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they are not covered, to protect them from froft : thefe 
late planted roots will flower a fortnight or three 
weeks after thofe which were planted in autumn, and 
many times blow equally as fair, efpecially if it prove 
a moift fpring, or that care be taken to refreih them 
gently with water. 
But then, the increafe of thefe roots will not be near 
lo great as thole of your firft planting, provided they 
were not hurt in winter ; and it is for this reafon all 
thofe who make fale of thefe roots, are forward in 
planting •, for although it may happen, by lharp 
pinching trolls in the fpring, that their flowers are not 
lo double and fair as thofe planted a little later, yet 
if they can preferve the green leaves of the plants from 
being injured, the roots will greatly increafe in bulk-, 
„ but in fuch gardens where thefe flowers are preferved 
with care, there is always provifion made to cover 
them from the injuries of the weather, by arching 
the beds over with hoops, or frames of wood, and 
covering them with garden-mats or cloths, in frofty 
nights, .and bad weather, efpecially in the fpring of 
the year, when their buds begin to appear ; for other- 
wife, if you plant the beft and molt double flowers, 
the black frofts and cutting winds in March will caufe 
them to blow Angle, by deflroying the thrum that is 
in the middle of the flower ; and this many times 
hath occafioned many people who have bouglit the 
roots, to think they were cheated in the purchafe of 
them, when it was, wholly owing to their neglect of 
covering them, that their flowers were Angle. 
In the beginning of April your Arft planted roots will 
begin to flower, which will continue for three weeks 
or more, according to the heat of the weather, or 
the care taken in covering them, during the heat of 
the day, with mats or cloths : after thefe are paft 
flowering, the fecond planted forts will come to fuc- 
ceed them, and thefe will be followed by thofe planted 
in the fpring ; fo that you may have thefe beauties 
continued for near two months together, or fometimes 
longer, if the feafon prove favourable, or proper care 
is taken to fliade them in the heat of the day. 
The beginning of June, the leaves of your firft blown 
roots will begin to decay ; foon after which time you 
muft take them out of the ground, clearing them from 
decayed ftalks, and wafhing them, to take the earth 
clean from the root ; then fpread them on a mat in a 
dry fhady place till they are perfectly dried, when 
you may put them up in bags, and hang them out 
of the reach of mice, or other vermin, which will 
deftrov many of the roots if they can come at them. 
Gbferve alfo to take up the latter planted roots as 
foon as their leaves decay for if they are i offered to 
remain long after in the ground, and there fhould fall 
fome fhowers of rain, they would foon put forth frefh 
fibres, and make new {hoots, when it would be too 
late to remove them : at the time when you take up 
the roots, is the proper feafon for breaking or parting 
them, which may be done by feparating thofe that 
you would clioofe to make all poflible increafe from, 
into as many parts as you can conveniently, provided 
each one of them have a good eye or bud ; but thofe 
you intend to blow ftrong, fhould by no means be 
parted too fmall, which greatly weakens their flow- 
ering. 
The principal colours in Anemonies are, white, red, 
blue, and purple and thefe in fome of them, are cu- 
riouflv intermixed ; but the molt prevailing colours 
amongft our Engliih raifed Anemonie's, are white and 
red though of late we have received from France 
great varieties of blues and purples, which are ex- 
' ceedinsr fine flowers, and being intermixed with the 
Engliih flowers, make a fine variety : we fhould there- 
fore obferve, in planting the roots, to diftribute the 
different colours, fo as to make an agreeable mixture 
of each in every bed, which will greatly add to their 
beauty. 
But Ance all the fine varieties of thefe flowers were 
firft obtained from feeds, no good florid, that hath 
garden room, fhould negleft to fow them : in order 
to which, we fnouid orovide ourielves with a quantity 
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of good Angle (or what the gardeners call Poppy 
Anemoniesj of the beft colours, and fuch as have 
more leaves than common, and have other good pro- 
perties ; thefe fhould be planted early, that they may 
have ftrength to produce good feeds, which will be 
ripe in three weeks or a month’s time, after the flow- 
ers are paft when you muft carefully gather ip other- 
wile it will be blown away in a ftiort time, it bein® 
inclofed in a downy fubftance. You muft preferve 
this feed till the beginning of Auguft, when you may 
either fow it in pots, tubs, or a well prepared bed of 
light earth : in the doing of it you muft be careful not 
to let your feeds be in heaps, to avoid which is a thing 
little underftood, and is what I have been informed of 
by the late Mr. Gbadiah Lowe, gardener at Batterfea, 
who for feveral years raifed large quantities of thefe 
flowers from feeds. His manner was thus : 
After having levelled his bed of earth, in which he 
intended to fow his feeds, he rubbed the feeds well 
between his hands, with a little dry fand, in order to 
make them feparate the better ; then he fowed them 
as regularly as poffihle over the bed; but as thefe feeds 
will ftill adhere clofely together by their down, he 
took a ftrong hair bruih, wich which he gently fwept 
over the whole bed, obferving not to brufh off the 
feeds ; this bruih will fo feparate the feeds, if care- 
fully managed, as not to leave any entire lumps ; then 
gently lift fome light earth, about a quarter of an 
inch thick over the feeds ; and, if it fhould prove hot 
dry weather, it will be advifahle to lay fome mats 
hollow upon the bed in the heat of the day, and now 
and then give them a little water ; but this muff be 
given gently, left by haftily watering you wafh the 
feeds out of the ground ; but be fure to uncover the 
bed at all times when there are gentle fliowers, and 
every night, that the feeds may have the benefit of 
the dews ; and as the heat of the weather decreafes, 
you may begin to uncover your bed in the day time 
alfo. 
In about ten weeks after fowing, the plants will be- 
gin to appear, if the feafon has proved favourable, or 
your care in management hath not been wanting, 
otherwife they many times remain a whole year in the 
ground. The firft winter after their appearing above 
ground, they are fubicct to injuries from hard frofts, 
or too much wet, againft both of which you muft 
equally defend them ; for the froft is very apt to loofen 
the earth, fo that the young plants are often turned 
out of the ground, after which a fmall froft will de- 
ftroy them ; and too much wet often rots their tender 
roots, fo that all your former trouble may be loft in 
a fliort time for want of care in this particular ; nor 
do I know of any thing more deftruclive to thefe ten- 
der plants, than the cold black frofts and winds of 
February and March, from which you muft be careful 
to defend them, by placing a low reed fence on the 
north and eaft hides of the bed, which may be move- 
able, and only fattened to a few ftakes to fupport it for 
the prefent, and may be taken quite away as the feafon 
advances, or removed to the fouth and weft Tides of 
the bed, to fcreen it from the violence of the fun, 
which often impairs thefe plants when young. 
As the fpring advances, if the weather fhould prove 
dry, you muft gently refreih them with water, which 
will greatly {Lengthen your roots ; and when the green 
leaves are decayed, if your roots are not too thick to 
remain in the fame bed another year, you muft clear 
off all the weeds and decayed leaves from the bed, 
and Aft a little more of the lame prepared good earth, 
about a quarter of an inch thick over the furface, and 
obferve to keep them clear from weeds during the 
hummer feafon, and at Michaelmas repeat the fame 
earthing ; but as thefe roots fo left in the ground, 
will come up early in the autumn, the beds fhould be 
carefully covered in frofty weather; otherwife their 
leaves will be injured, whereby the roots will be 
weakened, if not deftroyed. If your roots fucceed 
well, many of them will flower the fecond year, when 
you may leiect all fuch as you like, by marking them 
with a flick; but you fnouid not deftroy any of them 
until 
