166 THE PLEASURE, OB [FEB. 



SOUTHERN STATES. 



The various works recommended to be done in page 71, this 

 month and March, in the Nursery, may be now practised with good 

 success in Georgia and South Carolina and various other parts of the 

 more southern States. This being their proper period for grafting, 

 I refer them for general observations and instructions on that head 

 to the work of the Nursery in March. 



THE PLEASURE OR FLOWER GARDEN. 



HARDY ANNUAL FLOWER-SEEDS. 



About the latter end of this month, if the weather is mild and 

 dry, you may sow many sorts of hardy annual flower-seeds in bor- 

 ders and other parts of the pleasure-garden. 



The sorts proper to .sow at this time are larkspur and flos Adonis, 

 scarlet pea, sweet-scented and Tangier peas, candy-tuft, dwarf lych- 

 nis, Venus's looking-glass, LobeFs catch-fly, Venus' s navelwort, dwarf 

 poppy, Nigella, annual sunflower, oriential mallow, lavatera, and 

 hawk- weed, with many other sorts. 



Some of these, if sown now, particularly the Larkspur, flos Adonis, 

 sweet and Tangier peas, will flower much better than if sown at a 

 later period. 



All the above seeds must be sown in the places where you intend 

 the plants to flower, in beds, borders, pots, &c. They must not be 

 transplanted, for these sorts will not succeed so well by that practice. 

 The following is the method : 



The flower-borders having been previously dug, dig with a trowel 

 small patches therein, about six inches in width, at moderate dis- 

 tances, breaking the earth well and making the surface even ; draw 

 a little earth off the top to one side, then sow the seed therein, each 

 sort in separate patches, and cover it with the earth that was drawn 

 off, observing to cover the small seeds near a quarter of an inch deep, 

 the larger in proportion to their size ; but the pea kinds must be 

 covered an inch deep at least. 



When the plants have been up some time, the larger growing kinds 

 should, where they stand too thick, be regularly thinned, observing 

 to allow every kind, according to its growth, proper room to grow. 



For instance, the sunflower to be left one in a place, the oriental 

 mallow and lavatera, not more than three; the rest may be left 

 thicker. (See May, &c.) 



PLANT HARDY HERBACEOUS FIBROUS-ROOTED FLOWERING PEREN- 

 NIALS. 



Towards the end of the month, if the weather be mild and open 

 and the ground dry, you may plant, where wanted, most sorts of 



