SELECTIONS 



FOR NATURALIZATION, 



As it IS desirable to ktiow how to procure as well as 

 how to select the best kinds, a few words oti the first 

 subject may not be amiss here. 



A very important point is the getting of a stock of 

 plants to begin with. In country or other places where 

 many good old border flowers remain in the cottage 

 garden, many species may be collected there. A 

 series of nursery, beds should be formed in some by- 

 place in which such subjects could be increased to any 

 desired degree. Free-growing spring-flowers like Aubrietia, 

 Alyssum, and Iberis may be multiplied to any extent by 

 division or cuttings. Numbers of kinds may be raised 

 from seed sown rather thinly in drills, in nursery beds in 

 the open air. The catalogues should be searched every 

 Spring for suitable and novel subjects. The best time 

 for sowing is the Spring, but any time during the Summer 

 will do. Many perennials and bulbs must be bought in 

 nurseries and increased as well as may be in nursery beds. 

 As to soil, &c., the best way is to avoid the trouble of 

 preparing it except for specially interesting plants. The 

 great point is to adapt the plant to the soil — in peaty 

 places to place plants that thrive in peat, in clay soils 



