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clay. In dry frosty weather, it should be 

 chopped down and turned, and again soiled 

 over to preserve its virtues, and at the same 

 time sweeten it for use. Turf should be 

 stacked, and clippings collected for burning 

 to make dressings of manure for beds and 

 borders. The general work of the kitchen 

 garden is but a continuation of last month, 

 to which we refer to avoid repetitions. Those 

 who are inclined to venture a few speculative 

 crops, should sow Mazagan beans, and Sang- 

 ster's Number One, and Early Emperor peas. 

 If they get through the winter, they will pro- 

 duce a few early dishes, but there is the 

 risk, not only of severe weather, but of the 

 attacks of slugs and snails, and where these 

 vermin are allowed to riot on the ground, 

 winter sowings have little chance. 



Fruit Garden. — Prune and plant as 

 weather permits. Give special attention to 

 wall fruit, and where standards have got 

 crowded, thin out the heads, but be very 

 cautious about cutting large boughs off 

 healthy bearing trees. Bush fruits should 

 be pruned, and the ground forked over 

 between the rows. Burn the primings and 

 strew the ashes over the newly forked sur- 

 face. Red and white currants must be cut 

 back to skeletons ; the chief of the fruit- 

 buds being at the junctions of the new wood 

 with that of last year ; leave only three or 

 four joints beyond that point, and cut clear 

 away at the base every branch that is ill- 

 placed or that chokes up the centre. Black 

 currants do not like the knife. Trim the 

 branches to regular distances, and shorten 

 the longest back to good joints, but preserve 

 plenty of young wood, leaving the plumpest 

 branches nearly their full length, and cutting 

 all weak ones clean away. Treat goose- 

 berries in the same way ; they never bear 

 well if severely pruned 



Floaver Garden. — Whatever is of too 

 tender a nature to bear exposure to frost, 

 should be got under cover without delay. 

 Choice pansies, carnations, auriculas, and 

 phloxes require the shelter of a frame or 

 cold pit. Dahlias should be taken up, 

 tallied, and stowed away out of the reach of 

 frost, moisture, and heat. Get a supply of 

 rose-stocks at once if you intend to graft 

 or bud for yourself next season. Plant in 

 good loam, and stake them securely, or run 

 light hazel rods along the rows, and secure 

 their ends to stout uprights, and tie in the 

 stocks to them. Bulbs should be planted 

 as soon as possible, both in beds and borders. 

 Cheap mixtures of hyacinths and tulips 

 serve every purpose for general decoration 

 of the borders, and the dealers will make 

 good selections for those who are not fami- 

 liar with the properties of the several sorts. 



Tulips in beds are planted in seven rows, 

 six inches apart, giving four feet for the 

 width of the beds, and of any length that 



may be desired. Mr. Glenny has made an 

 improvement on the old method of arranging 

 the bidbs ; his method produces a series of 

 repeats, which we much admire, and recom- 

 mend accordingly — it is managed thus : — 



Rose. Byb. Biz. Rose. Biz. Byb. Rose. 



Byb. Biz. Rose. Byb, Rose. Biz. Byb. 



Biz. Rose. Byb. Biz. Byb. Rose. Biz. 



Rose Byb. Biz. Rose. Biz. Byb. Rose. 



Amateurs purposing to begin tulip cidture, 

 as well as growers who wish to improve 

 their collections, should write to Mr. Law- 

 rence, of Hampton, Middlesex, for his cata- 

 logue, which includes the best flowers of the 

 three kingdoms. Dealers in tulips will always 

 select and arrange a bed, on order, to 

 meet the amouut the purchaser may be dis- 

 posed to pay for it. A bed of sixty rows, con- 

 taining most of the standard varieties, pro- 

 perly arranged as to heights, will cost fifteen 

 pounds ; but good named tulips may be had 

 from five to seven pounds per hundred. 

 Purchasers of hyacinths, crocuses, &c, will 

 find much instruction in the catalogues of 

 Mr. Cutbush, of Highgate, and Messrs. 

 Henderson, of St. John's Wood. 



Well rolled turf and gravel, and trimly kept 

 borders are very necessary, now that the 

 colours are declining, and the garden is 

 resuming a skeleton condition in which out- 

 lines and surfaces are nearly all that remain 

 to give pleasure to the eye. In selecting 

 evergreens and deciduous shrubs for decora- 

 tive purposes, the colours of their foliage at 

 this season, should be taken into consideration. 



Greenhouse. — There is great danger of 

 overcrowding the plants newly housed, owing 

 to the numbers that are propagated during 

 summer. It would be better even to destroy 

 surplus stock, than to spoil a whole collec- 

 tion, by cramming too many plants into a 

 limited space. Give plenty of air, but guard 

 against sudden night frosts. Withhold water 

 as much as possible, to induce a state of rest 

 in the plants, but allow nothing to get dust- 

 dry, for that is an injury to the tender roots, 

 on which the plant has to depend in a great 

 measure to sustain itself. The first frost is 

 generally severe ; if, by accident, any plants 

 get caught by it, keep them shaded, and 

 occasionally sprinkled with cold water, but 

 remove the shade as soon as they show signs 

 of recovery. Plants in bloom should be kept 

 safe from cold nights, and whenever watered 

 it should be with tepid water. Green-fly is 

 very apt to attack soft-wooded plants at this 

 season, and the moment the pest appears, to- 

 bacco-smoke must be resorted to. Keep up 

 the heat among pines, but give as much air 

 as possible. Do not push any into undue 

 growth, or they will suffer severely on 

 the accession of colder weather. Be on 

 your guard to shut up houses where vines 

 are breaking, as if frost gets in among the 

 opening buds, it will do immense mischief. 



