The florists vade-mecum being a choice compendium of whatever worthy notice hath been extant for the propagation, raising, planting, encreasing and preserving the rarest flowers and plants ... together with The gardiners almanack ... / by Samuel Gilbert.

In the Flower-garden.

Take up bulb roots of Lillies, &c. Bartholo∣mewtide, the onely secure season for removing and laying Perennial Greens, Oranges, Lemons, Mirtles, Phylareas, Oleanders, Jesemine, Arbutus, and o∣ther rare Shrubs, as Pomegranets, Roses, and whatever is most obnoxious to Frosts, taking the shoots and branches of the last Spring, and peg∣ging them down with a hook-stick in very rich Earth and Soil, perfectly consumed; water them on all occasions in Summer; by this time twelve∣month they will be ready to remove into good Earth set in the shade, kept moderately moist; three weeks past, set them in some more airy place, but not in the Sun till fifteen days more. Now new earth your Pots of Auricula's, transplant and divide their roots into a light rich Earth: Also your best Primeroses and Oxlips: Also your Campions, or Lychnis Calcidonices. Transplant seedling Anemonies; set Colchicums, Spiderworts, Frittilaries, &c.