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ought to be planted as soon as possible ; observing the directions 

 given in page 74, Etc. Anemones and ranunculus's, if carefully pre- 

 served, will yet succeed very well. 



Carnations and Pinks. 



Your choice carnations and pinks, which are planted in pots, and 

 plunged in beds under the protection of frames and coverings, ought, 

 for the present, to be managed in every respect, as above directed 

 for the protection of anemones, ranunculus's, Sec. by this treatment, 

 you may expect to be rewarded with abloom of these charming flow- 

 ers in the highest degree of perfection. 



Towards the end of this month, if the weather is mild, but not 

 otherwise, you may transplant such as were raised last year from 

 layers, into large pots or into the open borders, &c. where you in- 

 tend them to blow ; but this would have been better, if done in au- 

 tumn. Also such seedling plants as were raised last season, may, 

 under similar circumstances, be transplanted into any beds or 

 borders which are ready for their reception, always observing, to re- 

 move them with balls of earth round their roots. For further par- 

 ticulars, see next month. 



Tender Annuals. 



The latter end of this month will be a suitable period, for prepar- 

 ing to sow some of the more valuable and curious sorts of tender 

 annuals ; such as the fine kinds of double balsams, tricolors, me- 

 sembryanthemums or ice plants, browallia's, sensitive plant, Ipo- 

 mcea Quamoclit, and many others. 



Therefore, provide some new horse-dung, and let it be thrown up 

 in a heap, and in eight or ten days it will be in good condition to 

 make the bed. Let this be made about three feet high of dung, le- 

 velling the top, and then set on the frame and glasses. When the 

 burning heat is over, lay on the earth, observing that, for this use, it 

 must be rich, light, and perfectly dry, and broken pretty small by 

 rubbing it between the hands ; the depth of earth on the bed must 

 be about five or six inches, making the surface level and smooth. 



The seed may either be sown on the surface, observing to sow 

 each sort separate, covering them about a quarter of an inch, or 

 rather less, with light earth ; or you may draw some shallow drills 

 with your finger, from the back to the front of the bed, sow the 

 seeds therein, and cover as above ; or you may sow them in pots, 

 and plunge these into the earth of the hot-bed. But if you intend 

 sowing in pots, and that you have the convenience of tanner's bark, 

 lay on eight or nine inches, or a foot deep of it all over the bed in 

 place of the earth, to plunge your pots therein ; in which case two 

 and a half feet deep of dung will be sufficient. 



As soon as the plants appear, admit fresh air to them every day 

 when the weather is any way mild ; and let them have, now and 

 then, gentle sprinklings of water. Mind to cover the glasses every 

 night, and in bad weather with mats ; or if boards are first laid on, 

 and then covered with mats, they will afford an additional protection. 



