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the amateur’s flower garden. 
September and October. Thus you see we glide into another 
expansion, and our only way of disposing of a great matter in 
few words is to say that June is not a good time to sow 
annuals of any sort. But a good sowing may be advanta¬ 
geously made at the end of May for late summer flowering, 
and they must be kept liberally watered to prolong the season 
of growth before flowering begins. 
Next we expand the scheme into frame and pot- culture. 
In great and grand gardens the cheapest and commonest 
annuals are grown in pots for the embellishment of the con¬ 
servatory, and most beautiful are the tufts of nemophila, 
schizanthus, and leptosiphon so produced. We are quite 
among the fine arts now, and must beware of expanding this 
chapter beyond reasonable limits. But it may be remarked 
that as variety is charming everywhere, any greenhouse or 
conservatory may be prettily embellished with annuals in pots 
in the early months of the year, and especially at the time when 
somewhat of a clearing out is made, and the house is rather 
bare of embellishment, for camellias and acacias will be past 
at the time the annuals flower, and they will contribute in a 
most agreeable manner to the providing of a gay garden under 
glass at a time when flowers are looked for, and there are as 
yet but few in the open ground. 
The advices offered on the saving of seeds of perennial 
plants apply strictly to the saving of seeds of annuals. The 
best general advice we can offer on the subject, however, is 
that seeds should not be saved, but should be sedulously 
removed as fast as they are produced, both to preserve the 
order and brightness of the garden, and to prolong the display 
of flowers. By carefully picking off all seed-pods the instant 
the flowers fall from them, the plants will be encouraged to 
continue in flower to the very end of the season, or, if they 
do not hold out so long, it is very certain that twice'as many 
flowers may be obtained from any of them if the development 
of seeds is prevented by constant suppression of them, than 
in the opposite case of their being allowed to swell and ripen 
naturally. 
The amateur must always bear in mind that the multi¬ 
plication of annuals need not depend on seeds alone. Every 
one of them may be multiplied by cuttings in precisely the 
same manner as we have advised in respect of sweet-williams 
and wallflowers. It is a question, of course, if it is worth 
