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LADIES* FLOWER GARDENER. 
soil every year, you insure large flowers. Pansies and violets 
bloom early in the spring. 
Hepatic as must be parted like violets. They appear so very 
early in the year that no garden should exist without these gay 
and modest flowers. The leaves appear after the flower has past 
away. 
The Polyanthus blooms among the early tribe. In planting 
this flower, be careful to insert the roots deep in the soil, so that 
the leaves may rest upon it, for the roots are produced high upon 
the stem, and those roots must be enabled to shoot into the soil. 
The polyanthus, like almost every other flower, loves a good soil, 
with a mixture of sand. 
In dividing these fibrous-rooted perennial plants, take only the 
strong offsets, with plenty of fibers attached to them. 
Polyanthuses, auriculas, double daisies, double camomile, Lon¬ 
don pride, violets, hepaticas, thrift, primroses, gentianella, &c., 
succeed well, taken up and divided in September, for they will 
all have done flowering by that time. Indeed, all perennial 
fibrous-rooted plants may be taken up in October to have their 
roots parted, and the soil refreshed round them. 
Peonies, and all knoj^-rooted plants, should be taken up in 
October to part their roots and transplant them to their intended 
positions. 
The saxifrage has very small roots, which are apt to be lost in 
borders if not very carefully looked after. Like the anemone, 
&c., sift the earth well for them. 
Dahlias require a word or two upon their culture. They love 
sand, therefore allow them plenty of it, but do not put manure 
to their roots, which throws them into luxuriant leaf and stem, 
to the deterioration of the flower. Peat mould is good, if you 
can obtain it, to mix with the sand, as it assists the flower in de¬ 
veloping stripes and spots. Train each plant upright, upon one 
