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May.. not fet upright as if for growing’; but laid fide- ‘and-.we find: it. conformable to Experience as well. May, 
_—_—- ways, nearly flat, and with the Bottom Lome what | as -Reafony: eg 
higheft. All the Root is thus td, be cover’d with, 
Earth, and the Leaves are,to be left out, peal 
ing down. by. the Side of the Ridge, 
Stalks and:'Leaves will thoroughly: decay,, and 
the Roots as we have obferv’d of the, Tulip-kind, 
will all this Time :be {welling and epiicring; 
Strength and. Fullnefs. - 
: When the:Leéaves and Stalks ate antinely spatter | 
the Earth muft be open’d,:and the Roots taken |. 
carefully out and clean’d. They muft then 
be fpread'on a Mat in an airy Room, to harden 
a’ little; and this done, they may be put up in 
Boxes till Autumn. 
Something there is curious and interefting, 3 in ® 
this Subjec&t of bulbous Roots: we would have 
our Pupil a Mafter of, every Part. of his Subject, ‘ 
and we fhall here explain it. 
To the Student, the entering upon this Beink 
will. be pleafing; becaufe he would know every | 
Part of his SubjeCt;..and to,the practical Gardener 
it will be ufeful, for he who beft underftands his | flowering All: Siven to all that; now is fent’all 
: This 2 
Seafon of taking them up is his Time of ‘objerve, | of the: ‘decay’d. one s-and’ at the Time’ Of” taking 3 
Roots, will know beft. how, to treat them. 
ing. their Structure, and we have here obtain’d 
an Opporsniy, for the seadengna eas 
roi rn - prem’ 
Of the Natere af Ears ‘Suivi 
“The Re edener dod that Bulbs are not. wy pif 
Nature of other Roots ; their F ibres do not fhoot 
from. their Body, but From’ the. Bate or Neck, 
and they Tequire a different Treatment from, all 
others. hieeie 
They ; ate, in naa og not ‘Roots, ‘but Provifions of 
‘Nature for the Defence of the. Embryo. Plant.» 
The Fibres are the. only proper, Roots: thefe ferve 
| a fharp. Knife, : 
‘to the tender Plants which’ have them, as ‘the a dharp. Smite, and there will be found the Rudi 
Buds of Trees do to their young. Leaves and 
Flowers ; they — furround, 
and having perform’d that Office, they. perifh : 
they are no more = Roots _ in one Cafe than the $ 
“other. © some, 
The Buds. of Trees are .compofed of ‘Gealy | 
‘Subftances ; | 
fome are of a tender, j juicy, folid Subftance: but. 
and mot bulbous Roots’ of Skins , 
in either Cafe the Root is a diftin& Thing, and 
‘they fade in one as in the other Inftance, when 
the Parts they’ at ‘feft enclos’d, ‘expand, and 1 meet | 
‘the Be en ee ; 
* It was eat a SARE among the Dutch F a 
rifts, Whether the fame Bulb that” is planted in 
Autumn is taken up again the next Summer; or 
whether it in that Time decays, and Nénure: af- 
fords a new one, which the incurious Gardener 
fuppofes to be the fame he planted. 
_ Thefe from a coarfe and fuperficial Obferva- 
tion, difcover’d that the latter was really the 
‘Cafe; that the Bulb which produces the Flower 
Here. the’ 
ration: 
enclofe, . and cherifh | 
‘them ; preferve them peg 
‘from Injuries during the unfavourable. Seafons Lump. 
. The bulbous . Plants - are sNamtine a Clas in 
Nasire diftinét . from all others ; 3 tho’. artificial 
‘Methods have not fo difpofed them. 
_Ciusius. has fhewn, great Sagacity in. his Fes 
quiry into this Subject, tho’ he did not perfectly 
‘comprehend. the Courfe of Nature in the Ope- 
FERRARIUS, one of the moftt. accurate. 
Writers on Flowers,, and of all the moft elegant, 
has perfectly underftood; and finely pictured it. 
This Author found that in the innermoft Part — 
| of the Bulb whence the Stalk and Flower rofe, 
| there was ‘produced’ always another little Bulb, 
twin Brother with this more confpicuous one; 
and that this draws at that Time Nourifhment, 
| not. only” by-the Fibres of the Parent Root, but 
even, from , its Subftance. 
“Its Place ‘is clofe 4 to the. Stalk eE the flower- 
ing Plant; and when the flowering Seafon is 
over, “and the Stalk decays, the original Bulb 
ote alfo with it, and falls off in uflefs Pieces, 
The Nourifhment’ which while the Plant: was 
into ‘the: élier': which {wells and takes the Place 
up appear to the i incurious Gardener the fame he 
st into the Ground. 
‘Tt is “no wonder therefore chat upon ‘taking up 
dhe Bulb, the Stalk in its. decay’d State is found 
adhering’ toits Sides for this i is not the Bulb which — 
Ofiginally produced -it ; 
“nor: is’ it wonderful the 
new one fhould be faced on one Side, fince there 
the ‘other adhered or preffed againit ity: © 
' This whole Conftruction will be fen ia the 
Root of a Tulip. when jutt preparing in the 
| Courfe of Nature for’ its Spring-fhoot. 
Let a Root be then carefully cut afunder with 
ment of | the: fucceeding Plant, its Stalk- and 
Flower envelop’ d cuseyiy among the. folded 
and fhiel q. them || Leaves:; 3 and to the Bottom of its. Stalk. there 
| will be: feen. aghsring . On one Side a) little 
_» This. is no Part ok ti old Bulb, or of the 
rifing | Plant : it. is ‘the Rudiment of the next 
Years. Bulb ;, which now contains in it the Mi- 
niatufe Plant of the fucceeding Year ; too {mall 
for the naked Sight, but evident to ‘the Mi- 
crofcope. - 2 
This “grows flowly as the Plant of the prefent 
"Tcat. advances, for all the Juices are direéted thi- 
ther; but when that Office is perform’d, when 
the F lower thas faded at its due Time, and the 
Gardenets ‘Care has taken Off the Poffibility of 
Seeds, the. Stalk and Leaves requiring no ‘more 
‘Nourifhmient, all is fent to the {mall new Bulb. 
This fwells and enlarges as the Subftance of the 
other withers, and in a little Time becomes the 
Bulb taken up for the next Year’s Plantation. 
This in a practical Light fhews the Propriety 
and Advantage of allowing Air to the Tulip 
Root when the flowering is paft, and of laying 
is abfolutely exhaufted and deftroy’d by it; and 
a new one takes its Place. This Doétrine, bet- | where the corrupted Juices of the thick Stalk and 
ter and more accurate Trials have confirm’d; | Leaves are not fent down upon the Root, and 
Ne 24, : 5 7S where; 
the Hyacinth bulb horizontally in the Ridge, 
