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and therefore should be sown where they are to re* 

 main, affording them a good soil in order to success. 

 Take care to sow the tallest growing sorts behind, 

 and the lowest in front, and to form the patches at a 

 sufficient distance from one another, that the ground 

 may be stirred and raked between them. A garden 

 may be too full of flowers, which it certainly is^ if the 

 earth is not seen distinctly round about them: for 

 when that is clean and fresh, all things growing in it 

 appear more lively: It is, as it were, the back- 

 ground of a picture. A few hardy annuals may be 

 sown in pots, setting them where they have only the 

 morning sun, and when in flower, they will serve to 

 put into any particular place, for ornament, or be 

 turned out into the open ground, where something 

 may be wanting. 



2. OF BIENNIALS. 



There are but a few sorts of these, and the prin- 

 cipal will be found in the list of them, next section^ 

 where observations will be made on particular 

 plants. 



They are to be sown in drill, or in beds, at broad- 

 cast, the latter end of March, or beginning of April, 

 where they have only the morning sun, and the ground 

 should be cool, or kept so by occasional watering : 

 The beginning even of May, is not too late. 



Thin the young plants on the seed beds a little, 

 soon after they appear, to about an inch, and again 

 to three or four inches asunder, and keep them well 

 weeded. They may either thus remain till autumn, 

 to be planted out where they are to blow : or if they 

 grow too strong and crowding, let every other be 

 Brawn in summer, (cruising a moist time) and planted 



