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TULIPS. 
fo gradually to increafe in the lize of the 
roots to the fifth or laft row, which 
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fhould contain the ftrongeft and largeft 
of all; when the roots are properly 
covered with foil, as before directed, the 
furface of the bed will (lope one way, 
forming an inclined plane: it will be ne- 
ceflary to fupport its highefi: fide, at leaft, 
with boards, or brick-work, otherwife the 
earth would be liable to crumble down, 
and leave the roots bare, or too {hallow. 
When the operation of planting is 
concluded, the bed may be hooped over, 
and taken care of, in the manner direfted 
for Hyacinths, i. e. fo as to preferve it 
from very heavy rains, and fevere frofts ; 
but either one or the other, in modera¬ 
tion, will be of more fervice than injury 
to it. 
By the end of February every plant in 
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health will be vifible above ground; fome 
tall 
