Feb.] FLOWER GARDEN. j^j 



all around as high as the upper parts, which will prevent the 

 frost from penetrating and injuring the plants next the frame. 

 Over this frame you can lay a covering of boards and mats when 

 necessary, or if you have not mats, straw or other suitable covering 

 may be used. Frost will enter the beds notwithstanding this kind 

 of care, but not in sufficient force to do much injury, for these 

 plants are tolerably hardy, and require only to be protected from 

 its too powerful influence, as well a9 that of the sun's. 



The plants must be exposed to the full air constantly, except 

 while freezing sufficiently strong to bind up the earth, and at night 

 or during the prevalence of cold heavy rains or snow. Sucli of the 

 preceding and other hardy bulbs, &c. as yet remain out of ground, 

 ought to be planted as soon as possible; observing the directions 

 given in page 82, &c Anemones and ranunculuses if carefully 

 preserved, will yet succeed very well. 



Carnations and Pinks. 



Your choice carnations and pinks which were planted in pots 

 and plunged in beds under the protection of frames and coverings, 

 ought, for the present, to be managed in every respect as above 

 directed for the protection of anemones, ranunculuses, &c. By this 

 treatment you may expect to be rewarded with a bloom of these 

 charming flowers in the highest degree of perfection. 



Towards the end of this month, if the weather is mild, but not 

 otherwise, you may transplant such as were raised last year from 

 layers into large pots, or into the open borders, &c, where you in- 

 tend them to blow; but this would have been better if done in 

 autumn. Also such seedling plants as were raised last season, may, 

 under similar circumstances, be transplanted into any beds or 

 borders which are ready for their reception, always observing to 

 remove them with balls of earth around their roots. For further 

 particulars see next month. 



Tender Annuals. 



The latter end of this month will be a suitable period for prepar- 

 ing to sow some of the more valuable and curious sorts of tender 

 annuals; such as the fine kinds of double balsams, tricolours, me- 

 sembryanthemums or ice plants, Browallia's sensitive plant Ipomcea 

 Quamoclit, and many others. 



Therefore, provide some new horse-dung, and let it be thrown 

 up in a heap, and in eight or ten days it will be in good condition 

 to make the bed. Let this be made about three feet high of dung, 

 levelling the top, and then set on the frame and glasses. When 

 the burning heat is over lay on the earth, observing that, for this 

 use, it must be rich, light, and perfectly dry, and broken pretty 

 small by rubbing it between the hands; the depth of earth on the 

 bed must be about five or six inches, making the surface level and 

 smooth. 



The seed may either be sown on the surface, observing to sow 

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