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occasionally to brighten up our rooms. Sow in June and 

 July seeds of Clarkia pulchella, Nemophila insignis and 

 maculata, Coreopsis tinctoria, and others, — sow either in 

 pots or on a piece of ground, to be afterwards transferred 

 to pots. These may be " grown either singly or in clumps, 

 trained by placing twigs in the pots, through which the 

 tiny branches may ramble, or arranging small stakes round 

 the side of the pot and bracing them together with a 

 thread, and removing them into the house before touched 

 with frost in November." These will blow during the 

 winter ; and being common things, and so probably de- 

 spised by the gardener, we may have the pleasure of tend- 

 ing them and bringing them indoors when we please. 

 Besides these annuals, we might have in flower, during the 

 winter months, pots of double daisies, heartsease, double 

 primroses, and wallflowers ; while in early spring, plants of 

 Deutzchia gracilis, Dielytra spectabilis, and tree violets, 

 would bring us round to the time when our outdoor 

 enjoyment and work would recommence. 



The difliculty is, as we said above, to recollect at the 

 right season to prepare for winter. It would be a good 

 plan to keep a book in which to mark down, under the 

 heading of the diff'erent months, what we wished to do in 

 each, so as to be reminded when the time came. There 

 are, of course, such monthly calendars in all garden-books 

 and in most almanacs, and most useful these often are ; 

 but a private calendar of this kind would suit each one 

 better, as it would contain only what we happened to wish 

 to recollect. Along with the notice of the work to be 



