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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



apprehended in its management : in pot- 

 ting, it should be kept an inch or two 

 above the rim of the pot, and if the plant is 

 small, it shonld be covered with u bell-glass 

 until established, .'ifter vliich the covering- 

 may be dispensed with, for if continued too 

 long, there is some danger of the plant 

 damping off. To propagate it, id is only 

 necessnry to take a portion of the leaves 

 from close to the stem, and treated as re- 

 commended for small plants, it will speedily 

 form roots ; indeed, a single leaf will strike 

 and become a plant, but it is rather a slow 

 process. There is, however, one point in 

 its management I would particularly men- 

 tion, as being of the first consequence. In 

 by far the greater number of places where 

 it is grown I have observed it to be con- 



stantly covered with such attention that 

 one inight be led to suppose it would not 

 bear a breath of fresh air to come near it : 

 this, from experience, I pronounce to be 

 erroneous ; so far from receiving injury 

 from such a cause, the jilant is as much in- 

 vigorated by the admission of air in fine 

 weather as any other plant in the same 

 house ; in short, to grov.^ it well it is only 

 requisite to assimilate its treatment to that 

 of the plants grown with it in a damp 

 stove. Neither would I recommend it to 

 be kept standing in water as is some- 

 times done, believing it to be, if not 

 hurtful, at least unnecessary, it only re- 

 quiring to be constantly moist and nothing 

 more. 



W. Hunt. 



DON'T BE DISCONTENTED. 



Is that beast bettter that has two or three 

 mountains to graze on, than a little bee 

 that feeds on dew and manna, and lives 

 upon what falls every morning from the 

 storehouse of heaveir's clouds and provi- 

 dence ? Can a man quench his thirst 

 better out of a river than a full urn, or 

 drink better from the fountain when it is 



swells over the green turf ? He that pro- 

 pounds to his iancy things greater than 

 himself for liis needs, and is discontented 

 and troubled when he fails of such piir- 

 chases. ought not to abuse Providence, or 

 blame his fortune, byt his folly. God and 

 nature make no more needs than they 

 mean to satisfy ; and he that will take more 



nicely paved with marble than when it i must look for satisfaction where he can. 



GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE WORK EOR SEPTEMBER. 



Anncals, to bloom early next season, 

 should be sown at once on hard ground, in 

 n dry position ; if elevated above the gene- 

 ral level, all the better. The following 

 arc the host leading sorts to sow now, to 

 bo transplanted in March, to bloom in 

 clumps or masses, when the bloom will be 

 much finer as well as earlier than from 

 spring-sown seeds : — Calliopsis, Clarkia, 

 CoUinsia, Convolvulus minor, Godetia, 

 Escholtzia, Hibiscus, Iberis Kermesina, 

 Jacoben, Larkspur, Lupinus, Nemophila, 

 Nolana, Poppy (dwarf French), Schizanthus 

 (dwarf), Silenerubella and armeria, Viscaria 

 oculata, Venus's Looking-glass. 



Auriculas may be increased now from 

 offsets ; if rooted, all the better ; if not 

 rooted, put them round the sides of pots, 

 and they will soon strike. 



Border Plants of questionable liardi- 

 ncss to be taken up at once and potted, or 

 at least one or two of a kind to propagate 

 from, and prevent entire loss. Clioice 

 Pentstemons, Eudbeckias, etc., are some- 

 times cleared off during Avinter. The pot- 

 ting of one of each will at least insure the 

 saving of the variety. 



Calceolarias should now be propa- 

 gated in quantities. A bed in a frame is 



preferable to pans and pots, as they can be 

 lifted out for planting with good bulls, and 

 are not so likely to die off as those win- 

 tered in pots. 



Carnations and Picotees, from layers, 

 to be potted off as soon as well rooted, and 

 cuttings taken at once of all good seedling 

 Dianthus in the borders. Where the pro- 

 pagation of carnations has been delayed, 

 they may be increased by cuttings under 

 bell-glasses. 



Celery to be earthed up only when it 

 has grown to its full size. A fortnight is 

 long enough to blanch it, and it grows but 

 little after the earthing. 



Hardy Bulbs of all kinds to be planted 

 at once. 



Kitchen Garden to be kept clean, and 

 the ground made vacant by removal of 

 potatoes, etc., to be deeply stirred and 

 planted with winter greens : the small re- 

 fuse plants from the seed-bed will some- 

 times endure the winter better than those 

 plairted out strong six or eight weeks ago. 

 Store root-crops of all kinds as fast as they 

 can be got up. 



EosEs to have the ties loo-sened three 

 weeks after budding. Buds may still be 

 entered, and cuttings put in for dwarfs. 



