90 MONTHLY NOTICES. 



Prune flowering shrubs now, where they require it, with 

 a sharp knife, not with shears. When E say "flowering 

 shrubs," I do not mean shrubs in flower, but shrubs that do 

 flower. 



Transplant suckers from the hardy flowering slirubs, if 

 they have not been done before. Take them up with good 

 roots and support them neatly with stakes. 



Cuttings of young shoots of hardy deciduous shrubs may 

 be planted in mild weather, to root, and form good plants in 

 the autumn. Layers may be also formed. 



Protect all the choicer kinds of flowering shrubs, and all 

 cuttings of every kind, from severe frosts, by spreading litter 

 over them. 



Plant tulips now — always providing the weather is mild — 

 to blow late in the year; but they will not be so handsome as 

 those which were planted again in September and October. 



Plant any ranunculuses, anemones, &c., you may have 

 out of the ground, to come in late blowing; but, like the 

 tulips, they will not bear such fine blooms. Protect every 

 thing from severe weather, as well as you can, this month, 

 particularly your choicer sorts of bulbs, and tuberous-rooted 

 perennials. 



FEBRUARY. 



February is the first spring month, and the parterre will 

 begin to make gradual approaches to gaiety and life. The 

 anemones, hepaticas, &c,, will now bud and flower, if the 

 weather is genial ; and the crocus and snowdrop will put 

 forth their blooms to meet the sun on his returning march. 



About the end of this month, you may begin to sow the 

 hardy annuals. I prefer April, but it may not be convenient 

 always to wait so long: therefore sow now the seeds of 

 hawkweed, lavatera, Venus's looking-glass, Venus's navel- 

 wort, candy-tuft, larkspurs, lupines, convolvulus, flos Adonis, 

 dwarf lychnis, nigella, annual sunflowers, &c. 



This month you may plant and transplant, fearlessly, all 

 hardy, fibrous-rooted, flowering perennials and biennials, 

 such as saxifrage, gentianella, hepaticas, violets, primroses of 

 all sorts, polyanthuses, double daisies, thrift, &c.; rose cam- 

 pions, rockets, campanulas, sweet-williams, hollyhocks, scar- 

 let lychnis, carnations, pinks, monk's-hood, perennial asters 

 and sunflowers, &c. 



Plant cuttings of roses, honeysuckles, and jasmines. 



If the weather is mild, you may transplant many kinds of 



