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and ftirink in hot and dry weather, and apt to ftarve a Plant 
if not fupplied with moifture. 
As for the lowing of thefo forts of Bulbous rooted Flower, 
it is generally fo foon as your feed is full ripe, or at leaft a- 
bout September j but there is a great deal of odds in the time 
of their coming to perfedion, for Frittillaria’s, and Hiacynths, 
and Crocus comes to the Flowering a long time before Tulips, 
Crown Imperial, and Martagons} the moft frugal way of 
lowing of them is in Pots or Boxes made forthepurpofe, be¬ 
ing fill’d with very good lifted mould, do not fow your feed 
too thick, cover it about an inch deep or thereabout, let 
their fituation be pretty temperate, and after they are two 
years growth or more,you may take them up and Plant them 
in fbme thinner order, take them up when they have done 
growing as aforefaid: Take notice that Tulips are more apt 
to run down deep into the ground than any other fort, and 
therefore to be more often taken up than other fort ofBulbous 
Plants, your care mu ft be to keep them clean from weeds up¬ 
on all occafions as need requires. 
The next fort to be fpoke to is Eminies or Anemonies, 
which is of that fort of Plant called Tuberous rooted. 
Thefe forts of Flowers likewifo are and may be taken up 
in the Spring or Flowring time, and may be with lefs pre¬ 
judice than many other. Bulbous Plants as being apt to draw 
new root quickly, whereas Tulips are not fo apt, but yet the 
beft foafon is ( as I laid of the foregoing forts ) when the 
leaves are withered,and their fpringing foafon is over, which 
is ufoally from the beginning of Jmeto the end of July., and 
fometimes later in cafo the weather continue dry } but when 
the weather grows cool and tnoift, they begin to take new 
root again, and then it is not fo foafonable to ftir them, 
efpecially to keep dry out of the ground} w’hereas thofo ta¬ 
ken up, as aforefaid, and dried a time in the Sun, may be kept 
found and well near a year, efpecially if the roots have any 
confiderable fubftance , but if as I laid of the fore-going 
fort, they lye damp or take wet, they are liable to fpoil or 
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