452 THE PLEASURE, OR [ JUNE 



Trim, dress, and tie up any disorderly growing plants, pick off all 

 withered leaves, and cut out decayed parts. 



PROPAGATING FIBROUS-ROOTED PLANTS BY CUTTINGS. 



You may still continue to propagate the double scarlet-lychnis, 

 double-rocket, lychnideas or phloxes, with many other like kinds, by 

 cuttings of the flower-stalks, as directed for the scarlet-lychnis, in 

 May. 



TRANSPLANTING SEEDLING PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS. 



Transplant from the seed-beds the early sown perennial and 

 biennial seedling flower plants, that are grown to a sufficient size ; 

 such as sweet-williams, sweet scabious, Canterbury-bells, rose-cam- 

 pion and monk's-hood, soapwort, valerian, Chinese ixia, asclepiases, 

 asters and rhexias; coreopsis, hibiscuses, dracocephalums, &c., &c., 

 &c. 



Prepare for these three or four feet wide beds of good earth, and 

 plant them by line at six inches distance every way, water them im- 

 mediately, and if the weather be very dry, give occasional shade and 

 waterings till they have taken root and begin to grow. The plants 

 are to remain in these beds until autumn or spring, and are then to 

 be planted out finally into the beds or borders where they are intended 

 to flower the ensuing year. 



STOCK- GILLYFLOWERS AND WALL-FLOWERS. 



The stock-gillyflowers and wall-flowers are not sufficiently hardy to 

 bear the winter frosts of the middle or eastern states; therefore, it 

 will be necessary to plant the seedlings of these kinds in some con- 

 venient place where a garden frame may be placed over them in 

 winter, on which to lay boards or any slight covering for their pro- 

 tection, as directed in November. Or you may plant them now in 

 the open borders to grow till September, then to be taken up and 

 potted, and in November they are to be removed into their winter 

 quarters: or, they may immediately be planted into small pots, which 

 are to be plunged into some shady border, where you can give them 

 water during the season according to their necessities. 



TRIM BOX EDGINGS. 



Take advantage of the first moist weather that happens after the 

 middle of this month, in which to clip and dress your box edgings ; 

 for if done in dry or parching weather they are apt to turn foxy, and 

 consequently, lose much of their beauty. 



The edgings should be cut very neat, even at top and both sides, 

 and ought not to be suffered to grow higher than two or three inches, 

 nor broader than two. When the edgings of box are kept near that 

 size, they look extremely neat, but if permitted to grow to the height 

 of four, five, or six inches, and perhaps near as much in breadth, 



