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are Late Tulips, various ; Crown Imperials, red and yellow ; Lilies 

 of various kinds, as L. Candida, white; L. martagon, scarlet, yellow, 

 etc. ; L. tigrinum, deep orange, spotted, and several others. Bulbs 

 that are generally imported, and may be had in abundance iu the 

 autumn, at which time they should be planted, are early tulips, 

 hyacinths, Earcissus, jonquils, etc. 



From the foregoing list a selection may be made which will keep 

 the little garden in blooming condition nearly the whole year, and 

 when once planted they will continue for years ; but as some of them 

 grow much faster than others, it will be necessary sometimes to take 

 them up, and divide the roots of the freer growing sorts. If all are 

 kept clean and tidy, and the ground disturbed between them often, 

 these will give as creditable appearance to the little garden as any- 

 thing. But yet some may prefer other modes of planting the little 

 garden. Such plants as the above might be placed widely apart, 

 and bedding plants or annuals placed between ; others may be fond 

 of annuals, and desire to have them alone. Of annuals some may be 

 sown in September, to stand the winter, and flower early in the 

 spring ; other sorts, if sown early in the spring, flower early, and are 

 soon over ; some flower more in the summer ; others flower till the 

 winter's frost cuts them off. The seeds of most kinds of annuals 

 can be procured very cheaply, but very cheap seeds should be looked 

 on with suspicion, for there is much deception practised by cheap 

 venders. It is worth knowing that annuals may be kept in bloom 

 a long time merely by picking off the old flowers as fast as they 

 begin to fade. Where this is not done, they perfect their seeds in 

 abundance, and some sorts are soon over, and have ripened a 

 quantity of seed before they have done flowering. It may be also 

 worth knowing by what means success is most likely to attend the 

 sowing of small seeds. There are various causes of failure — the 

 ground may be too cold and wet ; in this case the sowing should be 

 put off till warmer weather ; or the ground may be too light and dry, 

 when it will be as well to sow immediately after rain ; or the ground 

 may be too rough, and the seed gets buried too deep. To prevent 

 this, it is a good plan to press the spot with the bottom of a garden 

 pan or saucer, and on the flat level place thus made scatter the seed 

 and cover very lightly with very fine earth. The seeds should be 

 buried slightly or otherwise according to the size ; for instance, the 

 seeds of salpiglossis and others, being very small, require but the 

 slightest covering ; those of larkspur, being larger, may be buried 

 nearly half an inch ; while lupins of the larger sort may be buried 

 more than an inch. Care should be taken to give them sufficient 

 room either by sowing thinly or by thinning them after they are up ; 

 six in a patch is quite enough of anything, and the thinnings wdl 

 bear planting again. If the ground remains moist till the seeds are 

 up, so much the better, but if watering is necessary, they should be 

 kept moist, for if the ground becomes caked over the seeds, they will 

 not grow. The following are some of the kinds that will grow 

 almost anywhere: — Sweet Alyssum, white; Aster tenellus, blue 

 and yellow ; Campanula, or Venus' looking-glass, blue ; Catananche 

 lutea, yellow ; Cluytonea perfoliata, white ; Cynoglossum linifolium, 



