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SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. 



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Give water regularly ; not much at a time ; see that it drains off 

 well ; and keep the plant out of the heat of the sun or it will 

 quickly fade. — — Belladonna Lily. — Lat. A. Bella- Donna. A 

 larger plant than the last, bearing much larger flowers, hanging 

 downward, five or six in number, and of a pale blush. These are 

 procured in the same manner ; but sometimes they arrive in Eng- 

 land earlier than at other times, according to the season ; but 

 about the first week in September you should inquire for them ; 

 for, as they come when just ready to blow, they come in and are 

 gone, almost in a day. This last plant, if put into the ground 

 deep enough, w ill live through our winters ; but it is properly a 

 frame plant. 



429. AFRICAN BLADDER.~Lat. Hibiscus Africanus, 

 Trailing plant, hardy and perennial, blow-s a pretty large fi.ower, 

 light yellow, with a dark spot at the base of the petals. Flowers 

 in July and August ; propagate by parting roots in autumn. 



430. ANEMONE, or poppy. — -Lat. J., coronaria. A 

 hardy tuberous-rooted plant from the Levant. There are double 

 and single sorts, both equally esteemed by the florists, and both cul- 

 tivated in the same manner : if from seed, sow^ in January under 

 a frame, having procured fine earth that has received the frost. 

 Make your bed very fine, and sow the seed pretty thickly over it, 

 and cover very lightly nideed with the same earth. Do not let 

 there be more than the thickness of a shilling of earth over the 

 seeds ; and give very gentle waterings of soft water, from a fine- 

 rosed watering pot, taking care that frost do not penetrate by 

 night, nor the mid-day sun; for either would destroy the young 

 plants. When the plants are all up and are out in their rough 

 leaves, take off the glasses, unless the weather be very severe, and 

 shade from sun by day : give gent'e waterings, or admit showers 

 of rain. When the leaves of these plants have died away com- 

 pletely (wdiich w ill be about the end of March), take up every 

 tuber carefully and put them by in drawers, till the next October 

 or November, and then plant them in beds or patches where you 

 mean them to blow in the next spring. If you have sowed them 

 in drills in your bed, you will find it a much easier w ork to take 

 up the young tubers than if you had sowed them broad cast ; for 

 you easily follow' the rows and pick out the little pieces, which it 

 would puzzle you to distinguish from stones when sowed in the 

 other manner. By dividing the root of anemones you multiply 



