| May. 
Number of Flowers for Seed, mutt employ his 
_ fection of the Seeds depends. Sun. 
_ they have receiv’d their Impregnation, and they 
are only to be harden’d. | 3 
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No Tulip:can be fit for Seed:that has not all ; rifhment is given them from the Root ; they may May, 
thefe Qualities: and next to thefe is the Confide-— therefore after this be cut off, and the hardening 
Sci oak | . | of the Seeds finith’d in an airy Room, where they 
_ In many other Plants we have direéted the Gar- | will be out of the Way of Dews and Damps. 
dener to fave from Year to Year the Seeds of the For this Purpofe, let.a fmall Shelf be hung 
gaudieft and fineft Flowers; but it is not to be fo | from the Cieling, covered with Cartridge Paper, 
here. All that is requir’d of the Mother Plant | and fecur’d by an Edge of the fame Paper, half 
is to have the Properties before recited, with a | an Inch high. On this let the Heads be laid, 
plain Colour, 7 and every three Days mov’d about, to turn them, 
__ Experience fhews, that when the Seeds of a va- | that they may dry freely. | | 
riegated or ftrip’d Tulip are fown, the Seedling Thus let them lie till the third Week in Augu/ : 
Flower has all the Colours of the Parent, but | then Jet them be open’d, and the Seeds carefully 
they are confus’d and irregular: too much Mix- | fhook out. Let them be fcatter’d over the Shelf; 
ture takes away the Beauty. oo) } and again turn’d every three or four Days, till 
The Effect of Culture is to throw in. 'thefe they are fown. 
Stripes and Variegations: it.will never fail of this 
Effect if well conducted; therefore the Choice of | 
Flowers for Seed fhould fall upon thofe which | 
haye only one Colour, and that fuch as is eafieft | The Seeds thus provided, the fecond Article is 
tobe alter’d. . . 2. boss a proper Soil to receive them. Lurope affords 
| When fe Gardener has mark’d the Pro- | none fuch naturally, nor have our Gardeners hit 
perties in feveral Flowers, let him examine | upon the proper Mixture: or if any of them have, 
their Colours. Two Articles require Confidera- they keep the Secret. 
Of making the Compoft. 
tion under this Head, the general Tint, and the | . Mizuzr, heretofore the Florifts Oracle, direéts 
Bottom: this is ufually very’ different from the | them to be fown in a freth fandy Earth : this is 
reft, and it muft be chofe for eafy Variation. too poor. 
Any plain or fingle-colour’d. Tulip, that has | The Dutch ufe Kitchen-Garden Mould, well 
the general good Properties, will do for Seed; | enrich’d by Dung; but this is as much too rich 
but I have found the beft of all-to be the plain | as the other is too meagre. The one does not 
dull red Tulip, with a white Bottom. This dull fupply Nourifhment, the other makes them rank. 
Red breaks freely in the Seedlings, and the Co- | | What I have found fucceed, is this : 
Jours have all their Luftre. “= s|* Miix together two Buthels of dry Mould ftom 
Next to the white-bottom’d Tulip, the yellow- | under the Turf in an upland Pafture, five Pecks 
ifh fhould be chofen. Thofe Flowers that have | of Pond-Mud, and three Pecks of Earth from 
dark Bottoms I have always found break difficultly | under an old Wood-Pile, = | 
and irregularly. Nothing is fo hard as to change As foon as the Flowers are mark’d for Seed, 
a deep Tinct in the Bottom of a Tulip; and the | let. this Compoft be mix’d and thrown up in a 
reft of the Colours always depend in a very | Heap to the Weather: it will be fit for Ufe by 
great Degree on this.’ The Seed of a yellow | that Time the Seeds are ready to be fown. 
Tulip fhould never be fav’d, unlefs for the fingle This I have found to yield a fufficient Supply 
, golden Kind we have defcrib’d in a preceding of Nourifhment, without making the Roots rank, 
Chaprer. | | _ | and it keeps free from Worms. 
ai —e | Of the Time and Manner of Sowing. 
due Care that it ripen well. At prefent all he | y es, 
will need to do is to preferve the Flowers from too | _—‘In the Middle of September let the Gardener fix 
much Sun, which would dry up the Dutt upon | upon a Piece of Ground that is open to the 
the Buttons, on whofe good Condition the Per- | South Faft, but defended from the full Noon Day 
zs : Let it be naturally open alfo to the North ; 
When the Flowers begin’ to fade, let him cut | but let a Reed-Hedge be plac’d on that Quarter, 
down the Stems of all that ftand near thofe which upon a Finge, that it can be br ought forward to 
are mark’d for Seed. After this, the Roots of | fhelter the Spot in fevere Weather. At Other © 
the others will draw lefs Nourifhment, fo thar | Times, the Opennefs to this Quarter of the Hea- 
thofe which have their Seeds to ripen will be | Vens, is an Advantage. 
Gardeners direét the fowing in Boxes and Pans 
5 but let the Air come freely, | the Surface even, and take a 
proper Opportunity 
The Seeds have by this Time their full Bignefs ; of fowing the Seeds, 
| The French firt difcover’d two Particularities 
in the Tulip: That the Seed fucceeds beft, if 
| fown when the Wind is in the North, and when 
the 
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