FLOWER GARDEN. 
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well when planted, and in dry seasons give 
them a little occasionally, to help them. 
Anemones may be taken up if they have 
decayed down, and they should be well dried 
in the shade before they are stored away. Sow 
seeds of Anemones in rich, light ground; cover 
them well over, but not too deeply, and in dry 
weather let the ground have a good soaking 
before they are sown, as well as occasionally 
till they are up, for the earth must never be 
thoroughly dry afterwards. 
Ranunculuses should be taken up as soon 
as their foliage turns yellow, and be carefully 
dried in the shade before they are cleaned and 
put away within boxes. The seeds also may 
be sown, and if choice, they should be sown 
in pots or boxes, so that they might be re- 
moved to a pit, or under glass, to keep off 
excess of moisture in the autumn, and frost in 
the winter. 
Seedling "Wall-flowers, Sweet Wil- 
liams, Canterbury Bells, Antirrhinums, 
Rockets, Columbines, and all other hardy 
biennials and perennials in the seed-bed, should 
be planted out to grow into strength, where 
they are to bloom the following year, some in 
the borders, if necessary; but seedlings are 
better all in a bed — they are easier selected. 
Tulips. — Throw the soil out of the beds 
intended for Tulips, and lay it in banks on 
each side of the bed. Some plant other things 
in the Tulip bed instead of removing the soil 
out, but those who are really particular in the 
cultivation of the Tulip will not allow even a 
weed to usurp their places. When the soil is 
thus turned out, it should be frequently turned 
over to look after insects ; and the more it is 
stirred about the better, especially in winter 
time. The Tulips ought to be occasionally 
examined in their boxes, to see there is no 
attack of green-fly; if there should be, they 
must all be put in a pit, or some other confined 
place, and fumigated with tobacco smoke. 
Roses. — Examine the budded stocks, and 
continue to remove all the growth of the stocks, 
which will for a considerable time push at all 
the joints, and greatly exhaust the strength 
that should go to the buds. As the buds push, 
let them be secured to a stick, or to the stock 
itself, so that the wind may not break out the 
bud, w r hich is a very easy thing if the wind 
has any power ; the shoots, when long, being 
easily blown clean out of their budding place. 
Roses of all kinds worked on stocks are liable 
to injury by the growth of the stock distressing 
them, so that they cannot too often be looked 
over and deprived of their stock shoots and 
suckers. The stakes also to which the trees 
are tied should be examined, and all seen to 
be fast, or made so ; as the wind will blow 
about those with a large head enough to 
damage them materially. 
Seeds of Flowers. — All kinds of flower 
seeds should be gathered in dry weather, and 
the stems of those that are not intended to 
seed should be cut down. The dead stalks 
and leaves of all plants should be cleared away, 
and the borders kept neat and clean. 
Box Edgings should be clipped and trimmed 
into proper order, keeping them very close 
down ; and in sweeping and rolling gravel 
walks, great care should be taken not to damage 
the box edgings, nor sweep off the foliage 
from the bottoms, and make them bare. 
The Dahlia is the principal ornament of 
the gardens at this time, and florists are all 
upon the qui five to produce flowers fitted for 
the exhibitions. If great attention has been 
continuously paid to the destruction of vermin, 
the work for the future will have been greatly 
lessened ; but if they have been neglected, the 
attention now required will be great indeed. 
Shading must be resorted to, and covering in 
such way as to keep out vermin, though it is 
always far better to destroy them altogether 
at an earlier period. One of the most common, 
and perhaps effective methods of shading and 
protecting, is to have a board lai'ge enough to 
hold a thirty-two sized pot wrong side up- 
wards ; this board has holes at the corner, so 
that pointed sticks stuck in the ground, and 
the points through the holes at the corner, 
form legs to make this a sort of table. A slit is 
cut in this board from the side to the centre, 
wide enough to pass the stem of a Dahlia, so 
that the bud is brought to the middle. The 
slit is then stuffed with cotton, so as to prevent 
earwigs passing through, and a pot inverted is 
covered over the bloom, which, when covered, 
is perfectly free from attacks of vermin, a cork 
being placed in the hole of the bottom. We 
do not think the blooms are half so good when 
thus closed up, but it is a choice of evils. 
Some persons have glass covers, and shade 
them with cabbage leaves, or some such ma- 
terial. The instant you see a bloom will not 
do, take it off, for it is better away than dis- 
tressing the plant. Whenever a bloom is likely 
to do, take off the buds in the immediate 
neighbourhood on the same branch. 
Weeding, cleaning, trimming, tying up, 
watering, and other routine matters as before. 
The Rhododendrons and Kalmias should 
be deprived of their seed-pods as soon as the 
bloom begins to decay, and be copiously wa- 
tered. This, if well attended to, will secure 
a good bloom for the next season ; whereas, if 
the seed-pods be allowed to swell, and there 
be a scarcity of moisture, a stunted, late 
growth, and no bloom for next year, are inev- 
itable. American plants which have been 
bloomed in pots, set the better if denuded of 
their seed-pods, and planted out in the ground 
without disturbing the balls of earth; and they 
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