ON VARIOUS 
BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 
^OME (hort account of a few other 
bulbous perennial flowers may not 
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be improperly introduced in this place; 
but the greater part being of little value, 
and ealily cultivated, it does not feem 
neceflary to enter into a very minute or 
prolix inveftigation of their properties 
or culture. 
A good, found, frelh foil, either of 
the black or loamy kind, with the addi¬ 
tion of a little coarfe fea, or river fand, 
placed round the roots on planting, and 
manured with rotten cow-dung, two years 
old, if the foil and fituation be dry and 
warm, or rotten horfe-dung if it be cold 
and 
