OCT.] FLOWER GARDEN. 567 



If not done in the preceding months, you should no longer defer 

 the planting of spring crocuses, snowdrops, hardy gladioluses, Persian 

 fritillarias, erythroniums, pancratium maratinmm, orchises, liinado- 

 rum tuberosum, snake' s-head iris, musk, feathered, grape, and other 

 hyacinths; the scilla maritima, or officinal squill, scilla peruviana, 

 or starry hyacinth, together with all the other kinds of hardy bulbous 

 or tuberous-rooted flowers which you intend planting before spring. 

 These may be planted separately in beds, or along the borders of the 

 flower garden and pleasure grounds, and covered from two to three 

 or four inches deep over the crowns of the roots, according to their 

 respective size and strength, and the lightness or stiffness of the soil. 



In planting any of the above or other sorts in borders, observe 

 that the lowest growing kinds are to be planted next the walks, and 

 the larger farther back, in proportion to their respective growths, 

 that the whole nray appear to advantage, and none be concealed from 

 the view. Likewise observe to diversify the kinds and colors, so as 

 to display, when in bloom, the greatest possible variety of shades 

 and contrasts. 



In assemblage with other flowers in the borders, these should be 

 planted in small clumps of six, seven, or eight inches in diameter, 

 three, four, five, or more roots in each, according to size and growth, 

 and these at suitable distances from one another, say one, two, or 

 three yards. Some of the common anemones and ranunculuses may 

 also be planted with those roots in the borders, either in rows towards 

 the edges, or in small clumps or patches as above. 



As much elegance of taste and fancy is necessary, and may be 

 displayed in setting off a border of intermixed flowers to advantage 

 as perhaps in any other part of gardening. 



SOWING SEEDS OP BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS, ETC. 



You may still continue to sow the seeds of bulbous and tuberous- 

 rooted flowers, as directed on page 522. 



TRANSPLANT PERENNIAL AND BIENNIAL FLOWER ROOTS. 



The entire of this month is a very proper time to divide and trans- 

 plant the various kinds of hardy perennial and biennial flower-roots, 

 as noticed on page 523, which see. 



Observe to plant the different sorts in a diversified order, the low 

 growing kinds next the walks, and the largest more remote therefrom, 

 so that the whole may rise in a regular gradation as they advance in 

 growth. 



Collect ornamental plants from the woods, fields, and swamps, as 

 directed on page 494 ; this will be a very good time to procure the 

 late flowering kinds, many of which are extremely beautiful. 



NEAPOLITAN AND RUSSIAN VIOLETS. 



These may be planted in frames having glazed sashes, at the be- 

 ginning of the month. Dig in a third of rotted leaves or decayed 



