ANNUAL FLOWER SEED. 



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that this may be rendered plain to my readers, I shall adopt 

 the following plan of entry of six kinds sown in pots, and 

 six in the open ground : 



April 20, sowed flower seed in pots. 



Pot marked A, or 1, Amaranthus tricolor. 



B, or 2, Balsamines. 



C, or 3, Cockscomb. 



D, or 4, Egg Plant. 



E, or 5, Ice Plant 



F, or 6, Mignonette. 



These pots may be either marked with letters oi figures 

 on the outside, to answer with the book, or notches may be 

 cut in wood, or other labels affixed to the pots, and entered 

 accordingly. 



April 30, sowed flower seed in drills, as under : 



No. 1, Bladder Ketmia. 



" 2, Coreopsis Tinctoria. 



*' 3, Yellow Eternal Flower. 



" 4, Globe Amaranthus. 



" 5, Princes' Feather. <- 



" 6. Larkspur, branching. 



If these numbers be continued to 100, or even 1,000, there 

 can be no mistake, provided the rows are all marked accord- 

 ing to the entry in the book ; or if No. 1 be noted, plain 

 sticks will answer afterward, if one be stuck at each end of 

 every row. In this case it would be well to leave a space 

 every ten or twenty rows, and note the number of rows ; by 

 this means, they can be more easily traced. 



task which no author has ever attempted ; nor can any library be found 

 containing such a desideratum. 



The cultivator of a small garden may, however, by means of a memo- 

 randum book, describe the peculiarities of such plants as come under his 

 special care, as upright, procumbent, trailing, climbing, bushy, slender- 

 stalked, herbaceous, shrubby, &c, and thus learn how to cultivate and 

 arrange the same, or similar plants, advantageously in succeeding years ; 

 and it must be admitted that a few flowers, selected so as to harmonize in 

 their colours and habits of growth, cultivated with precision, as respects 

 soil and situation congenial to them, and trained and pruned into regular 

 and compact shapes, will yield more pleasure and amusement than three 

 times the number taken promiscuously and cultivated under one uniform 

 treatment, as is the general, though not most judicious, practice 



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