Gardener to be 
careful ; and we fhall tell him how he may 
enfure Succels, _ 
Many have try’d this Plantation, but have 
found it fail ; Rains rotting, or Frofts deftroy- 
ing the new planted Roots. 
‘Let our Gardener remember the Principles 
upon which we have eftablifhed the Founda- 
tion of his Art,’and he will know how to pre- 
vent thefe Accidents. 
Rains. cannot rot thc. Roots unlefs they 
lodge ; and in a Bed tolerably pyepared, they 
are not dangerous, except when the Roots are 
new planted. 
As to the other Arcee. it_ depends for 
its Force in a creat “Meafure’ upon the fir : 
a common Fidtt will be ‘very deftructive to 
i Roots. in wet Ground; but it muft be ‘a fe- 
“vere one ‘indeed, that ‘affects fuch ‘as lie dry. 
Let our Gardener dig up the Bed where he 
intends to plant thefe Roots, and fpread over it 
a Mixture of one Part Coal Afhes, and two 
Parts Sand.. | 
Let him tread this in, and then dig the whole 
over again, and let the Quantity of Sand and. 
Afhes be as much as would cover the Ground an’ 
Inch and half deep. 
Let him make the Bed, as for the Autumn 
Plantation, but plant the Roots half an Inch - 
deeper, and round the Bed more at the Top 
to throw off the Wet. 
This done, let him place fome Hoops over 
and thus leave them to Na- 
ture, only now and then fheltering them from 
exceffive Rain, or defending them from {e- 
' vere Frofts. 
This is tobe done by two different Me- . 
thods. 
by Means of a Mat drawn over the Hoops; 
The Shelter from Rain, muft be 
and. the Defence again{ft Frofts is, by cover- 
ing the Ground with Pea-ftraw. 
Every Shower is not to be thus guarded 
againft, nor every frofty Night; but only when ci-. 
ther isin the Extreme; for on all common Oc- 
cafions, the Drynefs of the Soil, the round 
Shape of the Bed, and the Depth at which the: 
Roots are placed, will preferve them. 
SEC FY, 
that he can cover ic 
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