BIENNIAL AND PERENNIAL PLANTS. 33 



In removing plants into the beds where they are intended 

 to blossom, great pains should be taken to preserve some of 

 the earth to their roots. The ground should be previously 

 brought into good condition, so that they may strike freely, 

 and produce their flowers in perfection. The plants should 

 be so arranged that they may all be seen, the most dwarfy 

 may be placed in front, and others in a regular gradation to 

 the tallest behind ; or the tallest may be planted along the 

 middle of the beds, and the others on each side according 

 to their varied heights and colours. 



There is no part of gardening which requires so much 

 elegance of taste and fancy, as in setting off 9 border or bed 

 of intermixed flowers to advantage. In assemblage with 

 other flowers, the different kinds of hardy bulbs may be 

 planted in small clumps of six, seven, or eight inches in 

 diameter, three, four, five or more roots in each, according 

 to their size and growth, and these at suitable distances 

 from one another. Likewise observe to diversify the kinds 

 and colours, so as to display when in bloom, the greatest 

 possible variety of shades and contrasts. 



If Greenhouse plants be plunged into the flower borders 

 in the month of May. they will not only tend to ornament 

 the garden, by their diversity of foiia^e and blossom, but the 

 roots will receive a more uniform supply of moisture, than 

 if the pots were openly exposed to the sun and wind: care 

 should however be taken to give the different species a situa- 

 tion suitable for them. Hydrangeas, Primulas, Daisies, 

 Oleanders, Cammelias, China Roses, and half hardy plants 

 in general, thrive best in a moderately shaded situation. 

 Geraniums, Jasmines, Helotropes &.C., may be plunged in a 

 sunny situation, provided they be regularly supplied with 

 water. Many species planted for ornament in the flower 

 borders, may at the same time be propagated by layers. 

 The Fuchsia or Ear-drop, Passion Flower, Helotrope, 

 Carnation, Petunia, running Verbena, &c., will iflayed in 

 June and July, exhibit their blossoms in perfection, and 



