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permits of it. As we cannot expect tliat all our 

 plants will pass safely through our changeable 

 winters, with their alternate frosts and thaws, which 

 sometimes throw the plants out of the ground, a 

 few plants should be grown in pots and wintered in 

 frames to form a reserve from which losses may be 

 replaced ; for although the plants may be removed 

 in the autumn with impunity, they resent any 

 serious disturbance of the roots in the spring, and 

 if moved at that season they should be carefully 

 transferred from pots to the open ground without 

 disturbing the roots, and the soil pressed very 

 firmly round them with the fingers. I need not 

 say anything about seeds or seed-sowing — this has 

 been fully dealt with in another place ; but I can 

 confidently assert that the Yellow-Ground varieties 

 are as easy of culture, and quite as prolific, as any 

 others, either out-of-doors or in the open garden. 



