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lately neceffary to fow Seeds every 

 Year, in order to preferve a Succef- 

 fion of good Flowers. 



The Manner of preparing the 

 Beds, and the Diftance and Method 

 of planting the Roots, having been 

 already directed, I mall not repeat 

 it here ; but will only obferve, that 

 thefe Flowers, being tender, mufl 

 be protected from hard Frofts, and 

 cutting (harp Winds, efpecially after 

 Cbrifmas, when their Flower-buds 

 are forming ; for if they are neg- 

 lected at that Seafon, their Flowers 

 will rarely prove fair ; nor mould 

 you fuffer them to receive too much 

 Wet in Winter or Spring, which is 

 equally as injurious to them as Froft. 

 In planting of thefe Roots you 

 fhould obferve to place the femi- 

 double Kinds, from which you in- 

 tend to fave Seeds, in feparate Beds 

 by themfelves, and not intermix 

 them with the double Flowers, be- 

 caufe they will require to be treated 

 in a different manner ; for when the 

 Flowers of the femidouble Kinds be- 

 gin to fade, you mould carefully 

 guard them from Wet ; for if they 

 are permitted to receive hard Rains, 

 or are watered at that Seafon, the 

 Seeds rarely come to Maturity ; or 

 are fo weak, that fcarce one in fifty 

 of them will grow. 



When the Seed begins to ripen 

 (which may be eafily known, by fe- 

 parating from theAxis, and falling), 

 you fhould look it over every Day, 

 gathering it as it ripens ; for there 

 will be a confiderable Diftance in 

 the Seeds of the fame Bed coming to 

 Maturity, at leaft a Fortnight, and 

 fometimes three Weeks, or a Month. 

 When you gather the Seed, it fhould 

 not be expos'd to the Sun, butfpread 

 to dry in a fhady Place ; after which, 

 you mud put it up where the Ver- 

 min cannot come to it, until the time 

 offowing it. 



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By this Method of fowing Seeds 

 every Year, yOu will not only in- 

 crease your Stock of Roots, but alfo 

 raife new Varieties, which may be 

 greatly mended by changing the 

 Seeds into frefh Ground ; for if a 

 Perfon continually fows his Seed in 

 the fame Garden many Years, they 

 will not produce near fo fine Flow- 

 ers, as if he procufd his Seeds at 

 fome Diftance ; which is alfo the 

 Cafe with moft other Plants. 



It will alfo be neceflary to take 

 away all the Earth out of the Beds 

 in which the Roots were blown the 

 preceding Year, and put in new, if 

 you intend to plant Ranunculus's 

 there again ; otherwife they will not 

 thrive near fo well, notwithstanding 

 you may add fome new Compoft to 

 the Beds : and this is what all cu- 

 rious Florifts continually obferve. 

 RAPA, Turnep. 



The Char afters are ; 

 The flower confijis of four Leaves, 

 which are placed in form of a Crofs : 

 out of the Flower -cup rifts the Point a! \ 

 which afterward turns to a Pod, di- 

 vided into two Cells by an intermedin 

 atePartition, to which the V alves ad- 

 here on both Sides, and are full of 

 roundifh Seeds : to thefe Marks mufl 

 be added, A carneous and tubcrofe 

 Root, 



The Species are ; 



1. Rap a fativa rotunda, raJice 

 Candida. C. B. P. Round Garden- 

 turnep, with a white Root. 



2. Rap a fativa rotunda, radicc 

 fupra terram viridi. Boerh. Ind. 

 Round Garden-turnep, whofe Root 

 is green above ground. 



3. Rap a fativa rotunda, radice 

 punicea. C. B.P. Round Garden- 

 turnep, with a purple Root. 



4. Rap a fativa rotunda, radice 

 olfoleta nigricante. C. B. P. Round 

 Garden turnep, with a jufty-blaclc 

 Root. 



5. Rap a 



