Jan.] flower GARDEN. - 79 
In this division you may plant the finest hyacinths, tulips, poly- 
anthus-narcissus, double jonquils, anemones, ranunculuses, bul- 
bous-irises, tuberoses, scarlet and yellow amarylUses, colchicums, 
fritillaries, crown imperials, snow-drops, crocuses, lilies of various 
sorts, and all the different kinds of bulbous and tuberous-rooted 
flowers, which succeed in the open ground; each sort principally 
in separate beds, especially the more choice kinds, being necessary 
both for distinction sake and for the convenience of giving such as 
need it protection from inclement weather; but for particulars of 
their culture, see the respective articles in the various months. 
Likewise in this division should be planted a curious collection 
of carnations, pinks, polyanthuses, and many other beautiful sorts, 
arranging some of the most valuable in beds separately; others 
may be intermixed in different beds, forming an assemblage of 
various sorts. 
In other beds you may exhibit a variety of all sorts, both bulbous, 
tuberous, and fibrous-rooted kinds, to keep up a succession of bloom 
in the same beds during the whole season. 
Here I cannot avoid remarking that many flower gardens, &c. 
are almost destitute of bloom during a great part of the season; 
which could be easily avoided, and a blaze of flowers kept up, both 
in this department and in the borders of the pleasure-ground, 
from March to November, by introducing from our woods and 
fields the various beautiful ornaments with which nature has so 
profusely decorated them. Is it because they are indigenous that 
we should reject them? Ought we not rather to cultivate and im- 
prove them? What can be more beautiful than our Lobelias, 
Orchises, Asclepiases and Asters; Dracocephalums, Gerardias, 
Monardas and Ipomoeas; Liliums, Podalyrias, Rhexias, Solidagos 
and Hibiscuses; Phloxes, Gentianas, Spigelias, Chironias, and 
Sisyrinchiums, Cassias, Ophryses, Coreopsises and Cypripediums; 
Fumarias, Violas, Rudbeckias and Liatrises; with our charming 
Limodorum, fragrant Arethusa, and a thousand other lovely plants 
which, if introduced, would grace our plantations and delight our 
senses? 
In Europe plants are not rejected because they are indigenous; 
on the contrary, they are cultivated with due care; and yet here 
we cultivate many foreign trifles, and neglect the profusion of 
beauties so bountifully bestowed upon us by the hand of nature. 
Work to be done this Month. 
Prune such of your ornamental shrubs, &c. as need it, particu- 
larly the hardy deciduous kinds; all decayed, ill-placed and 
straggling branches ought to be cut off close to where they were 
produced, and such others shortened as are growing in a disorderly 
way, always taking great care to form the heads in a full and 
handsome manner, that they may appear well furnished and dis- 
play the beauty of their foliage and bloom in due season. 
Great care should be taken at this time of the choicest kinds 
of flowering plants and other tender kinds in pots — they should be 
