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After the Bloom was over, their Leaves looking green, 
I fetthem out in my little Garden, thinking any thing 
that looked green and inadg a tolerable Figure, agree- 
able in a London Garden j and not depending on the 
Bulbs again to be of any fervice to be preserved* I 
let them ftand till toward Midfummer, and took no 
farther care, but now and then giving them frefh 
Water as it perfpired or evaporated, and when the 
Rains fill'd the Pots, I emptied them down to the 
Boards again ; but the Bulbs fhrinking, fome of them 
flip’d through the Holes down to the Bottom of the 
Pot, and about Midfummer, when their Leaves began 
to grow Yellow, I went with a Defign to pull them 
up and throw them away, I was furprifed to find that 
the Bulbs which were buried in the Water were 
grown firm, and too largeto be drawn back through 
the Holes, being found and fit for blowing the next 
Year, and increafed in Off-fets. 
Thisoccafion’d me the next Year (which was the 
iafi) to try another Experiment of blowing my Bulbs 
under Water* which 1 found an! wer’d beyond what 
could be expected, for they rather out-do thofe that 
grow in the Ground, in the ftrength of their Stalks, 
the clearnefs of their jD.OiToms, the ladling of their 
Bloom, and likewife, the Difference of their Seafons, 
which may be fo manag'd, according to the warmth 
of the Rooms they are kept in, as to have the fame 
Sorts in flower from Chrljtmas , till the natural 
Time of their Bloom in the open Ground, which is 
March and April. 
But finding it very troublefome to keep -the Boards 
fix’d under Water, 1 thought Lead might anfwcr the 
' Purpofe better $ whereupon, I got fome fheet Lead, 
of 
