^44 The Pleasuiie, cr fMay. 



fown in a flight hot-bed,it will bring the plants on forwarder, 

 fo as they will flower a fortnight or three weeks fooner. 



The plants from this fowing will be fit to plant out next 

 month, and will come into flower in Auguft, and continue 

 till the cold weather dellroys them. 



Soiv Seeds of hardy Aiinuals, 



Sow the feed of hardy annual flowers in the borders ; 

 there are feveral forts that will ftillfucceed. 



Thefe are lupines, fweet fultan, and flos Adonis, the 

 white and purple candy tuft ; Lobel's catchfly, and dwarf 

 lychnis ; dwarf poppy, and Virginia flock; Venus navel- 

 wort, and Venus looking -glafs j fnails and caterpillars; the 

 feeds of dwarf and large annual fun-flower ; lavatera and ori- 

 ental mallow, may alfo be fown now : likewife nafturtiums, 

 and convolvulvus major and minor, and Tangier and 

 fweet-fcented peas, and any other of the tribe of hardy 

 annuals. See the catalogue. 



All thefe mufl be fown in fmall patches, in the borders, 

 and other places where you would have them flower, as 

 direded in the two former months ; for non€ of thefe forts 

 fucceed fo well by tranfplanting. 



Let the fmall patches, where they are fown, be often 

 fprinkled with water in dry weather; and where this is 

 duly performed, the plants will come up flrong, and will 

 produce their flowers in July, Auguft, and September. 



The climbing kinds of thefe plants muft have flicks 

 placed for them to climb upon, when they begin to run. 



The forts which require this are, nafturtiums, and con- 

 volvulus major, and the fweet-fcented and Tangier peas, 

 and the like forts. 



Auriculas. 



Take good care of the auricula plants in pots, when 

 they are paft flowering. 



Let the pots, according as the flowers fade, be immedi- 

 ately removed off" the ftanA, or ftage, and place them in 

 the full air upon a clean level fpot, where the plants can 

 enjoy the morning-fun freely, till nine or ten o'clock, but 

 not longer ; there let them remain till the latter end of 

 Auguft, or till September. 



Keep the pots, and the ground where they ftand, per- 

 fedly clear from weeds and where decayed leaves at any 



time 



