April] FLOWER GARDEN 355 



which are very beautiful; penstenions, podalyrias, gentianas of 

 sorts, hibiscuses in great varieties, cypripedums and phloxes, 

 monardas, coreopsises, sisyrinchiums and gerardias, aletrises, aco- 

 nites, ranunculus, aconitifolius, dictamnuses and dodecatheon 

 meadia, galega virginica, hedysarums, hemerocallises, napoea, 

 pa^onia, saponaria, silphiuins and rhexias, with many others. A 

 great number of the above kinds may now be taken up out of thf 

 woods and fields, and transplanted into the flower-borders and 

 pleasure-grounds, which will keep up a regular succession of bloom, 

 during the whole summer and autumn. 



Let the plants be taken up carefully with balls of earth about 

 their roots, and planted where necessary; then water them, and 

 repeat it in dry weather, till they begin to grow freely: they will 

 flower generally the same year, and those that are truly perennial 

 will continue to reward your labours annually with a new display 

 of their beauty as long as you deserve that compliment, by render- 

 ing them a fostering care. 



Here again would I call attention to the necessity of introducing 

 into our gardens and pleasure-grounds, a variety of our beautiful 

 field flowers, and not to sutler those departments to appear deso- 

 lated in the autumnal months, whilst nature displays a profusion of 

 its glory in the fields, woods, meadows and swamps; but in doing 

 this, let it be observed to give each kind a soil and situation as 

 nearly similar to that in which it grew in its wild state as the 

 nature and extent of your ground will admit. See page 78 and 79. 



Note. In page 62, &c. you will find general designs, both ancient 

 and modern, for laying out pleasure-grounds, flower gardens, and 

 all kinds of ornamental planting, to which I refer you. 



Double Daisies. 



Double daisies may now be propagated abundantly by dividing 

 and slipping the roots; but these should be planted in shady borders, 

 or rather in shallow frames, where they can be protected from the 

 too powerful influence of the summer sun, which would absolutely 

 destroy them if left to its mercy. These frames will also be con- 

 venient for the laying of boards and mats over them, for the winter 

 protection of the plants, without which most of them would perish. 

 They may be either planted in small pots sunk in the earth, or in 

 rows in the beds, ten inches asunder, and plant from plant six 

 inches distant in the row. AVater them immediately and give them 

 shade for a few days. 



Planting deciduous Flowering and Ornamental Shrubs. 



Such deciduous kinds of trees and shrubs as are yet to be re- 

 moved, should be transplanted in the first week or ten days of the 

 month in the middle states, and not delayed longer in the eastern 

 states than the fifteenth. For the various kinds and methods of 

 planting them, sec page r>01. 



