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y.ou miift take them out of the ground, and.wipe them 
clean with a foft woollen cloth, taking oft' all the decayed 
parts of the leaves and fibres, putting them into open . 
boxes where they may lie fingly, and be expofed to the 
air, but they mull be preferved carefully from moifture ; 
nor ihould they be buffered to remain where the fun may 
thine upon them ; in this manner they may be preferved 
out of the ground until September, which is the feafon 
for planting them again, at which time you muft feparate 
all the ftrong-flowering roots, planting them in beds by 
themfelves, that they may make'an equal appearance in 
their flowers; but the offsets and fmaller roots Ihould be 
planted in another feparate bed for one year, in which 
time they will acquire ftrength, and by the year fucceed- 
ing will be as ftrong as the older roots. 
The Angle and femi-double flowers fhould be planted 
alfo in a bed by themfelves, where they ihould be care¬ 
fully flickered (as was directed before) from the froft, un¬ 
til the flowers are blown; at which time their covering 
ihould be entirely removed, and they buffered to receive 
the open air, but the flower-ftalks ihould be fupported 
with flicks; which, though the weather may boon deface 
the beauty of the flowers, yet is abfolutely neceflary to 
promote their feeding; and, when the feeds are quite 
ripe, you mult cut off the veflels and preferve them, with 
the feeds therein, until the feafon forffowing it. But you 
muft obferve, that, after thefe flowers' have produced 
feeds, they leldom flower fo well again, at leaft not in 
two years after; fo that the bell method to obtain good 
feeds is, to plant new roots every year for that purpofe. 
Although thefe roots are, by molt perfons, taken up every 
year, yet, if the beds are well prepared for them, they 
may remain two years in the ground unremoved, and the 
roots will increafe more the fecond year than the firft, 
though the flowers are more liable to degenerate ; there¬ 
fore, thole who cultivate thefe for fale, take up their roots 
annually when they are large and faleable; but the off- 
fets and fmall roots they, ufually. leave two years in the 
ground. There are fome perfons who let their hyacinth- 
roots remain three or four years unremoved, by which 
they have a much greater increafe of roots than when 
they are annually taken up; but the roots by this great 
increafe are frequently degenerated, fo as to produce An¬ 
gle flowers. 
The beds Ihould be in a dry airy part of the garden, 
with a foutherh-expofure fheltered from the north and 
eaft, fix feet diftant, at lead from the fence, and made 
doping a little towards the fun. Florifts differ as to the pro¬ 
portion of the materials of the compoft in which the bulbs 
are to be planted. Some, inftead of half frefh earth, re¬ 
commend only one-third, with the fame quantity of rough 
fea or river band, and the remaining third part to be one- 
fourth old rotten cow-dung, and the reft the earth of de¬ 
cayed leaves. Some put in tanners’ bark, rotten wood, 
or old faw-duft. Others reprobate tan, as?retaining an 
aftringency which is pernicious to delicatebulbous flowers. 
In uling frefh earth from a pafture, it is neceflary to 
guard againft the wire-worm, by minutely infpefting the 
heap as it is turned over, and picking out this deftrufiive 
creature, which is of a yellow colour, and about an inch 
in length. Perfons who are nice about their flowers, ereft 
a covering or awning over them during the time of flow¬ 
ering, to keep off the rain without excluding the light, 
and to flicker them from cold winds, which are frequent¬ 
ly very injurious at the early feafon when thefe delicate 
flowers are in bloom. This awning fhculd be of coarle 
linen on*i frame of wood, made to roll up eafily, that in 
mild cloudy weather the flowers may have the full bene¬ 
fit of the fun and air; and it fhould not continue on 
more than a fortnight or three weeks, for it weakens the 
bulbs. Hyacinths never require any water; moderate 
rains are fufneient for them after planting, and till they 
bloom ; and, when they are paft their bloom, heavy rains 
fhould be kept from the bulbs by hoops covered with mats. 
