TULIPS. 
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fituation, and the bed defended from 
heavy rains, by means of mats and hoops, 
as before; or, inflead of replanting thefe 
offsets fo early, they may be preferved 
from the air, by being buried in dry 
fand till the autumn, and are then to be 
planted with the larger roots, but not 
quite fo deep. 
Tulips are hardier, and, of courfe, lefs 
liable to receive injury from froft, than 
* moft kind of flowers; the offsets, and 
more ordinary kinds, may be planted in 
any part of the garden, from two to four 
inches deep, according to the fize of the 
roots, in a good found foil, with a little 
rotten cow dung, placed from feven to 
twelve inches below the furface: the 
beds fhould be dug twenty inches deep, 
and raifed fix or eight inches above the 
walks, formed rather convex on the 
furface, and may be provided with hoops 
and 
