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ing plants, and to slip and increase many of them by offsets. The 

 following, together with those mentioned on page 314, may yet be 

 removed with good success, that is, such of them as have not pre- 

 viously begun to shoot flower-stems, viz., dracocephalums of various 

 kinds, but particularly the virginicum and dentatum, which are very 

 beautiful ; penstemons, podalyrias, gentianas in sorts, hibiscuses in 

 great varieties, cypripedums and phloxes, monardas, coreopsises, 

 sisyrinchiums and gerardias, aletrises, aconites, ranunculus, aconiti- 

 folius, dictamnuses, and dodecatheon, ineadia, galega virginica, he- 

 dysarums, hemerocallises, napsea, peeonia, saponaria, silphiums and 

 rhexias, with many others. A great number of the above kinds may 

 now be taken up out of the woods and fields and transplanted into 

 the flower-borders and pleasure-grounds, which will keep up a regular 

 succession of bloom during the whole summer and autumn. 



Let the plants be taken up carefully with balls of earth about their 

 roots, and planted where necessary; then water them, and repeat it 

 in dry weather, till they begin to grow freely : they will flower gene- 

 rally the same year, and those that are truly perennial will continue 

 to reward your labors annually with a new display of their beauty 

 as long as you deserve that compliment, by rendering them a foster- 

 ing care. 



Here again would I call attention to the necessity of introducing 

 into our gardens and pleasure grounds, a variety of our beautiful field 

 flowers, and not to suffer those departments to appear desolated in 

 the autumnal months, whilst nature displays a profusion of its glory 

 in the fields, woods, meadows, and swamps ; but in doing this, let it 

 be observed to give each kind a soil and situation as nearly similar to 

 that in which it grew in its wild state as the nature and extent of 

 your ground will admit. (See pages 91 and 92.) 



Note. On pages 74, 87, you will find general designs, both ancient 

 and modern, for laying out pleasure grounds, flower gardens, and all 

 kinds of ornamental planting, to which I refer you. 



DOUBLE DAISIES. 



Double daisies may now be propagated abundantly by dividing and 

 slipping the roots; but these should be planted in shady borders, or 

 rather in shallow frames, where they can be protected from the too 

 powerful influence of the summer sun, which would absolutely destroy 

 them if left to its mercy. These frames will also be convenient for 

 the laying of boards and mats over them, for the winter protection of 

 the plants, without which most of them would perish. They may be 

 either planted in small pots sunk in the earth, or in rows in the beds, 

 ten inches asunder, and plant from plant six inches distant in the row. 

 Water them immediately and give them shade for a few days. 



PLANTING DECIDUOUS FLOWERING AND ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. 



Such deciduous kinds of trees and shrubs as are yet to be removed, 

 should be transplanted in the first week or ten days of the month in 



