S50 - THE FLORIST. 



the best time to plant evergreens, as if there could be much doubt 

 among sensible men on the point. Planting, like many other opera- 

 tions, requiring a certain amount of practical experience, cannot alto- 

 gether be taught by books or essays. The health and age of the trees 

 to be transplanted, the soil in which they grow, the condition in which 

 the young wood is in, as regards maturity, added to the state of the 

 weather and the situation from wdiich the plant has to be, as well as 

 the one wdiere it is to be replanted, are all points requiring consideration, 

 such as only the practised eye of men conversant with the habits of 

 trees, and some of the leading principles of vegetable physiology, can 

 determine satisfactorily. Wholesale directions can easily be given, and 

 general principles laid down, and a certain amount of success may 

 follow, when cu'cumstances are favourable ; but it must be obvious that 

 under the varying conditions we have named — and these are facts well 

 known to every practical man — something more than general principles 

 is necessary to command success at all times. Planters will not be 

 far wrong, however, in transplanting almost any kind of trees at this 

 season, provided the summer's growth has become ripened, and the soil 

 in wdiich they are planted is moderately friable and not wet. 



G. F. 



EREMURUS SPECTABILIS. 



This is a really handsome hardy Asphodelaceous plant, a native of 

 Siberia, the Caucasus, and other places. The root is perennial ; the 

 leaves are all radical, from six inches to a foot long ; the scapes are 

 from three to four times as long as the leaves, including the raceme, 

 which is thickly set with yellow flowers, whose deep orange anthers give 

 the whole a varied and interesting a pearance. This will make a use- 

 ful plant for the herbaceous border. A good figure of it is given in the 

 *' Botanical Magazine " for September. 



CALENDAR FOR THE MONTH. 



Auriculas. — If the situation is at all damp, remove the plants to a 

 dry and elevated one. Give them but little water, in doing which 

 avoid wetting the foliage. Remove any dead foliage as often as they 

 appear, and fumigate occasionally. 



Carnations and Picotees. — These will have become established in 

 the small pots they are wintered in, and must be grown as hardy as 

 possible. They do better by being exposed to all weathers than by being 

 too much confined. If they become damp, air must be given both 

 night and day, until they are dry. There is but little fear of these 

 plants suffering with drought during the winter months, the other ex- 

 treme of being too wet would, under any kind of treatment, ruin them. 

 The glass that is used to protect them should be good. There should 

 be no drip. 