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Such bulbs as are four or five years old flower ftrongeft 
in England ; and after this gradually decline : but in 
Holland the fame bulb will pigduce bloom twelve or 
thirteen years together, nor is it ever known to die merely 
from age. The hyacinth fucceeds beft in fltuations near the 
fea. In more inland parts the florift muft introduce frefh 
bulbs annually to fupply his deficiencies; and keep a re- 
ferve in narrow deep pots to fill up the vacancies in his 
beds. Single hyacinths may be planted a week or two 
fooner than the double ones, and thus will bloom two or 
three weeks earlier than the latter. Upon thefe you muft 
depend for feed, for the double ones rarely produce any. 
Save your feeds from thofe plants which have ftrong 
ftraight ftems, and a regular well-formed pyramid of 
flowers, which are femi-double; and do not gather it till 
it is perfectly black, when the pericarp will appear yel¬ 
low on the outfide, and begin to open. Then cut off the 
ftem, and place it in a dry, airy, cool, place, till the time 
of lowing; which is either the end of Oftober or the be¬ 
ginning of March. Mr. Miller recommends Auguft. By 
the fixth year after fowir.g, all the bulbs that furvive will 
have produced their bloom; and, if one in five hundred' 
fhould deferve to be recorded in the annals of the florift, 
the cultivator may efteem himfelf fortunate. See a va¬ 
riety of this garden-hyacinth in the Botany Plate IX. 
fig. 9, vol. iii. p. 253. It is the double-flowered varie¬ 
gated carnation-hyacinth. 
The grape-hyacinths or mufeari, are hardy, will thrive 
in the open air, and require no other culture but to take 
up the roots every fecond or third year, to feparate the 
bulbs; for fome of them multiply fait; and, when the 
bunches of bulbs become large, they do not flower fo 
ftrong. They fhould be taken, up foon after their ltalks . 
and leaves decay, and fpread on a mat in a dry fhady room 
for a fortnight to dry, after which they'may be kept in 
boxes till Michaelmas, when they may be planted in the 
borders of the flower-garden, and treated in the fame way 
as the common hyacinths. They are all eafily increafed 
by offsets, which moll of them fend out in plenty ; fo 
that there is no occafion to fow the feeds, unlefs it be to 
gain new varieties. The botryoidcs and raceniofus, which 
are very much alike, being troublefome from their great 
increafe, and the former not flowering readily in an open 
border, it is a good method to plant the bulbs in mode- 
rately-fized pots, filled with light earth, and to plunge 
them in the borders to flower; jn the-autumn they Ihould 
be taken out, and the offsets thrown away. The latter is 
much the moll common in our gardens, and is fre¬ 
quently miftaken for the botryoides. See Agapanthus, 
Aletris, Antholiza, Polianthes, Scilla, and La- 
NARIA. 
HY'ADES, five daughters of Atlas, king of Maurita¬ 
nia, who were fo difconfolate at the death of their bro¬ 
ther Hyas, who had been killed by a wild boar, that they 
pined away and died. They became ftars after death, and 
were placed near Taurus, one of the twelve figns of the 
Zodiac. They received the name of Hyades from their 
brother Hyas. Their names are Phaola, Ambrofia, Eu- 
dora, Coronis, and Polyxo. To thefe fome have added 
Thioneand Prodice ; and they maintained, that they were 
daughters of Hyas and Akhra, one of the Oeeanides. 
Euripides calls them daughters of Erechtheus. The an¬ 
cients, fuppofed that the riling and fetting of the Hyades 
was always attended with much rain. Euripides. 
HY'ADES, in altronomy, feven ftars in the bull’s head, 
famous among the poets for bringing rain ; whence their 
name, from the Greek vem, “ to rain,” as fabled above. 
The principal of them is in the left eye,, by the Atabs 
called aldebaran. 
HYA'NA, f. in zoology. See the article Canis, 
vol. iii. p. 723. 
HY'ALA, in ancient geography, a city at the mouth 
of the Indus, where the government was the fame as at 
Sparta. 
HYALINE,. 
