On RANUNCULUSES. 
RANUNCULUSES may either be 
planted before or after winter: if 
the foil and fituation is remarkably cold 
and wet, it will be better to defer planting 
to the middle or end of January, or be¬ 
ginning of February, as the weather may 
favour; but, in other lituations, the latter 
end of Oflober, or beginning of Novem¬ 
ber, is to be preferred, as the roots will 
have more time to vegetate, and form 
themfelves, and will, in confequence, 
bloom rather ftronger, though only a few 
days earlier than the later planted. 
Ranunculufes are originally natives of 
a warm climate, where they blow in the 
winter, or more rainy feafon of the year: 
they 
