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THE GARDEN GUIDE. 



Bah.— 29-87. 

 Thkh.— 59, 41, 50. 



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Wind— S., S.W., W. 

 Rain. — 274 in. to 3 in. 



Greenhousr Flowebs. — Ahutilon 

 Due de Malakoff, Erica Austini, Witsenia 

 corymbosa, Broicultia ccerulea. Fuchsias, 

 Tactonia Van Volxemi, Plumbago capen- 

 sis, Passiflura raeemosa, P. Colviilii, Sal- 

 via splendent, Dyckia altissima. 



Garden Flowebs. — New EDgland 

 Staiwort, Aster Nova Anglia, A.pulcher- 

 rima; Glaucous Lily, Tritoma glauees- 

 eens; Foot-leaved Violet, Viola pedata, 

 V. lutea grandiflora ; Coreopsis grandi- 

 Jlora ; Liatris pyenostachys, L. spicata ; 

 Kosy Catchfly, Silene Nchqfta, Zausch- 

 neria Californieum. 



The Weather. — October is usually moist and mild ; but changeable, and varying 

 suddenly from calm to storm, and from soft sunshine to dienching rains. About the 

 20th, we usually have a taste of irosl. 



Flower Garden. — After the middle of tbe month the summer bedders have 

 such a wretched appearance, that the sooner they are cleared off after that time the 

 better. Where spring gardening is carried out, the beds ought to be cleared soon, 

 and then filled with the plants for spring flowering. This is necessary to enable 

 them to make a fresh growth, and get established in their new quarters before the 

 weather gets too cold, and stops their progress. A good display of spring flowers 

 can be got up for such a trifling amount of skill and labour, that no flower-garden 

 ought to be bare of flowering plants during April and May. The best things 

 for spring bedding are Silene, Wallflowers, Forget-me-nots, Arabis, Alyssum, 

 Aubrietias, Pansies, and Iberis, and spring bulbs. Good selections of the cheapest 

 and best for the open border were given in the number for last month, therefore 

 nothing further need be said about them here. The late Tulips must not be planted 

 until next month, and the Anemones and Kanunculuses are as well out of the 

 ground until next February. Both these subjects prefer well-pulverized soil, and 

 the beds which they are intended to occupy ought to be dug over at once, and the 

 surface left rough, to give the weather greater power to act upon it. Plant every 

 kind of hardy herbaceous plant from the cutting-pot or seed-bed. Take up and 

 pot all zonate and variegated geraniums which aie intended to be preserved during 

 the winter, for they seldom do much good after exposure to several sharp frosts. 

 The dead foliage can be removed ; but avoid breaking or cutting the branches, as 

 spring is the best time for pruning them. Place under shelter, and protect from, 

 frost ; but at all other times ventilate freely, and give little water until the turn of the 

 winter, when they will be established in the soil. Securely stake Chrysanthemums 

 both in pots and the open borders, to prevent injury from winds. Tie out in a 

 natural manner, and avoid the wretched system of using one stake, and tying all 

 the growth into a bundle round it. Take up Dahlia tubers as soon as the tops are 

 dead, and spread them out separately in a cool dry place to get thoroughly dry 

 before storing for the winter. This important point is frequently lost sight of, and 

 a mass of rotten pulp in the spring is the consequent result. It is also necessary to 

 protect from frost, by covering them with dry hay or litter in severe weather. The 



Bulbous Flowers. — Crinum crassifo- 

 lium ; Autumn Crocus, Colchicum auttim- 

 nale, C. afro - purpurea ; Hippeastrum 

 Banksianum, liabranthus Bugnoldi, II. 

 nobilis, Nerine fltxuosa, Zilium Walli- 

 chianum, Calostemma luteum, Amaryllis 

 crocata, A. Fsittaeina. 



Stove Flowers.— Begonia Ingramii, 

 B. insignis, Thunbergia laurifolia, Pentas 

 cornea, Allamanda grandifiora, Cuttleya 

 labiata* Pleione layenaria* Cypripedium 

 renustum,* Oncidium ornilhurynckum,* 

 O. roseum,* Laelia Marya/ui* Lycaste 

 plana* 



"The heavens are Thine, the earth also is Thine : as for the world and the 

 fulnesi thereof, Thou hast founded them. The north and the south, Thou hast 

 created them." — Psalm Ixxxix. 11. 



