March.] FLOWER-GARDEN. 297 
A good fresh loamy soil, dug and well pulverized, about twelve 
or eighteen inches deep, and well manured and mixed with cow- 
dung, two years old, is all the preparation that is necessary for this 
charming flower. 
The plants designed for the principal bloom, should be planted 
where intended to blow, in September, or early in October, as they 
do not flower quite so well if removed later in the season; they 
should be planted at about the distance of nine inches from each 
other, and the bed should be laid rather convex, or rounding, to 
throw off* excess of rain; but will require only a slight covering or 
protection in case of frost; and this only for the superior kinds. 
The beds should be kept free from weeds, and the surface stirred 
up a little if it inclines to bind. 
They may also be propagated now, freely, by slips from their 
roots, or removed if necessary. If desired to have them in pots, you 
may pot a few of the finest kinds, as directed for carnations. 
Polyanthuses. 
Your finest kinds of polyanthuses and double primroses, may be 
treated in every respect as directed for Auriculas, if desired in 
pots; if not, they may be removed at pleasure, between the middle 
and latter end of this month, and large roots divided for increase; 
but this should not be done to those which you intend to flower 
strongly, till their bloom is over, immediately after which, you 
may slip them or divide their roots. They are impatient of heat 
and drought, and love the reverse, shade and moisture: they are 
very hardy, and seldom perish except by the summer heats, which 
frequently destroy them, unless the necessary precautions are 
taken. 
Double Daisies. 
These beautiful little flowering plants may, about the end of 
this month, be taken from the winter repositories, and planted for 
edgings, in shady borders; for, if planted in open exposures, the 
summer heat will totally destroy them, unless they are removed 
into the shade, as soon as their first bloom is over. The roots may 
now be separated for increase, as every shoot of them, if slipped oft', 
will root freely. They may also be removed into pots with balls 
of earth adhering to their roots, where they will blow handsomely, 
but it would have been better if they were planted in these, in Sep- 
tember, or October. 
Giving fresh Earth to various Plants in Pots. 
Give some fresh earth to the pots of double wall-flowers, double 
stock July-flowers, double sweet-williams, rockets, rose-campions, 
catchfly, campanulas, scarlet lychnis, and such like plants, which 
were potted last autumn, or before. 
