62 THE FLORIST. 



Greenhouse: Hard-wooded Plants. — Have soils, pots, crocks, &c., 

 ready for use when potting time comes round. Use fire-heat only to 

 keep out frost. Give air freely on fine days. Attend regularly to 

 watering the plants, as they will now begin to require a little more of 

 it. When Heaths are grown in the same house with other hard- wooded 

 plants, they ought always to have the coolest and most airy part. As 

 soon as any of them are done flowering pinch the faded blooms oiF. 

 Plants beginning to grow will require more water. 



Soft- wooded Plants. — Attend to Fuchsias, and shift as soon as they 

 require it. Do not pinch them for pot-room if you want large 

 specimens ; and do not let the plants stand too close together. Mimu- 

 luses are a nice tribe of plants, not grown so much as they ought to be. 

 They should now have plenty of pot-room and water, and they will 

 soon flower if placed in a hght situation. Pot Liliums, but do not 

 water for a few weeks. 



HoUi/hucks. — Repot cuttings, as soon as they are rooted, into three 

 or four-inch pots, using rather rich soil. Cuttings may still be put in ; 

 any struck during February will flower weU if properly managed. 

 Autumn-struck cuttings should now be repotted, or they are liable to 

 become pot-bound before the time arrives for planting them out. Fine 

 spikes of bloom cannot be expected if the plants are prematurely driven 

 into flower, which is likely to be the case if they are allowed to become 

 pot-bound. Feedlings should be pricked off" into small thumb-pots, one 

 in each, as soon as they show their second leaves. 



Kitchen Garden. — When the weather is favourable, lose not a 

 moment in pushing forward all operations. Endeavour always to be 

 beforehand with your work. When the soil is wet, do not meddle with 

 it ; if it be in a nice working condition towards the end of the month, 

 plant Globe and Jerusalem Artichokes, also autumn-sown Onions, 

 Cabbages, Cauliflowers, and Lettuces — the two latter on sheltered 

 borders. Plant hardy herbs of all kinds, also Eschallots and Garlic. 

 Sow Peas and Beans in pots or boxes, and put them into a little heat ; 

 when up gradually harden, so that towards the end of this or the 

 beginning of next month they may be planted out when the weather is 

 favourable. Sow Peas and Beans in the open borders twice during the 

 month. Sow a good breadth of Parsley. Sow some Cabbages for 

 autumn crop. Sow some CauHflower and Lettuce in a little heat, also 

 Celery ; and sow Radishes on warm borders. Plant early Potatoes in 

 warm sheltered situations, and, if the soil be pretty dry and the 

 weather favourable, the general crop of early ones may be planted. 

 We grow our earliest crop of out-door Potatoes as follows: — We sprout 

 the sets, and towards the end of this or beginning of next month, when 

 the soil and weather are favourable, we plant on a warm sheltered 

 border the Peas which have been brought forward in pots and boxes 

 in rows from five to six feet apart, and between the rows of Peas we 

 plant the Potato set which had been previously sprouted. We rod the 

 Peas as soon as they are planted, and on each side of the Potato rows 

 we raise a little ridge of soil, s* that when they begin to push through 

 the earth we draw a little of this soil over the young shoots ; this, 

 together with the Pea rods, protects them from the frost — indeed, it is 



