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all around as high as the upper parts, which will prevent the 
frost from penetrating and injuring the plants next the frame. 
Over this frame you can lay a covering of boards and mats v^hen 
necessary, or if you have not mats, straw or other suitable covering 
may be used. Frost will enter the beds notwithstanding this kind 
of care, but not in sufiicient force to do much injury, for these 
plants are tolerably hardy, and require only to be protected from 
its too powerful influence, as well as that of the sun's. 
The plants must be exposed to the full air constantly, except 
while freezing sufficiently strong to bind up the earth, and at night 
or during the prevalence of cold heavy rains or snow. Such of the 
preceding and other hardy bulbs, &c. as yet remain out of ground, 
ought to be planted as soon as possible; observing the directions 
given in page 82, &c. Anemones and ranunculuses if carefully 
preserved, will yet succeed very well. 
Carnations and Finks. 
Your choice carnations and pinks which were planted in pots 
and plunged in beds under the protection of frames and coverings, 
ought, for the present, to be managed in every respect as above 
directed for the protection of anemones, ranunculuses, &c. By this 
treatment you may expect to be rewarded with a bloom of these 
charming flowers in the highest degree of perfection. 
Towards the end of this month, if the weather is mild, but not 
otherwise, you may transplant such as were raised last year from 
layers into large pots, or into the open borders, &c., where you in- 
tend them to blow; but this would have been better if done in 
autumn. Also such seedling plants as were raised last season, may, 
under similar circumstances, be transplanted into any beds or 
borders which are ready for their reception, always observing to 
remove them with balls of earth around their roots. For further 
particulars see next month. 
Tender Annuals. 
The latter end of this month will be a suitable period for prepar- 
ing to sow some of the more valuable and curious sorts of tender 
annuals; such as the fine kinds of double balsams, tricolours, me- 
sembryanthemums or ice plants, Browallia's sensitive plant Ipomoea 
Quamoclit, and many others. 
Therefore, provide some new horse-dung, and let it be thrown 
up in a heap, and in eight or ten days it will be in good condition 
to make the bed. Let this be made about three feet high of dung, 
levelling the top, and then set on the frame and glasses. When 
the burning heat is over lay on the earth, observing that, for this 
use, it must be rich, light, and perfectly dry, and broken pretty 
small by rubbing it between the hands; the depth of earth on the 
bed must be about five or six inches, making the surface level and 
smooth. 
The seed may either be sown on the surface, observing to sow 
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