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plants allowed to spread a little, so as to make the bed look sufficiently full, 
without being crowded. In short, my readers can vary the plants as 
they please, and as taste may dictate ; and they will find it an amuse • 
ment to mark down any plant that they may see in flower which they 
think will suit their beds. 
It must be observed, that the season of flowering of the different plants 
is taken from the neighbourhood of London in a favourable season, and 
that in colder climates or unfavourable seasons they will be later. The 
beds must be forked over every spring, and part of an old hotbed laid 
over the roots of the roses. Roses require frequent manuring, if it is 
wished to have them fine; but it should always be laid on the surface, and 
it should always be in a thoroughly decayed and rotten state, before it 
is used. 
I have not given any list for the plants in the other beds, that my 
readers may amuse themselves in selecting them ; and have only to add, 
that the small beds /, g, h , and i, maybe planted with Petunias, or Verbenas, 
or with dwarf Dahlias, pegged down, instead of Geraniums, if preferred. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE DOUBLE DAISY 
(.BELLIS PERENNIS ). 
BY MR. GORNER. 
The Double Daisy may be reckoned among the most ornamental of 
flowers, particularly among those the best adapted for edgings. When 
the advances it has made in cultivation, and those it is still capable of 
making, are contemplated, every cultivator must certainly be tempted to 
add it to the number of his floral beauties. It is but a short time since 
that only three or four kinds were known, and now I myself cultivate 
twenty varieties, all of which I have raised, and which in colour, size, 
form, and shade, differ from their progenitors. It may be seen from this, 
that if the cultivation of this plant is continued, a much greater degree of 
perfection may be attained, and particularly if cultivators will raise them 
from seed. I have sent my seeds to many of the largest gardening 
establishments, so that they will soon be known in the trade. 
It is more difficult to obtain the seed of the daisy than that of any 
other plant, which is probably the reason that its cultivation has made so 
little progress. The double daisy produces very little seed, and falls 
very easily out, so that the plant very frequently sows itself, and new 
sorts spring up around it, and if you are very anxious to obtain seed, it 
should be collected from these. To effect this, I take off the flowers 
