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in clear weather. Cleanliness, with plenty of light and air, is the 

 principal thing to attend to, to ensure success. All should by this time 

 be in their winter quarters. 



Cinerarias. — This and next month are the worst for the culture of this 

 plant, being subject to mildew ; great care must be taken to sulphur 

 such as are infected by it. Specimen plants will now require great 

 attention ; thin out all small and decaying leaves, and peg down the 

 strong, to admit the light and air. Such as are required for early 

 fluwering may now have their final shift ; stop, that is, pinch out, the 

 tops of their shoots as soon as thoroughly established. In potting, give 

 a light compost, viz., two parts good turfy loam, with a good admixture 

 of well decomposed stable manure, and leaf mould; use sand liberally. 

 In placing, keep as near the glass as possible. 



Conservatory. — This department will now require every care to 

 maintain a display of bloom, and to preserve the necessary neatness 

 and order, that at the same time it may afford an enjoyable retreat in 

 bad weather, or during the evening if it is accessible from the 

 mansion. Heliotropes, Mignonette, Jasmines, Tea Roses, Daphne 

 indica, Violets, and other sweet scented plants, should be largely intro- 

 duced ; and more showy plants, as Chrysanthemums, Salvias, tall 

 Lobelias, Fuchsias, Gesneras, Belladonna and Guernsey Lilies, and 

 many kinds of Amaryllis, may also be added, to set off the permanent 

 occupants, and warm up the building by giving colour. A most useful 

 conservatory plant is the recently-introduced Heterocentrum roseum, 

 which, under good cultivation, flowers profusely at this season. A few 

 things may be added from the stove, as Hedychiums, Crinums, and 

 Begonias, as they come into bloom. Fires will now be necessary, and 

 should be stirred up briskly on damp mornings to dry the atmosphere 

 after watering and cleaning out, giving air at the same time. Night 

 temperature 45°. 



Dahlias. — These should, if not already done, be taken up and stored 

 for wintering the first time the soil is tolerably dry; dry them thoroughly, 

 with some of the soil about them. Seed will require much attention to 

 prevent its rotting in the pod. 



Flower Garden. — Continue to place under protection half hardy 

 plants taken up from the garden, as room can be found for them. 

 Those who have an orchard house will find it invaluable for wintering 

 many things in this way, which suffer more from damp than cold. 

 Give the recently struckcuttings as much light and air as you can, to get 

 them established and hardened off before winter, or they will most likely 

 fog off. Scarlet Geranium cuttings may yet be put in, placing the pots 

 with the cuttings on the shelves of any house where they can be kept 

 dry. Those who are deficient of room for wintering Scarlet Geraniums 

 may keep them in any dry out-house open to the south, that the plants 

 may get what sun there is till sharp frosts set in, when any place 

 secure from frost, but dry, will keep them for a long time uninjured ; 

 give them no water whatever, nor allow the rain to fall on them. The 

 great secret is getting the wood hard and well ripened ; and then when 

 kept dry they will break freely on the return of warm weather. The 

 beds of the flower garden, as the summer plants are cleared away, 



