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roots, of removed if necessary. If desired to have them in pots, 

 you may pot a few of the finest kinds as directed for carnations. 



Polyanthuses. 



Your finest kinds of polyanthuses and double primroses may be 

 treated in every respect as directed for auriculas, if desired in 

 pots; if not, they may be removed at pleasure, between the middle 

 and latter end of this month, and large roots divided for increase; 

 but this should not be done to those which you intend to flower 

 strongly, till their bloom is over, immediately after which, you 

 may slip them or divide their roots. They are impatient of heat 

 and drought, and love the reverse, shade and moisture: they are 

 very hardy, and seldom perish except by the summer heats, which 

 frequently destroy them, unless the necessary precautions are taken. 



Double Daisies. 



These beautiful little flowering plants may, about the end of 

 this month, be taken from the winter repositories and planted for 

 edgings in shady borders; for if planted in open exposures, the 

 summer heat will totally destroy them, unless they are removed 

 into the shade as soon as their first bloom is over. The roots may 

 now be separated for increase, as every shoot of them, if slipped off, 

 will root freely. They may also be removed into pots with balls 

 of earth adhering to their roots, where they will blow handsomely, 

 but it would have been better if they were planted in these in Sep- 

 tember or October. 



Giving fresh Earth to various Plants in Pots. 



Give some fresh earth to the pots of double wall-flowers, double 

 stock July-flowers, double sweet-williams, rockets, rose-campions, 

 catchfly, campanulas, scarlet lychnis, and such like plants, which 

 were potted last autumn or before. 



In doing this, clear the plants first from decayed leaves, and 

 take some of the earth out of the tops of the pots, but not too deep 

 to disturb the roots of the plants; then fill up the pots again with 

 fresh earth, and give some water; this will strengthen their roots, 

 and the plants will shoot freely and produce large flowers. 



Pricking out early .Annuals. 



If any tender annuals were sown last month, such as cockscombs, 

 tricolours, Ipomocas, sensitive plants, ice plants, balsams, &c, in 

 order to have them in perfection at an earlier period than common, 

 make a new hot-bed towards the middle or latter end of this, in 

 which to prick them to forward their growth. Let the hotbed be 

 about thirty inches high, and make the top even; then set on the 

 frame; and when the great heat is over, let the earth be put in; 

 let it be light, rich, and perfectly thy, and lay it equally over the 



