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inch of the top, and water moderately. When the lights are put on, tilt them 

 a little for ventilation, and to let the steam escape, and shade from the noon- 

 day sun. As the plants increase in height, raise the frame a little : many 

 expedients for doing so will i-eadily present themselves to a thinking man. 



1018. Half 'liardy Annuals for beds and borders should now be planted out in 

 the ground, others potted or pricked out on a slight hotbed ; and those pricked 

 out last month will now be fit to transplant, having been gradually inured to 

 the open air ; for this purpose let them be taken up with the roots entire, and 

 carefully planted with their ball of earth in the places where they are to remain. 

 Ten-week stocks, mignonette, and China-asters, may still be sown in a bed or 

 border of rich ground ; but a gentle hotbed will bring them forward so as to 

 flower a fortnight earlier. 



1019. Hardy Anmials. — Lupines, Flos Adonis, lychnis, mignonette, and 

 many others, may still be sown in beds or patches where they ai-e to flower, wa- 

 tering them after sowing and in dry weather. Perennials may now be increased 

 by cuttings of the young flower-stalks ; double scarlet lychnis will grow freely so 

 propagated. Divide the young flower-stalks into lengths, each having three or 

 fotir joints, and plant them in a shady border of rich light earth about four inches 

 asunder, two joints of the cuttings being in the ground : pre&s the earth round 

 the stem, and water them moderately, covering them with hand-glasses, and 

 shading from the midday sun. All the fibrous-rooted plants may be increased 

 by this method, as well as by separating the roots, the only methods by which 

 the properties of the double -flowering species can be propagated. Wall- 

 flowers can now be propagated by seeds as wells as slips. Tuberoses planted 

 •now will bloom in autumn if the pots are plunged in a hotbed : they require no 

 water till the roots begin to push, when they should be watered every second 

 day. All seedling perennials and biennials should now be planted out if suf- 

 ficiently advanced ; the others pricked out in nursery-beds. Dig up a piece of 

 clean ground for this purpose, and divide it into beds 3^ feet broad ; rake 

 level before planting, and prick the plants out by line six inches apart each 

 way. Seeds of gillyflowers, wallflowers, sweetwilliams, Canterbury bells, and 

 most other sorts, may still be sown in beds of mellow ground not too much 

 exposed to the sun. 



1020. Grass Lawn and Gravel Walks should now be kept in high order, the 

 grass well mown once a week if possible, and kept clean and orderly ; gravel 

 walks kept free from weeds, and well swept and frequently rolled, espe- 

 cially after heavy rains ; borders, beds, and shrubberies free from weeds, and 

 where vacancies in the beds occur, let them be supplied ; let the earth be clean 

 and well raked, and the edgings, whether of turf or box, be kept in perfect 

 order. 



1021. Florists'' Flowers. — Hyacinths and tulips, ranunculuses and anemones, 

 formerly the glory of our garden, are now in full bloom ; and although the 

 roses, fuchsias, and a thousand rivals, contend with them for pre-eminence, they 

 have still their phalanx of admirers. The more valuable hyacinths and tulips 

 are planted in beds defended by hoops, which, in hailstorms and heavy 



