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HYACINTHS. 
the peculiar advantage of a beautiful 
contrail of colour in the eye, or centre 
of their bells, which the fmgle forts can¬ 
not poffefs. 
The roots 3 of Double Hyacinths may 
be planted at any time from the middle 
of Oflober to the middle of November; 
if it is done earlier the plants will appear 
above ground in the middle of winter, 
which will render them liable to material 
injury from fevere frofts; or if it is de¬ 
ferred later, the roots will be weakened 
by their natural tendency to vegetate, 
manifefted by a fwelling of the circle 
from whence the fibres proceed, which 
will be foon followed by an aftual ap¬ 
pearance of the points of the fibres, toge¬ 
ther with that of the foliage at the other 
* 
extremity of the root, in the form of a 
fmall obtufe cone of a greenifh colour. 
* Or bulbs. 
The 
