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240 IBB FLOWER GARDEN. [JAN.
them off: but when the weather is open, let them
be constantly uncovered.
The finest kinds, particularly of hyacinths,
tulips, ranunculuses, and anemones, merit this
care.
Planting Ranunculuses, Anemones, S[c.
Plant ranunculuses and anemones in mild, dry,
open weather, if you have any now out of the
ground; these now planted will succeed those
which were put in the ground in October or
November.
For their reception choose a dry situation,
where the ground is of a light pliable nature.
Let it be well digged, breaking the earth fine,
and form into beds of three feet and a half or
four feet wide, and rake the surface smooth, then
take an opportunity of dry, mild, open weather,
and plant the roots either in drills, or by dibble,
in rows, six to eight or nine inches distant, and
allow the distance of four to five or six inches in
the rows; and plant them about two inches deep.
For the particular method of preparing the
beds, and planting the roots, see the work of
September and October.
These flowers make a very agreeable appear¬
ance, when they are planted in small patches in
the borders among other flowers. In a small cir¬
cle of about six inches diameter you may plant
four or five roots; that is, one in the middle, and
the rest round the extreme parts of the circle.
Let the patches be from two or three, to Averten,
twelve, or fifteen feet asunder.