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If the gentlemen of our own, or other countries^ 
took delight in fuch obfervations, they might 
amufe themfelves very agreeably, by giving up 
fome of their time to things of this kind and i 
am moil certainly perfuaded, that this fo flight a 
Iketch, gaining continually new additions, would 
at laft produce a work of great ufe ; as it might 
furnifli materials for directing private ceconomy, 
and the more fo as the times for fowing of feeds, 
for reaping, and mowing, and for gathering fruits 
of various kinds, might from thence be belt 
fettled. 
Gardeners might thence learn at what time of 
the fpring, they ought to lay the roots of plants 
bare, when to low their feeds, when to expofe to 
the open air, and when to put under fhelter their 
tender plants, and how to furnilh the garden with 
flowering plants ; fo that there might be a per- 
petual blow all poflible months of the year ; thus 
the lilac follows the cherry , the mock orange fol- 
lows the lilac 1 and the late rofes follow the mock 
orange . 
THE ORDER OF BLOWING OF THE 
BULBOUS PLANTS IN BORDERS, AND 
THEIR DURATION. N. B. The plants are 
numbered from the firft day of budding, by 
the figures bered on the left hand, the other 
figures on the right hand Chew the duration of 
their blow** 
* The meaning is this, as explained to me by Mr. Solaii- 
der ; fuppofe the /now-drop buds on any given day, then the 
crocus will bud the fecond day after it, the hyacinth the 12th 
day after it, &c. 
3 
1. Snow- 
