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roots every year, and transplant them, to prevent 

 their degenerating, or rather returning, to their 

 natural state. We have never observed this cir- 

 cumstance take place, but have frequently known 

 the plants decay altogether if left undisturbed for 

 three or four years. The Double Daisy thrives 

 best in a moist loam, that has no mixture of dung ; 

 and the plants should have the advantage of the 

 morning sun, and a shelter from the mid-day heat, 

 by placing them on the south-east side of shrubs or 

 trees, as in such situations the flowers are not only 

 larger, but continue much longer in blossom than 

 those that are exposed to the full sun. The mode 

 of placing them depends much on the size and 

 nature of the garden. In the gardens of the cot- 

 tagers, the Double Daisy is generally employed as 

 an edging to borders, and we infinitely prefer it to 

 that of box for such situations ; but an edging of 

 any description to the parterre of Flora shows a 

 want of taste in the planter; and if these flowers 

 are placed in patches of twenty or forty plants on 

 a spot, about three inches apart, they give a most 

 delightful effect either in the foreground of the 

 shrubbery or the flower-garden. 



The varieties should be kept in distinct situations, 

 and their colours so contrived as to be made sub- 

 servient to other flowers, as by planting the red or 

 scarlet variety near clumps of the Snowdrop or 



