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which no garden should lack in summer, do not 

 bear transplanting well, and should be sown in 

 place. 



The after-work of pricking out and eventually of 

 planting in position entailed by the rearing of a 

 great number of annuals or plants treated as an- 

 nuals, is necessarily considerable ; but there is no 

 doubt that a garden lovely in flower and foliage 

 and scent may be furnished entirely by this 

 method. 



No mention has been made of sweet peas, which 

 perhaps now may be reckoned the most important 

 of all, and they may be treated in several ways. 

 An autumn sowing out of doors should always be 

 made, for in the milder parts of the country at 

 any rate, they will generally come safely through 

 an ordinary winter with the help of a light cover- 

 ing of bracken. They may be sown in pots under 

 glass, which gives them a good start for planting 

 out in spring. Or they may be sown in the open 

 ground in March in the usual way. By trying all 

 these methods a succession can be kept up until 

 the late autumn. It is better to grow them in 

 distinct colours, and, on this head, the only com- 

 plaint to be made is that there are too many sorts 

 to choose from. Mignonette, again, can be very 

 successfully raised in boxes, being afterwards care- 

 fully pricked out and finally transplanted in the 

 bed it is intended to occupy. These are operations 

 which must be carried out with some skill, as 

 mignonette does not move easily ; but neither does 

 it come to its best when sown and left to chance 

 in the open ground. 



