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frefli earth, laying a few potflieards over the holes, to 
prevent the earth from (lopping them; then, having laid 
the earth very level in the boxes. See. you mu ft fow the 
feeds thereon pretty thick, covering it with fine fifted 
earth a quarter of an inch thick. The time for (owing 
the feed is about the beginning of Auguft; for if it be 
kept much longer out of tlie ground, it will not grow ; 
then place the boxes or pans where they may have the 
morning fun until eleven o’clock, obferving, if the fea- 
(bn proves dry, to water them gejitly, as alfo to pull up 
all weeds as foon as they appear; for if they are fuflbred 
to remain until they have taken deep root into the earth, 
they will draw the feeds out of the ground witenever 
they are pulled up. Toward the latter end of Septem¬ 
ber, you fliould remove the boxes, &c. into a warmer 
(ituation, placing them clofe to a hedge or wall expofed 
to the fouth : if they are fown in pots, thefe fliould be 
plunged into the ground ; but they are bed in rubs; 
thefe (hould be covered in fevere froft. In this fituation 
they may remain until the middle of March, by wh.ch 
time the plants will be come up an inch high ; you muft 
therefore remove the boxes, as the weather becomes hot, 
into a more (hady fituation; for while the plants are 
young, they are liable to fuller by being too much ex¬ 
pofed to tlie fun; and in this (hady (ituation they may 
remain during the heat of the fummer, obferving to keep 
them clear from weeds, and to refre(h them now and then 
with a little moifture; but be careful not to give them 
much w ater after tlieir leaves are decayed, which would 
rot their roots. About the beginning of Auguft, if the 
roots are very thick in the boxes, you fhould prepare a 
bed of good light fredi earth, which muft be levelled 
very even, upon which you Ihould fpread the earth in 
the boxes in which the (mail roots are contained, equally 
covering it about one-fourth of an inch thick with the 
fame freih earth ; this bed (liould be fituated in a warm 
pofition, but not too clofe to hedges, walls, or pales, 
which would caufe their leaves to be long and (lender, 
and make the roots weaker than if placed in a more open 
expofure. In this bed they may remain until they flower, 
which is generally the third year from fowing; at which 
time you (hould put down a mark to the roots of all fuch 
as produce fair flowers, that at the time of taking tliem 
out of the ground, which ought to be foon after their 
green leaves are decayed, they may be felefted into abed 
amongft your old roots of this flower, whicli, for their 
beauty, are preferved in the beft gardens ; bur the other 
lefs valuable flowers may be planted in the holders of 
the parterre-garden for their variety, where, being inter¬ 
mixed with other flowers of different feafons, they will 
make a good appearance. 
The fine forts of this flower (liould remain undifturbed 
three years, bv which time they will have produced many 
offsets ; and Ihould be taken up when their leaves'are 
decayed, and planted into a freih bed, taking fuch of their 
offsets as are large enough to produce flowers to plant in 
the flower garden; but the Imaller roots may be planted 
into a nurfery-bed until they have obtained lirength 
enough to flower ; but you muft never fufl'er thefe roots 
to lay out of the ground when you remove them, but 
plant them again immediately, otherwife they will perilh. 
During thefe three years, tlie furface of the earth fliould 
be ftirred every autumn with a trowel, obferving not to 
go fo deep as to bruife the root, and at the fame time lay 
a thin cover of very rotten dung or tanner’s baik upon 
the furface of the beds; which, being wafhed into the 
ground, will caufe the flowers to be larger, as alfo the 
roots to make a greater increafe: you mull alfo obferve 
to keep them conftantly clear from weeds; and thole 
roots which you would preferve with care, Ihould not be 
luffered to feed. When a (lock of good flowers are ob¬ 
tained, they may be preferved and increafed in the fame 
manner as other bulbous rooted flowers, w'hich is by off- 
fets lent out from their roo-ts, which (hould be taken off 
every other year from the fined forts; but the ordinary 
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flow'ers may remain three yc^ars undifturbed, in which 
time they will have multiplied fo much, as that each 
root will have formed a cluiler ; fo that if they are left 
longer together, the roots will be (mail, and the flowers 
very weak; therefore, if thefe are taken up every other 
year, the roots will be the (Ironger. Thefe roots may be 
treated in the fame manner as tulips, and other bulbous- 
rooted flower?, with this difference only, that the roots 
will not bear.to be kept out of the ground fo long; 
therefore, if there (liould be a neceffity for keeping them 
out of the ground any time, it will be beft to put the 
roots into (and, to prevent their flirinking. 
