SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. ClIAP- ' 



fresh pasture-mould is laid in, to about four inches above 

 the surface of the ground, in the middle ; and sloping 

 down at the sides, where also it should be a little higher 

 than the adjacent ground, to which it will settle. It is 

 left so for ten days, and then, about the end of October, 

 being intersected by lines across and athwart in such way 

 as for every intersection to be seven inches from the 

 neighbouring ones, holes about four inches deep are made 

 at every one of these, a little drift sand deposited in each 

 hole, and the bulbs are put in and covered over carefully. 

 Beds of this kind are generally hooped over, so as to 

 admit of covering during the winter ; but some have a 

 high frame to cover them, so high as to admit of ones' 

 walking under j and these are covered with canvass 

 awnings and are intended to keep off the fierce rays of the 

 sun while the plants are in blossom. When planted in 

 the flower-border, tulips should be put in clusters of from 

 six to twelve, and the bulbs not nearer to one another 

 than six or seven inches. They should be planted, in very 

 light soils, at six inches beneath the surface ; and, in 

 heavy soils, at four inches beneath the surface, and should 

 have a little sand put into the holes that they are planted 

 in. Lightish pasture-ground is most suitable to them, 

 and the manure for them is always rotted cow -dung. 

 When the leaves begin to turn brown, and the upper part 

 of the flower stein also begins to turn, take up the bulbs 

 and place them in a dry but airy situation, where they 

 will remain till September or October, when you separate 

 their offsets from them and replant both offsets and 

 mother bulbs in their respective beds. I must again 

 observe, that, in the flower borders, they look best in 

 clusters ; the early ones particularly are ornamental in 



