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only of two years' duration, being sown one year, flower and perfect 

 their seed the next, and soon after die, or become of a dwindling 

 growth, such as honesty, tree- primrose, tree-mallow, &c. 



Many kinds are proper to be sown now, such as carnations, pinks, 

 sweet-williams, wall-flowers, and stock July-flowers of all sorts; also 

 rose-campion, scarlet lychnis, columbines, Greek valerian, polyanthus, 

 auriculas, scabiouses, and Canterbury bells. 



The seeds of hollyhocks, French honeysuckles, rockets, honesty, or 

 satin flower, tree-primrose, broad-leaved campanula, and fox-gloves ; 

 snap-dragon, bee-larkspur, with seeds of most other sorts of perennial 

 and biennial plants, may be sown. 



All the above, and other hardy perennial and biennial flower-seeds, 

 are to be sown in beds of light earth in the open ground. 



For the method of sowing them, see the Flower Garden for next 

 month. 



DIG THE BORDERS, ETC. 



Dig the borders and flower compartments, &c., and rake them 

 smooth ; they will then be ready to receive the seeds of annual 

 flowers and plants of other kinds ; besides they will appear fresh and 

 neat. 



TRANSPLANTING PERENNIAL PLANTS. 



Where there are vacancies in any of the beds, borders, or other 

 parts of the garden, they may now be filled up with many different 

 kinds of perennial and biennial flower plants, and will all blow the 

 same year. 



Many principal sorts may now be planted, such as lychnises, rose- 

 campions, rockets, catch-fly, campanulas, carnations, pinks, and sweet- 

 williams, double feverfew, golden rod, perennial sunflowers, perennial 

 asters, and French honeysuckles; also columbines, Canterbury bells, 

 monk's-hood, fox-gloves, tree-primroses, scabiouses, snap-dragon, lo- 

 belias, irises, bee-larkspur, double ragged robin, valerian, and most 

 others of the like sorts. 



Plant also dwarf fibrous-rooted flowers in the borders, &c., they 

 will take root freely in a short time ; such as polyanthuses, double 

 chamomile, London pride, violets, hepaticas, thrift, primroses, saxi- 

 frage, gentianella, lilly of the valley, &c. 



In planting the intended different kinds, dispose them variedly, 

 the larger growing sorts more or less back ; and the smaller forward 

 towards the front and middle. 



Give water at first planting, and afterwards occasionally in dry 

 weather, till the plants are fresh rooted ; by which they will grow 

 freely, and all flower the same year in their proper seasons. 



HOE AND RAKE THE BORDERS. 



Loosen with a hoe or small spade, the surface of those beds or 

 borders which were dug and planted with flowers of any kinds last 

 autumn, or any time since. 



