36 HYACINTHS. 
Another, and lefs troublefome, mode 
of treatment after bloom, though per¬ 
haps more hazardous, is to keep the bed 
airy, and rather dry, till the Items and 
foliage appear nearly dried up or con- 
fumed ; this will feldom happen to be 
the cafe in lefs than two months; the 
bulbs are then to be taken up, cleaned 
from the fibres, foil, &c. and preferved 
in fand or papers as before directed. 
Offsets may be planted a few days 
earlier than the large roots, in an open 
part of the garden, in rows about two 
inches deep, upon a bed raifed fix or 
eight inches above the common level, 
confiding of a fandy foil, commi¬ 
nuted, or pulverized, eighteen inches 
deep; the furface of the bed fhould be 
made rather convex, or rounding, fo as 
to throw off heavy rains; no further 
attention 
