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| fion; and toward the End of Winter it mutt be 
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Weather. 
A COMPLEAT BODY 
semowd. at four Years Growth irito a Soil like | 
“that they have in /taly. 
Upon this Bed let the Seeds be fcattered thinly, | 
and let there be half an» 
sons an even Hand; 
Inch of the fame Mould fifted carefully over 
them. | 
The bett (A 8 are thofe ‘abated in the Spbdé 
ay. om, Spain or fome other warm ‘Parts of Europe ; ; 
_ but if there be any Difficulty in procuring thefe, 
~ fuch as have ripened on our own Trees will do. - 
Once in three Days let them be gently wa-_ 
| that as the Stem rifes it may pe tied up, to fe- 
cure its growing ftraight. 
‘When the Plants are all in, and the’ Stakes . 
tered, and they will come up. regularly. 
The Time of fowing them. is various; fome 
_ doing it as foon as they are ripe, and others 
toward Autumn : but we have found by Ex- 
perience. the Middle of .March to be vattly the 
beft Seafon : 
fhooting by the natural growing Warmth of 
Spring, and they, get Strength to bear the fixc- 
ceeding” Winter with a moderate Shelter. — 
Such as are fown at other Seafons, often rot 
| in the Ground for Want of a favourable Tem- ; 
perature ‘of the Air to bring them up; or they | 
‘require: fo much Shelter in the Winter, that’ dh 3 
| carefully dug between them ; and at the fame 
Time let the Side-fhoots, that prow too tow, be 
is difficult to harden them properly the next 
‘Spring, but that the late Frofts kill them. 
In the Way we direct they will rife foon, and 
Weeds will come up with them. 
as it can be feen which are the ftouteft Plants, 
let them be thin’d, by taking up the weaker. 
“When they are thus reduc’d to a ‘proper Di- 
- ftance, | ‘they muft have Water once in two or 
three Days in Summer, and the Mould muft- 
_ be frequently and well fir’d and broken be- 
tween them. . 
‘In Winter fome Hoops mutt’ be placed over 
the Bed, and a Mat drawn over it in fharp 
This muft never be fuffered to re- 
» main over the Bed longer than there is Occa- 
Plate 
4 
The Variety of Crocufes that paint the Borders 
XXII. of every Garden at early Spring are very nume- 
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rous ; and this:unqueftionably is the moft {pecious 
-.of them all. ~The Variation in its Tinét is no 
flight Recommendation to this allowed Pre-emi- 
~--nence 5 but its ftrongeft Title is the Number of 
Rank in-the Science than it deferves : 
the Flowers which: rife ‘together from one com- 
mon Stock. 
Let not tha iidene: while we teched it 
for thefe Advantages, place it in an_ higher 
however 
luxurious Culture may have encreafed the na- 
tural Number of the Flowers, or ftained them 
with different Shades of Colouring, it is no more 
than Variety of the common Kind, the natural 
pale Spring Crocus. 
This Livnaus diftinguifhes from the other 
Species, by the Addition of Jpatha univalvi radi- 
3 
the. Seeds | are ‘promoted in their 
~ Weather. 
* yifes. 
Let thefe be | 
"cleared away from time to time; and as foon 
2 POLEANT HOU S 
ufed moft fparingly, that the Plants may bear 
the ftee Air of Spring uninjured. 
In the laft Week of the fucceeding March, 
let a Piece of frefh Earth be dug up, and very 
well broke in another Part of the Nurfery : 
let the young Plants be very carefully removed 
out of their Seed Bed, ‘and fet immediately in 
the new Soil at two Foot and * an half Di- 
{tance. 
Clofe by ‘each Plant thrutt in a ftrong Stake, 
fixed, bring them gently to their Supports with 
a Piece of Bafs, and give the whole Bed a gen- 
tle Watering. 
This mutt be foielied twice a Week in dry 
~At the Approach of Winter there 
muft be forne Peafe-ftraw ftrown over the Ground, 
“to defend” ‘them in fome Degree from Frofts ; 
~ and” ‘the® ‘Shoot mutt be again tied ‘up as it 
In the February Peltswiigs let the Earth be 
taken off, and the Head left entire. 
This muft be repeated. the fucceeding Year ; 
and the next after that, they may be tranfplant- 
ed into the Places where they are to remain. 
The Soil in thefe Places fhould be fuch as we 
have defcribed, as agreeing beft with them where 
they are native ; and they will, by this Manage- 
ment, rife to five and a Foot, in a very 
~handfome Form. 
‘The Gardener, thus dnderttindiag the whole 
Management of this elegant Tree, will in few 
Words receive our Directions for ‘others of a 
like Kind. " 
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CROGU S. 
cali, corolle tubo longiffime, Crocus with the Scab- 
bard from the Root, formed of a fingle Piece, 
and with the Tube of the Flower extremely 
long. | | 
Under this Diftin@ion ftands the common 
Spring Crocus in the more accurate Writers , 
and the prefent fingular Appearance of it is not 
diftin& in PRESS but one of the Effects of 
Culture. ) 
The Root is roundith ; white within, covered 
with a brown Skin, and from the Bottom fends 
out many Fibres, long, moderately thick and 
white. | . 
The Leaves are many; and thofe and the 
Bafes of the Flowers, with the Scabbard which 
rifes from this Part, and ferves. them,as a Cup, 
unite in a Manner together, and form one com- 
mon Body. 
The 
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