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New forts of breeders are procured 
from feed, but fuch only as have very 
tall ftrong Hems, with large well formed 
cups, clear in the bottom, are worth 
cultivating. 
The feed fhould be faved from the 
moft perfefl breeders, in preference to the 
fined of the variegated or broken forts, 
as the feed of fuch produces nothing but 
poor weak breeders, of no value. It 
fiiould remain growing on the Hem till 
the Pericarpium becomes of a brownifh 
colour, and begins to open ; it is then 
fufficiently ripe, and fhould be cut off, 
with fix or eight inches of the Hem, and 
treated afterwards, in all refpefts, agree- 
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able to the direftions given for the 
management of Hyacinth feed. Some 
of the feedlings will bloom by the fourth 
or fifth, and moft, if not all, by the 
feventh year. 
