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ground over-long, to mix with them fome fine dry land, 
which will keep them very well a confiderable time, but you 
muft not keep them in a place that is damp or lubjeft to moi- 
fture, left they either fpringor do worfe. 
What I hav^faid concerning the aforefaid forts, you may 
obferve in fome mealiire in the roots of Lillies and Martagons, 
Inch roots as are fcail, but if neceflary occafion caufe you not 
to keep your flower roots out of the ground, then it will be 
your beft and lureft couffe to fet them again as foon as you 
may conveniently^ whereby theoccafioning of fpoilingtheir 
feafonable and handfom Flowering, as alfo there the hinder¬ 
ing of their increafe is prevented,which fometimes happeneth 
by the too long keeping them out of the ground, befides 
other calualtiesj you (hall oft find that divers forts being kept 
long out of the ground, will begin to put out new roots or 
fibres 3 if you perceive it, get Inch into the ground as foon as 
you can, for then they are more apt to Ipoil than before. In 
the planting or letting of your Tulips, let the earth be at 
leaft an inch above the top of the root. 
The next thing to be confidered, is the way of increafing 
thefe forts of Flowers, and that is either by the lowing of 
their feed, or by off-fets that increafe from the roots ofbear- 
ing Plants, which being taken off in due feafon as aforefaid 
and planted in a ground made hollow and good, will in two 
or three years become bearing roots, but be careful you fet 
not your roots in dqng left they rot 5 as for the off-fets of 
the Crown Imperial affd Perfian Lilly, their off-fets are a great 
while before they come to bear Flowers. 
Lillies and Martagons are increafed by the feales taken off 
from the lower part of the root, befides what increafe it 
makes of it felf by off-fets, which in time will come to bear 
Flowers like the Mother-plant $ let your ground be good 
and pretty free from ftones, your Flowers will thrive the 
better and make the more increafe, and in cafe you ufedung 
about your Flowers, be lure it be very well rotted and con¬ 
verted to mould, and then being well mixed with your earth, 
will do.better than ufed alone, for dung is more apt to dry 
