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quite gone, in May, you will want some of ttie 
shelters or covers you made on the rainy days, and 
which always come in so handily. 
The hardy annuals generally may he sown in 
patches now, just stirring up the soil, and firming 
it with a flower-saucer, and then sprinkling the 
seed thinly, and shading the place over with a 
flower-pot if the seeds are very small indeed, be- 
cause in that case you cannot cover them much 
with soil. 
The Stocks too and biennials generally may be 
planted out now where you wish them to flower, if 
you have been keeping them in a reserve-bed 
somewhere. 
The Carnations and Pinks too should be carefully 
planted out, and I assure you you cannot make too 
much of these sweet and pretty flowers, for I never 
knew a garden where “ Cloves ” were not popular. 
Pansies too should now be planted out, and they 
make charming beds, and go on a long time blos- 
soming. But they do not answer well in a very 
sunny place, though, at the same time, they don’t at 
all like damp ; a sloping border, not very sunny, 
suits them. Anemones and Ranunculuses may still 
be planted if, as sometimes happens, you have got 
behindhand. Both these flowers make delightfully 
