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BPEDJG HiOWERG. 
AS l,real.8 the moon-riso 
As steals tuo monuBg on the n fc 
So tne slow dawning <>* f ® 
Is flooding all tlio eM'® , 
O’er uplands brown and dus T > 
Its •■olotU of gold” the ’ 
Wliere fragrant "T?”\vings. 
Drop blossoms from thou ba y 
On sunny banlts, whose grassy slopes 
Are pied with Violets blue and white, 
The Primrose, with its golden eyes. 
Climbs upward to the meUowhght, 
And, nodding by the meadow brooK, 
The knots of yellow CowsUps blou. 
And tufts of grass and tender leaves 
Sway in the sleepy water’s flow. 
Beneath the dark and restless Pines, 
That whisper through the balmy night. 
The Arbutus, mid its shining leaves. 
Is trailing blossoms wnk and white: 
And purple 'VNrood-anemoues, 
In slieltcred nooks and valleys grow, 
And Daisies, mid the tawny rocks. 
Gleam out Uke flakes of winter’s snow. 
But when the false and fickle winds 
Shall whisper to the listening trees 
Of siunmer’s bright and beauteous things 
Her gorgeous bloom and scented breeze; 
When earth beneath the changing skies 
Hath blushed in JIay-bloom,wept in showers. 
The spring shall fold her weary wings. 
And vanish with the eai’ly flowers. 
SEASONABLE HINTS. 
Hardy plants of all kinds should he trans¬ 
ferred to the open ground without delay, hut 
with those liable to he injured hy frost it is 
not safe to risk exposure to the open air be¬ 
fore the latter part of this month. 
Sowing Seeds .— The proper season for 
sowing seeds depends eonsiderahly on the 
character of the season. When this is very 
early, the first sowings may sometimes he 
made about the middle of April, hut north of 
this latitude it is rarely of any real advan¬ 
tage to commit flower seeds to the open 
ground before the first of May. 
Seeds may he sown in patches among the 
border plants, in rows or groups where 
they are to remain, or in seed beds, and 
afterward transplanted. In either case it is 
of the greatest importance that the seed is 
not sown too thickly, and that the soil at the 
moment of sowing is not too wet, especially 
early in the season. 
The Depth of Covering Seeds varies with 
their size; large seeds, such as Lupins, 
Sweet Peas, Marvel of Peru, may ho cov¬ 
ered an inch or more, medium-sized ones 
from an eighth to half an inch, while the 
smallest ones succeed best when sown on 
the surface only, and slightly pressed down 
with the hand or a piece of hoard, which will 
imbed them sufficiently. There is far lossi, 
risk in covering seeds too little than too 
much; if sown too deep they are longer in 
germinating, and the smaller ones are liable 
to decay. 
Watering.—In dry weather it becomes 
necessary to water the seeds slightly from a 
very fine rose watering-pot. In the absence 
of rain this has to bo repeated every day or 
two. When the seeds have once begun to 
swell they are peculiarly susceptible to in¬ 
jury from drought, and will speedily perish 
unless the soil is kept moderately moist. 
HABDT PLANTS FOE no 
;,etty and tofuHy ^ ® ^ November. 
Lms in them f ^Iks, flower-beds. 
As a rule our ft^e grass-plot, but 
and borders ai-ecut o garden patches 
notinfreaueutlywefindhttle^g 
where there is “ borders, cultivated 
ground is used m bed , 
plots and the Lng as brick, tile, 
fnustuse some ,f/“%.ass-sod, Peri- 
or wood, or plants, 
winkle. Box, o „overii our selection. 
Butcii’ciimstancesmii g exposed, 
mAvftlv n fovv aniiiiftrls. . 
These things should be taken into 
eration in oiu- selection g 
And we should use none other than those 
that are absolutely hardy in om- neighbor¬ 
hood; for instance. SantoUna chamtecyparissas 
and Plumbago Larpentw are hardy in New- 
York, but barely so in Boston. And, in order 
to have lasting satisfaction, we should use 
plants of long perennial duration, like Rock 
Cress and Moss Pinks, and not short-lived 
ones or those of biennial nature, like Alpine 
■Wall-flower and yellow Alyssum (A. saxatile). 
As verges for walks evergreen plants should 
be used m preference to deciduous ones; for 
instance. Periwinkle, Moss Pink, Garden 
Pink, Thrift, evergreen Candytuft, w’hite- 
leaved or gentian-leaved Veronica, Thyme, 
Stone-crop, Houseleeks, Box, Ivy, Statices, 
Sunrose (EeUanthenvum), or creeping Euony- 
mus. 
