426 THE PLEASURE, OR [June. 
biennial seedling flower plants, that are grown to a sufficient size; 
such as sweet-williams, sweet scabious, Canterbury-bells, rose- 
campion and monk's-hood, soapwort, valerian, Chinese ixia, ascle- 
piases, asters and rhexias; coreopsis, hibiscuses, dracocephalums, 
&c. &c. &c. 
Prepare for these three or four feet wide beds of good earth, and 
plant them by line at six inches distance every way, water them 
immediately, and if the weather be very dry, give occasional shade 
and waterings till they have taken root and begin to grow. The 
plants are to remain in these beds until autumn or spring, and are 
then to be planted out finally into the beds or borders where they 
are intended to flower the ensuing year. 
Stock- Gillijlowers and Wall-flowers. 
The stock-gilliflowers and wall -flowers are not sufficiently hardy 
to bear the winter frosts of the middle or eastern states; therefore, 
it will be necessary to plant the seedlings of these kinds in some 
convenient place where a garden frame may be placed over them 
in winter, on which to lay boards or any slight covering for their 
protection, as directed in November. Or you may plant them now 
in the open borders to grow till September, then to be taken up and 
potted, and in November they are to be removed into their winter 
quarters: or, they may immediately be planted into small pots, 
which are to be plunged into some shady border, where you can 
give them water during the season according to their necessities. 
Trim Box Edgings. 
Take advantage of the first moist weather that happens after the 
middle of this month, in which to clip and dress your box edgingsj 
for if done in dry or parching weather they are apt to turn foxy, 
and consequently, lose much of their beauty. 
The edgings should be cut very neat, even at top and both sides, 
and ought not to be suffered to grow higher than two or three 
inches, nor broader than two. When the edgings of box are kept 
near that size, they look extremely neat, but if permitted to grow 
to the height of four, five, or six inches, and perhaps near as much 
in breadth, they then assume a clumsy and heavy appearance, and 
deprive the beds and borders of that apparent roundness so neces- 
sary to set them ofl" to advantage. 
Dressing the Flower-Borders and Shrubberies,- ^c. 
The flower-borders, beds, shrubbery-clumps, and all other orna- 
mental compartments, must now be kept remarkably clean and 
neat, and no weeds suffered to appear; or at least to grow to any 
considerable size in any of these places. The weeds must be ex- 
terminated immediately on their appearance either by hoe or hand, 
occasionally, and this should be performed in a dry day; if with the 
