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be planted, see Section I, Also January, February, 

 and April. 



Deciduous hedges may also now be planted ; and 

 blanks in young hedges planted in spring may be 

 made good with stout, well-rooted plants. These 

 voids should always be well dunged, in order to en- 

 courage the growth of the plants put in ; that they 

 may, if possible, overtake the other plants in the 

 hedge, so as the whole may rise a regular fence, 



OF FLOWERS. 



Of planting various Bulbous Flowers. 



About the middle of the month, the general plant* 

 ing of bulbs may commence ; from the middle of 

 October to the middle of November, being the best 

 time in the year for that business. 



Bulbs, in general, like a light, or sandy soil ; and 

 for the choice kinds, it should be well prepared and 

 enriched. But the common sorts, planted in patches 

 about the borders of the flower ground or shrubbry, 

 must of course fare as other flowers do. Previous 

 to planting, however, the patches should be well 

 stirred up, and the earth made fine, to the depth of 

 a foot or fifteen inches. The same should be done 

 along the edges of the borders where crocuses and 

 snowdrops are meant to be planted in a row. 



Crocuses, and Snowdrops, may be planted at six 

 or eight inches off the box, four or five inches asun- 

 der, and two inches deep. In beds four feet wide, 

 they may be planted in rows across them, at six or 

 seven inches asunder, three or four in the row, and 

 two inches deep. These small roots may be planted 



