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garden or reserve - ground* as they greatly 
disfigure a flower-garden. All annuals, in¬ 
deed, should be taken up, and carried to 
the refuse heap as soon as they cease to 
be ornamental; as in their withered state, 
they only call up unpleasant images in the 
mind. 
Tender annuals are raised on a hot-bed, 
and though generally sown in February, are 
not planted in the open ground till May. 
When they have been raised in pots, the con¬ 
tents of each pot should be carefully turned 
out, and put into a hole made to receive 
them without breaking the ball of earth that 
has formed round the roots of the plants. 
As some plants, as for example stocks, and 
all the cruciferae, require a rich soil, a hole 
may be dug in the border a foot or eighteen 
inches in diameter, and about the same 
depth, and filled with a rich compost of 
equal parts of garden mould, decayed leaves, 
and well rotted manure, or what is much 
better, with either the remains of the trenches 
in which celery was grown the preceding 
summer, or the earth used in covering, or 
that laid round, manure while fermenting for 
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