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be planted, (which fhould not be lefs than fix or eight 
inches fquare,) you mull place the roots accordingly, ob- 
ferving to fet them upright; then you muft cover them 
over with the before-mentioned earth about eight inches 
deep, being very careful in doing it not to difplace the 
roots ; when this is done, you mull make the lurface of 
the border even, and make up the fide ftraight, which 
will appear liandfome. The bell time for planting thefe 
roots is in the end of Auguft, or beginning of September; 
for, if they are kept too long out of the ground, it will 
caufe their flowers to be weak. You fhould alfo obferve 
the nature of the foil where they are planted, and whether 
the fituation be wet or dry, according to which you fhould 
adapt the frelli earth, and order the beds; for, if the foil 
be very flrong and the fituation moift, you fhould then 
make choice of a light earth, and raife the beds fix or 
eight inches, or a foot, above the level of the ground, 
otherwife the roots will be in danger of perifhing by too 
much wet; but, if the fituation be dry and the foil natu¬ 
rally light, you fhould then allow the earth to be a little 
flronger, and the beds fhould not be raifed above three or 
four inches high; for, if they are made too high, the 
roots will fuller very much, if the fpring fhould prove dry, 
nor would the flowers be near fo fair. As alfo in very 
fevere winters, thofe beds, which are raifed much above 
the level of the ground, will be more expofed to the cold 
than thofe which are lower, unlefs the alleys are filled up 
with rotten tan or litter. 
Turing the l’ummer, the only culture thefe flowers re¬ 
quire is, to keep them free from w-eeds ; and, when their 
leaves are entirely decayed, they fhould be raked off, and 
the beds made clean : but by no means cut off then- 
leaves till they are quite decayed, as it is by fome prac- 
tifed, for that greatly weakens the roots. Towards the 
middle of Odlober, if the weeds have grown upon the 
beds, yon fhould in a dry day gentlyhoe the furface of 
the ground to deflroy them, obferving to rake it over 
fmooth again ; and, before the frofts come on, the beds 
fhould be covered over two inches thick with rotten tan, 
to keep out the fro ft; after which they will require no 
farther cafe till the fpring, when their leaves will appear 
above ground, at which time you fhould gently ftir the 
furface of the earth with a fmall trowel, being very care¬ 
ful not to injure the leaves of the plants, and rake it 
fmooth with your hands, clearing off all weeds, &c. which, 
if fuffered to remain at that feafon, will foon grow fo faff 
as to appear unfightly, and will exhauft the nourifliment 
from the earth. With this management thefe roots will 
flower very flrong, fome of which will appear in March, 
and the others in April; which, if fuffered to remain, will 
continue in beauty a full month, and are, at that feafon, 
very great ornaments to a flower-garden. 
Thefe roots fhould not be tranfplanted oftener than 
every third year, if they are expedled to flower flrong and 
make a great increafe ; becaufe the firft year after remo¬ 
ving they never flower fo flrong as they do the fecond and 
third ; nor will the roots increafe fo fall when they are 
often tranfplanted ; but, if you let them remain longer 
than three years unremoved, the number of offsets, which 
by that time will be produced, will weaken the large 
bulbs, and caufe them to produce very weak flowers ; 
therefore, at the time of tranfplanting them, all the fmall 
offsets fhould be taken oft’, and planted in a nurfery-bed 
by themfelves ; but the large bulbs may be planted again 
for flowering. If you plant them in the fame bed where 
they grew before, you mull take out all the earth two 
feet deep, and fill it up again with fre(h,.in the manner be¬ 
fore dire&ed, which will be equal to removing them into 
another place : this is theconftant practice of the gardeners 
in Holland, who have but little room to change their 
roots ; therefore they every year remove the earth of 
their beds, and put in frefh, fo that the fame place is con- 
ftantly occupied by the like flowers. But thofe people 
take up their roots every year; for, as they cultivate 
them for fale, the rounder their roots are, the more 
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valuable they will be: the way to have them fo is to 
take their offsets from them annually ; for, when their 
roots are left two or three years unremoved, the offsets 
will have grown large, and thefe, prefling againft each 
other, will caufe their fides to be flatted ; fo that, where 
the roots are propagated for fale, they fhould be annually 
taken up as foon as their leaves decay ; and the large 
bulbs may be kept out of the ground till the middle 01- 
end of Oftober, but the offsets fhould be planted the 
beginning of September or fooner, that they may get 
ltrength, fo as to become blowing roots the following 
year: but, where they are defigned for ornament, they 
fhould not be removed oftener than every third year, for 
then the roots will be in large bunches, and a number of 
ftalks with flowers coming from each bunch; they will 
make a much better appearance than where a Angle ftalk 
rifes from each root, which will be the cafe when the roots 
are annually removed. 
