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HYACINTHS. 
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attention is neceffary, except to ftir the 
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furface of the bed occafionally, keep it 
free from weeds, and preferve it from 
very fevere frofh The proper time to 
take them up, See. is already pointed 
out, being the fame as for large roots. 
Offsets, if preferved in health, will 
bloom weakly the fecond year; but by 
the third, tolerably ftrong, and may af¬ 
terwards be placed on the beft bed. 
Such roots as have attained the age 
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of four or five years, bloom ftronger 
in this country than any other; they 
afterwards gradually decline, either by 
dividing into offsets, or diminifhing in 
fize and ftrength : but in Holland, owing 
to the peculiar circumflances of the foil, 
climate, fituation, Sec. the fame bulb has 
been known to produce bloom twelve or 
thirteen times, nor is it ever known to 
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die merely with age. 
Hyacinths 
