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and smooth, will require to be gone over once in 

 ten, fourteen, or twenty days, according to the state 

 of the weather, and the nature of the season, as 

 whether it be wet or dry ; sweeping off the worm- 

 casts, rolling, and keeping all close and neat. In 

 burning droughts, however, and particularly in dry 

 soils, it is not advisable to cut, though the grass 

 should be a little rank for a time ; otherwise the 

 sole, as it is termed, may be injured. The edges 

 should be neatly trimmed, each cutting, with sheep- 

 shears, or edging-shears, and be pared with the 

 iron, as often as necessary. 



When grass plats get overrun with moss, the best 

 remedy is to fold, or hurdle in sheep upon them, 

 till they pick the ground quite bare, and consider- 

 ably poach the surface. Then dust in plenty of 

 seeds, and roll them well 5 which frequently repeat, 

 till a new sward rise. 



FLOWERS. 



Of sowing and planting various Flowers. 

 All kinds of annual and perennial^ flowers, men- 

 tioned last month, may yet be sown ; and many 

 kinds, then noticed, may be planted. The sooner 

 in the month, however, particularly for the latter 

 kinds, the better. See lists of these, on this head, 

 in February and March. 



Of making slips of choice Flowers. 

 If slips of Campanulas, Rockets, Stocks, and 

 Wallflowers, have not been made, as hinted at last 



