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which time they are very unfightly; 

 therefore thefe are no: proper Orna- 

 ments for the Flower-garden : but 

 as they will thrive in Woods, and 

 under Trees, a few of them may be 

 allowed a Place in any fliaoy Wocd- 

 >valks, or other abject Part of the 

 Garden, for the fake of Variety. 



The fourteenth Sort produces blue 

 Flowers fome.vhat like thofe of the 

 fmall ftarry Hyacinch ; and flowers 

 much about the lame Seafon ; <viz. 

 the Latter-end of February, or the 

 Beginning of March : the Flowers 

 of this do not rife above four or five 

 Inches high ; fo the Roots of this 

 fhouid be planted with others of the 

 fame Growth, near the Edges of the 

 Borders, where they may remain 

 three Years undifturbed. 



Thefe Plants are propagated by 

 Cff-fets, which their Roots do com- 

 monly produce in great Plenty. The 

 bell time to tranfplant their Roots is 

 in July or Auguft, when their Leaves 

 are decay 'd; for if they are remov'd 

 late in Autumn, their Fibres will be 

 Ihot out, when they will be very 

 apt to iuffer, if dillurb'd. They 

 fnould have a light fandy Soil ; but 

 itmuft not be over-dung'd, which 

 would caufe their Roots to decay. 

 They may be intermix'd with other 

 bulbous-rooted Flowers in the Bor- 

 ders of the Pleafure - garden, where 

 they will afford an agreeable Varie- 

 ty, and continue in Flower a long 

 time. Their Roots need not be 

 tranfplanted oftener than every other 

 Year ; for if they are taken up every 

 Year, they will not increafe fo fall ; 

 but when they are fuffered to re- 

 main too long unremoved, they will 

 have fo many OfF-fets about them 

 as to weaken their blowing Roots. 

 Thefe may alfo be propagated from 

 Seeds, which fhouid be fown and 

 managed as moft ether bulbous- 

 rooted Flowers, and will produce 



their Flowers in three or four Years 

 after fowing. 



The fifteenth Sort here mentioned 

 is very common in many Gardens 

 near London ; but it rarely produces 

 any Flowers. This multiplies very 

 fall by OfF-fets, fo as in few Years 

 to ilock a whole Garden. The 

 Leaves and Bulbs of this Plant are 

 very like thofe of the Hyacinth of 

 Peru ; fo that many Perlbns have 

 taken it for one of that Kind. Thefe 

 Roots have been brought over from 

 Italy in great Plenty of late Years, 

 by the Perfons who import Orange- 

 trees j but I have not yet heard, 

 that any of them have produced 

 Flowers in England. 



The nineteenth and twentieth 

 Sorts are, as yet, very rare in Eng- 

 land : thefe grow in the Archipelago ; 

 and I have been informed by a very 

 curious Gentleman, that they grow 

 in great Plenty in the Iiland of Zant> 

 from whence their Roots may be ea- 

 fily obtained, by the Ships that bring 

 over the Currans. ThebeltMethod to 

 bring them over, would be to have the 

 Rooti taken out of theGround, foon 

 after their Flower items and Leaves 

 decay, and dry them in a fhadyPlace: 

 then they may be hung up in the 

 Ship, in Nets (as is pra&ifed for 

 Onions), to prevent their rotting by 

 Moifture, and to fecure them from 

 Vermin : and if they are fou£ 

 Months or longer out of the Ground, 

 they will do very well, provided the, 

 Roots are found. 



The Roots of the twenty-hrft Sort 

 were fent from Portugal, by Robert 

 More, Efq; who found them grow* 

 ing there wild, in the Year 1747. 

 Thefe produced their Flowers the 

 next Seafon after they were planted 

 in £ngland;&nd have continued lb 

 to do every Year, about the Latter- 

 end of April \ or the Beginning of 

 Mgr. 



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