Jan.] FLOWER-GARDEN. 83 
time the succeeding season, may produce tolerable good flowers, and 
an increase of their kinds. 
Be particular, never at any season or under any circumstance, 
to give less covering to any kind of a bulbous or tuberous root, when 
planted in the open ground, than one inch over the crown or upper 
part. 
Planting Crocuses and Snow-drops, 
Any sort of crocuses may still be planted, if dry mild weather; 
generally planting them along the edges of the flower-borders, next 
the walks, and in flower-beds, &c. commonly within five or six 
inches of the edge, either in a continued row, or dotted in little 
parches, planted about one inch and half deep: though those de- 
signed for the borders appear to greater advantage when disposed 
in small patches, than in any other way. Draw a small circle 
with your finger, about four or five inches diameter; in the middle 
plant one root, and plant three or four round the edge of the circle: 
about eighteen inches or two or three feet farther, make an- 
other circle, and plant the roots as above; and so proceed to the 
end of the border, &c; or may vary the patches, in having some 
near the edge, and others more towards the middle: observing, if 
you have different kinds, to plant each sort separate; and if you 
plant the first patch with yellow crocuses, plant the next with blue, 
and so proceed with others of different sorts. 
Snow-drops may also now be planted, in the same manner as the 
crocuses; but neither of them, when planted so late, flower well the 
spring following — the former, in particular, will totally perish if kept 
much longer out of the ground. These kinds ought to have been 
planted in September, or early in October, for being flowers of early 
bloom they do not agree with being kept up after their proper time 
of planting. 
When you desire a considerable increase of crocuses, or snow- 
drops, take up the roots but once in two years; if you let them re- 
main longer, though the increase will be numerous, the roots be- 
come very small and produce but poor flowers. 
Planting various sorts of Bulbs. 
Jonquils, ornithogalums, narcissuses, hyacinths, bulbous iris', 
Persian iris', gladioluses, fritillaries, crown imperials, or any other 
kinds of hardy bulbous flower-roots, that yet remain above ground, 
should now be planted, as soon as the weather will permit. Mild 
dry weather ought to be chosen for planting these and all other 
kinds of bulbous roots; and see that the ground is not too wet. 
When it is intended to plant any of the common sorts of the 
above, or other kinds of bulbous roots in the borders, they may be 
planted in the manner mentioned above for the common tulips, &c. 
Observing particularly, that the longer you keep them out of the 
ground after October or November, the shallower they must be 
planted. 
