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facilities it affords for cliaiiging tilings as soon as they are 

 shabby. The cultivation of all sorts of flowers in uniforni 

 sized pots, enables one to take up the set done with, and 

 drop those coining iato their prime into the same holes in a 

 very short time, and to effect constant changes. Tor iastance, 

 how early may we have stocks of all colours — pansies, wall- 

 flowers, and the various kinds of annuals ready to take the 

 places of the winter evergreens ; and it is worthy of con- 

 sideration, that only one sort need be removed from their 

 uniform beds to give place to any one sort of flowers that may 

 be ready; and when something else is in proper condition, 

 another sort may be removed from their uniform beds, so that 

 through all the changes their order and uniformity may be 

 preserved. The grand object is to keep all the beds dressed 

 with evergreens iu winter. 



Flowers for Pot Culture to furnish Beds. — Of the 

 flowers that can be forwarded in pots, there are none better 

 than ten-week and intermediate stocks, mignonette, ISTemo- 

 phila insignis, and varieties, double wall-flowers, both the 

 golden yellow and the blood-colour, two or three sorts of 

 dwarf lupiae, Erysimum Peroffskianum, convolvulus minor, 

 eschscholtzia, and several other annuals that may be sown in 

 the autumn and kept in frames, so that lq very early spring 

 they will come in flower : all these should be grown in the 

 large forty-eight sized pots, those with wide mouths and taper 

 or narrow bottoms, because these lift out of the ground so 

 much better than upright ones, without distui-biag the grounci, 

 and others with plants already blooming will drop into their 

 places almost without deranging even the surface of the bed. 

 Flowers grown in pots have a more stunted growth and more 

 abundant bloom, although they are somewhat short-lived as 

 compared with seeds sown in the ground ; but if it be desirable 

 to keep a place always well furnished, there is no other way of 

 doing it properly with so much ease. 



There is no reason why the verbena, scarlet and fancy gera 

 nium, and other bedding-out plants should not be forwarded 

 so as to bloom early lq May, when they may be turned out, 

 although frosts in May have made gardeners very shy of too 

 early a turn out. Annuals that have been kept in cold frames 

 will stand a little frost, but geraniums and verbenas are more 

 susceptible of damage. 



One of the best and most useful perennials to be kept in 



