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g r ow under the great round Roots, (which is from 
September , till they he in Flower) it will he very 
dangerous to them : for by removing them when 
they have taken laft hold in the Earth, you hinder 
them for Flowering that Year, and it may be the 
next Year too, and hazard their perifhing withal. 
Bat after they are rifen to Flower, you may faf'ely 
take them up if you pleafe, and remove them-with- 
out danger, uniefs it be a Young bearing Root, 
which in fo doing, you will much hinder, by rea- 
fon, (bearing now its fir ft Flower,) it is yet very 
tender. 
CCCXCIV. But all Tulip Roots, when their 
Stalks and Leaves are drv, mayfalely be taken out 
of the Ground, and be fo kept, (fo they lye in a 
dry, and not in a moift place) for fix Months, 
without any great harm : And fometimes they 
have been kept out of the Ground for nine Months, 
and yet have proved reafonably well -, but then 
you muft know, that they have not been Young, 
bur the Older Roots, and have been orderly taken 
up and preferved. The dryer you keep a Tulip 
Root the better, fo you let it not lye in the Sun or 
Wind, which may pierce and fpoil it. 
CCCXCV. When the Roots are ready to be 
taken up, do it in a fair calm Day, and if the 
Ground is hard or flifi, do it with a long hollow 
Trowel fit for the purpofe ^ but in light or foft 
Grounds, it may he done with the Hands only. 
CCCXCVL Being taken up, lay them on Pa- 
pers on which the Names are written, and place 
them open upon lome Boarded Floor, where they 
muff fo remain to dry, about twenty Days. Then 
take away the dead Fibres, and loofe outward 
Skins, and fuch OfF-fets or young Roots, as will 
eafily part from the old j which done, it will be 
neceflary to wrap up your beft Roots efpecially, 
in frefh, well dryed Papers, and on the outfide to 
write the Name of the Flower, which may be kept 
wich its OfF-fet with it, until the middle of Au- 
gufl • at which time, the OfF-fets are robe fet in a 
good Bed prepared for that purpofe. But the old 
bearing Roots muft be left in the Papers, till the 
proper time is come for Planting them. 
CCCXCVII* When you have leaned your 
Roots in Boxes, it will be neceffiry often to "look 
over them, lelt any fhould be mouldy, or grow 
moift, as it often happens. Then the Mouldinefs 
or M'jifture, is gently to be wiped off, with a dry 
woollen Cloth, and the Root gently dryed before 
the Fire, and lb put up again into Irefh Papers. 
CC CXCVIII. Your Roots being thus carefully 
difpolcd, it will be timeto prepared place to Plant 
them in ; which for the beft bearing Roots, will be 
in a Bed, or Beds (according to your Store) which 
let be about a Y 7 ard in breadth, and in length ac- 
coiding to your own liking, and as your Ground 
will permit; which let be Border’d with Rails or 
Bords, and fill’d two Feet deep, with the lighreft, 
freftieit, and finelt Silted Earth you can get. 
CCCXCIX. Thefe Beds may contain ; or 6 
Roots in every Row, crols the breadth of the Bed, 
which with a Line drawn, may be exafldy divided’ 
and the Roots placed accordingly : But hefore they 
be Set, the Rootsare to be numbred from 1 , to yo, 
icc, coo, EFc, more or lefs, in a Book, with their 
proper Names ro the Numbers ; and then to be 
Planted according to the order of the Numbers in 
your Book ; by which they will be known what 
they are, both before, and alter the time of their 
bearing. 
CCCC. in placing thefe Roots, fome fet the 
faddeft colors towards the (ides, and the lighted 
in the middle, but a variable mixture is mod plea- 
ftng, noc fetting too many dark, or light colors 
together, tho’ different from each other ; nor to 
mingle the ¥rtcoccs with the MeJix, but placing 
each fort in a particular Bed by it felfi 
CCCC1. When thele A ob/e Tulips begin to 
rife up to Flower, it would be well to cover the 
Bed with a thin Canvas Tilt, (fupported with a 
fmall kind of Frame) foas not to touch the Flow- 
eis ; which may be put over them in cold Nights 
to prevent the North, or North-Eaft Winds or 
Frolls, Irom nipping and hurting the Buds by 
which the Beauty of the Flower may be fpoiled ■ 
as alfo to defend them in the Day-rime from Hail’ 
great Rains, and fcorching heat of the Sun, by 
which means they will continue thelonger in Flow- 
er. This Tilt or Canvas, may be taken off before 
the time of Flowering in fair Days, that thev may 
now and then be relrelhed with the Sun Beams 
and alfo with gentle Showers, and then be covered 
again in the Night : But when fully blown let 
them not have above an Hours Sun in the Morn- 
ing, and as much in the Evening, if the Seafoa be 
hot ; if the Weather is cold, you may permit 
them a longer Sunning. 
CCCCII. The more ordinary forts may be fet 
m Borders, or in fpaces in Knots, without taking 
any account of their Numbers, Names and Places 
uniefs you lo pleafe: And if the Ground is good in 
which they are fet, they may Hand two Years 
l y ltho i?y akin g U R but no' longer, in refpeft to 
their Off-fets, which adhere to them ; which if not 
removed, will make their Flowers to be fmall and 
weak, and withal exhauft very much the Nourifti- 
ment of the Plant. And before they are fet again 
in the lame place, the Earth muft be changed lor 
that which is new and frefh. 
CCCCIII. Alter the Flowers are fallen, break 
off the Heads or Seed Veffels of every Flower, (ex- 
cept of fuch as you referve for Seed ; ) fo will the 
Stalks dry down the fooner, and the Roots will 
preferve their Strength the better, and be even 
Fortified thereby. 
CCCCIV. Some of the beft Tulips will fome- 
times be infefled with Dileales, notwirhftanding 
our greateft Care and Diligence in their Preferva- 
rion ; which happens to lome Roots while out of 
the Ground, and ro others after they are Planted : 
II the deleft is before it is Planted, the Root will 
appear fhri veiled or crumpled on the outlide, and 
feel foft and fpongy, which is a lign that it’ is in 
a Confumption, or wafting condition; which to 
prevent, you muft wrap it up in Wooll, dipt in 
Oil Olive , and place it where it may receive fome 
little warmth from the Fire : rhen about the begin- 
ning of September, or fome little time before, fet 
it in the Ground, putting fome Wood Soot, mix- 
ed with Sand about it, covering the place with an 
Earthen Pot, the bottom turn’d upwards, to keep 
it irom Wet, till the Fibres are come forth, which 
will be by the end of September , or beginning of 
OSober, or not at all. Thefe decaying Roots thus 
managed, (tho’ fome of the outward Folds rot and 
confume, the middle and Heart remaining found) 
will revive again, and in two or three Years bear 
Flowers as formerly. 
CCCCV. If the defefl happens after they are 
Planted, and have put forth green Leaves; if any 
of them begin to fade and wither, you muft open 
the Earth to the bottom of the Root, to find out 
the caufe, and if the Root is moift and foft, it is 
pall Cure or help : But if it be any thing hard, it 
may be recovered, by putting to it Wood Soot rnixt 
with dry Sand, and covering it as in the former 
leaving the place fomewhat open, that it may dry 
downwards the fooner. In hot Days, take off the 
Por, and take up the Root as foon as rhe Fibres 
are 
