ii48 The Pleasure, cr [May. 



ber or Oftober, then to be planted out for good ; they 

 will all flower next yea*, and make a fine appearance. 



Soijo Perenniul Floi^jer-feeds, 



Many forts of perennial and biennial flower- feeds may 

 yet be fovvn ; but this fliould be done in the firft or fecond 

 week in the month, and the plants will come up llrong, 

 and attain a proper growth, reproduce flowers abundantly 

 the next fummer. 



The forts which will ftill fucceed, are the different forts 

 of flock July flowers, wall-flowers, fweet-williams, and 

 columbines, carnations and pinks, and the feeds of fca- 

 bioufes; Canterbury or pyramidal bell-flowers may alfo 

 be fown now; likewife hollyhocks, and French honey- 

 fuckles, and fome other forts : choofe a fpot for thefe 

 feeds, where the ground is light, free from weeds, and 

 not much expofed to the fun. Let this be neatly dug, 

 and, in digging, let the earth be well broken ; and then 

 mark it out into as many parts as there are kinds of feeds 

 intended to be fown. 



Then the feeds are to be fcattered thereon as equally as 

 pofiible, and raked in with an even hand, that the plants 

 may rife regular, and of an equal thicknefs in every part. 

 But the befl method to fow all thefe kinds of feeds, fo 

 as to bury them equally, and to have the plants come up 

 regularly, is this : 



The ground being dug, let the furface be neatly raked ; 

 then divide it into fmall beds, forty inches broad ; and 

 with the back of the rake, turn the earth, to the depth of 

 half an inch off from the furface of the bed, into the alley. 

 When this is done, let the feeds be fcattered carefully on 

 the furface ; and then with the teeth o:" the rake, draw the 

 earth, that was turned off the bed, evenly over them. 



Then let the beds be very lightly gone over with a rake, 

 juil to fmooth the furface, and draw off any ilones. 



Or they may be fowed in flat fhallow drills, drawn with 

 the front of a fmall hoe held horizontally, forming the 

 drills the width of the hoe, and from about a quarter or 

 half an inch to an inch deep, according to the fize of the 

 different feeds, which fow regularly along the bottom of 

 the drills, and cover them in evenly with the earth. 



