It prefers a sheltered situation, and during the summer months a mulching of litter and an occasional watering will be beneficial.

The paths are raised two feet, as the ground is always muddy and damp in consequence of the frequent watering.

Careful watering, avoiding any wetting of the leaves is necessary at this period, and the saucers of all bulbs not yet flowered should be kept constantly full, to promote blossomingthe saucers should however be kept clean, and washed out every third day at least.

The vegetation is only kept up, for the most part, by continual watering.

Attempts to restore the plants after twelve or eighteen hours, by abundant watering, failed to recover them.

That little ceremony over he walked for a few minutes in his garden while Williams brought in his toast and tea-urn, and observed that though the flowers would no doubt be all the better for the liberal watering of the day before, it was idle to deny that the rain had not considerably damaged them.

Political government is like a plant; a little watering and pruning do very well for it, but the less its roots are fooled with, the better.

There is, unfortunately, neither order nor cleanliness observed, and there are neither grass plots nor beds of flowers, and not a single good path; but there is a considerable number of canals, as it is necessary to substitute artificial watering for rain and dew.