JUNE.] FLOWER-GARDEN, 



as sweet-williams, sweet scabious, Canterbury-bells, rose-campion 

 and monk's-hood ; soapwort, valerian, Chinese ixia, Asclepiases, 

 Asters and Rhexias ; Coreopsis, Hibiscuses, Dracocephalums, &c. 

 &c. &c. 



Prepare for these, three or four feet wide beds, of good earth, 

 and plant them by line, at six inches distance every way, water them 

 immediately, and if the weather be very dry, give occasional shade 

 and waterings, till they have taken root and begin to grow. The 

 plants are to remain in these beds until autumn or spring, and 

 are then to be planted out finally into the beds or borders, where 

 they are intended to flower the ensuing year. 



Stock -Gill/Jlowers and Wall-fiGivers. 



The stock-gilliflowers and wall-flowers are not sufficiently hardy, 

 to bear the winter frosts of the middle or eastern states ; therefore, 

 it will be necessary to plant the seedlings of these kinds in some 

 convenient place, where a garden frame may be placed over them 

 in winter, on which to lay boards or any slight covering for their 

 protection, as directed in November. Or you may plant them now 

 in the open borders to grow till September, then to be taken up 

 and potted, and in November they are to be removed into their 

 winter quarters : or, they may, immediately, be planted into small 

 pots, which are to be plunged in some shady border, where you can 

 give them water during the season, according to their necessities- 



Trim Sox Edgings* 



Take advantage of the first moist weather that happens after the 

 middle of this month, in which to clip and dress your box edgings ; 

 for if done in dry or parching weather, they are apt to turn foxy, 

 and, consequently, loose much of their beauty. 



The edgings should be cut very neat, even at top and both sides, 

 and ought not to be suffered to grow higher than two or three inches, 

 nor broader than two. When the edgings of box are kept near 

 that size, they look extremely neat, but if permitted to grow to the 

 height of four, five, or six inches, and perhaps near as much in 

 breadth, they then assume a clumsy and heavy appearance, and de- 

 prive the beds and borders of that apparent roundness, so necessary 

 to set them off to advantage. 



Dressing the I'loiver-Borders and Shrubberies, &c. 



The flower-borders, beds, shrubbery-clumps, and all other orna- 

 mental compartments, must now be kept remarkably clean and neat ; 

 and no weeds suffered to appear, or at least to grow to any conside- 

 rable size, in any of those places. The weeds must be extermi- 

 nated immediately on their appearance, either by hoe or hand, occa- 

 sionally, and this should be performed in a dry day ; if with the hoe, 

 cutting them up within the ground, and raking them off imme- 

 diately, 



