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with this Sort of Earth fix or eight 

 Inches above the Surface of the 

 Ground, laying at the Bottom fome 

 of the Rakings of your Heap to 

 drain off the Moifture ; but in a 

 dry Soil, three Inches above the 

 Surface will be fufficient : this Soil 

 mould be laid at leaft two Feet and 

 an half thick, and in the Bottom 

 there mould be about four or five 

 Inches of rotten Neats-dung, or the 

 rotten Dung of an old Melon or 

 Cucumber bed, fo that you muuV 

 take out the former Soil of the Beds 

 to make room for it. 



And obferve, in preparing your 

 Beds, to lay them, if in a wet Soil, 

 pretty round, to moot off the Wa- 

 ter ; but in a dry one, let it be 

 nearer to a Level ; for in wet Land, 

 where the Beds are raifed above the 

 Surface, it will be proper to fill up 

 the Paths between them in Winter, 

 either with rotten Tan, or Dung, 

 to prevent the Frcft from penetrat- 

 ing into the Sides of the Beds, which 

 often deftroys their Roots. Your 

 Earth mould be laid in the Beds at 

 leaft a Fortnight or three Weeks 

 before you plant the Roots, that it 

 may fettle ; and when you plant 

 them, ftir the Upper-part of the 

 Soil about fix Inches deep, with a 

 Spade ; then rake it even and 

 fmooth, and with a Stick draw 

 Lines each Way of your Bed at fix 

 Inches Diftance, fo that the Whole 

 may be in Squares, that your Roots 

 may be planted regularly : then 

 with your three Fingers make an 

 Hole in the Centre of each Square, 

 about three Inches deep, laying 

 therein a Root with the Eye upper- 

 moftj and when you have finifhed 

 your Bed, with the Head of a Rake 

 draw 'the Earth fmooth, fo as to 

 cover the Crown of the Roots about 

 two Inches thick. 



The beft Seafon for planting thefe 

 Roots, if for forward Flowers, is 

 about the Latter-end of September ; 

 and for thofe of a middle Seafon, 

 any time in Oflober ; but obferve to 

 perform this Work, if poflible, at 

 or near the time of fome gentle 

 Showers ; for if you lhould plant 

 them when the Ground is perfectly 

 dry, and there mould no Rain fall 

 for three Weeks or a Month after, 

 the Roots will be very apt to grow 

 mouldy upon the Crown ; and if they 

 once get this Diftemper, they fel- 

 dom come to good after. 



You may alfo referve fome of 

 your Anemone Roots till after Chrijl- . 

 mas, before you plant them, left 

 by the Severity of the Winter your 

 early planted Roots mould be de- 

 ftroyed, which does fometimes hap- 

 pen in very hard Winters, and in 

 Places where they are not covered, 

 or taken care of : thefe Roots will 

 flower -a Fortnight or three Weeks 

 after thofe which are planted in Au- 

 tumn, and many times blow equally 

 as fair, efpecially if it prove a moift 

 Spring, or that Care be taken to re- 

 frefh them with Water. 



But then the Increafe of thefe 

 Roots will not be near fo great as 

 thofe of your firft planting, provided 

 they were not hurt in Winter; and 

 it is for this Reafon all thofe who 

 make Sale of thefe Roots, are for- 

 ward in planting : for altho' it may 

 happen, by fharp-pinching Frolls in 

 the Spring, that their Flowers are 

 not fo double and fair as thofe 

 planted a little later; yet if they 

 can preferve the green Leaves of the 

 Plants from being deftroyed, rhe 

 Roots will greatly increafe in Bulk; 

 but in fuch Gardens where thefe 

 Flowers* are preferved with Care, 

 there is always Provifion made to 

 cover them from the Injuries of 



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