494 THE PLEASURE, OE FLOWER GARDEN. [AUG. 



COLLECTING FLOWERING PLANTS FROM THE WOODS, FIELDS, AND 

 SWAMPS. 



Many beautiful ornamental plants may now be collected from the 

 woods, fields, and swamps, which would grace and embellish the flower 

 garden and pleasure grounds, if introduced thereinto : and that at a 

 season when the general run of cultivated flowers are out of bloom : 

 such as lobelias of various kinds, aletris farinosa, asclepiases in sorts, 

 asters, cassia marilandica, chelones, cucubalus stellatus, cypripediums, 

 dodecatheon meadia, dracocephalums, eupatoriums, euphorbias, and 

 galega virginiana ; gentianas, hardy herbaceous geraniums, gerardias, 



lycines, gnaphaliums, hedysarums, helianthuses and heucheras ; 



ibiscuses, hypoxises, irises, liatrises, lysimachias, melanthiums, mo- 

 nardas, napaeas, and ophryses ; orchises, oxalises, podalyrias, penste- 

 mons, phloxes, polygala senega, rhexias, rudbeckias, sarrasenias and 

 saxifragas ; sylphiums, sisyrinchiums, solidagoes, spigelia marilan- 

 dica, trilliums, veratrums, and veronicas; limadorum tuberosum, 

 lilium superbum and canadense, erythronium americanum, together 

 with an immense number of other delightful plants. 



All the above, and any other kinds you meet with, that are worthy 

 of notice, may be taken up, whether in or out of flower, with balls 

 of earth, brought home, and planted immediately; on taking them 

 up, cut off the flower-stems, if any, and when planted give water and 

 shade for a few days to the fibrous-rooted kinds ; next year they will 

 flower luxuriantly, after which, each sort may be propagated in its 

 proper season. Observe in planting, to give each respective kind a 

 soil and situation as nearly similar as possible to that in which you 

 found it in its wild state. 



FLOWERING PLANTS IN POTS. 



Such annual and other flowering plants as are in pots must now 

 be carefully supplied with water, some kinds requiring it twice a day 

 in very dry weather, others once a day, and a few sorts not so often. 

 As to the consumption of water, there is an astonishing difference in 

 the constitutions of plants, some absorbing and discharging it so 

 quickly as to excite surprise, and others but very slowly ; therefore 

 you must supply each respective kind according to its habit and 

 necessity. 



ORDINARY ATTENDANCE. 



Give water as often as necessary to all the young plantations of 

 herbaceous flower-roots ; cut down the stems of such as are past 

 bloom; loosen the earth in the tops of all your pots containing 

 flowering-plants; clip hedges, if omitted in the last month; clip 

 box edgings, and trim the various other kinds used for that purpose 

 into a neat and becoming form ; but let this be done early in the 

 month, and if possible in moist and cloudy weather. Mow grass- 

 walks and lawns once a week or fortnight, according to the growth 



