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GilUfloxvers— the single " in every woman's Giir(len*'~tlu' tlun- 

 ble posscsed by few. — Queen or Winter Cillillowers — Violets 

 — Snapdragon — Columbines many varieties single anil dovible 

 — " Larkes heclcs, or spurros, or toes" — many single and 

 double, "the double rare" — Pansics — Double Poppies — 

 Double Daisies, many varieties — Double and French Marigolds. 

 — Carnations and Gillyflowers many, they being " the queoii of 

 delights and of flowers" — Pinks — Sweet Williams — Sweet Johns 

 many — Paionies, single and double — Hollihocks many, single 

 and double — Roses many "the white, the red and the damaske 

 are the most ancient standards in England" — Chap, G. Tho 

 order and manner to plant and replant out-landish flowers, &c. 

 — of which " our English Gardeners are all or the most part of 

 them utterly ignorant'' — " all bulbous roots should be planted 

 in July, August or September ; and not in the Spring" — a form 

 of practice which shews Parkinson to have been as ignorant of 

 this branch of Floriculture as needs be — His directions for 

 planting such flowers as bloom nearly at the same time togotlier 

 are judicious and demonstrations of correct taste, as, arc his 

 arrangements in knots, the creeping flowers near the edge, and 

 the highest in the middle. His directions about planting bulbs 

 deep are egregiously wrong, and indeed the only reason he 

 assigns, is because they arc thence protected from hard frosts, 

 which they could only be injured by if planted as he directs in 

 Autumn. Ilis directions about arranging fibrous roots when 

 planting might be attended to with advantage by modern Hor- 

 ticulturists. The Sun-flower, &:c. he says required to be raised 

 early in a hot-bed, or they never perfected their seed but in 

 very hot Summers — Either these plants have changed their habit, 

 or our climate is much ameliorated.— His observation upon 

 giving little water to bulbs, and not employing any Water that 

 is just drawn from a well or pump, are confirmed as true by 

 modern practice. Cliap. 7. The months of the year in which 

 the scarcer flowers bloom— not differing from the periods n:)W. 

 — Chap, 8. Informs us " that because Carnations and Gilly- 



