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I. Experiments and ObferVations on Bulbous 
Roots, Plants, and Seeds growing in Water. 
hy Mr. William Curteis. 
A Bout three Years fince, feeing fome Bulbous Roots 
fet in GlalTes filled with Water in a Shop 
Window, and being told they wouldFlower in that 
manner, I immediately tried a couple of Hyacinths, 
which blowed very prettily the next Spring: it 
pleafed me much to fee that we could have fuch 1 hings 
in a clofe Room in Town, without the help of a 
Garden to produce them, having lately come out of 
the Country, and being a Lover of Flowers; where- 
fore I began to think if I could contrive a Method 
to make a Pot full blow together, with a mixture of 
feveral forts of Flowers with a variety of Colours, it 
would be an Improvement. 
The next Year, I took a couple of common penny 
Garden Pots, and ftopt the Holes at the Bottoms with 
Corks; and painted the Pots, and puttyed the Corks, 
that no Water could filtrate through them } then had a 
coupfe of Boards cut to fit the tops of the Pots, bored 
with feven holes at equal Di fiances, to place my Bulbs 
in, and like wife as many fmall holes for placing of 
Sticks, totyethe Stems of the Flowers to; I then 
planted Hyacinths , NarciJ'us’s , Tulips and Jun- 
quils, and filled the Pots with Water up to the Board, 
fo that the Bulbs flood only upon the Water; where 
they blowed very well, and made the belt Appear- 
ance, as I thought, I had ever feen, beyond any 
Flower-pot that could bedrelfed by gather’d Flowers. 
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