39 8 THE PLEASURE-GARDEN. [May. 
flower, perhaps not one out of five hundred would prove double, 
but the gillyflowers produce numbers of double flowers from seed, 
especially if it is saved from semi-double varieties: the full double, 
never producing any. The beginning of this month is a very 
proper time, to sow the seed of either of these, or of their varieties. 
Guernsey Lily. 
The Amaryllis sarniensis, or Guernsey Lily. The leaves of this 
most beautiful flower will, generally, be decayed towards the end 
of this month, when the roots may be taken up, and the offsets se- 
parated; they may be replanted in pots immediately, or if dried 
first in the shade, be preserved in dry sand, &c. and planted any 
time before the end of July, but are not to be kept up longer, as 
they flower in September or October. When the winter frost 
approaches, the pots are to be removed into a garden-frame, where 
they may have occasional protection during the winter months, or 
they may be placed in the front windows of the Green-house. 
Their roots do not increase numerously, when removed oftener 
than every third year, and in the summer months, they ought to be 
kept in the shade, and gently watered now and then; but as their 
roots are in a dormant state during that time, too much water 
would totally destroy them. 
Transplanting Perennial and Biennial Seedlings. 
Many of the early sown perennial, and biennial flower plants, 
■will in the course of this month be fit to transplant into nursery 
beds; where they should be set at the distance of six inches from 
one another, there to remain to get strength till September or Oc- 
tober, when they should be removed with balls of earth and finally 
planted where intended to flower. 
Supporting Floiver-Plants. 
Sticks must now be placed to such flowering-plants as want sup- 
port; in doing this, have regard to the natural size and height of 
each kind, and let the sticks be in proportion; fix them down firm 
on that side, in which they can be least seen; for although the in- 
tent is, to keep the plants upright and of neat appearance, yet the 
means should be concealed as much as possible, and similar care 
ought also, to be observed, in tying up the plants. 
Likewise, climbing and trailing plants, of every kind, should 
have timely support of sticks or stakes, proportioned to their re- 
spective growths, and their stems or shoots conducted thereto in a 
proper manner. 
Weeds. 
More than ordinary care should now be taken, to keep all your 
beds and borders, free from weeds, but more especially those, in 
which small seedlings are growing. 
