112 THE FLOWER GARDEN COMPANION. 



Geraniums, Verbenas, Heliotropes, Fuschias, and, indeed, all 

 kinds that require to grow during the summer. They will 

 all do well in the compost recommended for green-house 

 plants. By this method, and keeping them properly watered, 

 and in a location where they are partly excluded from the 

 mid-day sun, plants will generally flourish satisfactorily, with 

 a little moderate attention. 



Where ample space can be appropriated to plants, it is a 

 good method to turn them into the flower borders ; which 

 see, under the head of Plunging Green-house Plants in the 

 Flower Borders. 



ART. 2. The Management of Garden Frames. 



In flower gardens, where choice collections of plants are 

 always fostered, it is proper to have two or three garden 

 frames, for the protection of the half hardy kinds of herba- 

 ceous plants, as the Carnation, Polyanthus, Auricula, &c. 

 The frames for this purpose may be of almost any dimensions, 

 but those of a moderate size are the best say of three sashes 

 from nine to twelve feet long, and from four to five feet wide. 

 The location of the frame should be where it can have the 

 full influence of the sun ; it should be well protected from the 

 cold winds by a board fence or otherwise. Care must be 

 taken that the place is chosen where it is perfectly dry, or 

 the snow water running into it will rot and destroy the plants. 



Having the ground and frame thus prepared, about the 

 middle of September a lining of leaves, or manure, may be 

 placed around it, of about two or three feet wide. In the 

 bottom of the frame, some cinders or ashes may be laid, to 

 keep it dry, and to keep the worms from working up the 

 earth among the pots. Place the plants in a regular manner 

 in the frame, the largest at the back, and the smallest in the 

 front; be careful that they stand level, in order that when 

 watered the water may not wash off at one side. 



The management of the frame in the fall, is simply to 

 water the plants when they require it ; to pick off all the 



