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and the large roots replanted in any beds or borders where wanted 

 for flowering. Each respective kind is to be covered from two to 

 four inches deep, generally in proportion to the size and strength of 

 the roots. 



TRANSPLANTING SEEDLING PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS. 



Transplant into nursery-beds the seedlings of the various kinds of 

 perennial and biennial flowers that are now of a proper size, as directed 

 on page 452 ; or such may now be planted finally where they are to 

 flower next season. As the wall-flower and stock-gilly flower plants 

 will, in the middle and eastern . States, require some protection in 

 winter, such should now be transplanted into pots, or into beds where 

 frames may be placed over them, on the approach of severe frosts. 



SOWING SEEDS OF BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 



The seeds of tulips, hyacinths, narcissuses, irises, crown imperials, 

 fritillaries and lilies, or of and other kinds of bulbs, whose seeds are 

 ripe, may now be sown, in order to obtain new varieties. These, if 

 sown as soon after being ripe as they are sufficiently dry and hardened, 

 will vegetate the ensuing spring; but if kept out of the ground till 

 that period, very few of them will come up for a full year after. 

 (For the method of sowing the seeds, &c., see the Flower Garden 

 for next month.) 



PROPAGATING FIBROUS-ROOTED PERENNIAL PLANTS. 



Most of the early flowering fibrous-rooted plants, whose flower- 

 stems have been cut down in June or July will, some time in this 

 month, have thrown up new suckers from the roots ; then such may 

 be carefully taken off and planted in nursery beds ; or the whole roots 

 may, towards the end of the month, be taken up and divided into 

 many separate parts, taking care to do it in such a manner as that 

 every plant or part, so separated, may be furnished with roots. Trim 

 or cut off from each slip, or part, any long or bruised roots ; pick off 

 all decayed or declining leaves, and plant the sets or divisions in a 

 shady border, or where they can be conveniently covered with mats 

 or other covering till newly rooted. 



They should be watered immediately, and that repeated from time 

 to time, till they are well taken with the ground, and in a free grow- 

 ing state. 



Pinks, sweet-william, rose- campion, scarlet lychnis, gentianella, 

 polyanthuses, primroses, double daisies, double chamomile, double 

 perennial catchfly, double ragged-robin, perennial cyanus, monardas, 

 penstemons, phloxes, violas, campanulas, dracocephalums, spiraea 

 trifoliata, and various other kinds, may now be propagated in this way. 



