150 CAUTIONS IN TRANSPLANTING. [AUG. 



covered by a pot is transplanted, a deep basket 

 will answer the purpose ; indeed, small baskets 

 are preferable to pots, and are manufactured for 

 the purpose of covering plants, at the establish- 

 ment for the education of the indigent blind. 



I am now going to sow mignonette in pots, 

 to keep in a cold frame through the winter. 

 When the seedlings come up, I allow only four 

 plants to each pot, and give them as much air 

 as possible during the winter. After they 

 have flowered in the spring, I cut them down, 

 and turn them out in the borders, where they 

 make good plants, and flower again sooner than 

 the spring-sown seed. I am also busy collect- 

 ing plants for the rock work, which I told you 

 of. v Among these, saxifrages are what I am 

 most desirous of obtaining : now is the fit time 

 to divide them. 



My garden continues to be very gay ; though 



