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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER, 



[Mar. 



PLANTING BOX AND OTHER EDGINGS. 



Box and other edgings may be now planted or repaired when 

 tlie weather is fine ; if dry, give occasional waterings until they 

 have struck root. 



PLANTING HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



All sorts of herbaceous plants may now be planted, either to 

 fill up vacancies in the flower borders already planted, or to 

 plant such as are in process of making. More attention should 

 be paid to the arrangement of these plants, as far as regards 

 colors, than seems to have been hitherto practised, as well as the 

 keeping up a succession of these flowers for the greatest pos- 

 sible length of time. The beauty of a border of gay flowers 

 does not consist so much in the quantity of bloom as in the 

 manner in which that bloom is disposed of, so that harmony of 

 coloring may prevail throughout the whole. 



SOWING TENDER ANNUALS. 



If these were not sown as directed last month, let them now 

 ])e sown without delay, either in large pots plunged in a mild 

 itottom heat, or in drills in fine rich light mould, as directed 



ist month. Plants now raised from seed will bloom beautifully 

 ii June, July, &c., till the end of the season, and will come in 

 ' ?ry useful for decorating the green-house when the plants are 



It in their summer station, as well as the conservatory and 

 iirawing-room, during these months. 



PRICKING OUT TENDER ANNUALS. 



Such tender annuals as were sown last month, and are now 

 fit for being removed into nursing pots, should be attended to. 

 Make choice of the strongest plants, which should be taken up 

 oarefully out of the pots into which they have been sown, and 

 ^^ricked off into small pots, one plant into each, if of the size 

 ailed Thumbs or Thimble pots ; or three plants may be placed 

 into each, if in such as are of the size of small sixties, these to 



