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ladies’ flower gardener. 
laid upon a sieve to be sifted, when the daps will alone remain 
behind, or the earth may be deposited upon an open newspaper 
or cloth, and well rubbed with the hand to feel for the minute 
dark-colored flaps, which may easily escape observation. 
The beauty of this flower consists in its thickness and roundness, 
especially when the great leaves are a little above the thickness 
of the tuft. 
Choose your seed from the finest single anemone, with a broad, 
round leaf. 
The remaining tuberous-rooted flowers are very hardy. 
BIENNIALS. 
Biennial flowers, as the name implies, are plants that exist 
only two years. They are propagated by seed, rising the first 
year, and flowering the second. If they continue another year, 
they are sickly and languid. The double biennials may be con¬ 
tinued by cuttings and slips of the tops, as well as by layers and 
pipings, though the parent flower dies—but they are not so fine. 
A lady should have a space of ground allotted to biennial seed¬ 
lings, so that a fresh succession of plants may be ready to supply 
the place of those which die away. The seeds should be sown 
every spring in light, well-dug earth; the young plants should 
be kept very clean, and some inches apart from each other; and 
they must be finally transplanted in autumn into the beds where 
they are intended to remain. 
But there is a great uncertainty as to raising the double flowers, 
therefore it is better to make sure of those you approve by per¬ 
petuating them as long as you can, by any root offsets they may 
throw off,—by pipings, cuttings, or by layers, as before noticed. 
I subjoin a list of the principal and useful biennials. 