Perfons who are nice in thefe flowers flielter them by 
an awning, during the time of flowering, to keep off fun, 
rain, and wind, as is praftifed with auriculas, carnations, 
and other very handfome delicate flowers, to preferve the 
beauty of the bloom, and to continue it longer. The 
polyanthus-narciffus may be blown in glaffes in rooms 
during the winter and early in the fpring, from October 
to March. 
The jonquils fhould be planted in beds or borders, fepa- 
rate from other roots, becaufe thefe require to be tranf¬ 
planted at leall every year, otherwife their roots are apt to 
grow long and (lender, and feldom flower well after; 
which is alfo the cafe if they are continued many years 
in the fame foil : wherefore the roots fhould be often 
removed from one part of the garden to another, or, at 
leaft, the earth fhould be often renewed, which is the 
moft probable method to preferve their flowers in perfec¬ 
tion. The foil iq which thefe flowers fucceed belt is an 
hazel-loam, neither too light nor over lliff; it mult be 
frefh, and free from roots of trees or noxious weeds, but 
fhould not be dunged ; for-it is very remarkable, that, 
W'here the ground is made rich, they feldom continue 
good very long, but are fubjeft to (hoot downwards, and 
form long (lender roots. Thefe flowers aye greatly efteem- 
ed by many people for their flrong fweet lcent; though 
there be very few ladies that can bear the fmell of them, 
efpecially if confined in a room. Where the fmell of the 
jonquils can be endured, they are blown with fuccefs in 
glades, as well as the polyanthus-narciffus. The glaffes 
fhould be filled up to the bottom of the bulb with frefh 
foft water: place them in a light warm room, near windows 
which have the benefit of the fun : and keep up the water 
to the fame height, by putting in a frefh fuppiy every 
fortnight or three weeks. Thefe and other flowers may 
alfo be brought forward in a warm room in pots fet in 
pans of water; or ftill more effeftually in (loves or hot¬ 
beds, by which means a fucceffion of thefe flowers may 
be obtained during the winter and fpring till they appear 
in the natural ground. See Amaryllis, Anthericum, 
Ferraria, II.ffiMANTHUs, Leucoium, and Pancratium. 
NARCON'DAM, an ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
about 20 miles in circumference. It is a barren rock, 
rifing abruptly out of the Ocean, uninhabited, and defli- 
tute of vegetation : 75 miles fouth from the Great Anda¬ 
man. Lat. 13. 23. N. Ion. 94., 40. E. 
NARCO'SIS, f. [Greek.] Privation of fenfe; ftupe- 
fa6lion. 
NARCOT'IC, or Narcot'ical, adj. [voc^noa, Gr. nar- 
cotique, Fr.] Producing torpor, or flupefadtion.— Narco- 
tick includes all part of the materia medica which any 
way produces deep, whether called by this name, or 
hypnoticks, or opiates. Quincy. —Medicines which they 
call narcotical, that is to fay, fuch as benowme and dead 
thedifeafed. Harmar's Tr. of J 3 eza, (1587.) 
NARCOT'IC, f. A drug producing deep. —Narcotikes 
and opie of Thebes fine. Chaucer's Knight's Tale. 
NARCOT'IC ALLY, adv. By producing torpor.—Ar- 
refting 
