528 THE PLEASURE, OR [OCT. 



Pinks. 



Your choice double pinks in pots, will require the same treat- 

 ment as the carnations; but as pinks are extremely hardy, they may 

 be cultivated in great perfection in the open ground. 



A good fresh loamy soil, trenched about two feet deep, well 

 pulverized, and manured with a stratum of cowdung, two years 

 old, mixed with an equal portion of sound good earth, this stratum 

 to be about six inches thick, and placed about four inches below 

 the surface, is all the preparation or compost that appears necessary 

 for this flower. 



The bed should be raised three or four inches above the sur- 

 rounding paths, and its sides may be supported with an edging of 

 boards, to come up even with, or one inch higher than its surface ; 

 this last for the sake of neatness, more than any particular utility it 

 will be of to the plants.. 



The plants intended for the principal bloom, should be planted 

 in it, in the first week of this month, or in September, as they do 

 not blow quite so strong, if removed late in the season : they should 

 be planted at the distance of nine inches from each other, and the 

 bed should be laid rather convex, or rounding, to throw off excess 

 of rain ; but it will require no other covering than a very slight one, 

 in case of severe frosts. 



The bed should be kept free from weeds, and its surface stirred 

 up a little, if it inclines to bind. 



Carnations will prosper very well, if treated in the above man- 

 ner. 



The more indifferent kinds of pinks may be planted in the com- 

 mon borders, Sec. 



Planting Superb Tulip. Roots. 



The most proper season for planting tulip roots, in general, is 

 from the middle to the latter end of this month, and indeed I should 

 prefer the middle to any other period ; for about that time you 

 will perceive a circle round the lower end of each bulb, disposed to 

 swell, preparatory to the emission of fibres, and also a disposition 

 at the upper end of some, to shew foliage. 



By keeping the roots out of ground after this predisposition to 

 vegetation, they would be greatly weakened thereby. 



The situation for the best bed of superior tulips, should be in an 

 open, airy part of the garden, protected at the same time, from 

 North and West winds by some distant shelter ; when that is fixed 

 upon, the ground should be marked out, agreeable to its intended 

 dimensions, and the soil taken out twenty inches deep ; the bottom 

 is then to be filled up with sound fresh earth, ten inches thick, upon 

 which is to be placed a stratum of two years old rotten cow-dung and 

 earth of the above description, one half of each, well mixed together 

 and laid on twelve inches thick ; upon this is to be placed another 

 stratum of the same kind of earth as that of the bottom ; this 

 latter, is only to be two inches thick at the sides, and three in the 



