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about six weeks from the time they are placed in the above tomperatiire, the cuttings will be 

 ready, though some may not bo much larger than when placed there, but they will be 

 sufficiently excited. The whole plant should then be cut up, and every shoot that has half an 

 inch of old brown wood attached to it. put in as a cutting. The cuttings are to be inserted 

 singly in thumb-pots, in a mixture of peat with one-sixth of loam, and a very liberal portion 

 of sand. Each cutting reLjuires a stake and a tie to support it. I have tried, he adds, to keop 

 old plants, but thej have made only miserable objects compared with the yearly ones. 



GAEDEN WORK FOR SEPTEMBER. 



FLOWERS 

 ■ HOICE specimen plants in the Stoves sliould now be ripening tlieir growth, 

 and climbers on the roof must be cut in gradually, to give more light to 

 the plants. Stephanotis, Clerodendrou., BougainviUcea^ Quisqualis, AUa- 

 manda, &c., may be cut in sprays and branches as required for room or 

 table decoration ; plants of these in pots may be placed in the lightest 

 parts of the house to ripen off thoroughly. Marcmtas will now be in full 

 beauty ; gradually get the old leaves to rest, and by withholding water and heat 

 arrest the formation of new ones. Eipen off the first and best plants of Gala- 

 diums for store pots ; these must be kept in a temperature of 60° to 10° in a 

 dormant state or they will die, even if Avell and gradually ripened ; whereas if 

 the cold hits them in a green state, there is no keeping them at all through the 

 winter, Achimenes and Gloxinias should also be sent to rest by withholding 

 water. Even Ferns, Palms, and other fine-foliage plants are best prepared for 

 wintering, by a gradual ripening of summer leaves, and an arrest of growth. 



These summer beauties must be succeeded by winter-blooming plants, such 

 as Eupliorhia., liivina, Justicia, Gesnera, TJiyrsacanthiis^ Centradenia, Penias, 

 Cyrtanthera, (fee. These should receive a final potting, and be pushed on in 

 warm pits to make the stove gay in winter. 



The Conservatory will now be gay with Fuchsias, Zonal Felargoniuim, 

 Celosias, Balsams^ &c. It cannot be kept too cool, unless Marantas, Caladiinns, 

 Achimenes, Gloxinias, and stove palms and ferns are used to furnish it. In that 

 case a temperature of 55° to G0° should be maintained night and day, with a 

 rise of 10° or 15° with sun-heat. Water stove plants in the conservatory 

 sparincfly. Attend to Lapagerias, Tacsonias, Passion-Jlowers, &c., on the roof and 

 back walls. A free drooping habit is generally most effective for climbers ; 

 they often look charming, reaching down and mingling with the plants in the 

 beds or borders. Many Heaths and other choice greenhouse plants. Azaleas, 

 Camellias, &c., will still be out of doors. Towards the end of the month, it is 

 safest to place them under shelter. The transition from outside to inside is 

 often ti-ying to plants ; and hence the inside should for a time be made as like 

 the outside as possible, even to the dewing over of the leaves, and the leaving 

 of every door and window open for a time. Thus the plants will slide, as it 

 were, imperceptibly from the free air to a house enclosed on all sides. 

 Pelargoniums should be shifted into larger pots before the roots get entangled 

 too much. The earliest plants may now be placed in their flowering pots. The 

 secret of the safe wintering of fancy and other Pelargoniums is a good grip of 

 the pots by the roots before winter. A batch of late Zonal Pelargoniums and 

 Fuchsias brought in from out of doors now will flower on almost to Christmas. 

 Shift on Chinese Primroses, single and double, and Cinerarias, giving the earliest 

 their final shift now. For early work, 4-in. or G-in. pots are the best. Salvia 

 splendens and others should now have a final shift. Attend to the training, 

 watering, and thinning of Chrysanthenvnns ; also to the potting of Hyacinths and 

 other bulbs for early forcing, not forgetting the Eoman Hyacinth, the earliest 