As thefe flowers come out early in tlie fpring, they 
make a pretty appearance in the borders of the pleafure 
garden, where they are planted in fmall clumps; for, 
when they (land lingle in the borders, they make but a 
poor figure. See Stapelia. 
FRITIL'LUS, f. [Latin.] A box out of which dice 
are call. Cole. Not ujed.. 
FKl'TINANCY,/. [from Lat.] The fcreani 
of an infedl, as the cricket or cicada.—The note or Jri- 
tinancy thereof is far more (brill than that of the locuft, 
and its life fliort. Brown. 
FRIT'TER,/. ifriture,Vv.-\ A fmall piece cut to 
be fried ; 
Maids, fritters and pancakes ynow fee ye make ; 
Let Slut have one pancake for company lake. Tujfer. 
A fragment: a fmall piece : 
The ancient errant knights 
Won all their ladies hearts in fights; 
And cut whole giants into Jritters, 
To put them into amorous twitters. Hudibras. 
A cheefecake ; 3. vi\g.. Ainfwortk. 
To FRIT'TER, v. a. To cut meat into fmall pieces to 
be (ried. To break into fmall particles orJ'ragments: 
Joy to great chaos! let divifion reign ! 
My racks and tortures foon (hall drive them hence. 
Break all their nerves, and- fritter 3\\ their lenle. Dunciad. 
How prologues into prefaces decay. 
And thefe to notes are fritter'd quite away. Pope. 
FRITZ'LAR, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and principality of Lower Fleffe, fituated 
on the Eder. In 1232, Conrad landgrave of Thuringia 
lacked it, llauglitered the inhabitants, let it on fire, and 
deftroyed the walls. In 1631, it was taken by the land¬ 
grave of Helfe, and reta’icen foon after by general Tilly. 
It contains two colleges and a convent: thirteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Caffel. Lat. 50. N. Ion. 26. 41. E, 
Ferro. 
FRIU'LI, a province of Italy, which extends from the 
mouth of the Tagliamento to Pontieba, on the (rontiers 
of Carinthia, and from the Livenza to the Lilonzo, 
namely, fifty-five miles in length and lixty-five in breadth, 
and about 263 in circumference. The Friuli is bounded 
by the Tyrol and Carinthia on the north, by Carniola and 
Gradifca on the eaft, by the Adriatic I'ca on the fouth, 
and by the Marca Trevifana on the weft. The (oil is 
partly Hat, and partly mountainous ; and its hilly part, 
fituated towards Germany, is the 1110ft fterile and uninha¬ 
bited : ^or the mountains Montafio and Chiarima, at tlie 
mod northern end of the province, form a part of the 
Julian Alps which feparate Italy troni Germany; but 
the mountain ot Mariana, which parts it from Carinthia, 
is a part of the Noric -Alps; and on the other (ide, this 
country is alfo covered by another ridge of mniintains. 
The roads and pafles which condudl through thefe terri¬ 
fic mountains to Germany, are, in part, fo very narrow, 
that it is extremely dangerous to travel on them, either 
on foot or horl'eback; and only the pafles Chiula di yen- 
zone, Tolmino, and I.ubiana, can be palfed by waggons 
and artillery. The flat part of the Friuli is very fertile ; 
and the country produces, in general, a quantity of tint- 
