WALL-FLOWER. 83 



April is the season recommended to sow the 

 seeds of the Wall-flower, which are soon of suffi- 

 cient size to transplant out, either in a nursery-bed 

 or on the spots they are intended to embellish : 

 they should always be planted sufficiently early in 

 the autumn to get a good rooting before the frost 

 approaches, and the drier and poorer the ground 

 the better will these plants endure the winter ; but 

 when planted in a rich compost of vegetable mould, 

 cow-dung, and loam, well mixed, they arrive at a 

 state of perfection scarcely surpassed by any Eu- 

 ropean flower, particularly when potted in the 

 spring, and kept in a north-east aspect, where they 

 receive only about three hours sun each day. These 

 should be housed during the winter, giving them 

 but little water until they begin to show flower-buds, 

 when they may be more freely watered, and if they 

 prove of good kinds, they will be found to repay the 

 attention by the beauty and size of their flowers. 



The perfectly double varieties, being destitute of 

 the organs of fructification, produce no seed, but 

 may be propagated by slips planted in the spring, 

 which readily take root if kept moist; but these 

 seldom make such fine plants, or produce so large 

 petals, as those raised from seeds that are saved 

 from semi-double flowers. 



