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But if the pots were to be placed in garden frames, it would be 
still better, if you take care to put the glasses over them in rigorous 
weather and at night; but be careful to give them as much free air 
as possible by day, when the weather permits: either by taking the 
glasses totally off, for a few hours, or tilting them up behind. 
Care of choice Hyacinths and Tulips. 
In severe frosty weather, it would be of beneficial advantage, if 
the beds wherein you have deposited the choicest kinds of hyacinths 
and tulips, or any other curious bulbous roots, be covered either 
with an awning of mats, or, in default thereof, with straw, fern, 
leaves of trees, or dry long litter; but it must be removed as soon as 
the severe weather is over. 
Old decayed fine tan is a good article to cover hyacinths, tulips, 
and other bulbs with; it may be laid on, one inch or one inch and a half 
deep, immediately previous to the commencement of the severe 
winter frost, and need not be removed, as it will keep down the 
weeds in spring, and protect the roots from intense heat and 
drought, during the period of their ripening. 
Ranunculuses and Anemones. 
The beds or frames in which are planted your choice kinds of 
ranunculuses and anemones, should be carefully protected from 
frost, by laying tan, earth or litter round the outside of the frames, 
and carefully covering them at nights and in severe weather, with 
glasses, or with boards laid lengthwise or across the frames, with 
mats or other covering on top, but carefully observing to give them 
plenty of air every day that the weather is tolerably mild, for if too 
much confined, they will draw up and be good for nothing. 
Plant ranunculuses and anemones in mild, dry, open weather, if 
you have any now out of the ground, and that the frost will admit 
of your working it; these now planted will succeed those which 
were put into the ground in October or November. 
For their reception, choose a dry situation, where the ground is 
of a light, rich nature. Let it be well digged, breaking the earth fine, 
and form it into beds of three feet and a half or four feet wide; rake 
the surface smooth, and then plant the roots. These roots after 
planting, should be protected as above, from severe frost, and too 
much wet: either of which, would at this season materially injure 
them. 
For the particular method of preparing the beds, and planting 
the roots, see the work of October. 
In warm, dry and well sheltered situations, in the middle states, 
and generally in the southern states, these beautiful flowers may 
be planted in the open borders in small patches, with other kinds, 
and will there make a very agreeable appearance. You may plant 
four or five roots, in a small circle of about six inches diameter, one 
in the middle and the rest round the extreme part of the circle; and 
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