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THE FLOWER GARDEN.
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Or in default of frames or other covered shel¬
ters, place the pots, if not done, in a dry warm
south border.
The carnation layers of the curious sorts, which
are in pots, should also have occasional protection
from excessive rain, snow, and severe frosts; but
these plants must have the free air constantly
when the weather is open and not very wet.
For notwithstanding these above plants, both
of auriculas and carnations, are hardy enough to
stand the open weather, they, by occasional shel¬
ter, are preserved in a stronger sound state to
flower in best perfection.
Protecting Hyacinths, Tulip-roots, Anemones, and
Ranunculuses.
To the beds wherein the fine hyacinth and
tulip roots are planted, some occasional protec¬
tion, when severe weather, would be of good
advantage in preserving the roots more effectu¬
ally sound, or from material in ury.
On that occasion either cover with a low awn¬
ing of mats, &c. or provide some kind of dry long
strawy litter, pease-straw, fern, or such like: and
when the frost discovers to set in hard, lay a
tolerable warm covering over the surface of the
beds; but when the weather is less severe, all
covering must be removed.
When any of these plants, of the more estima¬
ble curious kinds in beds, appear above ground,
it would also be of material advantage to afford
them some occasional covering with large thick
mats, &c. as above, in time of severe weather.