JOG THE PLEASURE, OR [June. 



biennial seedling flower plants, that are grown to a sufficient size; 

 such as sweet-williams, sweet scabious, Canterbury-bells, rose- 

 campion and monk's-hood, soapwort, valerian, Chinese ixia, ascle- 

 piases, asters and rhexias; coreopsis, hibiscuses, dracocephalums, 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Prepare lor these three or four feet wide beds of good earth, and 

 plant them by line at six inches distance every way, water them 

 immediately, and if the weather be very dry, give occasional shade 

 and waterings till they have taken root and begin to grow. The 

 plants are to remain in these beds until autumn or spring, and are 

 then to be planted out finally into the beds or borders where they 

 are intended to flower»the ensuing year. 



Stock- Gilliflowers and IV all- flowers. 



The stock-gilliflowers and wall-flowers are not sufficiently hardy 

 to bear the winter frosts of the middle or eastern states; therefore, 

 it will be necessary to plant the seedlings of these kinds in some 

 convenient place where a garden frame may be placed over them 

 in winter, on which to lay boards or any slight covering for their 

 protection, as directed in November. Or you may plant them now 

 in the open borders to grow till September, then to be taken up and 

 potted, and in November they are to be removed into their winter 

 quarters: or, they may immediately be planted into small pots, 

 which are to be plunged into some shady border, where you can 

 give them water during the season according to their necessities. 



Trim Box Edgings. 



Take advantage of the first moist weather that happens after the 

 middle of this month, in which to clip and dress your box edgings; 

 for if done in dry or parching weather they are apt to turn foxy, 

 and consequently, lose much of their beauty. 



The edgings should be cut very neat, even at top and both sides, 

 and ought not to be suffered to grow higher than two or three 

 inches, nor broader than two. When the edgings of box are kept 

 near that size, they look extremely neat, but if permitted to grow 

 to the height of four, five, or six inches, and perhaps near as much 

 in breadth, they then assume a clumsy and heavy appearance, and 

 deprive the beds and borders of that apparent roundness so neces- 

 sary to set them oft' to advantage. 



Dressing the Flower-Borders and Shrubberies, §-c. 



The flower-borders, beds, shrubbery-clumps, and all other orna- 

 mental compartments, must now be kept remarkably clean and 

 neat, and no weeds Buffered to appear, or at least to grow to any 

 considerable size in any of these places. The weeds must be ex- 

 terminated immediately on their appearance either by hoe or hand, 

 occasionally, and this should be performed in a dry day; if with the 



