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the soil, must be rigorously adhered to, or all other precautions 

 and attentions will be of little avail. 



By the end of June or middle of July the growth should be 

 completed, and the stock ready for removing to colder quarters. 

 The supply of moisture both at the roots and overhead must be 

 lessened in a gradual manner previous to their removal from the 

 pine stove, for the purpose of making the young wood firm, and the 

 change from the warm temperature felt in a less severe manner. 

 An ordinary greenhouse with full exposure to all the air and sun- 

 shine it is possible to give them, will be the best position for enabling 

 the growth to get thoroughly matured by the end of September, 

 when they return to the stove. I have frequently placed specimens 

 out of doors, at the foot of a south wall, but the rains come and 

 they get more moisture at the roots than is good for them. From 

 the time of the removal from the stove in the summer, until their 

 return in the autumn, no more water must be applied to the roots 

 than is -just sufficient to keep the branches firm. The flowering 

 season may be prolonged by deviating the stock and allowing an 

 interval of about a month to elapse between the time of the first 

 and second batches being placed in the stove. With regard to soil 

 I need only say that equal parts turfy loam and fibry peat, with a 

 liberal proportion of either silver or river sand added thereto, is all 

 that is required. 



There is now a large number of varieties of U. truncatum, the 

 best of which I consider to be the following : Aurantiacum roseum, 

 amabile, salmonium g rand ij\ 'o?-um, spectabile carminatum, splendent, 

 and violaceum superbum. But where there is room to spare, all the 

 varieties are well worth growing. 



NOTES EOS THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



BY GEOEGE GEAY, 



Head Gardener, Norbitoti Hall, Kingston, S.W. 



jIARCH and August are two important months in the 

 kitchen garden, for the summer supply of vegetables 

 depends upon how matters are arranged in the first 

 named mouth, and upon the latter depends the winter's 

 supply. If there is any difference it is more important 

 that the several crops in autumn should be got in at the right time 

 than the spring-sown ones. When sown too early the plants grow 

 too large, and either suffer in the winter or " bolt" in the spring, 

 just as we think they are on the point of perfecting. On the other 

 hand, if sown too late, they do not acquire sufficient strength to 

 carry them through the winter, or are not strong enough to do much 

 good in the spring. 



I have the bulk of my " winter stuff," such as borecole and 

 broccoli, planted out and established at this moment ; but I have 

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