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ladies’ flower gardener. 
Be particular in gathering your seeds on a fine, dry lay, and 
put each sort in a separate brown paper bag till you require 
them. The very finest seedlings are, after all, those which spring 
near the mother plant from self-sown seed, therefore, when you 
weed or dig your flower borders, be careful not to disturb any 
seedlings which may have sprung up. They always make strong, 
fine blooming plants. 
Take care of your double-flowering plants in winter. The 
double wall-flower is hardy enough to exist in the borders, but 
the other double biennials deserve to be sheltered, for double 
flowers are very handsome, and heavy rains, snow, or severe frost, 
injures them. Take cuttings every year from them. 
The Night Stock is tolerably hardy if sheltered during the 
frost by ashes or litter. The sweetness after night-fall must 
recommend it to all the lovers of fragrant flowers. 
PROPAGATING BIENNIALS. 
Every young lady must become acquainted with the manner 
of operating upon plants, to preserve the finer sorts, which they 
may wish to perpetuate. Raising from seed is slow, but it pro¬ 
duces infinite variety. You, however, rarely see the same flower 
produced twice from seed ; therefore you must propagate the 
biennial and perennial flowers by layers, slips, pipings, and cut¬ 
tings, if you wish to preserve any-particular sorts. 
To effect layers, prepare some rich, light earth, a parcel of 
Small hooked sticks, or little pegs, and a sharp penknife. 
Now clear the ground about the plant you are going to layer; 
stir the surface well with your trowel, and put a sufficient quan¬ 
tity of the prepared mould round the plant as will raise the sur¬ 
face to a convenient height for receiving the layer. 
Cut off the top of each shoot with your knife, about twc inches, 
