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recourse is had to some particular plants, the latter part of the 

 month will pass off, leaving the garden with a rather meagre as- 

 pect. For this emergency a judicious gardener will prepare him- 

 self in season: in the month of June, ten-week stocks, schizan- 

 thuses, &c. will have heen sown and transplanted into pots, for 

 the purpose of turning into the border as soon as the tops of the 

 biennial and perennial plants are cut away after they have done 

 blowing; these wih flower beautifully until destroyed by frost. All 

 the sorts of lobelias that have been brought forward in pots should 

 be plunged in the border, where they will make a fine display 

 vith their brilliant blossoms. By pursuing some such system as 

 this, the garden, in the month of August, where there is a good 

 collection of dahlias, will present a gayer aspect than any other 

 in the year. 



On lawns may be placed, this month, pots of dahhas, which 

 will flower profusely if properly treated and watered with liquid 

 manure. Pots of Agapanthus umbellatus also have a fine appear- 

 ance distributed about among the other plants. 



In gardens where there is a good stock of the perpetual roses, 

 they will continue to open their beautiful and fragrant blossoms; 

 so popular will this tribe soon become, that no good garden will 

 be without a number of the finest varieties; they certainly have 

 double the claim to our admiration that many of the common 

 sorts have; for they not only display their blossoms in the spring, 

 and continue to do so until frost, but to their beauty add a deh- 

 cious fragrance. 



Dahhas are now the most fashionable flower: the great per- 

 fection to which the English florists have carried the production 

 of new varieties certainly excites our wonder and admiration ; the 

 splendor of some, and the delicacy of others, of the newest sorts, 

 surpasses any thing that can be imagined, and no garden can be 

 said to be complete, unless a goodly number of the best varieties 

 are cultivated. The dwarf kinds look well planted in the border 

 among the other plants; but the taller and more free growing 

 sorts look much the best grown in plats by themselves. They 

 begin to bloom this month, and continue to flower until frost kills 

 the plants. 



August. — There are but few shrubs in bloom this month: 

 some of the handsomest are Clethra fdnifolia, /Spira^^a tomentosa 

 and salicifolia, and the double and single alth^as. The snow- 

 berry is beautiful with its fruit; of twining shrubs, the honey- 

 suckles are in flower, and, towards the latter part of the month, 

 Bignom'a radicans. Among the biennials and perennials are, 

 Lobelia cardinahs, fulgens, speciosa and splendens, ./2sclepias tu- 

 berosa, Gaillardia aristata and picta: Rudbeckia lasciniata and 

 purpurea, the former very showy: Aconitum Halleri and albi- 



