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row Leav’d, about the end of February or (boner, 
if the Winter is mild, otherwife in Match or April. 
If the Seafon is dry, they ought to be Watered, 
which will caufe them to thrive much the better, 
and to bear the timer Flowers. 
III. Of the manner of Planting 
ANEMONES. 
CX. The Beds or other places being prepared, 
and made even and fmooth with the Rake ^ take 
a Cord, and extending it long- ways, draw a Rill, 
or littie hollow Line or Gutter, from one end of 
the Bed to the other : This done, extend your 
Cord, and do in like manner again, a fecond, 
third J and a fourth time, or more, according to 
the bredth of your Bed, at $ Inches diftance, 
(Mr. Rea fays 6 or 8 Inches) afunder from each 
other. 
CXI. This done, take up your Cord again, and 
place it in like manner, to draw Rills or Gutters 
crofs all thefe Beds from one end to the other, 
and all of them equally at the aforenamed diftance, 
of y, 6, or Benches, by which means you will 
form a regular oblong Parallelogram ■, ' in which, 
either in the middle pf each -Square, or in the 
points where the Lines crofs one another, you are 
to Plant your Anemone Roots, which being at an 
equal diftance-, they will when they come to blow 
give you a lingular pleasure, which will arife from 
their great variety of colors, and their regular or- 
der of Planting. 
CXII. When you are a gping to Plant the 
Roots, make a hole fot every one of them with 
your Finger, or an Iron made for that purpofe ^ 
which let not be above 3 Inches deep in ,the 
Ground, and place the Root Always upon the lar- 
geft fide of it, with the (lit downwards, to the end 
that th z Pabulum, or nouri filing Juice, may rife di- 
re£Uy into the Root, to caufe it .to fpring, fo as 
to anfwer your Expe&ations. 
CXIII. Or as Mr. Rea fays, put the Root into 
the hole with that fide of it upwards, where you 
perceive fmall Eminencies to put forth Leaves. 
The La 1 iff i Aft and Augu ft i folios^ or Tenuifolio s, 
are all of them to be handled in the fame manner, 
only differing, in the Times of their Setting or 
Planting, as we have (hewn in Sett. 109. afore- 
going 
ffXIV’. Anemones are not Planted in open 
Grounds, v but they are fometimes put into Pots, 
one or two or more' Roots into each Pot, (accord- 
ing to the magnitufle of the Pot) and this becaufe, 
that if any of the Roots fhould chance to fail, 
there may be found in thefe Pots wherewithal 
to fill up the vacancies. 
CXV. This failure (if any be) will be percei- 
ved about three Weeks after you have put your 
Roots into the Ground, and which does not al- 
ways proceed from a corrupted Root •, but fome- 
times is occafioned by the Fabulum or Sap’s not 
rifing fo kindly as it ought : You are ever to look 
for fuch a Root in lefs than a Month -, and you 
will fometimes find them in your Pots alfo, as 
well as in your Beds. 
CXVI. The Flowers require to be Planted in an 
open place, and by no means in a fhady : becaufe, 
fending forth a great many fibrous Threads or 
Strings, and large tufts of Leaves, they would be 
apt to fpend themfelves too much, if fo placed -, 
and fo caufe a weaknefs in their Stems, and hazard 
their proving Abortive, or otherwife to yield but 
a very few Flowers. And the Stalk being thus 
tender, would certainly be killed by the Cold, 
which they would be too fufceptible of in this cafe j 
or elfe be broken with the Wind, which would do 
a great damage to the Root it felf. 
CXVII. If the Autumn be dry, you muft take 
care to Water them well : but contrariwife, if ic 
Rains very much, you muft then defend them from 
too much moifture, (which agrees not With them) 
with skreens of Straw. They may be water’d 
from the Month of February, to the times of their 
Flowering , which how much, or how often it is 
to be done, experience only muft cell you. 
CXVIII. Tho’ Cold is no mortal Enemy to them •, 
yet when it happens to be very fevere, the Plants 
ought to be covered with long dry Dung, or -long 
Straw : and your Pots ought to be alfo Planted or 
Placed, where they may be moft fate from the 
Weather. 
CXIX. Then again when the Wearher grows 
mild, you may uncover them ^ but withal, you 
muft be fure to cover them again, if it changes ro 
be Cold again. In fum, your prudence and expe- 
rience mutt excite your induftry, and diretf you, 
when, how often, and long, you muft beftow this 
trouble upon them. 
CXX. If at any Seafon of Planting or Setting 
your Roots, you put a little Willow Earth under 
and over the Roots, it will caufe them foon to 
pur forth Fibres j and thereby make them able to 
abide or endure the Winter. Yet inFroft and hard 
Weathqr, ft will be good to cover them which are 
fprung up (as aforefaid) with Mats orPeate Straw, 
which you may take off for two or three hours, 
every other day, ftt fair, and the Sun ftiines, and 
there be no nipping North, NorthEaft, or Eaftwardly 
Winds) to give them Air, and prevent Mouldinefs 
(which is apt to happen to them, and) which has 
been the ruin and deftru£lion of many a fine 
Plant, from which you might have expected very 
admirable Flowers. 
IV. Of Chafing Plants for Seed. 
CXX I. There is fome fpecial choice to be 
made of fuch Flowers whofe Seed is fitteft to be 
taken: of the Latifolias , the double Orange 
Tawny Seed being Sown, yield many pleafant va- 
rieties i but the Purples, Reds, or Crimfons, whe- 
ther Lai if olio's or Tenuif olio's , yield (mail or few 
varieties, but fuch chiefly as draw neareft their 
Original, tho’ it may chance thap fome may be a 
little deeper or lighter than others. 
CXXII. But the light colors are thofe, which 
are tp bechofen for. this purpofe ^ as White, Afh- 
color, Blulh or Carnation, light Orange, fimple 
or parti- colored, fingle or double, (if they bear 
Seed, as fometimes they do.) Thefe are they 
whole Seed you are carefully to gather, but not 
before it is throughly ripe,, which you may know 
by the head. 
CXXIII. For when the Seed with its Wooli- 
nefs begins to rife a little of it felf at the lower 
end, it muft then be quickly gathered, left the 
Wind carry it all away. After it is thus carefully 
faved, it muft be laid to dry for a Week or more, 
which then being gently rubbed with a little dry 
Sand or Earth, it will caufe the Seed to be.fome- 
what better feparated, altho’ nor throughly, from 
the Woolinefs or Down which encompafles it. 
CXXIV. If there remains any Woolinels in the 
Seed,, pull it afunder as well as y.ou can, that they 
may be perfe&ly feparated , for unlels this be 
done, it will be- impoffibte to Sow them in that 
due 
