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Lettuce, Radish, Spinach, Small Salad, a few rows of early Peas, and 

 a bed of Stadtholder Cauliflowers. The principal crop of Cauliflowers 

 and French Beans in bearing will receive considerable help from a 

 thick coat of short litter or other mulching material about the roots. 

 Conservatory. — Hard-wooded plants that flowered late, and 

 were kept indoors to finish the growth, should go out of doors now. 

 Particular care must be paid to plant's standing out of doors. If 

 allowed to suffer from drought at this season, next year's bloom will 

 be impaired. Quite two-thirds of the cases of the Camellias drop- 

 ping their buds iu the early part of the winter arises from the plants 

 becoming dust dry at the roots "now and then," between this time 

 and September, and the other third arises from the pots being in- 

 effectually drained, and the soil gettiug sour in consequence. 

 Frequently, specimen-plants suffer through the pots being placed on 

 the ground without any protection underneath from worms. This 

 should be looked to, and the pots set on three small pots, or a good 

 thickness of coal-ashes placed underneath. Roses in pots should be 

 plunged, to prevent the soil drying up quickly, and rendering a lot 

 of watering necessary. All soft-wooded stuff growing freely, such 

 as Petunias, Fuchsias, Zonal Pelargoniums, Browallias, etc., should 

 be encouraged with liquid manure until they come into flower. 

 Pelargoniums that have ripened their young wood nicely must be 

 cut back to two or three eyes at once, and kept rather dry until the 

 buds push. 



Forcing. — Keep Muscats going with a little fire-heat in unfavour- 

 able weather. In the late houses, where the grapes are swelling, the 

 laterals must be kept stopped ; but where they are stoning, a consider- 

 able extension of laterals can be allowed. The earlier houses, from 

 which the crop has been gathered, must be thrown open as wide as 

 possible, and the laterals allowed to grow freely for a short time, to 

 help to swell up the buds. The foliage of Peaches and Nectarines 

 must be washed with the syringe frequently after the crop is gathered, 

 and all the air possible admitted. Cucumbers and Melons must be 

 kept well thinned out; the former should be stopped regularly at 

 one joint beyond the fruit. The fruit-bearing laterals of the Melons 

 must be allowed to grow, and the others nipped off as fast as they 

 make their appearance. Keep both well supplied with water, and 

 give air early in the morning, to afford the foliage a chance of becoming 

 dry before the sun acts powerfully upon it. 



Fruit Garden. — Thin, stop, and train the young growth of wall 

 and other fruit trees. Thin out the fruit before it gets too large, 

 and robs that intended to remain. Proceed with layering Strawberry- 

 runners, both for forcing and making new beds. Plants layered in 

 pots, and planted out when well rooted in thoroughly trenched 

 ground, will bear well next summer. 



Pits and Frames. — Sow Herbaceous Calceolarias and Cyclamens 

 for principal batch, and Cinerarias and Primulas for late bloom. 

 Shift on, as it becomes necessary, earlier batches, and not let them 

 become pot-bound at this stage. 



