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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



our Heavenly Father, and that they carry 

 with them, wherever they go, influences 

 that cheer and bless the weak and the 

 strong alike. You have done well, and 

 your prospect of success next season de- 

 pends on your care of the plants during 

 the winter. Take care of the little plants 

 of Solauum capsicastrum ; remove all the 

 weeds from amongst them, and put them 

 in a window, and there, safe from frost, 

 keep them alive till spring, then pot them 

 separately in small pots, and we will iu 

 good time tell you what further to do with 

 them. The Kalmia, Daphne, and Berberia 

 are quite hardy, and may be left out all 

 winter, but it would be well to screen 

 them from severe frost, because if their 

 roots get frozen through the pots, you may 

 lose them ; keep them just moist and no 

 more till you see new leaves coming on 

 the lilac trees, then give them plenty of 

 water on sunny morniugs, and they will 

 bloom again. After that the kalmia will 

 be worn out, and had best be thrown away. 



The Clianthus and the Nerium keep in 

 the window, and in the same pots, and in 

 April remove two inches of the top-soil 

 from the pots, and fill up nearly to the 

 rim with dung not more than half rotted, 

 and give them plenty of water. The 

 Oeauothus keep out of doors as much 

 as possible, but never let the frost 

 touch it. Think of it at night always in 

 the winter. The Maurandya and Lopho- 

 spermum will perish. The Aristolochia 

 train nicely, and leave it to take care of 

 itself. It will be very late before it starts 

 next season, but it will start. The Bou- 

 vardia to be kept iu the pot in-doors till 

 March, and then to be repotted. This 

 would have bloomed well thi3 season if the 

 weather had been warm. The Dracama 

 you may try to save by means of warmth, 

 light, and very careful watering all winter, 

 but we are afraid you will lose it. You 

 must not expect it to bloom even if it sur- 

 vives. Inquire again if we are not suffi- 

 ciently explicit.] 



BEDDIlYG plants, tiffany houses, and golden 

 chain geranium. 



In the autumn of last year the frost of 

 October overtook me, even before I had 

 thought of getting my autumn-struck bed- 

 ding geraniums under cover, and the con- 

 sequence was, a large majority of the plants 

 were killed to the ground. I had no choice 

 but to make the best of a bad bargain, and 

 the consequence was, the young plants 

 were taken up, had the destroyed parts cut 

 away, and were "laid-iu" in some light 

 saudy soil on the border of an early 

 forcing vinery. Here they remained, look- 

 ing most deplorable, some rotting, others 

 throwing a shoot or two from the dormant 

 buds at the base of the cuttings. Heat 

 was applied to the house the end of No- 

 vember, and being gradually increased, by 

 the new year I had a stock of youug plants, 

 which were daily asking for more room. 

 What was to be done with them ? To pot 

 them was quite out of the question, for I 

 had no room for such an array of baked I 

 clay as they would have required, and I 

 hence I was driven to the mossing plan. I 

 When pots are placed to touch each other, 

 it will be found that just 100 3-inch pots 

 will stand in each square yard ; but of the | 

 larger size, that generally used for bedding 

 plants, only 64 plants will stand in the ! 

 same space. To prepare pots and soil, 

 pot, and put away 500 plants per day, is ! 



not bad work for two men ; but the moss 

 being gathered, I find a man and boy or 

 woman will moss and put away 800 to 

 1000 plants per day with ease. With pots, 

 each requires a daily examination, if not 

 watering. With plants in moss, a water- 

 ing once a- week is quite sufficient, as, being 

 bedded in light soil, the roots have a much 

 wider pasture to roam through than if 

 each plant was confined in a small pot. Of 

 the space required by mossed plants, of 

 course much will depend upon the quan- 

 tity of soil used to each plant ; but, as a 

 general rule, it may be assumed that, at 

 the least, one-half more, and frequently 

 double the quantity, of plants will stand 

 iu the room which would be required if 

 the plants were in pots, while the care and 

 attention required by the mossed plants 

 will not be a tithe of what would be neces- 

 sary if the plants were in pots. 



Given, then, a quantity of plants in 

 pots or boxes to moss off, the first thing 

 to consider will be the place to put them 

 in after they are mossed. Generally pots 

 or frames, with a slight bottom-heat from 

 leaves or tan, will be the best for free- 

 growing things ; but those who have vine- 

 ries, or other forcing-houses, may make use 

 of any vacant space for the bedding plants . 

 I cram mv inside borders, even under cu 