It often happens, when we use grass-sod, 
Box, or Periwinkle around our beds, we also 
wish to have an inner border, as a circle of 
Rock Cress, Primella, or Spring Orobus; and 
here we can use either deciduous plants, like 
the Orobus, or evergreen ones, like the Pru¬ 
nella, only observing that they are neat and 
compact, and shall continue to last through¬ 
out the summer. And they should bo of 
lesser growth than the inner inmates of the 
bed. In this inner edging we may utilize 
two or more sorts of plants, especially in the 
case of deciduous ones. For instance, in a 
border of dwarf Irises we may plant a row 
of Crocuses, Snowdrops, Dog’s-tooth Vio¬ 
lets, Spring Beauty, or Little Squills. In an 
evergreen border, as of dwarf Veronicas or 
Stone-crop, these supplementary bulbous 
plants would bo apt to grow so much as to 
sot off patches of the regular border. 
Among good edging plants that deliglit in 
open, sunny places, are Moss Pink, Rock 
Cross, Tlirift, evergreen Candytuft, dwarf 
Veronicas, Garden Pink, Santolina, Thymo 
Slachys lanata, Houseleeks, SUene maritima 
Adonis, tho 
dwarf form (jucunda) olAquilegia glandulom, 
Drysmum rupestre, Stono-crop, Aubriotia 
dwarf Bell-flowers as turUnata, dwarf Irises’ 
RockRoso,Ste(mcm’a«a, Stellar’s Arlimosia 
Prunella, Siberian Saxifrages, as cordata and 
hg^data, and Ooranium sanguineum. 
For shady places Periwinkle is better than 
gi’ass or any other plant as an edS "' 
Alpine and GeS 
native’Violets, especially the • variegatoa 
flowered ciimllata, rostmta and strUita ^ 
Bpimediums are also suitable for moderab^^ 
places. '% 
Many plants adapt themselves to sunny 
shady places; for example, dwarf 
Violets, Periwinkle, Houseleeks, Pennsvl 
vania Royal and Virginia Pinks, Epimedin,;' 
Bugles, Prunella and Orobus. ’ 
Where shrubbery beds and clumps are also 
used as the recipients of a miscellaneous col" 
lection of herbaceous plants, the above 
plants are quite appropriate as edgings; but 
where shrubs alone occupy the beds, more 
characteristic edgings should be used. Say 
Muowynms raclicans, plain or variegated 
Siebolds Euonymus, Beuteia gracilis, dwarf 
Retinosporas, as plumosa or obtusa nana 
Daphne Cneonmi, creeping Berberis, hardy 
Heaths, small-leaved Cotoneaster, Azalea 
amcena, and Ivy. Many other, dwarf shrubs 
may be used for the same purpose, and even 
some. Idee the Virginia Itea, that gi’ow to con¬ 
siderable dimensions, can be pruned so as to 
fom neat dwarf edgings. 
In open, dry, sandy places I find that 
hoary plants, as Thymus lanuginosus, Veronica 
pectinata and Santolinas, thrive well, but 
better still Stone-crops, Moss Pinks, and 
Cactuses, as Opuntia Missouriensis. 
In very moist places we must have recourse 
to such plants as Gold-thread, Helonias, 
Eilremhergia rivularis, Violets and the like. 
Several plants — for instance, LUy-of-the- 
valley. Moneywort, and Vinca herbacea— 
might reasonably be expected to make excel¬ 
lent edgings, and so they would were itnotfor 
their inveterate persistence in spreading 
beyond their allotted space. Others, as the 
Mossy Saxi’ages, Androsaees, and Erinuses, 
that thrive so well in Europe and make 
such pretty edgings there, are not worth 
bothering with here; they refuse to be 
comforted. Although the above includes 
a numerous variety of plants, and many of 
them seldom seen in our gardens, I would 
say that I have grown them all for years. 
"Wm. PalconbR. 
PLANTING LILIES. 
Lilies should be planted as early in spring 
as possible; that is, as soon as the groun 
has become dry and friable. If the neces 
sary conditions are provided, few plants are 
easier grewn, and yet it seems strange tha 
many fail to meet with success. Lilies 
have a deep, mellow, somewhat sandy, mo 
erately rich soil, free from stagnant water. 
The bulbs should be planted four to six ino es 
deep, according to their size, the larges 
ones tho deepest, except L. candiduni an | ® 
varieties, which should bo covered butlightOi 
and planted in August or September. 
Lilies may bo planted in autumn as wo 
as ill spring, but with fall-planted bu s, 
perfect drainage is still more osseutiah 
Bugles 
OOBIEA BOANDENB. ' 
This is one of tho most elegant and rap^^ 
growing climbers for tho gardon as we 
tho conservatory. Tho seed may be a® 
out-doors in warm, dry soil, but better sn^^ 
cess will bo insured by starting, it i® 
pots in tho house and transplanting 
proper time. For window boxes, 
to drop over tho front, it is especially a P 
and desirable. 
