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THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER GARDEN. 



Hardy annual Flower- Seeds. 



About the latter end of this month, it" the weather is mild and dry, 

 you may sow many sorts of hardy annual flower seeds in borders, 

 and other parts of the pleasure garden. 



The sorts proper to sow at this time are larkspur and flos Adonis, 

 scarlet pea, sweet scented and Tangier peas, candy tuft, dwarf 

 lychnis, Venus's looking-<;lass, Lobel's catch-fly, Venus's navel- 

 wort, dwarf poppy, Nigella, annual sunflower, oriental mallow, 

 lavatera, and hawk weed, with many other sorts. 



Some of these if sown now, particularly the Larkspur, flos 

 Adonis, sweet and Tangier peas, will flower much better than if 

 sown at a later period. 



All the above seeds must be sown in the places where you intend 

 the plants to flower, in beds, borders, pots, &c. They must not be 

 transplanted, for these sorts will not succeed so well by that practice. 

 The following is the method: — 



The flower borders having been previously dug, dig with a trowel 

 small patches therein, about six inches in width, at moderate dis- 

 tances, breaking the earth well, and making the surface even; draw 

 a little earth oft" the top to one side, then sow the seed therein, each 

 sort in separate patches, and cover it with the earth that was drawn 

 off; observing to cover the small seeds near a quarter of an inch 

 deep, the larger in proportion to their size; but the pea kinds must 

 be covered an inch deep at least. 



When the plants have been up some time, the larger growing 

 kinds should, where they stand too thick, be regularly thinned; 

 observing to allow every kind, according to its growth, proper room 

 to grow. 



For instance, the sunflower to be left one in a place, the orien- 

 tal mallow and lavatera, not more than three; the rest may be left 

 thicker. — See May, &c. 



Plant hardy herbaceous fibrous -rooted /lowering Perennials. 



Towards the end of the month, if the weather be mild and open 

 and the ground dry, you may plant, where wanted, most sorts of 

 hardy fibrous-rooted flowering plants, both of perennials and bien- 

 nials, such as lobelias, Phloxes, Dracocephalums, polyanthuses, 

 primroses, London-pride, violets, double camomile, thrift, gen- 

 tiauella, hepaticas, and saxifrage. 



Plant also rose-campion, rockets, catch-fly, scarlet-lychnis, 

 double feverfew, carnations, pinks, sweet-williams, columbines, 

 ('ank'rburry-bells, monk's hood, Greek valarian, tree primrose, 

 foxglove, golden rods, perennial asters, perennial sunflowers, holy 

 hocks, French honeysuckles, and many others. 



