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THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER GARDEN. 
Hardy annual Flower- Seeds. 
About the latter end of this month, if the weather is mild and drj, 
you may sow many sorts of hardy annual flower seeds in borders, 
and other parts of the pleasure garden. 
The sorts proper to sow at this time are larkspur andflos Adonis, 
scarlet pea, sweet scented and Tangier peas, candy tuft, dwarf 
lychnis, Venus's looking-glass, Lobel's catch-fly, Venus's navel- 
wort, dwarf poppy, Nigella, annual sunflower, oriental mallow, 
lavatera, and hawk weed, with many other sorts. 
Some of these if sown now, particularly the Larkspur, flos 
Adonis, sweet and Tangier peas, will flower much better than if 
sown at a later period. 
All the above seeds must be sown in the places where you intend 
the plants to flower, in beds, borders, pots, &c. They must not be 
transplanted, for these sorts will not succeed so well by that practice. 
The following is the method: — 
The flower borders having been previously dug, dig with a trowel 
small patches therein, about six inches in width, at moderate dis- 
tances, breaking the earth well, and making the surface even; draw 
a little earth oft' the top to one side, then sow the seed therein, each, 
sort in separate patches, and cover it with the earth that was drawn 
off"; observing to cover the small seeds near a quarter of an inch 
deep, the larger in proportion to their size; but the pea kinds must 
be covered an inch deep at least. 
When the plants have been up some time, the larger grov/ing 
kinds should, where they stand too thick, be regularly thinned; 
observing; to allow every kind, according to its growth, proper room 
to grow. 
For instance, the sunflower to be left one in a place, the orien- 
tal mallow and lavatera, not more than three; the rest may be left 
thicker. — See May, &c. 
Plant hardy herbaceous fibrous-rooted flowering Perennials. 
Towards the end of the month, if the weather be mild and open 
and the ground dry, you may plant, where wanted, most sorts of 
hardy fibrous-rooted flowering plants, both of perennials and bien- 
nials, such as lobelias, Phloxes, Dracocephalums, polyanthuses, 
primroses, London-pride, violets, double camomile, thrift, gen- 
tianella, hepaticas, and saxifrage. 
Plant also rose-campion, rockets, catch-fly, scarlet-lychnis, 
double feverfew, carnations, pinks, sweet-williams, columbines, 
Canterburry-belis, monk's hood, Greek valarian, tree primrose, 
foxglove, golden rods, perennial asters, perennial sunflowers, holy 
hocks, French honeysuckles, and many others. 
