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ladies’ flower gardener. 
Sow carnation and polyanthus seeds still. Sow, also, perennial 
and biennial seeds. 
Where any perennial or biennial fibrous-rooted flowers are 
wanted, transplant them only in the first week of this month, and 
they must have each a good ball of earth attached to them; but 
this work should be completed in February, or March at farthest. 
Every sort of annual may now be sown. 
Take care of your hyacinths, tulips, ranunculuses, mid ane¬ 
mones now, for they will be hastening into bloom. 
Place your auriculas, hyacinths, &c., which may be in pots, in 
a sheltered place, during heavy rains or winds ; and shelter those 
flowers which are in the borders as well as you can. Trim them 
from dead leaves. 
Keep your lawn and grass ivalks nicely mown and rolled, and 
your borders free from weeds and rubbish. 
MAY. 
Propagate perennial fibrous-rooted plants by cuttings. 
Propagate double wall-flowers by slips of the young shoots of 
the head. 
Sow annuals for succession; such as sweet-peas, nasturtiums, 
lavatera, lupines, flos Adonis, &c. 
Take up those hyacinths, tulips, &c. which have done flower¬ 
ing, and dry them in the shade to put away. 
Weeds grow quickly now: hoe them up wherever you see 
them. Support all flowers with sticks ; train them upright. Clear 
away all the dead leaves from your carnations, and gently stir 
the earth round them with your smallest trowel. 
Look round the borders now, and take off irregular shoots. 
