June.] FLOWER-GARDEN. 425 
as sweet-williams, sweet scabious, Canterbury-bells, rose-campion 
and monk's-hood, soapwort, valerian, Chinese ixia, Asclepiases, 
Asters and Rhexias; Coreopsis, Hibiscuses, Dracocephalums, &c. 
&c. 8cc. 
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 -Gilliflowers and Wall-floivers. 
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 edgings; 
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, or five, or six inches, and perhaps near as much in 
breadth, they then assume a clumsy and heavy appearance, and de- 
prive the beds and borders of that apparent roundness, so necessary 
to set them off 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 conside- 
rable size, in any of these places. The weeds must be extermi- 
nated immediately on their appearance, either by hoe or hand, occa- 
sionally, and this should be performed in a dry day; if with the hoe, 
cutting them up within the ground, and raking them off imme- 
diately, 
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