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sufficient, so that by the middle of May you can make it a' perfect weed. 
Or you may sow the seed in February, and get as many as you like, 
but I prefer the roots, as they come into flower sooner than from seed. 
I will now return to the small piece of ground, where the cutting is 
waiting to be potted up. I have a small moveable potting bench; I 
take it to the spot, take up my plants, and fill my bench with the soil 
the plants have been growing in; the strongest plants I pot singly in 
Bmall pots, and the smaller ones four plants in a 48-sized pot, and so I 
continue until the whole is finished. I then clear away all the soil 
down to the lime rubbish, and put a good covering of coal ashes on the 
top, and on this same plot of ground I set my plants in the following 
manner: In the square of ground 1 first of all form an oval, in the centre 
I place a large pot of dwarf grown plants of Perilla nankinensis ; next a 
band of large plants of Lady Plymouth Geranium ; next I fill the oval 
with pots of cuttings of the darkest green foliage plants that I have just 
potted from the ground, such as Lord Raglan, or Trentham Rose, or 
Pelissier, or any of the strongest growing kinds; then I make the oval 
larger by putting a broad band of Flower of Day round; then, to 
complete the square, I make four beds round the oval, edging the four 
beds round with pots of Tom Thumb, and filling the centre with the 
following: One centre Mountain of Snow, one Mountain of Light, one 
Lady Plymouth, one Mangles’ Variegated, and to finish the outside 
round the Tom Thumb, I put one row Alma, and next outside. Golden 
Chain. This bed, when finished, has a gay appearance, as the different 
coloured foliage, when blended together, forms quite a conspicuous object. 
I must say it is quite a flower garden in itself; I have often seen pots 
of cuttings and plants put away in any out-of-the-way corner or place 
where they are not seen excepting by the gardener, but if brought out 
and arranged in the way above mentioned those out-of-the-way corners 
will become interesting from the bright leaves of the different kinds of 
plants. The Geraniums in the boxes I let remain until spring, and 
my Calceolarias I let remain in the boxes until spring, when I divide 
them and put them in small pots ; and some of them I plant on strips 
of turf in a frame, and when the time comes for planting out I cut the 
turf in small squares and turn them into the ground. I have but very 
few failed in the garden this year, while some of my neighbours have 
been obliged to plant a second time. The only Calceolarias 1 grow are 
Trentham Gem, Kentish Hero, and Prince of Orange ; these three are 
good varieties ; the Kentish Hero, I think, is a most beautiful thing 
where you can get it to do, but with some it is a rather ticklish one to 
propagate. The way I manage is this : I take a batch of cuttings in 
the latter end of August, and put them in a cold frame, and there they 
remain until December, when I put them in the greenhouse; in the 
beginning of March I take the top off and put them in a gentle heat, 
and that furnishes me with a good stock of plants. By treating this 
great Hero in the way above mentioned you will be able to overcome all 
difficulty as regards striking. I beg to mention one more thing, that is, 
those who do not possess the little Buchneria biflora should lose no time 
in procuring it, as it is one of the most lovely little plants I know ; it is 
now in perfect beauty—the middle of October—and stands all wind and 
