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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



lis most families require early carrots. 

 Make two or three sowins;s, as a small 

 compartment of ground will be sufficient. 

 At each BOwing, choose a dry mild day to 

 sow the seed, and let it be raked in as soon 

 as sown. If you liave no frame, or none at 

 liberty, the bed may be arclied over with 

 hoops, and covered with mats occasionally. 



"When the plants come up, let them enjoy 

 the free air in mild weather, and cover them 

 with mats in cold nights whilst young ; and 

 when an inch or two higli, tliin them to 

 about three inches asunder. 



J. HOWLETT. 



Abhei/ Oardens, Hamset/. 



TWICE BLOOMING OF HAEDT SHEUBS. 



All plants, of -whatever climate they are 

 natives, have a season of rest and a season 

 of growth; in the former they are almost 

 dormant; in the latter they increase in 

 bulk, and exhibit their flowers and fruit, 

 after which they return a>;ain to a state of 

 repose. Intertropical plants are seasoned, 

 not from the alternations of cold and heat, 

 but from the alternating dry and rainy 

 seasons. By tlie latter they ure cxeiied 

 into renewed growth, dt-velop their flowers, 

 and set their fruit lobe matured in the dry 

 seasnn. Extva-tropiciil plains are chit fly 

 aflected by summer and winter. Annuals, 

 biennials, and perennials are all excited 

 into a floriferous hai it, by the gradually 

 returning warmth of spring and il:e s-olar 

 light of summer; and when the seed or 

 fruit is ripe, the energy of the plant de- 

 clines, and it again, in the case of annuals 

 and biennials, ceases to live; or, if peren- 

 nial, sinks to its winter's rest. Eulhou.'-- 

 stemmed plar.ts, which an- generally inert 

 during ^ummcr, and;it that season generally 

 in the drawers or boxes of the florist nias 

 be planted at any lime in the autumn, 

 •winter, or spring, as best suits the purp'Ses 

 of the floriht as to the time ol their bicom- 

 ing; but plants which are constantly in 

 ihe ground, and which are aff'icted only by 

 the seasons, present thtir leaves and flowers 

 ns the season prompts. They may be ex- 

 pedited by protection !lgain^t ihe depressing 

 eff'ects of cold; and they may be checked 

 by art in a way wiiicli remains to be dis- 

 cussed. If a plant be decked in its frst 

 career of growth, especially in developing 

 its reproductive members, it immediately 

 concentrates its vital jiowers, and maktsa 

 second attempit, ami if the sumiiier allows 

 even a third, to complete the hnal eff'ort ol 

 its growth. Consequently, if the season ol 

 florescence is wishtd to be prolonged, we 

 have only to destroy the flrst buds, or 

 shoots, and, of course, a second set will be 

 produced, and flower a monih or two later 

 than the usuhI period. Suppose we wish 

 to have a second or a contiiiuous bhom of 

 roses, certain healthy plants should be 

 fixed on; they, at the winter pruning, 



along with the general collection, should 

 be pruned, but somewhat differently; in- 

 sttad of being spurred in closely, which is 

 the usual practice, the shoots of the selected 

 trees should be lett somewhat longer; and 

 on these the uppermost bud will be first 

 unfolded, and will shoot out witti a flower 

 or two on its apex; but this flowering must 

 be prevented, lor as soon as the young shoot 

 from the uppermost bud is one inch in 

 length, the old shoot must be again pruned 

 down to the next bud below, which will de- 

 velop in its turn, and produce what may be 

 called a second crop of roses. 



A similar result is produced in another 

 wav; th; t is, by removing the trees rather 

 late at the beginning of the growing season, 

 v\hich letards the bloom for a week or a 

 month, acioriling to the lengtli of time the 

 tree is allowed to re-establish itself. 1o 

 ihis may be added the practice of layering 

 iind stopping the strongest sin cts during 

 the summer, which will ol'u n bring a late 

 bloom in the aiuunin. And lesi<!es all 

 these exptdeits. a selection of the i arly, 

 late, and ever-flowermg sons will produce a 

 bloom of roses throughout the summer and 

 autumn. 



But it is not the rose only which niay 

 be made a flower out of season. The rose 

 acacia, one of the most beamiful shrubs 

 both in flower aim foliage, may be made to 

 bloom twice iti the season by piuning. 

 As soon as the first flowers begin to fade, 

 let the shoot that bare them be cut back to 

 v\itliin an incli or tAvo ot lis base; thence 

 young shoots will be jiroduced, bearing a 

 second show ot flowers in October, sooner 

 or later. The labninum, and indeed all 

 the cj'stisus tribe, niay be made to flower 

 twice, by pruning back their young shoots 

 which have already flowered. And there is 

 another ornamt ntal shruhwhich will iea(iily 

 flower in the antuinn, either by a late 

 removal in the S[iring, or by pru.ing back 

 in April or May. We mean the Althea 

 Jrutex, which is a rare and pleasing sight 

 in the fall of the year, when flowers are 

 rather scarce. There arc, doubtless, several 

 other flowering shrubs which by art may 



