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must be so nicely separated, by a careful division of the 

 crown, as to preserve a portion of tuber to each eye or 

 shoot : these portions of the tuber may be shortened so 

 as to go into a 60 or 48-sized pot, and the tuber must 

 be sunk into the pot low enough to cover the part from 

 whence the eye shoots. Thus potted, they may be re- 

 turned to the place they came from, whether it be hot- 

 house, frame, greenhouse, or kitchen, as near the 

 light as possible ; those in the hotbed or hothouse, 

 to grow until the beginning of May, and then be 

 removed to a cool frame or greenhouse, or room in 

 the dwelling, to get hardened a little before planting 

 out in the ground at the end of the month. Those 

 which, for want of better accommodation, make their 

 growth in a greenhouse or dwelling-house, may re- 

 main there, without change, till planting time. But 

 where the quantity is too great to pot off at all before 

 planting, the roots had better be parted as before 

 directed, and then be planted out at once where they 

 are to bloom : in this case it is not necessary to cut 

 away any part of the lobe to shorten it as if for pot- 

 ting, but to plant in holes, with the crown three or 

 four inches below the surface, about the middle of 

 April ; the shoot will then not make its appearance 

 above ground till the middle of May, when it will 

 escape the frost. If, however, any should come up 

 early in May, they must be covered with earth to 

 protect them. These will be quite early enough to 



