THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



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■winds. Continue to bud stone-fruit trees 

 for orchard-house and pot culture. Thin 

 out weak spray on all bush trees, and fore- 

 right shoots on wall fruits. Maiden trees 

 intended to be trained should be stopped, 

 to make them break into side-shoots, as a 

 whole, season's growth is thus saved. 



Flower Garden. — Budding is the 

 mo^t important operation this month. 

 After heavy rains is the best time, and 

 the operation should be performed at dawn 

 or after sunset ; but early morning is the 

 best, as the sap then flows freely. Cuttings 

 of all kinds may now be struck out of 



day, and keep up a moist heat. Globe 

 amaranths must have a moist heat of 75% 

 and be near the glass. If not all potted, 

 pot at once in 48 and 32 size, with fuchsia 

 compost. Ixoras done blooming to be cut 

 in close, and placed in a bark-bed to break 

 afresh. See that the plants for winter 

 blooming are doing well, and pay especial 

 attention to Euphorbia jacquiriiflora and 

 Poinsettia pulcherrima. Give air at every 

 favourable opportunity. Plants newly 

 potted to have very moderate supplies of 

 water at the root, but to be aided with a 

 moist, warm atmosphere. Orchids need 



doors, including, besides bedding-plants of no fire- heat now, except during cold, on- 

 all kinds, most kinds of hardy evergreen seasonable weather; but the proper 'tern- 

 shrubs, the young shoots of which soon perature must be secured by a judicious 

 make roots in the shade. Dahlias want system of ventilation, and closing early, 

 special attention as they come into bloom; This is a good time to sponge the leaves of 



earwigs must be trapped with bean-stalks, 

 or a handful of hay may be stuffed into an 

 empty flower-pot, and put on a stake, and 

 the vermin shaken out into salt and water 

 every morning. Another lot of pompone 

 chrysanthemums should be struck this 

 month, under hand-glasses, to make dwarf 

 plants for the window and greenhouse in 

 autumn. Get strong plants of chrysanthe- 

 mums into their places in the borders, so 

 that the heavy rains this month may 

 establish them. Layer pinks, carnations, 

 and picotees, and put pipings of the same 

 into a gentle bottom-heat. Another lot of 

 annuals may be sown early in the month, 

 to keep up the gaiety of the borders. 



Greenhouse and Conservatory. — 

 Shift all greenhouse plants required for 

 late blooming, and grow them on to a good 

 size before allowing them to blossom. 

 Cinerarias for winter blooming must have 

 g( od culture, and shifts as required, and 

 camellias may be shifted, if necessary; but 

 if well potted in the first instance, they 

 will flourish in the same pots for three 

 seasons in succession ; and to overpot 

 them is to do them an injury, from which 

 they may never recover. Ericas generally 

 require to be pruned and cleared of seed- 

 pods and dead flowers. Put out all the 

 ventricosns in the open air, in a north 

 aspect, and shelter with spare lights during 

 heavy rain. All those with woolly leaves 

 to be put in cold pits, aud kept shaded at 

 midday. Any not shifted in the spring, 

 cut in at once, and as soon as they break 

 repot them. Repot lesehenaultias. Every 

 kind of hard-wooded plants may be re- 

 potted now, if out of bloom. 



Stove. — Achimenes and clerodendrons 

 require weak liquid manure to keep them 

 in lull vigour and beauty; shade at mid- 



large specimen plants. 



Vinery. — In vineries, great attention 

 must br? paid to keeping the foliage healthy 

 to- the last, as on this depends the matura- 

 tion of the buds that are to fruit next 

 season. Keep up a moist atmosphere, 

 and watch vigilantly against red snider. 

 Vines heavily laden with fruit must have 

 the assistance of strong manure-water. Be 

 careful not to cut away laterals too freely, 

 as they are most useful in helping the 

 maturation of the bunches; be careful to 

 keep the bunches shaded with a few leaves, 

 by tying the laterals over where necessarj^. 

 Pinery.— As pines colour, they should 

 be kept moderately dry. Plants shy of 

 fruiting should be kept dry for awhile, to 

 cause a check, and then be literally soaked, 

 and kept warm and moist, and the new 

 growth will result in the production of 

 fruit. But to check them .before they are 

 well matured may cause premature fruit- 

 ing, and should not be done until the 

 plants have had a long course of liberal 

 culture. Young stock must be encouraged 

 to grow strong, by allowing plenty of room 

 in which to expand their leaves ; give 

 plenty of water, and repot as necessary. 



Pits and Frames.— As a pit is a hot- 

 bed by day and a greenhouse by night, an 

 immense amount of propagating may be 

 carried on now by the aid of sun-heat 

 only. If cuttings of tricolor and other 

 delicate-habited geraniums are taken now 

 and planted in pots, and placed on a bed 

 of soil in a frame slightly shaded, they will 

 make fine plants before winter. Cucum- 

 bers that have been long bearing, and are 

 now getting the worse for wear, may be 

 made to begin again by simply taking off 

 the lights, and leaving them to fight it out 

 like ridged-out plants. 





