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

302 THE FLOWER GARDEN. [jULT.
-tulips and hyacinths, and many other bulbs.
Let them be taken up in a dry time, and separa¬
ting the off-sets from the larger, or parent bulbs;
some, or the whole may occasionally either be
planted again soon after this removal, or more
generally the main bulb; and larger off-sets pro¬
perly dried, cleaned, and put up till October or
November, when the borders and beds may be
more conveniently dug, and the roots regularly
planted.
The small off-sets which are taken at any time
from bulbous roots, should as many as you want,
be planted by themselves in a nursery-bed, and
there remain a year or two to gather strength,
and then are to be planted out among the other
proper roots in beds or borders.
Scarlet Lychnis, S(c.
The double scarlet lychnis, and several other
plants of the like kind, may still be propagated
by cuttings.
The cuttings must be of the youngest flower-
stems, or such as are not become hard and ligne¬
ous, and should be planted the beginning of this
month, otherwise they will not root freely: they
are now to be prepared and planted in the man¬
ner as mentioned in the last month, and to be
treated in every respect as there directed.