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mallows, nigellas, roma nettle, sweet, Tangier, and winged peas, an- 

 nual and ten-week stocks, strawberry spinage, persicaria, sunflower, 

 and Venus' s looking-glass; snails, horns, hedge-hogs, caterpillars and 

 horseshoes; Venus' s navelwort, purple and yellow hawk weed; Cas- 

 sia chamsechrista, polygala sanguinea and silene in sorts, &c. &c. 

 About the middle of the month you may sow sweet alyson, love lies 

 bleeding, prince's feathers, mignonette, tree and spike amaranthus ; 

 cock's-combs, cape marigold, bastard saffron, and honey-wort ; sweet 

 sultan, China hollyhock, and China pinks; marvel of Peru, nolana, 

 palma christi, annual snapdragon, zennia and xeranthemum, &c., and 

 in the last ten days of the month, you may sow either of the pre- 

 ceding, and also the following kinds, viz : white, purple, and striped 

 globe amaranthus, tri-color amaranthus, double balsams and martynia 

 annua; browallia, scarlet ipomoea, capsicums in sorts, serpent cu- 

 cumber and squirting cucumber, white and purple egg-plant ; cleome, 

 purple, white, and dwarf dolichos, with many other kinds.* The 

 whole of the preceding sorts may be sown in small patches in the 

 borders, interspersing the kinds, so as to form a well assorted variety 

 and a long succession of bloom. If to be sown in patches, observe 

 the directions given for sowing hardy annual /lower seeds, on page 

 166, &c., which will now be perfectly applicable to these. Such as 

 you wish to sow in small beds for transplanting, let them be sown as 

 directed for perennial and biennial flower seeds, on page 365, ob- 

 serving always to give each kind a depth of covering in proportion 

 to the size of the seed. 



Let the beds or patches be frequently watered in dry weather, both 

 before and after the plants appear ; and when they have been up a 

 few weeks, let all the large growing kinds be thinned where they 

 have risen too thick, observing to transplant into other places where 

 wanted some of the best you pull up of the kinds that succeed in 

 that way. Thin the others as directed in May, &c. 



Any of the smaller growing kinds, such as mignonette, ten-week 

 stock, browallia, sensitive plant, ice plant, &c., may be sown in pots, 

 and if duly watered and kept clean will arrive at good perfection; 

 but the last two will require the protection of glasses for some time. 



SOWING CARNATION AND PINK SEEDS. 



Carnation and pink seeds may be sown any time this month. As 

 it is from seed that all new varieties are obtained, you should sow 

 some every year ; and if you have but one good variety from each 

 sowing, there can be no reason to complain, as this may afterwards 

 be abundantly propagated by layers or slips. The fine double kinds 

 seldom ripen seed, but semi-doubles do very plentifully. From the 

 seeds of the latter, especially when growing near the finest varieties, 

 you may expect some good and perhaps valuable flowers. For this 

 purpose prepare a small bed of good rich ground, sow the seeds on 



* This list contains most of the old and beautiful annual flowers, many 

 of. which are now seldom seen. The newer discoveries have in a great 

 measure displaced them, without in all cases, being any improvement. 



