568 THE PLEASURE, OR [OCT. 



vegetable refuse ; put out single crowns six inches apart, give a good 

 soaking of water, and after they have taken root, give air freely in 

 all favorable weather ; when winter sets in cover with thick straw 

 mats at night. In this way they will bloom all winter, and repay 

 for the extra labor. 



DOUBLE DAISIES, ETC. 



About the middle of this month, prepare a warm border in a south 

 aspect, on which to plant the double daisies that you preserved in 

 shaded situations during summer ; the bed should be raised four or 

 five inches above the common level, and if surrounded with a frame 

 the better; take up the roots with balls of earth and plant them on 

 this bed in rows, five or six inches plant from plant, every way ; give 

 them water immediately, and if shaded from the sun for a week or 

 two, it would be of considerable service. 



Primroses, polyanthuses, and common auriculas, may be treated in 

 this way. (For their further management see the ensuing months.) 



STOCK-GILLYFLOWERS AND WALL-FLOWERS. 



Any double stocks and wall-flowers that you have growing in beds 

 or borders, should be potted in the beginning of this month, if not 

 done in September, and placed in the shade for about three weeks, 

 then removed to a warm aspect, there to remain till it is found ne- 

 cessary to house or place them in a frame. 



PLANTING BULBOUS ROOTS IN POTS AND GLASSES FOR FLOWERING 



EARLY. 



In the beginning of this month you should plant some of the ear- 

 liest kinds of tulips, hyacinths, polyanthus-narcissus, &c., in pots of 

 light, rich, sandy earth, one, two, or three roots in each, and of dif- 

 ferent colors, in order to force them into an early bloom in winter. 

 If the pots are large the roots may be covered one inch above their 

 crowns, but if small the bare covering of the crowns will be suffi- 

 cient, in order to give the fibres the more room to extend themselves. 



Ranunculuses, anemones, crocusses, snowdrops, dwarf Persian 

 irises, and any other early blooming kinds, may be planted in pots 

 for the same purpose, covering them generally about an inch deep 

 over their crowns. 



When the roots are planted the pots are to be sunk to their r^ms 

 in a good stout garden frame, on a bed of very light sandy earth, 

 elevated above the common level of the ground, where they are to be 

 kept gently moist and no more; but they must be carefully protected 

 from heavy torrents of rain, which would tend greatly to rot or 

 weaken the bulbs. The glasses are to be kept off, except in rainy 

 weather, till the approach of frost, after which the bed must be de- 

 fended therefrom as directed in the following months. 



In this month you should put the bulbs of tulips, hyacinths, jon- 

 quils, narcissuses, &c., in bulb-glasses filled with water, to flower in 



