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feel the rising wish, that the same masterpieces of floral beauty 

 could be made to assimilate with the Verbena, the Petunia, and 

 other half-hardy plants, which throw so great a share of gaiety 

 into our parterres during the summer months ? But no ; plant them 

 out, and they become (as a lady once emphatically observed to me) 

 " beauties run wild." Well, what must be done ? are we to despair 

 of ever possessing those gems of the green-house in our gardens ? 

 No ; Flora fordids it. And what says perseverance ? Try again. 

 Bring all your energies to bear upon an object, and you must suc- 

 ceed. Well, I have tried and tried again, and have at last been 

 successful ; and, as I am no monopolist, I will give the floral world 

 the benefit of my experience. 



This time last year I took about 100 plants of the best varieties, 

 such as Aurora, Mustee, Hebe's-lip, Mount Etna, Orion, Duke of 

 Cornwall, Duchess of Leinster, Fire King, &c, all nicely coming 

 into bloom, and planted them in three beds in the following manner: 

 Having got my plants well hardened off, that is to say, having fully 

 exposed them to the influence of sun and wind for a few days, I 

 took a garden trowel, and dug a hole in the bed where I wished 

 them to be placed of exactly the size of the pot, but nearly double 

 the depth of it : the plant, pot and all, was then inserted in the hole 

 in such a manner that the rim of the pot was level with the surface 

 of the bed, thus leaving a vacuity of several inches in depth at the 

 bottom of the pot. In this way I proceeded with the whole of my 

 plants ; and no Pelargoniums could possibly produce a better display 

 of flowers than they did throughout the whole of the season. The 

 roots, being confined within the pot, are as much under command as 

 though the plants were in a green-house ; and if any of them should 

 shew the least disposition to ramble, they can be taken up and ex- 

 amined at any time ; besides, under the conditions I have just men- 

 tioned, a fresh arrangement of the plants might be made with nearly 

 as much ease as if they were on a stage in the green-house, and with- 

 out the least injury to them. 'Tis true Pelargoniums planted in this 

 way require a little more attention as regards watering than plants do 

 turned out of pots ; but then the cultivator is amply repaid for all 

 extra trouble by abundance of blossom. Hoping that others may be 

 as successful as I have been with the above method, my recommenda- 

 tion to all is, to try my plan. A. Kendall, Florist. 



Queen Elizabeth's Walk, Stoke Newington. 



CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JUNE: 



Auriculas. — Any necessary work left undone last month should be 

 immediately attended to, and the plants be 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 necessary, and should be attended to, 

 from about eight o'clock in the morning till four or five o'clock 

 p.m., according to the intensity of the sun's heat. Continue a 



