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suppose any will be required. I ought to have 

 mentioned, while I was writing on edgings, that 

 a border of turf, six inches wide, cut very 

 close, makes a very neat edging, but more 

 labour and attention is required to keep it in 

 order than box, and it does not answer well, 

 except where the beds are very large, and the 

 edges consist chiefly of straight lines : besides, 

 the corners of turf are apt to be trodden down 

 and worn out. 



It is in March, that the seeds of auriculas 

 and polyanthuses should be sown in boxes; 

 but these and all the flowers usually called 

 florists' flowers, (among which are carnations, 

 tulips, anemonies, &c.) are so difficult of culti- 

 vation, that I advise a novice in gardening to be 

 contented with possessing a few of the hardiest 

 auriculas and handsomest polyanthuses in his 

 borders, and not attempt to grow the finer 

 sorts. 



