" Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately 
sprang and stood 
In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? 
Alas ! they are all in their graves : the gentle race of flowers 
Are resting in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. ” 
W. C. BRYANT. 
This must ever be averted. A moderate attention 
to the flowering season of each plant will enable a 
very young florist to provide against these gar- 
den calamities. He should always be prepared with 
seedling plants of annuals, or young perennials, rais- 
ed from cuttings, ready to take the places of such 
early blossomers as would otherwise be likely to oc- 
casion deficiencies in the parterre. It is indispen- 
sable, in the gay flower garden, to occupy every hi- 
atus, as it presents itself ; and thus to keep up a full 
variety, that the changeable fairy scene may con- 
tinue unimpaired. Thus managed, the garden can 
never fail to yield gratification. 
We will name a few desirable showy plants, which 
may be conveniently kept in readiness, to supply 
any vacancies as they occur. A plant of each of 
the following may be obtained early in spring, if 
they do not happen to be possessed. From these, 
with the assistance of a hotbed, numerous young 
plants may be struck, and kept in pots for the pur- 
poses mentioned; viz. Calceolaria, several shrubby 
kinds, particularly integrifolia angustifolia, rugosa, 
&c.; Fuchsia, every species and variety; Verbena, 
several species; particularly chamaedrifolia, pul- 
chella, radicans, &c. Pentstemon ; Anagallis ; and 
N ierembergia. Also plants of Mimulus, Comme- 
lina, (Enothera, Stevia, and late flowering annuals. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 266. 
