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command, to advance them in this way. (Gard. 

 Mag. v. 142.) 



For some time after planting out in the border, if 

 the weather proves dry, it will be necessary to give a 

 little water to the plants every evening, and, after 

 doing so, to protect them from the night reduction of 

 temperature by turning a garden-pot over each. Re- 

 move these pots early in the morning, if the weather 

 is genial. During the day, if the sun is sufficiently 

 powerful to cause the leaves of the plants to droop, 

 they may be relieved by shading them with branches 

 of laurel or other evergreens stuck into the soil be- 

 tween them and the sun. 



Arrangement. — A light coloured flower should be 

 between two dark coloured flowers, and the latter 

 should preponderate in number. Mr. Sabine correctly 

 observed, also, they look best, in a large mass, un- 

 mixed with other plants ; in this plan of growing 

 them, some nicety is required in the due distribution 

 of the sorts, so as to have a proper and good mixture 

 of colours, and particular care is necessary to keep 

 the tallest plants either in the centre, or at the back 

 of the clump, according as it is destined to be viewed 

 from one side only, or on every point, and to place 

 the whole so that there shall be no unevenness in the 

 general shape of the entire mass, arising from the 

 irregular arrangement of the individual plants, ac- 

 cording to their respective heights. The roots should 



