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The receptacles containing the seed of these plants should 

 be collected when ripe, in dry weather, and placed in situations 

 where they will receive no damp during the winter ; these are to 

 be sown in early Spring, in beds of light earth, from which the 

 young plants may be removed when they have six or eight 

 leaves each, into nursery beds, placing them about twelve 

 inches from each other, observing to water them should the 

 season be dry, until the plants have taken root ; they should 

 be then kept free from weeds until October, when they may 

 be planted where they are to remain. A method has some- 

 times been successful of sowing the seeds as soon as they are 

 ripe in the autumn ; and by planting them early in the spring, 

 and thereby obtaining flowers a year sooner than could be pro- 

 cured from the spring sowing. The flower stalks of the 

 choicest varieties of the Hollyhocks should be cut down to the 

 earth when the beauty of the flowers is* decayed, for if suffered 

 to mature the seed, it frequently impoverishes the plant so 

 much that they decay during the winter, and a single stalk of 

 these emblems of Fecundity will yield sufficient seed for a 

 large garden. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



fir BARRY CORNWALL. 



There the rose unveils 

 Her breast of beauty, and each delicate bud 

 O' the season comes in turn to bloom and perish, 

 But first of all the violet, with an eye 

 Blue as the midnight heavens ; the frail snoic-drop 

 Born of the breath of winter, and on his brow, 

 Fixed, like a pale and solitary star, 

 The languid hyacynth, and pale primrose, 

 And daisy, trodden down like modesty. 

 The fox-glove, in whose drooping bells the bee 

 Makes her sweet music ; the narcissus, (named 

 From him who died of love,) the tangled woodbine, 

 Lilacs, and the flowering limes, and scented thorns, 

 And some from the voluptuous June, 

 Catch their perfuminga. 



