The last week in September, or the first in October, take up your daisy roots, and divide them into single plants; your border being dug, put down your line, and make a shallow trench along it as for the planting of box; in this trench place your plants three inches apart, spreading out their fibres in the trench, and pressing the earth closely round them; in this way they will soon become rooted, and firmly fixed in the ground before the approach of frost; should this business be deferred later, as it frequently is, and the daisies be planted with a dibber in the usual way, in all probability the worms will draw out every plant before spring, especially if the earth has been rendered loose by repeated frosts. Edgings of this kind require to be replanted in the same way every autumn, as the plants, if they grow well, spread too wide; if the summer prove dry, many of the roots fail, and if they remain undisturbed in the same spot, they will degenerate and become single, notwithstanding Mr. MILLER informs us, that he never observed them to do so. [Footnote A: We once saw a specimen of a hen and chicken daisy gathered on a hill in Sussex, much inferior in size to the daisy as it usually grows.] [229] PRIMULA ACAULIS FL. PLENO CARNEO. DOUBLE LILAC PRIMROSE. _Class and Order._ PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Involucr._ umbellulae. _Corollae_ tubus cylindricus ore patulo. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ PRIMULA _acaulis_ foliis rugosis dentatis, subtus hirsutis; scapis unifloris. _Jacq. Misc. Austr. p. 158._ _Curt. Flor. Lond. Fasc. 6._ The Primrose in its wild single state is frequently introduced into shrubberies and plantations, for the purpose of enlivening them in the spring months; in its double state it has been deemed peculiarly worthy of cultivation by the curious in flowers. Of the _double yellow_ Primrose, which seems to have been the first known, we meet with a figure in the _Hort. Eyst._ and in the _Parad. Terrestr._ of PARKINSON, since those publications many new and perfectly double varieties have been introduced, as The _double white_, rarely met with. The _double deep red or velvet_, the blossoms of this will sometimes come single. The _double pink or lilac_, here figured, a plant much admired. The _double crimson_, a new variety, which, in brilliancy of colour, far surpasses all the others. The _red_, commonly called the _Scotch Primrose_, less ornamental than any of the preceding: besides these, we have observed a variety with blossoms of a dingy yellow inclining to red, not worth cultivating.