42 HYACINTHS. 
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half an inch below the fur face of the 
foil, in a deep box filled with good found 
garden mould mixed with fand, or the 
Hyacinth compoft, which fhould be after¬ 
wards placed in a warm fituation during 
winter. It will never require to be watered, 
or have any other attention paid to it, than 
to keep it free from weeds and froft, till 
it has remained in this ftate two years; 
it mull then, on the approach of winter, 
have an additional ftratum of the compoft 
placed upon it, about half an inch thick; 
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and at the third year, in the month of 
July, the roots may be taken up, dried, 
and treated in the fame manner as de- 
fcribed for large bulbs or offsets; fome of 
the roots will flower the fourth year, one 
half of them will at the fifth, but by the 
fixth year, every healthy root will exhibit 
its bloom, and then the hopes and expec¬ 
tations of the cultivator will be realized 
or 
