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ladies' flower gardener. 



Sow carnation and polyanthus seeds still. Sow, also, perennial 

 and biennial seeds. 



Where any perennial or biennial fibrous-rooted flowers are 

 wanted, transplant them only in the first week of this month, and 

 they must have each a good ball of earth attached to them ; but 

 this work should be completed in February, or March at farthest. 



Every sort of annual may now be sown. 



Take care of your hyacinths, tulips, ranunculuses, and ane- 

 mones now, for they will be hastening into bloom. 



Place your auriculas, hyacinths, <fec, which may be in pots, in 

 a sheltered place, during heavy rains or winds ; and shelter those 

 flowers which are in the borders as well as you can. Trim them 

 from dead leaves. 



Keep your lawn and grass walks nicely mown and rolled, and 

 your borders free from weeds and rubbish. 



MAY. 



Propagate perennial fibrous-rooted plants by cuttings. 

 Propagate double wall-flowers by slips of the young shoots of 

 the bead. 



Sow annuals for succession ; such as sweet-peas, nasturtiums, 

 lavatera, lupines, flos Adonis, &c. 



Take up those hyacinths, tulips, &c. which have done flower- 

 ing, and dry them in the shade to put away. 



Weeds grow quickly now : hoe them up wherever you see 

 them. Support all flowers with sticks ; train them upright. Clear 

 away all the dead leaves from your carnations, and gently stir 

 the earth round them with your smallest trowel. 



Look round the borders now, and take off irregular shoots. 



