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required early to be repotted in small pots, and have a moist heat of 

 60^ by day and oC by night. Scarlet geraniums to have little or no 

 water, unless in a warm house, and showing bloom, and then they will 

 not require much. Verbenas and petunias should be on a top shelf, and 

 be kept tolerably dry. Calceolarias will endure damp, and require to te 

 only just kept safe from frost. If any appearance of mildew, dust with 

 flowers of sulphur immediately; if any fly, fumigate with tobacco. 



Stove.' — Put all the growing plants at the warmest end, such as 

 Euphorbias, Poinsettias, Justicias, Amaryllis, Gloxinias, Gesneras, 

 Achimenes, etc. Repot Clerodendrons, and place on moderate 

 bottom-heat. Cut down Aphelandras, Poinsettias, etc., as soon as 

 they can be spared, and keep rather dry ; as soon as they commence 

 growing, repot them, and they will bloom early next season. Be 

 very careful in giving water ; plants at rest to have little or none. 

 Make ready for repotting orchids ; sprinklp the floor of orchid-house 

 pretty frequently, but water the roots only of such as have begun to 

 grow. Temperature for general collections of stove plants, 5-5' by 

 night and 65' by day. 



KiTCHEK Gauden. — Dig deeply all vacant plots, and leave 

 rough for frost to penetrate. Char clippings and prunings and 

 other woody rubbish, and spread the charrings on sea-kale or 

 asparagus beds, or save them under cover to dress the soil for 

 Artichokes or Onions. Cart in manure, and finally dress all the 

 plots that are to be cropped early. Where the ground is in proper 

 working order sow Sutton's Early Champion and Dickson's Early 

 Eavourite Peas; Mazagan, Longpod, and Windsor Beans; Parsnips, 

 and, on warm borders, to be protected by mats or litter, Eadishes, 

 Onions, and Early Horn Carrots. 



Pits and Erames. — Sow on a well-made hot-bed E^g-plants, 

 Cockscombs, Globe Amaranths, Melons, Cucumbers, Tomatoes,' 

 Kidney Beans, Thunbergias, Phlox Drummondii, Mignonette, and 

 Stocks. Pot up a few roots of musk and mint, and put in the same 

 bed with the seeds. The first will be useful for the drawing- 

 room, and the second for the kitchen. Commence propagating 

 Verbenas, Heliotropes, Lobelias, Salvias, Geraniums, Petunias, and 

 Fuchsias. Sow in cold frame Cauliflower, Broccoli, Shilling's 

 Queen and Early York Cabbage, Eiammersmith, Neapolitan, and 

 Cos Lettuce, and a few hardy annuals. 



EoECiNG. — Eigs will bear more heat than any other forced fruit, 

 but too nuich heat or too much water will cause the fruit to fall. 

 Peaches in bloom to be kept well watered at the roots, but maintain 

 a dry atmosphere to keep the pollen dry and enable it to perform 

 its allotted functions. Vines to be started at 50° to 60°, never 

 higher, and the syringe to be used freely amongst them. Pines in 

 fruit, 80*^' by day, G5*-' by night ; shift succession pines at the end 

 of the month. Straw^berries to be kept near the glass, and the pots 

 to stand on a warm bottom. Mushrooms must have a temperature 

 of 55*^ to 65"^, and the beds to be syringed frequently with tepid 

 water ; thrust the hand down to ascertain if the bed is moderately 

 damp. Asparagus, Sea-kale, and Ehubarb to be put in for succession, 

 and to have plenty of water. 



January. 



