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moving of them, efpecially if they be of fuch forts as they 
make any fpecial account of} for many times a year or 
two is loft by removing in the fpring, and fometimes the 
root is very tender, except they be taken up with mould - 
cleaving to the root 3 and therefore take this general rule 
for all fuch kinds of Flowers fo rooted, as*[ /aid before, 
that when the Flower is faded, and the leaves of the plant 
withered, you may take them up without any prejudice to 
them, and fo much the fooner if you prevent its feeding by 
gathering it or cutting off the ftalk when the beauty of 
the Flower is paft } the fore feafons are June, July , and 
Augujl , but if you ftay until September, they then begin to 
take new root againft another year, and then your foafon 
is not good for the purpofe, but rather a hinderance .* By 
what hath been /aid, you may eafily obferve that fome forts 
may be removed a month or more before others of like 
nature, according to the early or late flowring of them 5 
as likewife according to the temper of the weather or foafon} 
for in a hot and dry time Flowers blow quick and (hed accor¬ 
dingly, whereas a nfore cool and moift foafon caufoth Flow¬ 
ery not only to continue longer in Flower, but alfo to be 
fairer in moft forts, except they be of a very tender nature: 
having taken up any of thefe forts of Flowers we are /peak¬ 
ing of, if you have any intention of keeping them any time 
out of the ground which you may do to many of them for 
five or fix months,and fometimes more without hurt to them 
if occafion require} you are firft to lay them in the Sun, 
or in fome Window where they may dry, left being wet or 
damp, they Chould mould, or root, or occafion their Spring¬ 
ing before you are willing, which by taking wet or lying in 
a damp place, comes to pa/s fometimes, and are fometimes 
fpoiled : But if your roots are of a more hollow or /pungy 
nature, as Frittilaria’s and fome forts of Hiacynths, &c. 
which will wilk, or be limber, or (hrivel if kept a little too 
long out of the ground } for fuch forts, as alfo the roots of 
Ranunculo’s, if you be necefiitated to keep them out of the 
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