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and fo keep them till the Bloom is over, and the 
Seafon for drying them returns. 
One Obfervation furprifed me, viz. two of my Hy- 
acinths were mouldy, which Mould canker’d and eat 
holes through feveral of their Coats or Scales j this I 
pick’d and clean’d feveral times but ftill itfpread far- 
ther and farther j but foon after they were covered 
with Water, I could perceive them heal by degrees* 
till they became perfectly found and biew their. 
Flowers as kindly, as thofe that had continued 
perfectly found.. 
By another Experiment, I tried what Bulbs would 
do if kept all the Year under Water: I left in water a. 
Narcijfus , an Hyacinth of Peru, and feveral Jun • 
quits* that were planted in O£tober y 1731; which 
are now as found and ftrong, as thofe I took out and 
dried, and promife fair for a Bloom ; I obferv’d that, 
their old Fibres do not rot, till they are ready to puflc 
out new ones: 
Another Obfervation feems worthy of Notice 
one of my double Hyacinths , commonly called 
Keyfers Jewel, brought two Pods of Seed to ma- 
turity ; which I have Slowed for fourteen or fifteen. 
Years fucceflively in the Ground, and could never, 
find them make any thing towards (ceding ; and I 
have reafon to think that feveral other Bulbs would 
have feeded. if X had taken timely care of them, but 
did not perceive it till too late. 
Mr. Miller, in Philof.franf. N°. 418 intimates" 
that Bulbs fet in Gfaifes grow weaker, and fhtouid 
be renewed every Year with frefh onesj but X ob- 
ferve by this way of railing them under Water, that 
at their taking up, they are as large, and fome of, 
them 
