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mon to wait ten or twenty years without the desired success, although 

 it sometimes happens, fortunately, to take place the first, second, or 

 third year after their blooming ; where the collection of breeders is 

 numerous (a name given to those self-colored tulips), there may be 

 reasonable expectations of procuring one or two valuable flowers an- 

 nually : a poor dry soil is most likely to produce these effects ; and 

 a single instance has occurred where forty breeders out of fifty be- 

 came broken or variegated in one season in a situation of this de- 

 scription. 



New sorts of breeders are procured from seed, but such only as 

 have tall strong stems, with large well formed cups, and clear in the 

 bottom, are worth cultivating. 



Note. The various kinds of tender bulbous-rooted flowering plants 

 may be propagated as above directed, but the boxes in which the 

 seedlings grow must be placed in a green-house or hot-house in win- 

 ter, according to the respective necessities of the various kinds. 



TRANSPLANT PERENNIAL AND BIENNIAL FLOWER ROOTS. 



The latter end of this month is a very proper period for trans- 

 planting the various kinds of seedlings, perennial and biennial flow-, 

 ers, out of the flower-nursery into the beds, borders, and pleasure- 

 grounds, where they are designed to bloom. You may likewise slip 

 and plant out double catchfly, pinks, London pride, phlox, draco- 

 cephaluuis, sweet-william, thrift, scarlet-lychnis, Virginian spider- 

 wort, double rose-campion, double rocket, Virginian lungwort, creep- 

 ing Greek valerian, and every other kind or hardy fibrous-rooted per- 

 ennials that are past bloom. 



Cut down the stalks of such flowers as are decayed, and where 

 they are not to be transplanted, dig the ground about them and add 

 some rotten dung or fresh earth to the borders, which will greatly 

 strengthen their roots. 



This will also be a very good time to collect from the fields, 

 swamps, and woods, some of the favorites of the Most High, which 

 he has decorated with such a profusion of lustre and beauty, that 

 " Solomon in all his glory" was not equal to. These are to be taken 

 up and treated as directed on page 493. 



The various kinds of tuberous-rooted flowering plants may now be 

 propagated by slipping or parting their roots, such as paeonias, spiraea 

 filipendula, flag-irises, helleborus hyemalisor winter aconite, &c. This 

 last should have its roots planted in small clusters ; for, small solitary 

 flowers scattered about the borders are scarcely seen at a distance ; 

 but when these, snowdrops, crocuses, and dwarf Persian irises are 

 alternately planted in bunches, they will have a very good effect, as 

 they flower at the same time and are much of a size. You may also 

 divide and transplant the roots of the helleborus niger, or Christmas 

 rose, helleborus viridis, or green hellebore, helleborus ranunculinus, 

 and helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore, or bear's-foot. The hel- 

 leborus lividus, purple, or great three-flowered black hellebore, is a 

 very desirable plant ; it is usual to keep this in the green-house, 



