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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



season as soon as they were fully rooted and separated from 

 the parent plant. Let them be now placed in the pots already 

 noticed, and gently watered as soon as potted ; when a suf- 

 ficient number are potted, let them be placed in an airy dry 

 situation, and defended in wet weather by mats or canvas 

 covers, where they will remain until taken into the green- 

 house, or placed upon a flower-stand to bloom. All that will be 

 now necessary in their culture till their flowers begin to open, 

 or until the season of propagation arrives, will be to keep them 

 regularly watered, and their flower-stems neatly supported by 

 sticks to prevent them being broken. 



Those which may not be considered sufficiently valuable for 

 potting, may be now planted out in the borders of the flower 

 garden, where they will come into flower in good perfection ; 

 and those which are considered border flowers, picotees, &c., 

 should now be planted out in the borders of the flower garden, 

 either singly, or in patches of three or four plants each, or they 

 may be planted with good effect in beds, according to the size, 

 style, &c. of the garden. 



Pinks. — The pinks propagated last year should now also be 

 planted out. The fine flowering kinds are generally })lanted in 

 a bed or border by themselves, and protected from heavy rains, 

 winds, &c., by occasional covering with mats, canvas, &c., sup- 

 ])ortod by hooped rods placed over the beds. The pink, 

 although also of British origin as well as the carnation, is much 

 less tender and less choice in its situation and soil. Maddock, 

 already mentioned, considers a soil as follows, all that is ne- 

 cessary in this part to produce fine, pinks 



A good fresh loamy soil dug and comminuted about two 

 feet deep, and manured with a stratum of cow-dung two years 

 old, mixed with an equal proportion of earth." This stratum 

 to be about six inches thick, and placed about five or six in- 

 ches below the surface. 



PLANTING RANUNCULUSES AND ANEMONIES. 



The planting of these roots should now be finished as early 

 in the month as possible ; and if the ground be dry, let them be 

 occasionally supplied with water in a moderate degree. 



