Oct.] Flower Garden. 475 



Particularly campanulas, catch-fly, rofe-campion, 

 fcarlet lychnis, bachelor's buttons, double feverfew, 

 peach-leaved bell-flower, Canada leonurus, and the 

 like. 



Likewife polyanthufes, prlmrofes, double daifles, 

 double chamomile, London-pride, hepaticas, violets, 

 pinks, gentianella, yellow gentian, and all other fuch 

 like forts. 



The roots are to be taken lip as above mentioned, and 

 everyone divided, or part£d into feparate plants. The 

 beft of the flips, or plants, mull be placed again direSily 

 in the border ; and the fmallefl:, or fuch as are not wanted 

 for the border, fliould be planted in nurfery-beds to 

 remain a year to get flrength. 



Now is alfo a proper time to part and tranfplant the 

 roots of pionics, fraxinellas, lilies of the valley,- Solo- 

 mon's feal, monk's-hood, and flag-leaved irifes. 



Plant hig all kinds of bulbous Floivsr- Roots, i^c. 



This is now a moil eligible feafon to plant almoil all 

 forts of bulbous and tuberous flower roots, which where 

 taken up when their leaves decayed. See the various forts 

 as below. 



Hyacinths and tulips for the general fprlng bloom may- 

 be planted; the beds wherein the fine varieties of thefe 

 roots are to be planted mufl be well dug a proper depth, 

 a. diet all the clods be broken: the beds ihould be 

 highefl: in the middle, and laid fomewhat rounding : 

 this form bell throws oiF the wet, and it looks better : 

 the beds fiiould be four feet broad. 



When the beds are ready, choofe a dry and mild day 

 to put in the roots ; the befl: roots fliould be planted nine 

 inches difiant every v^'ay. Plant them in rov.'S nine ' 

 inches afunder, and' not lefs than flx inches in each row, 

 by three or four inches deep : performing it either by dib- 

 ble, or drilling, or bedding in, as advifed lall month. 



Where it is intended to plant any of the above roots 

 in the common borders among other flowers, they may, 

 in that cafe, be either planted in a Angle row lengthways 

 of 'the border ; this row mull be a' foot or eighteen inches 

 fVom the edge of the border, and the roots fliould be 

 planted, at leafl:, that dillance from one another, or when 

 thefe or any other bulbous roots, are to be planted among 

 other flowers, I think it is much the belt way to place 



them 



