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such sorts in the other classes from the rest, which must depend 

 wholly on the discernment of the cultivator. 



PLANTING CARNATION AND PINK SEEDLINGS. 



The carnation and pink seedlings sown early in spring, may now 

 be planted into nursery beds, in rows, eight or nine inches asunder, 

 and plant from plant five or six inches, there to remain till September 

 or October, when they are to be planted at greater distances to remain 

 for flowering. 



Persons who are fond of carnations and pinks, ought to sow some 

 seed of each sort every year, for it is by this means that all the fine 

 new varieties of these charming flowers are obtained. 



When new sorts are procured in this way, they are to be increased 

 by layers or pipings, and will generally keep to their original colors ; 

 but when propagated by seed, very few will be found to possess the 

 same colors and properties as the mother plant. 



DOUBLE SWEET-WILLIAM. 



The fine kinds of double sweet-william may now be propagated, 

 either by slips or by laying the young shoots, as directed for carna- 

 tions ; in either way, they will root freely, but if the slips are planted, 

 they will require shade as well as occasional waterings for ten or 

 twelve days after. 



TRANSPLANTING ANNUALS. 



You may now transplant into the borders and other places where 

 wanted, all the different kinds of annual flowers that succeed in that 

 way, and that stand too close where they had been sown j such as 

 French and African marigolds, China asters, cocks-combs, chrysan- 

 themums, China pinks, China, hollyhocks, balsams, amaranthuses of 

 various sorts, gomphrena globosa, and many other kinds, observing 

 to do this in moist or cloudy weather, if possible, and to give them 

 shade and frequent refreshments of water till newly rooted ; let them 

 be taken up and transplanted with as much earth as possible about 

 their roots, whether into flower-pots or elsewhere. 



THINNING AND SUPPORTING FLOWERING PLANTS, ETC. 



Wherever you have sown annual flower seeds in patches, &c., and 

 they have grown too thick, you must thin them to proper distances, 

 according to their respective habits of growth, so as to allow them 

 full liberty to attain the utmost perfection. 



Place sticks for the support of the various kinds that require it, 

 whether annual, perennial, biennial, or climbing plants, as directed 

 on page 411, observing the method there recommended. 



Cut off, close to the ground, the decaying flower-stems of such 

 perennial plants as are past flowering, and clear the roots from dead 

 leaves ; but where intended to save seed from any of the kinds, leave 

 for that purpose some of the principal stems. 



