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bloom: it is pointed out, by nature, in a 
lingular manner; for when thefe roots have 
been planted too lhallow or too deep, 
in either cafe, a fecond root is formed at 
the proper depth, by which the plant is 
weakened to fuch a degree that it feldom 
furvives a repetition of it. 
Ranunculus roots will remain feveral 
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days in the ground after planting, before 
they begin to vegetate; during this 
period, they become very much fwelled 9 
by imbibing the moifture of the foil, and 
are, in this Hate, extremely fufceptible 
of injury from froft, much more fo than 
when vegetation has a&ually taken place. 
As foon as the bed is planted, a fufficient 
quantity of barley or oat ftraw fhould be 
placed near it, ready for a covering : in 
cafe of froft, it may perhaps be neceflary, 
during a very fevere winter, to cover the 
bed in this manner, ten or fifteen inches 
L thick; 
