JAN.] FLOWER-GARDEN, 77 



Care of fierennialjibrous-rooted Plants, in Pots. 



Double wall -flowers, double stocks, double sweet-williams, and 

 any other of the choicer kinds of perennial plants, in pots, should 

 be well secured from severe frosts. If these plants in pots are 

 placed in frames, let the glasses or other covering be kept over 

 them at all times when the frost is keen, or occasionally in very 

 wet weather ; but in mild dry weather the plants must not be covered 

 in the day time. 



Take care now also, of all other choicer kinds of fibrous-rooted 

 perennial plants in general, which are in pots, to secure them from 

 frost ; such as the double rose campion, double scarlet lychnis, dou- 

 ble rocket, and all other like kinds. 



Those plants which are in pots, should, where there is not the 

 convenience of frames, be plunged to their rims in a dry and warm 

 border, and at night and in severe weather be covered with garden- 

 mats, supported on arched hoops placed low over such bed or 

 border. 



Seedling Floivers. 



Boxes or pots of any tender or choice kinds of seedling flowers 

 should be covered in frosty weather, either with mats, long litter, 

 fern, or the like, which should be laid a good thickness over 

 them, and close round the sides ; or remove them under a garden- 

 frame and glasses, See. which will be the better way. 



Likewise beds of the more tender and curious sorts of seedling 

 flowers, in the common ground, should also be covered in hard 

 frosts, with mats or long dry litter; but remove the covering when 

 the weather is mild. 



Protecting Flowering -Shrubs. 



If you have hardy flowering-shrubs or ever-greens in pots, you 

 should, to protect their roots from the frost, plunge the pots to their 

 rims in the ground, if ommitted doing in Noyember or December, 

 and cover the pots with some tan, leaves of trees, or dry litter ; 

 allotting them for this purpose, a dry warm situation, where water 

 is not apt to stand. 



But any tenderer or more curious young ever-greens, &c. in pots, 

 should have the protection of frames or occasional covering of 

 mats, Sec. in severe weather. 



Protect also, the roots of the choicer kinds of new planted, flower- 

 ing shrubs, and ever-greens from frost. This is done by laying dry 

 mulchy litter on the surface of the ground, close round the lower part 

 of the stem of each, as far as their roots extend, or rather farther. 



Likewise support such new-planted shrubs, as require it, with 

 stakes, that they may not be displaced by the wind. 



Grassy and Gravel walks, 



The grass and gravel walks, should all be kept in decent order, 

 especially in the principal parts of the garden and pleasure-ground j 



