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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
advisable to employ artificial heat to hasten their early develop¬ 
ment, and we should recommend the continuance of some pro¬ 
tection until duplicates are obtained.— Editor. 
ON BEDDING OUT PLANTS. 
At the present busy period, when almost every one is engaged 
in making preparation for the embellishment of the flower 
garden, no apology can be necessary for the appearance of the 
following hints, intended as an assistance to the tyro in garden¬ 
ing, and which may probably serve to remind the more expe¬ 
rienced operator of some useful plant that may have been 
overlooked. It may be in places where a large quantity of these 
plants are employed, that a considerable number are already in 
their respective situations, and it is quite as likely the majority 
of small gardens have yet to be filled; to these the present 
remarks are especially directed. 
The first point, and it is one of much consequence in the 
operation of “ turning out,” is to have the plants duly prepared 
for the great change they will thus experience. The greater 
part of those usually employed for the purpose are what is 
termed half-hardy, that is, capable of bearing exposure to our 
summer weather, but impatient, or altogether unable to endure 
the effects of cold and adverse seasons ; and these plants, in 
almost all cases, are introduced to heat, and induced to grow as 
freely as possible through the early months of spring for the 
purposes of propagation. If then they are not properly and by 
degrees inured to the open air, so as to become well indurated 
before their final remove, how very great must be the check 
they receive, and equally great the disappointment of the cul¬ 
tivator, who sees his plants standing as he placed them, without 
exhibiting the least advance, or if there is any perceivable dif¬ 
ference it is of the retrograde character, while the season is 
passing away that they should be unfolding their beauties in, 
and he has not a sign of flowers; then sometimes the weather 
is blamed, or there has been a blight, but depend on it the first 
cause of the failure lies in the unprepared state of the plants 
when first exposed to the full influence of the air. 
