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weather — they take best just after heavy 

 rain. In budding on the manetti stock, enter 

 the bud just above the collar, close to the 

 ground, the proper mode of planting after- 

 wards, being to sink the base of the bud 

 below the surface, so that the rose will root 

 as well as the stock. Bedding geraniums for 

 next season, should be propagated without 

 delay, and every lot of cuttings carefully 

 tallied, that no mistakes may occur hereafter. 

 Pansies may be sown, as may also most 

 hardy annuals, to stand over winter for early 

 blooming next spring; the latter should be 

 sown thick, on poor, dry, hard ground, to 

 induce a stubby and hardy growth. Some 

 seed should be saved for a second sowing 

 in September, as, in the event of protracted 

 warm weather, such as we had last year, 

 some of the first sown may bloom this season. 

 The sorts to sow now, are calliopsis, Glarkia, 

 collinsia, godetia, larkspur, lupinus, nemo- 

 phila, nolana, French poppy, and dwarf 

 schizanthus. There is still time to raise 

 a stock of hardy perennials for next 

 season, but not a day should be lost in 

 getting in the seed. The most useful 

 are antirrhinums, delphiniums, dianthns, 

 geum, hollyhocks, Indian pink, lupinus, 

 phlox, potentillas, silenes, sweet Williams, 

 and wall-flowers. Those already up in 

 seed beds should be looked over and trans- 

 planted, before they get drawn, through 

 being crowded. Plants left for any length 

 of time to spindle, are likely to perish in 

 winter, and never can make such good spe - 

 cimens as those that have had plenty of 

 room from the first. As storms often come 

 suddenly at this time of year, see that 

 hollyhocks, dahlias, and chrysanthemums 



are securely staked. Of the latter, the stock 

 may still be increased, especially of the pom- 

 pone varieties. Either the tops may be 

 struck for pot blooming, or shoots of eight 

 or ten inches in length, may be layered into 

 five-inch pots, and removed when moderately 

 well established. Dwarf plants of the pom- 

 pone and lilleputian varieties, are very useful 

 for decorative purposes at the end of the 

 season, and are adapted to purposes for which 

 large bushy plants would not be so suitable. 

 The large flowered kinds do not bear to be 

 stopped so late as the pompones. Chrysan- 

 themums of all kinds, should have abun- 

 dance of water overhead and liquid manure 

 at the roots. 



Greenhouse. — Pelargoniums that have 

 been trained out and pruned, should be re- 

 potted as soon as they have broken regularly. 

 Put them into the smallest pots into which 

 their roots can be got, so as to allow of a 

 series of shifts till they are once more in 

 their blooming-pots. Young plants and 

 greenhouse shrubs should be well hardened 

 now, before going to their quarters for the 

 winter. Let camellias and azaleas have 

 plenty of sun and little water. Summer struck 

 geraniums, achimenes, and fuchsias, may 

 be got into bloom now, to keep up a display 

 till Christmas. Shift all forward stock re- 

 quired to bloom early. Cinerarias should 

 now be strong, and must have no check ; 

 see that they are kept clear of fly, for they 

 are very subject to it. A cold pit is the best 

 place for them. Sow now for decorating the 

 house in early spring, Clarkia pulchella, 

 Nemophila insignis, Erysimum Peroffskia- 

 num, CEnothera rosea, Collinsia bicolor, 

 Veronica syriaca, and Chinese primroses. 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Bedding Plants. — R. U., Brighton. — It wont do 

 to propagate bedding plants too early. Gera- 

 niums, however, should be struck at once in the 

 open sun. We advise our readers, generally, to 

 thin out the shoots of geraniums wherever they 

 can be spared without marring the beauty of 

 the beds, and to put the shoots into the open 

 ground where there is most sunshine. Young 

 green shoots, and large ripe stems may be used 

 just as they can be got, and a few of the most 

 valued verbenas may be struck from young tops 

 under hand-glasses. Nest month, Mr. Hibberd 

 will advise on the propagation of other plants, 

 and on keeping stock over winter. 



Heliotropes. — C. Mc D. — These come from cut- 

 tings of the young tops, in precisely the same 

 way as verbenas, and are best struck under 

 glasess, in a mixture of peat and silver sand. 

 The heliotrope is the most tender of all the 

 bedding plants, and will not bear the slightest 

 frost, consequently, must be wintered under 

 glass, and always'kept in a moderately growing 

 state. 



Pegging Down.— H. S. T.— Most gardeners use 

 the method you recommend. 



Botanist. — 1, Festuca pratensis ; 2, Cynosurus 

 cristatus ; 3, Bromus arvensis ; 4, Avena flaves- 

 cens; 5, Arrheuatherum avenaceum ; G, (marked 

 7) Holcus avenacens, 7, Melica nutans; 8, Festu- 

 ca diriuscula. We should like to see one of the 

 papers you proffer. If short, and embracing 

 popular subjects, we have no doubt they would 

 prove useful. 



Culture of Camellias.— C. /.—Camellias flourish 

 in a mixture of one-third peat, and two-thirds 

 turfy loam, with a liberal admixture of sand. To 

 strike cuttings, prepare the pots with plenty of 

 drainage, and fill to the brim with sandy loam, 

 very fine, and pressed firm. The cuttings should 

 be of wood nearly ripe, befere the foliage of the 

 season acquires its rich dark green colour. The 

 cuttings are made five inches long, the lower 

 leaves stripped off, and the cuttings inserted 

 close together, and very firm. The pots are then 

 placed in a spent hot-bed, and kept close for 



