This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...grow well in the beds and borders. In all cases where annuals are grown in pots it is essential they should be near the glass and have as much air as Eossible, or they will draw up nky and han over the pots; but they may he grown out-ofdoors if a proper degree of attention be paid to the watering and the shifting into larger ots when the roots reach the sides of the pots they are growing in. Annuals in Pots in suflicient number to supply the borders and rnn rtownn GARDEN. 147 beds as other subjects go out of bloom are grown with great advantage where a regular flowergarden in front of the house, or near the mansion, is to be kept up well, and the culture is very snnple when you have lplenty of room. This system we followed up enables us to chan e the entire contents of a bed or border in very little time. Plunging all the small plants in pots of the same size renders the changes when re uired almost instantaneous. All the pots must be of one size, and they should be wide-mouthed, because they can be taken up and others dro ed in their places in an incredibly short time. The China Asters, Stocks, Zinnias, Marigolds, and other sorts usually planted out, should now be put out three in a pot round the outer edge; all the smaller sorts may be sown at various seasons, and when up thinned out to give them room to grow. All these pots ought to e placed inrows; five or six rows form a sort of bed, that you can always reach across to weed and water them, and if there are more than five or six rows make another bed with five or six rows more. Imagine a portion of garden kept u by these means, and you will oiiserve that it need never be untidy. No sooner may all the patches of one sort alppear shabby and out of bloom than alf-an-hour"s work will remove them, and ...