Occupations > Abercrombie's improved practical gardener; with a monthly calendar for the flower garden

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FLOWER GARDEN.
above; and so proceed to the end of the border;
or may vary the patches, in having some near
the edge, and others more towards the middle:
observing, if you have different kinds, to plant
each sort separate; and if you plant the first
patch with yellow crocuses, plant the next
with blue, and so proceed with others of different
sorts.
Snow-drops may also be planted now iu the
same manner as the crocuses.
Planting various sorts of Bulbs.
Jonquils, narcissuses, hyacinths, bulbous iris,
Persian iris, gladioluses, pancratiums, fritillaries,
crown imperials, or any other kind of bulbous
flower-roots, that yet remain above ground,
should now be planted, as soon as the weather
will permit. Mild dry weather must be chosen
to plant these and all other kinds of bulbous
roots; and see that the ground is not too wet.
When it is intended to plant any of the com
mon sorts of the above, or other kinds of bulbous
roots, in the borders, they may be planted in the
manner mentioned above for the common tulips,
&c.
Flowers to blow in a Iloust.
Several sorts of bulbous roots may be placed
upon bulbglasses of water for blowing in the
apartments of a house, such as hyacinths, narcis-