Mar.] Flower Garhtfit. rjj 



ther, let the beds be frequently watered after the plants 

 are up, and they will flower tolerably ftrong. 



Solving 'various Kinds of jihrous-rooted perennial and bien^ 

 nial Plants. 



Perennial and biennial flower-feeds, of moft kinds, may 

 be Town any time this month. 



It is to be obferved, that thefe kinds do not flower the 

 fame year they are fown ; but all the forts of them will 

 flower ftrong, and in the greatell peifedion, the year 

 after. 



As every one may not knt>w the meaning of perennial 

 and biennial plants, we will here explain it. The peren- 

 nial plants are thofe which continue many yea/3, fuch as^ 

 everlafling fun-flower, perennial afters^. &c. The b^ien«- 

 nials are thofe that are only of two years duration, being 

 fown one year, and flower and perfed their feeds the next, 

 and foon after die; fuch as the French honey-fuckle, 

 Canterbury bell-flower, &c^ 



The kinds proper to be fown now, are carnations, 

 pinks, fweet-williams, wall-flowers, and flock JuIy-flowers;> 

 of all forts, Sow alfo Angle rofe-campion, catch-fly , 

 fcarlet lychnis, columbines, Greek valerian, fcabioufeS;^ 

 and Canterbury bells. 



The feeds of hollyhocks, French honey-fuckles, helle* 

 bore, honelly or fatin-fiower, tree-primr-ofe, fnrubby mal- 

 low, broad-leaved campanula, and fox gloves, with feeda 

 Qtf moft other forts of perennial and biennial plants, may 

 now be fown. 



For an account of the various forts to be raifed from 

 feeds, fee next month, and The Catalague of P lams at the- 

 end of the book. 



All the above, and otiier hardy perennial flower feeds^. 

 are to be fown in beds of light earth in the open ground. 



Dig a fpot for them in a warm fltnation, but not in any 

 Ihady place: divide the ground into bed^ three or four 

 feet wide, and the beds into as many parts as you- have 

 kinds of feeds; fow them thin, and each kijid feparate, 

 and \^t them be covered properly with earth; the larger 

 feed half an inch-, and the fmallerfeeds abouC a q-U-art^r of 

 an inch deep ; or may be raked in evenly. 



Butin fowing thefe kinds, or any other ibrts ofperennial 



fiovver-feeds, yoa may draw Ihailow dxiUs ta fow them in^ 



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