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out. Pelargoniums for show to have their last potting ; keep near the glass, and 

 look out for green-fly. Fuchsias required early to be fresh potted into small pots, 

 and have a moist heat of 60° by day and 50 3 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 be only just kept safe 

 from frost. Pot the herbaceous kinds in large pots, syringe on bright mornings, 

 and place them on the same bed with the first batch of fuchsias. If any appearance 

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



Stove to be kept as cool as possible for general collections. 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. Aphelandras, Poinsettias, etc., that have been some time in bloom, 

 cut down as soon as they can be spared, and keep rather dry ; as soon as they com- 

 mence 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 ; sprinkle the floor of orchid-house pretty frequently, but water the roots 

 only of such as have begun to grow. 



Kitchen Garden. — 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. Sow Sutton's Ringleader, Sangster's No. 1, and Advancer Peas ; 

 Mazagon, Longpod, and Windsor Beans ; Parsnips; and, on warm borders, to be pro- 

 tected by mats or litter, Radishes, Onions, and Horn Carrots. 



Pits and Frames. — Sow on a well-made hot-bed Egg-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. Put in cuttings of Verbenas, Heliotropes, 

 Lobelias, Salvias, Geraniums, Petunias, and Fuchsias. Sow in cold frame Cauli- 

 flower, Broccoli, Shilling's Queen and Early York Cabbage, Hammersmith, Neapo- 

 litan, and Cos Lettuce, and a few hardy annuals. 



Forcing. — Figs will bear more heat than any other forced fruit, but too much 

 beat or too much water will cause the fruit to fall. Peaches in bloom to be kept 

 ■well watered at the roots, but in a dry atmosphere. 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, 65 3 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 warm dung, and the 

 plants to be allowed to root through into it. Mushrooms must have a temperature of 

 55° to 65", and the beds to be syringed frequently with tepid writer ; thrust the hand 

 down to ascertain if the bed is moderately damp. Asparagus and Sea-kale to be put 

 in for succession, and to have plenty of water. 



Spring Flowers. — Q. S. — The subjects suitable for your border are the fol- 

 lowing, which will all be done blooming, or nearly so, before bedding-out time : — 

 Alyssum saxatile, yellow ; Arabis albida, white ; Aubrietia deltoidea grundiflora ; 

 double Daisies, various ; Polyanthus in variety ; Erinus alpinus, purple ; Erythro- 

 nium dens-canis, various ; Fritillaria imperialis, red and yellow ; Hepatica angu- 

 losa, blue ; Hepatica triloba, various ; Iberis saxatile ; I. corifolia ; I. Garrexiana, 

 all white ; Iris pumila coorulea, blue ; Ornithogalum Arabicum, white ; Phlox 

 alpinus canadensis, lilac; Phlox subulata, blush; Phlox vermis, purple ; Primula 

 acaulis and varieties ; Saxifraga oppositifolia, rose ; Scilla Siberica, blue. Many 

 more might be added, such as Corydalis, Epimedium, Adonis, Dondia, etc., but we 

 presume you are more anxious for a selection than a collection. If you have any 

 idea, however, of forming a collection, you cannot do better than procure from 

 Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, St. John's Wood, their catalogue of herbaceous 

 and alpine plants. 



