SEPT.] FLOWER-GARDEN. 495 



jFlower-Borders and Shrubberies. 



Towards the latter end of this month, begin to dig the vacant 

 beds and borders, where the plants are mostly declined in their 

 flowering, to prepare them for the reception of any plants or roots, 

 to kill weeds, and to give a neat and becoming appearance to the 

 whole ; if they require it, add some fresh earth or verry rotten 

 dung to them, and in the planting of flowers in borders along the 

 principal walks, observe to dispose of them in such a manner, as 

 that there may be a regular succession of flowers throughout the 

 season in the different parts, planting the low growing kinds in 

 front and the taller more remote from the walks. 



Continue to keep the general flower borders, clumps, and other 

 similar districts very clean, and in neat order, and go round all the 

 beds, borders, and shrubbery compartments once a week, to cut 

 down decayed flower-stems, for such detract much from the 

 beauty of the plants in flower, as well as from that of the general 

 appearance. 



Regulate disorderly growths, tie up straggling branches, and 

 pick off all decayed leaves, likewise prune or cut away any branch- 

 es or twigs that appear in a mouldy or declining state, on any of 

 the flowering plants or shrubs. 



Box Edgings. 



Clip box edgings where it was omitted in the two former months, 

 but let this be done as soon now as possible, that the box may have 

 time to grow a little and put on a fresh appearance before winter ; 

 it will be best to do this in wet or cloudy weather, if such should 

 happen in due time. 



In the last week of this month, should the season prove moist, 

 you may begin to plant box edgings where wanted, as directed in. 

 page 294, but if the weather sets in dry and hot immediately after, 

 it will be necessary to shade them with boards, &cc. for a month, 

 abojut that period they will be newly rooted, and appear neat all 

 winter. However, should the weather not prove favourable in this 

 month, it would be more advisable to defer that work till the 

 early part of October. 



If you have low bunches of dwarf box, that the offsets are 

 generally rooted, you need be under no apprehension of their 

 striking fresh root and growing freely at this time, if kept regularly 

 watered, but where you form edgings of box cuttings, these will 

 require to be carefully shaded from the sun, at least for a month 

 after, if planted at this season. 



Clip fledges. 



Such hedges as have not been trimmed in the preceding month, 

 should be clipped in the early part of this, before the shoots get hard. 



In clipping hedges, always take particular care to have the 

 shears in perfect good order, that you may be able to make neat and 



