84 THE PLEASURE, OR [Jan. 
Blowing Flowers early in Hot-beds, Sfc. 
Many sorts of bulbous, tuberous, and fibrous-rooted perennial 
flowers, if planted in pots, and now placed in a hot-bed, hot-house, 
or any forcing department at work, will shoot and flower early 
without much trouble, only to give occasional watering. Pots of 
roses, dwarf almonds, double-blossom cherry, peach, &c. may also 
be placed in the forcing houses for early bloom. 
Care of ■perennial fibrous-rooted Plants in Pots. 
Double wall-flowers, double stocks, double sweet-williams, and 
any other of the choicer kinds of perennial plants in pots, should 
be well secured from severe frosts. If these plants in pots are 
placed in frames, let the glasses or other covering be kept over 
them at all times when the frost is keen, or occasionally in very 
wet weather; but in mild dry weather the plants must not be covered 
in the day time. 
Take care now, also, of all other choicer kinds of fibrous-rooted 
perennial plants in general, which are in pots, to secure them from 
frost; such as the double rose campion, double scarlet lychnis, 
double rocket, and all other like kinds. 
Those plants which are in pots should, where there is not the 
convenience of frames, be plunged to their rims in a dry and warm 
border, and at night and in severe weather be covered with gar- 
den-mats, supported on arched hoops placed low over such bed or 
border. 
Seedling Flowers. 
Boxes or pots of any tender or choice kinds of seedling flowers 
should be covered in frosty weather either with mats, long litter, 
fern or the like, which should be laid a good thickness over them, 
and close round the sides, or remove them under a garden-frame 
and glasses, &c., which will be the better way. 
Likewise beds of the more tender and curious sorts of seedling 
flowers, in the common ground, should also be covered in hard 
frosts with mats or long dry litter, but remove the covering when 
the weather is mild. 
Protecting Flowering- Shrubs. 
If you have hardy flowering-shrubs or evergreens in pots, you 
should, to protect their roots from the frost, plunge the pots to their 
rims in the ground (if omitted doing in November or December), 
and cover the pots with some tan, leaves of trees or dry litter; 
allotting them for this purpose a dry, warm situation, where water 
is not apt to stand. 
But any tenderer or more curious young evergreens, &c. in pots, 
should have the protection of frames or occasional covering of 
mats, &c. in severe weather. 
