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cultivated at this season, as above directed, for the double scarlet 

 lychnis, or by slips or offsets from the root, taken oft* and planted 

 either in spring or autumn; it does not prosper well except when 

 annually slipped or propagated by ottsets; tor the old roots are 

 verv subject to decay, especially the double varieties; the single 

 sorts are much more permanent and easy of culture. The ladies 

 of Europe are extremely fond of it, whence it obtained the name of 

 dame's-violet, or queen's gillyflower. 



Double Wall-jlowers and Stock- gillyflowers. 



The fine double wall-flowers, and double stock-gillyflowers, may 

 now be propagated by young slips of the present year: choose those 

 of short and robust growths, from four to five, or six inches long, 

 and let them be carefully slipped or cut with a knife from the mo- 

 ther plants. Take the lower leaves ott", so that there may be two, 

 three, or four inches of a clean stem to each, and plant them in a 

 shady border or in pots, inserting them into the earth up to their 

 leaves; then give some water, and be particular to shade them from 

 the mid-day sun till they have taken root. Water them occasion- 

 ally during summer, and in September, such as are planted in bor- 

 ders may be taken up with balls of earth and potted, in order to be 

 placed in frames, &c. for protection from the winter frosts. 



The double varieties are accidentally produced from seed, and 

 it is very rare to meet with such among seedling plants of the wall- 

 flower, perhaps not one out of five hundred would prove double, 

 but the gillyflowers produce numbers of double flowers from seed, 

 especially if it is saved from semi-double varieties; the full double 

 never producing any. The beginning of this month is a very proper 

 time to sow the seed of either of these or of their varieties. 



Guernsey Lily. 



The Amaryllis sarniensis, or Guernsey lily. The leaves of this 

 most beautiful flower will generally be decayed towards the end 

 of this month, when the roots maybe taken up, and the offsets 

 separated; they may be replanted in pots immediately, or if dried 

 first in the shade, be preserved in dry sand, &c, and planted any 

 time before the end of July, but are not to be kept up longer, as 

 they flower in September or October. When the winter frost ap- 

 proaches, the pots are to be removed into a garden-frame, where 

 they may have occasional protection during the winter months, or 

 they may be placed in the front windows of the green-house. Their 

 roots do not increase numerously when removed oftener than every 

 third year, and in the summer months they ousjht to be kept in the 

 shade and gently watered now and then; but as their roots are in a 

 dormant state during that time, too much water would totally de- 

 stroy them. 



Transplanting Perennial and liiennial Seedlings. 

 Many of the early sown perennial and biennial flower plants, 



