162 FLOWERS AND THE SLOWER GARDEN. 



afterwards placed in a greenhouse. There are, how- 

 ever, many which, if planted out in warm borders in 

 June, will flower freely, and even ripen seed. 



Make another hot-bed, early in March, to be ready for 

 next month. 



SUMMARY, Set the shrubberies fully in order. 

 Sow grass seed. Set all the flower beds in order. 

 Make climbers and flower roots firm after rough weather. 

 Attend to box and other edgings. Continue to make 

 cuttings. Prick out annuals and sow more. Sow seed 

 of perennials and biennials. Sow also half-hardy and 

 hardy annuals. Make another hot-bed. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



GAKDEN OPERATIONS IN APRIL 



THE important work of making cuttings requires a few 

 more detailed remarks, which will apply more or less 

 to all the period during which they are made. Cuttings 

 have the advantage of perpetuating the old plant, 

 whereas seedlings may vary from it in appearance or 

 character. 



In quick-growing soft-wooded plants, take as cuttings 

 young shoots or tops of the plants. Such are Anagallis, 

 Antirrhinums, Calceolarias, Carnations, Chrysanthe- 

 mums, Dahlias, Pinks, Wallflowers (only the double ones 

 are worth growing from cuttings), Gorterias, Gaillardias, 

 the low-growing Lobelias, Fuchsias, Geraniums, Petu- 

 nias, Pentstemoris, Salvias and Verbenas. Pots of all 

 these will do in a frame, on a very gentle hot-bed, made 

 of dead leaves, manure, or tan, or in a more artistically 

 heated house : Geraniums and Fuchsias almost any- 

 where. 



The cuttings of some plants should be the partially 

 ripened wood. Such are Camelias, Cape Pelargoniums, 

 Conifera, Erythrina, Echites, Gardenias, Gordonias 

 (something like Camelias), Magnolias, Oleanders, and 

 many others. 



