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ther the fituation be wet or dry, according to which 
you fhould adapt the frefn earth, and order the 
oeds ; for if the foil be very ftrong and the fituation 
moift, you fhould then make choice of a light earth, 
and raife the beds fix or eight inches, or a foot, above 
the level of the ground, otherwife the roots will be 
in danger of perifhing by too much wet ^ but if the 
fituation be dry and the foil naturally light, you fhould 
then allow the earth to be a little ftronger, and the 
beds fhould not be raifed above three or four inches 
high ; for if they are made too high, the roots will 
fuffer very much, if the fpring- fhould prove dry, 
nor would the flowers be near fo fair. As alio in 
very fevere winters, thofe beds which are railed much 
above the level of the ground, will be more expoied 
to the cold than thofe which are lower, unlefs the 
alleys arc filled up with rotten tan or litter. 
During the fummer, the only culture thefe flowers 
require is, to keep them free from weeds ; and when 
their leaves are entirely decayed, they fhould be 
raked off, and the beds made clean : but by no 
means cut off their leaves till they are quite decayed, 
as is by fome praftifed, for that greatly weakens 
the roots. 
Towards the middle of October, if the weeds have 
grown upon the beds, you fhould in a dry day gently 
hoe the furface of the ground to deftroy them, ob- 
ferving to rake it over fmooth again j and before the 
frofts come on, the beds fhould be covered over two 
inches thick with rotten tan, to keep out the froft ; 
after which they will require no farther care till the 
ipring, when their leaves will appear above ground ; 
at which time you fhould gently ftir the furface of the 
earth with a fmall trowel, being very careful not to 
injure the leaves of the plants, and rake it fmooth 
with your hands, clearing off all weeds, &c. which, 
if fuffered to remain at that feafon, will foon grow fo 
faft as to appear unfightly, and will exhauft the nou- 
rifhment from the earth. With this management 
thefe roots will flower very ftrong, fome of which will 
appear in March, and the others in April •, which, if 
fuffered to remain, will continue in beauty a full 
month, and are, at that feafon, very great ornaments 
to a flower-garden. 
After the flowers are paft, and the leaves decayed, 
you fhould ftir the furface of the ground, to prevent 
the weeds from growing •, and if at the fame time 
you lay a little very rotten dung over the furface of 
the beds, the rain will wafti down the falts thereof, 
which will greatly encourage the roots the fucceeding 
year. 
During the fummer feafon they will require no farther 
care, but to keep them clear from weeds till October, 
when the furface of the beds fhould be again ftirred, 
raking off all weeds, &c. and laying fome good frefh 
earth over the beds about an inch deep, which will 
make good the lofs fuftained by weeding, &c. and in 
the fpring you mu ft manage as was dire&ed for the 
preceding year. 
Thefe roots fhould not be tranfplanted oftener than 
every third year, if they are expected to flower ftrong 
and make a great increaie *, became thefirft year after 
■removing, they never flower fo ftrong as they do the 
fecond and third ; nor will the roots increaie fo faft, 
when they are often tranfplanted ; but if you let them 
remain longer than three years unremoved, the num- 
ber of offsets which by that time will be produced, 
will weaken the large bulbs, and caufe themtoproduce 
very weak flowers *, therefore at the time of tranf- 
planting them, all the fmall offsets fhould be taken 
off, and planted in a nurfery -bed by themfelves, but 
the large bulbs maybe planted again for flowering. If 
you plant them in the fame bed where they grew be- 
fore, you muff take out all the earth two feet deep, 
and fill it up again with frefh, in the manner before 
diredted, which will be equal to removing them into 
another place : this is the conftant practice of the 
gardeners in Holland, who have but little room to 
change their roots •, therefore they every year remove 
the earth of their beds, and put in frefn, fo that the j 
fame place is con dandy occupied by the like flowers. 
But thofe people take up their roots every year, for as 
they cultivate them for (ale, the rounder their roots 
are, the more valuable they will be : the way to have 
them fo is, to take their offsets mom them annually ; 
for when their roots are left two or three years unre- 
moved, the offsets will have grown large, and thefo 
prefling againft each other, will caufe their ftdes to be 
flatted •, fo that where the roots are propagated for fate, 
they fhould be annually taken up as foon as their 
leaves decay j and the large bulbs may be kept out of 
the ground til! the middle or end of October, but the 
offsets fhould be planted the beginning of September 
or looner, that they may get ftrength, fo as to become 
blowing roots the following year : but' where they 
are deflated for ornament, thev fhould not be removed 
oftener than every third year, for then the roots will 
be in large bunches, and a number of ftalks with 
flowers coming from each bunch, they will make a 
much better appearance than where a Angle (talk riles 
from each root, which will be the cafe when the roots 
are annually removed. 
The common forts of Daffodil are generally planted 
in large borders of the pleafure- garden, where, being 
intermixed with other bulbous-rooted flowers, they 
afl'ord an agreeable variety in their feafons of flower- 
ing. Thefe roots are very hardy, and v/ill thrive in 
alrnoft any foil or fituation, which renders them very 
proper for rural gardens, where, being planted under 
the (hade of trees, they will thrive for feveral years 
without tranfplanting, and produce annually in the 
fpring great quantities of flowers, which will make a 
good appearance before the trees come out in leaf. 
The Jonquils fhould be planted in beds or borders, 
feparate from other roots, becaufe thefe require to be 
tranfplanted at leaft every year, otherwife their roots 
are apt to grow long and {lender, and feldom flower 
well after j which is alio the cafe, if they are continued 
many years in the fame foil ; wherefore the roots 
fhould be often removed from one part of the garden 
to another, or at leaft, the earth fhould be often re- 
newed, which is the moft probable method to pre- 
ferve their flowers in perfection. 
The foil in which thefe flowers fucceed befl;, is an 
hazel loam, neither too light nor over fluff ; it muft 
be frefh, and free from roots of trees or noxious 
weeds, but fhould not be dunged ; for it is very re- 
markable, that where the ground is made rich, they 
feldom continue good very long, but are fubject to 
fhoot downwards, "and form long (lender roots. 
Thefe flowers are greatly eftcerned by many people 
for their ftrong fweet feent, though there be very few 
ladies that can bear the fine 11 of them , fo powerful 
is it, that many times it overcomes their fpirits, efpe- 
cially if confined in a room j for which reafon, they 
fhould never be planted too clofe to a habitation, left 
they become often live nor fhould the flowers be 
placed in fuch rooms where company is entertained. 
NASTUR T I U M. See Lepidium. 
N A S T U R T 1 U M INDICUM. See Tropueolum. 
NATURAL is belonging to, or proceeding from 
nature. 
NATURE is a term varioufly-ufed •, and Mr. Boyle, 
in a treadle of the vulgarly received notion of Na- 
ture, gives us eight principal ones. 
1. Nature is ufed for the fyftern of the world, the 
machine of the univerfe, or the affemblage of all cre- 
ated beings. 
In this fenfe we fay, the author of Nature, meaning 
God ; and fpeaking of the fun, call him the father of 
Nature, becaufe he warms the earth, and makes it 
fruitful •, and the eye of Nature, becaufe he illumi- 
nates the univerfe j and of a phoenix, a unicorn, 
a griffin, a fatyr, that there are no fuch things in 
Nature. 
2. Nature, in a more confined fenfe, comprehends 
the feveral kinds of beings, created and uncreated, 
corporeal and fpiritual : thus we fay, human Nature, 
i. e. all men who poftefs the fame rational fouls j an- 
j . gelical Nature, divine Nature, 
3. Naturg s 
