RANUNCULUS ASIATICUS. 
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in the ground in a warm situation, where they will 
root during summer, and be taken up and potted in 
autumn. 
RANUNCULUS ASIATICUS. 
The Ranunculus is a beautiful flower, with small 
tuberous roots, usually imported from Holland along 
with bulbs, &c. The imported roots if they are good 
ones, will generally flower the first season, but owing 
to the difference of this from their native climate, they 
luxuriate in foliage and divide into offsets, so that they 
seldom make roots for flowering again the next sea¬ 
son. 
As the ranunculus is rather more tender than the 
Anemone, and more liable to be killed by the frost 
and wet in this climate, unless they are well protected, 
the best way to secure a show of flowers is to prepare 
a bed in the fall, (say October,) and plant the roots in 
the spring. Having selected the bed intended for them, 
spread it two or three inches thick with decayed cow 
manure, and dig it in pretty deep, laying the soil up 
in a ridge in the center, to carry off the water. Early 
in April level down the bed, and spread over it a 
thin coat of fresh sandy loam; mark with a rod, 
some lines across the bed, six inches apart, place the 
roots carefully in the rows with the crowns upwards, 
four or six inches apart, and lay a portion of sand 
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