CHAPTER XI. ^ -' 



On Plunging Green-liouse Plants in Flower Borders. 



THE flower garden may be greatly beautified in summer, 

 by plunging into the borders and beds, many varieties of 

 green-house plants, in their different compartments, in order 

 to give a diversity of foliage. The plants are also much 

 benefited by this method. Being placed in the ground in 

 this way, their roots are in a better situation, and receive a 

 more regular supply of moisture than could possibly be 

 applied to them in any other position. 



The best time and manner of performing this, is to turn 

 out some of the most hardy kinds in the beginning of spring, 

 as the China Rose, Laurustinus, Myrtle, and the like : the 

 more tender kinds, as the Geraniums, Fuchsias, and others, 

 may remain until the middle or latter part, of May, or at a 

 time when the frosts are over. This process, like many 

 others, must be managed agreeably to the latitude of the 

 country in which it is to be performed, and the nature of the 

 season at the time of doing the work, which a judicious per- 

 son will at once discover, as a practical knowledge is worth 

 volumes of theory. 



Care should be taken to place every plant, as near as pos- 

 sible, in a situation the best adapted to its nature. The 

 Camellia, Daphne, Nerium, and most kinds of evergreens, 

 thrive best in a shaded situation ; others thrive and flower 

 more effectually in an exposed location, as the Geranium 

 and most kinds of fulgid flowers. 



Some taste is also required in placing the plants where 

 their habit will have the desired effect ; some require sticks 

 to cling to, and should be placed in the centre of small figures, 

 as the Thunbergia alaia, and Maurandia Bardayana, and 

 all convolvulous plants : others are more proper for the 



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