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are gone, and keep it in Wooll wet in Oil Olive , 
near the Fire: Afterwards fet it again, according 
to the directions in the former Paragraph or ScBi- 
on. By this means many choice Flowers or Roots 
have been laved, which orherwife had been un- 
doubtedly loft. 
Ct.CCVI. Contrariwife, we purpofely make 
fome Roots Sick, by taking them up a little before 
they begin to Flower, and laying them in the Sun, 
to abate their Luxury, and caufe them to be better 
marked the next Year following. This has been 
often done with the Agat Robine ■, Pa/s Cittadel ' 
Pafs ticron,PafsOudinard, Pur loon. Widows , and 
fuchlike ordinary Flowers, by which means fome 
of them will come to be very well marked, fo as 
that they might betaken to be much better Flow- 
ers than indeed they are. 
CCCCVII. When you Plant your beft Tulipi 
you mutt Yearly make a provifion of Manured, 
frefh, light, fandy Earth, to make new Beds for 
them 5 or hy taking away that in which they grow, 
and fupplying the place with this new provifion ; 
For it Tulips be fet twice in the fame Earth, they 
will languilh and decay for want of agreeable 
Nourifhment. But if you have ftore of A eats- 
Dung mixed with Sand, which has lain on an heap 
two or three Tears : if this 1 fay be Sifted, and ir 
Auguft well mixed with tiie Earth of your Bed, 
and the Air be any thing good and temperate, it 
will be fufficient. Bv this very means, Mr. Rea 
fays, that he had fet his belt Tulips , for twenty 
Years fucceflively in one Bed, and that they prof- 
pered to his With, and oftentimes beyond his 
Expeflation. 
CCCCV 1 II. Some Gardeners give us another 
kind of Compoft, which they make after this man- 
ner. Take an hundred Bujhels of yellow Sand -, 
Pour/ core Bujhels of red Mould well mellowed 
Three/ core Bujhels of Kit chin-Garden Earth , which 
mix altogether with a Shovel •, and after a Months 
lying together , pafs it thro 1 a Skrcen , that the 
Mixtion may be well made -, and thus Skrcen it once 
a Month, for 12 or 14 Months together, which 
then keep for u/e. The more this Earth pafles thro 
the Skreen, the lighter and better it will become, 
and the more agreeable to your Flowers. 
CCCC 1 X. Before this Compoft , or Compound 
Earth , is laid on the Natural Soil of your Beds, 
you are to confider, that if the Soil be wet or 
moift, (both which are Enemies to theT«//p,)you 
mult make it dry, or d<g the Bed you defign, ta- 
king out a Foot and half of the Earth, and then 
filling it up again with this Compound Earth , mix- 
ed with an equal quantity of Sand-, but if the Soil 
of the Garden be naturally dry, light and fandy, 
then you may Lave the former trouble of digging up 
and removing the Earth, and only cover it with 
the faid prepared Earth, about half a Foot thick. 
Of the BULBS, nud young 
BULB- Roots. " 
CCCCX. Your Beds or Parterries defigned, be- 
ing thus prepared, you may then Plant upon them 
your Bulbs or Young Roots, as before di refled, ta- 
king care, that each Bulb or Young Root, be well 
covered about three Inches deep, with Earth on 
all fides, which may be done from the middle of 
Ottober, to the end of December. 
CCCCXI. As foon as ever they are put into the 
Ground, you muft not neglefl to cover them with 
large Straw, or dryed Dung as is before hinted, 
to fecure them from Frofts, and fevere cold Wea- 
tner ; but then they muft be uncovered again, as 
loon as die Froft and Cold is gone. 
CCCCXII. When March is come, and you per- 
ceive that they begin to fhoot, take care to Water 
inem if the Seafon is dry, and you fee that they 
require it; but how much, or how long you mult 
Waier them, is wholly to be left to your own dif 
crenon. And if Weeds grow, let them be continu- 
ally pluck t up, becaufe they will (if fuffered) draw 
the Nouri/hment from rhe Roots of your Flowers. 
CCCCXII I. Thefe Bulbs of the Tulip Roots 
are to remain in the Earth for one Year only, du- 
ring which time, they muft be carefully Cultiva- 
u r m at a Years- end they muft be removed in 
the following manner. 
CCCCX IV. Take a Dif-planting Scoop, which 
thruit into the Ground at a convenient diftance from 
the Bulbs, and a little below their Fibres, by which 
means, you will be able to take them up fafe 
without Wounding ; then feparate the Earth from 
them, and continue fo to do, till they are all dif 
planted. 
CCCCXV. The Bulbs being out of the Earth 
and made clean from the Earth flicking to them, 
carry them into an open place in rhe fhade, (for 
thefe Roots are fo render, that they will not en- 
dure the Sun, the leaft heat being apt to dry them 
too much ; ) and be fure that they be not heaped 
up one upon another ; for thereby it may happen, 
that thole underneath may be heated, which would 
certainly do them harni, becaufe it might give mo- 
tion to the Sprout. 
CCCCX VL When the Seafon for Planting the 
Bulb, or Young Root is come, you muft manage it 
as is before direfled, after having feparated the 
Suckeis, which you are to Plant in a Nurfery 
made of the lame Earth, as we have ordered for 
the Bulb itfelf, at Sell. 408, 409, and 410, afore- 
going. 
Of the Suckers of a Tulip- 
BULB. 
CCCCX VII. Thu’ tli e Suckers of Tulip-Bulbs 
are Planted chiefly for the increafe of the kind 
and not fo much for Ornament, fo that there need 
not be fo much care to fit particular Beds for them, 
as for their Bulbs-, yet they ought to be Planted 
orderly and in Rows, and at ; or 6 Inches dilfance 
one from another, and two Inches deep in the 
Ground, covering them fmoothly with your Hand ■ 
after which, you are to take the fame cate of them 
as you do of yout Bulbs. 
CCCCXV III. How long they are to continue in 
the Ground, is the next Coniideration : Some fay 
two Yeats, for that fay they, the firft Year they 
only fprout, and the fecond Year they multiply ; 
Others fiy three Years, for that the third Year they 
come to fuch a Perfefdion as to produce Flowers 
which feems to he moil Confentaneous to the Na-I 
ture and Property of thefe Plants. 
CCCCXIX. To prevent thefe Suckers growing 
dry. From the time of feparating them from their 
Bulbs, to the time of their Re-planting, you mull 
tut them into Mors, in fome open place, till you 
Plant them again; and fo ufed, they will thrive 
admirably. 
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