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soon; in warmer places the sowing may ]>e deferred tn the 

 end of Sejitember. In the neighbourhood of London the 

 last week of August is the best time. Sow on a well- 

 drained bed of poor sandy sitil in a cpiite open position 

 sheltered from the north, and thin as soim as the plants 

 appear, leaving them about two inches apart. In the 

 month of February, when mild weather is prevailing, care- 

 fully transplant to the place where the plants are to flower, 

 having first prepared the ground, for it will Ijc a kind of 

 execution to stick them into stubborn ])asty stuff tliat has 

 been in no way ameliorated for the purjjose. 



