142 THE FLORIST. 



OUR MONTHLY REMEMBRANCER. 



Auriculas. Any work left undone last month should he imme- 

 diately attended to, and the plants neatly arranged in a northern 

 aspect. The more Auriculas are exposed to the full benefit of light, 

 the more healthy they will be. Shading from mid-day sun is also 

 necessar}^ and should be attended to from about eight o'clock in the 

 morning till four or five p.m., according to the intensity of the sun's 

 heat. Continue a liberal supply of water as long as the plants are 

 growing freely, giving preference at all times to moderate showers. 

 Pick off decayed leaves, and shghtly stir the soil ; destroy insects, 

 the small green caterpillar, &c. ; gather seed-pods as they ripen, and 

 keep them in a dry and airy situation, in a paper or linen bag, adding 

 a small piece of camphor, to preserve them from insects. By the 

 last week in this month the plants will not require so much water ; 

 but a moderate supply must be given. 



Calceolarias. They should now be yielding a fine head of 

 bloom ; cross such flowers as appear likely to yield the most desir- 

 able colours and shapes. As your plants fade, cut off the flower- 

 stalks above a joint, and repot into a larger size, placing them in a 

 shady situation, protecting them from heavy rain, bat allowing them 

 a free circulation of air and exposure to the night- dews, which are 

 very favourable for the production of the young shoots, which you 

 require to make your succession-stock from. 



Carnations and Picotees. Tie up the shoots, and top-dress 

 the pots or beds with a mixture of equal parts of very rotten manure 

 and loamy soil. Remove green-fly ; cut off the old foliage as it de- 

 cays, and stop all shoots throwing blooms beside the leading shoots. 

 The number of buds to be left on the blooming-stalks depends on the 

 variety, whether a fine flower or a thin one, and the purpose for 

 which the blooms are wanted; — if for exhibition, they must be of 

 good size, and the plants should be disbudded accordingly. 



Cinerarias. Plants going out of flower should not receive too 

 much water ; rather endeavour to rest them. Watch those that are 

 seeding, and carefully preserve the seed in a dry place. 



Dahlias. By this time they will be strong and well hardened; 

 the ground will also be in a good state to receive them ; therefore 

 plant out on the first fine quiet day, and secure the plants to strong 

 stakes at once : placing some fine rich soil about their roots will help 

 them in starting. Guard against slugs and snails. Some attention 

 should be paid to arrangement ; it is objectionable to see tall plants 

 near the outside, and dwarf ones in the centre ; a good distribution 

 of colours also greatly improves the general effect. 



Epacrises. Plants that have broken strongly, and made growths 

 of tolerable consistence, may be removed to their summer quarters, 

 which should be on the shady side of a hedge or shrubbery, where 

 they may obtain a free circulation of air, yet in some measure pro- 

 tected from the force of a summer storm, and altogether from the 



