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worth growing in pots. It is the foliage which is May 

 fragrant, and the perfume, which is powerful and 16-31 

 delicious, clings to the leaves after they have faded. 

 Violas had special attention in an earlier chapter. If 

 planted as late as May, they ought to be watered 

 regularly for some time, and the flowers should be 

 picked incessantly. Thus nursed, they will probably 

 establish themselves. Zinnias, raised from seed like 

 other half-hardy plants, enjoy some amount of favour 

 as bedding plants. When well grown they are very 

 handsome, as the flowers are large, brilliant, and varied 

 in colour, and borne abundantly. 



Preparing and Planting Beds. — Bulbs that are taken 

 out of flower beds in spring need not be regarded as 

 useless. Tulips and Daffodils nearly always. Hyacinths 

 often, do well again the following year. This is par- 

 ticularly the case if the soil is deep and moist, and if the 

 plants are cared for after flowering. When a bed is 

 being cleared, the bulbs should be laid in shallow boxes 

 with a little earth clinging to the roots as fast as they 

 are taken up, and carried away to a spare corner of the 

 garden, where they can be covered with soil. Wall- 

 flowers are not worth preserving, because, as we shall 

 see soon, they are best raised from seed every year. 

 They may be taken to the rubbish corner forthwith. 

 If Primroses and Polyanthuses are grown they should 

 be taken up in clumps, with soil attached, placed in 

 boxes, and removed to the reserve garden, where they 

 should be planted and watered. Large clumps can be 

 divided at the same time, and the divisions set out a foot 

 apart in rich, moist soil. These will thicken out into 

 good plants by autumn, and will come in admirably for 

 the next year's spring bedding. All plants having been 

 removed, and all remnants of foliage gathered up, the 

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