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flowers." Why are these lovely flowers no longer common in our gardens? 

 Sedums and saxifrages were occupants of old gardens in great request : so 

 were rockets, globe thistles, Solomon's seal, honesty, and many such-like 

 plants, once universal favourites. Can anything be more suitable for the 

 border of the amateur or cottager's garden, than the aconites,— yellow and 

 tlue, — a free-flowering and very showy tribe, of which a selection of a dozen 

 species may be worthy of cultivation. They are all propagated by taking up 

 the plants as soon as they have done flowering, and dividing them into two 

 or more parts, taking care that each portion has plenty of young roots or 

 spongioles. 



1390. The Adenopheras are very hardy, of easy cultui-e, and of neat habit, 

 and are also propagated by dividing the roots in April. 



1391. The Rose Campion (^/7ro5<e??r/?ia) are pretty dwarf plants, propagated 

 by seeds and division of roots in April, or by side-shoots in May. 



1392. The Madworts (Al7/ssum) are favourite border plants, whose dense 

 yellow blossoms make a very showy display planted in patches. 



1393. The Bugloss (Anchv.sa) are fine showj- plants, mostly with large blue 

 flowers, are capable of propagating by sUps, and dividing the roots into as 

 many plants as there are heads, when they have done flowering, as well as by 

 seed saved in the autxmm, and sown on a warm border in the spring. 



1394. The Arums are chiefly valuable in the garden for their broad a^vl 

 curiously-spotted leaves. 



1395. The Thrifts {Aomeria), pink, purple, and scarlet, are a beautiful tribe 

 of plants, and worthy of a place in every garden. 



§ 4.— Kitchen-Garden. 



1396. Probably this is the busiest month of the year in the kitchen-garden, 

 both on account of everything growing so fast, and because many crops have 

 ceased to be useful, and must be removed and give place to others. We have 

 to look forward to a long winter and spring, when vegetation is stationary or 

 very slow ; yet at that time it is necessary to have suitable crops ; and now is 

 the time to prepare the ground and get them in their places. It is proper to 

 observe that where rows of vegetables have previously grown, the ground is 

 usually dry and hard. However moist the season has been, it will always be 

 found different to that 18 inches or so on either side ; it is not, therefore, ad- 

 visable to crop immediately over the same spot ; the difference will soon be 

 observable between the rows planted exactly where peas have grown and those 

 planted at the distance indicated. I have found it best not to plant winter crops 

 on ground that has been newly-dug or trenched, and never knew broccoli do 

 BO well as when planted on hard ground that had not been dug since February ; 

 but when the plants had taken hold, and began to grow, the ground was 

 forked over, and a dressing of manure worked in. I have also been informed 

 by practised gardeners, that brassicse are far more liable to club on loose or 



