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diuw. grand if. orara, Co<:hUo.rio. aco.vii.H, and many other 

 low things, would easily traasplant in the same way, and, 

 after good waterings, would make a gay assemblage, and 

 render the beds not only full of plants, but also with dis- 

 tinct colours, while the summer plants were getting estal>- 

 ILshed'' Annuals, myna. in the beginning of April, should 

 come into flower in June, while those sown at the end of 

 the month will flower in July. For the early part of June, 

 another supply may be sown for flowering from August 

 to October. The best annuals for this summer sowing 

 are VijscaHa oculata, Conopifijs Drvmrn.f/ndii, Virginian 

 stocks, candytufts, and EschischoUzia Californica. This latter 

 Is really a perennial, but it is said to flower best when 

 s<jwn every year, and treated as an annual Before turn- 

 ing to another department of summer work in the garden, 

 I must indulge myself with an extract from the CotMye 

 Gardener, where Mr Beatoun recommends every one to tr\' 

 the efiect of a bed of these two common annuals, XemophUa 

 maculat/i and insignis. These simple, cheap exj>eriments 

 are indeed one of the chief channs of the garden, and here 

 is an account of one that everybody may try for them- 

 sfilves : — 



" The plants were rem^jved at the end of February from 

 the seed-bed, they were planted in rows nine inches apart 

 each way ; the soil was light, but as rich as richness could 

 make it. Two plants of ma/ralaia and one uf irungnu, or 

 the spotted and blue ; thus one-third of the bed was of the 

 blue sort, and two-thirds of the light, with purj^le sjxjts. 

 The flowers or colours were as regularly di-spo.sed all over the 



