To those who are fond of cultivating such plants the fol- 

 lowing directions will be found useful. 



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About the end of August, or beginning of September, 

 sow the seeds of those plants which are to stand the winter in 

 the open border and to flower in May ; they may be trusted to 

 any ordinary soil which is not rich or damp. If the soil is 

 of that nature, or the seeds are sown thickly, the plants are 

 very apt to perish during winter. If the weather is dry at 

 the time of sowing, the soil should have a good soaking with 

 water a few hours before the seed is sown, otherwise it may 

 remain until the spring before it vegetates. 



If the severity of the winter should destroy the autumn 

 sown plants, sow some seed in pans about the beginning of 

 March, and place them either in the greenhouse or cold pit, 

 and when the plants are large enough pot them off, putting 

 three or four plants into a sixty pot, placing them again in a 

 cold pit or frame. Then, about the middle of April, plant 

 them out in the open border, and they will flower nearly as 

 soon as those which had been sown in the autumn, but the 

 plants will not flower so finely, nor indeed will any which may 

 be the produce of other sowings. 



Another sowino: should be made about the middle of 

 March; but in this case the soil should be made rich; these 

 plants will flower about June. 



The next seed should be committed to the ground about 

 the end of May or beginning of June; still making the 

 ground rich, otherwise the plants attain no size, and flower 

 weakly. These plants will flower in July and August. If a 

 further succession is desired, a sowing made in July some- 

 times flowers well about the end of August, or in September. 

 Much however depends on the season ; if it proves dry, parti- 

 cular attention must be paid to watering the ground, both be- 

 fore and after the seeds are sown, and should the weather con- 

 tinue very dry, the seeds must be covered with an inverted 

 flower-pot, if they are in small patches, or with a mat, if in 

 a bed, until the seeds have germinated. 



The following are the handsomest kinds of Godetias, and 

 will all stand an ordinary winter, if sown in the open border in 

 the autumn, except Godetia tenella and tenuifolia, which are 

 Chilian plants, and should only be sown in the spring and 

 summer : Godetia grandiflora, Lindleyana, viminea, decum- 

 bens, Romanzovii, araoena or rosea-alba, bifrons, vinosa, te- 

 nella and tenuifolia. 



