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some Scotch or fine snuff over them early in the morning, whilst yet 

 wet with the dew of the night. 



The common carnations in the borders will require to be kept free 

 from weeds, and as their stems advance they should be tied up neatly 

 to sticks placed for that purpose. (For the further treatment of car- 

 nations see the Flower Garden next month.) 



PINKS. 



Your choice pinks in pots will require due attention at this time; 

 they must be kept free from weeds frequently watered, and not too 

 much exposed to the mid-day sun in hot water. (For further par- 

 ticulars see next month.) 



TUBEROSE AND SCARLET AMARYLLIS. 



The first week of this month is, in the middle States, the best pe- 

 riod for planting the roots of the tuberose and scarlet amaryllis ; for 

 the method, see pages 369 and 370. 



SOWING ANNUAL FLOWER SEEDS. 



Most kinds of annual flower seeds may yet be sown, if done in the 

 early part of this month ; but the first week thereof will be a very 

 proper time to sow the seeds of the most tender kinds, such as the 

 various sorts of flowering dolichos, tri-colors, mesembryanthemums, 

 ipomrea quamoclit, browallia, sensitive plant, and vinca rosea, &c. ; 

 the last two, however, though often considered as annuals from their 

 flowering the same season in which they were sown, are not truly so, 

 as they will continue for several years if preserved in a hot-house : 

 to do them justice they should be sown in pots, and forwarded under 

 frames and glasses, or else the sensitive plant will not display its 

 sensibility so well, nor will the vinca rosea flower in due time : the 

 dolichoses should be sown to cover arbors, &c., as may also the ipo- 

 mcea quamoclit, convolvulus purpureus, scarlet kidney beans, &c. ; or 

 they may be sowed in small patches, and neat poles placed for them 

 to climb on. 



(For the various kinds, &c., see pages 863 and 364.) 



TRANSPLANTING ANNUALS. 



You may now transplant various kinds of annuals from the early 

 sowing into beds, borders, or pots, as you think proper, observing to 

 give them shade and water till well rooted, or to transplant them in 

 moist or cloudy weather. 



Towards the middle of the month, the various beds, intended for 

 the purpose, may be filled with verbenas, heliotropes, salvias, cupheas, 

 petuneas, Nurembergias, tea-scented China, and Bourbon roses, re- 

 montant carnations, and all such continual blooming plants, that 

 have been wintered in the green- house or cold frame. 



