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Pinks. 
Your choice double pinks in pots, will require the same treat- 
ment as the carnations; but as pinks are extremely hardy, they may 
be cultivated in great perfection in the open ground. 
A good fresh loamy soil, trenched about two feet deep, well 
pulverized, and manured with a stratum of cowdung, two year's old, 
mixed with an equal portion of sound good earth; this stratum to 
be about six inches thick, and placed about four inches below the 
surface, is all the preparation or compost that appears necessary 
for this flower. 
The bed should be raised three or four inches above the surround- 
ing paths, and its sides may be supported with an edging of boards, 
to come up even with, or one inch higher than its surface; this last 
for the sake of neatness, more than any particular utility it will be 
of to the plants. 
The plants intended for the principal bloom, should be planted 
in it, in the first week of this month, or in September, as they do 
not blow quite so strong, if removed late in the season: they should 
be planted at 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 it will require no other covering than a very slight one, 
in case of severe frosts. 
The bed should be kept free from weeds, and its surface stirred 
up a little, if it inclines to bind. 
Carnations will prosper very well, if treated in the above man- 
ner. 
The more indifferent kinds of pinks may be planted in the com- 
mon borders, &c. 
Planting Superb Tulip Roots. 
The most proper season for planting tulip roots, in general, is 
from the middle to the laiter end of this month, and indeed I should 
prefer the middle to any other period; for about that time you 
will perceive a circle round the lower end of each bulb, disposed to 
swell, preparatory to the emission of fibres, and also a disposition at 
the upper end of some, to show foliage. 
By keeping the roots out of ground after this predisposition to 
vegetation, they would be greatly weakened thereby. 
The situation for the best bed oi superior tulifia, should be in an 
open, airy part of the garden, protected at the same time, from 
north and west winds by some distant shelter; when that is fixed 
upon, the ground should be marked out, agreeably to its intended 
dimensions, and the soil taken out twenty inches deep; the bottom 
is then to be filled up with sound fresh earth, ten inches thick, upon 
which is to be placed a stratum of two year's old roiton cow-dung and 
earth of the above description, one half of each, well mixed together 
and laid on twelve inches thick; upon this is to be placed another 
stratum of the same kind of earth as that of the bottom; this 
latter, is only to be two inches thick at the sides, and three in the 
middle of the bed, which will give it a small degree of convexity. 
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