Nov.] FLOWER GARDEN. 559 



Double Daisies. 



The beds wherein were planted your double daisies, &c. as 

 directed in October, page 545, should towards the latter end of 

 this month, or when the frost is likely to become severe, be pro- 

 tected occasionally therefrom by a covering of mats, or when very 

 severe, boards and mats, but let them have the benefit of the air 

 as long and as often as the weather is mild; observing always to 

 defend them from heavy rains and snow, either of which would 

 have a tendency to rot and melt them away. 



Daisies will survive the winter in a warm border, covered with 

 a light coat of clean straw, which should be taken oft' and laid on 

 occasionally in mild weather to air and harden the plants; but 

 these will not blow as well nor as early in spring as those taken 

 better care of. 



The daisies which were potted in September or October with a 

 view to force them in winter, should be particularly attended to 

 during the whole of this month, in order to strengthen and en- 

 courage their growth. But if the potting of them were omitted, it 

 should be done in the beginning of this month; selecting for that 

 purpose the largest and best plants, and carefully removing them 

 with good balls of earth round their roots. 



Protecting Seedling Bulbs. 



You should now plunge the pots or boxes in which you sowed the 

 seeds of bulbous-rooted flowering plants, and also those containing 

 the one or two year old seedling bulbs, up to their rims or edges 

 in a raised bank of light, dry earth, or you may set them on the 

 bank and fill the spaces between them with tanner's bark, or leaves 

 of trees well crammed in; then on the approach of severe frosts 

 cover them all over with dry straw or peas-haulm, which is to be 

 taken oft' occasionally in mild dry weather, and aired, in order to 

 prevent its getting mouldy, and communicating the disorder to the 

 seeds or roots. 



Stockgilhj -flowers and Trail-flowers. 



Your double stockgilly-flowers and wall-flowers in pots should 

 now be either taken into the green-house or warm close rooms, or 

 plunged to their rims in a dry, warm exposure, surrounded with a 

 deep garden frame, where they may be protected during winter. 

 These plants being tolerably hardy, will keep well by a very slight 

 protection of boards and mats, or boards covered with straw or 

 other litter when the frost is severe: they will seldom be injured 

 before February, but a warm sun about the end of that month, if 

 suffered to shine on them whilst the leaves or stems are in a frozen 

 state, would totally destroy them. 



It would be of additional advantage to lay three or four inches 

 of old tanner's bark over the surface of the pots, the better to pre- 

 serve the roots from the frost. The plants must be aired occasion- 

 ally in mild weather, for if kept too closely covered they would 

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