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neath the pot to keep out worms, which otherwise 

 would get in. 



Good seed from tender annuals will not be well 

 had, but from February sown plants. Skilful gar- 

 deners, sowing early, and having plenty of dung 

 and drazving frames, produce surprising plants of 

 the tender annual class ; so that the globe amaran- 

 thus has been raised to three, and the giant coxcomb, 

 and tricolor, from three to five or six feet high. 

 Tender flowers designed to gather seed from, should 

 begin to have some protection of glass about Mid- 

 August, at least on nights, till they are fully ripened 

 in September. 



Scoop trowels, of two or three sizes, will be found 

 very useful in the shifting of flowers in general, but 

 particularly of the hot bed sort ; and as they should 

 be clean from dirt when used, so also should they be 

 sharp edged and free from rust, by which they will 

 work pleasanter, and more successfully : In short all 

 garden tools should be kept bright, as well for use 

 as neatness. Before a trowel is used, in the removal 

 of a plant, it is a safe way to cut strait down round 

 the root, and to the bottom, with a large, clean, and 

 not very blunt knife ; so will the trowel take all up 

 whole, and the fibres will not be lacerated, or barked : 

 But attempt not to take up more earth in a ball than 

 is likely to hang together, lest all drop by its weight. 

 Transplant (if possible) in moist, or cloudy weather, 

 and shade. 



A small watering pot, (i. e. from two to three 

 quarts) with a finely pierced rose, is also necessary, 

 to give refreshment without bending down the plants, 

 or hardening the surface of the earth. The form of 

 many a forced flower is spoiled in its infancy bv 

 rough watering, and particularly capsicums ; to avoid 

 which evil, whatever pot is used } let it be only half 

 full. 



