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TULIPS. 
mixed together, twelve inches thick; and 
again, upon this is to be placed another 
ftratum of the fame kind of earth as that 
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of the bottom ; this is only to be two 
inches thick at the Tides, and three inches 
at the middle, which will give it a fmall 
degree of convexity ; this is to be per¬ 
formed about the 20th of Gftober, i. e. a 
week or two before planting, to give the 
bed time to fettle ; at the expiration of 
two weeks the earth will have fublided, 
fo as to be about two inches higher than 
the circumjacent paths ; but if heavy 
rains intervene between this preparation 
of the bed, and the time of planting, it 
will be proper to keep them off, in 
order to preferve the temperature of 
the earth, as it would be rendered too 
compact and adhelive, by a redundancy 
of moifture, for the fibres to pafs freely 
through it, which ought to be avoided. 
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