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should be encouraged to its utmost limits, if fine strong plants are 

 desired. 



Pansies. — Plant out young stock as soon as rooted, and continue to 

 put in cuttings ; the surface of the beds containing the plants first 

 struck should be often stirred. If a large increase is required, the 

 tops may be taken ofF and put in as cuttings. Seed should now be 

 sown, and sulphur any plants that are attacked with mildew. 



Pelargoniums. — Those not already cut down should not be delayed, 

 or the young stock will be late ; pot off young plants as soon as 

 sufficiently rooted, the strongest of which intended for specimens should 

 be selected, and have an extra shift this month, that a considerable 

 growth may be made this autumn. Seed, as it ripens, should be sown 

 in pans or broad topped pots, which should be slightly shaded in vfery 

 bright weather. The first cut do^^^l plants — those intended for early 

 bloom next spring — w^ll be sufficiently broken to be shaken out of the 

 old soil towards the end of the month, and after being disrooted be 

 repotted in fresh soil, in a size smaller pot. Place them in a frame or 

 close house for a time, keeping them near the glass, and close shading 

 during the day. Dry the plants every morning by giving air, and 

 harden them gradually as the roots reach the pots. Fancies require 

 very similar treatment ; the soil, however, should be a httle lighter. 



Pines. — Fruit for autumn and winter should now be showing up. 

 Keep the syringe fi'om the fruit while in bloom. Successions pot into 

 fruiting pots, and plant out. If grown on the open bed system air in 

 large portions at this stage is indispensable. 



Pinks. — Transplant cuttings fi.-om the piping bed into light sandy 

 soil, choosing a dry day. Pinks do not hke being saturated with wet 

 immediately after being planted. The soil should be free fi'om ^^^re- 

 worm. The beds after planting out should often be examined, by 

 looking for grubs, which are very destructive to young plants. 



Roses. — All localities are not, we hope, so sadly infested with aphides 

 as several we have lately seen. The usual remedy of syringing with 

 tobacco- water has the desired effect, if applied in time ; but where 

 honey dew has covered the leaves, a soft brush and water is the only 

 method of cleansing them, taking care to search the under side of the 

 foliage ; help, however, may be expected from lady-birds, whose larvae 

 we have seen pretty plentiful during the last few days. Be careful 

 not to disturb the birds which are seen near the plants. Continue to 

 remove decaying blossoms as before directed. Liquid manure should 

 now be freely administered. The doubtful autumnal bloomers, as 

 William Jesse, Duchess of Sutherland, &c., wall be much more certain 

 of flowering late if half of the strong shoots of this year are now reduced 

 half their length. 



Stove. — Stove plants are now gro\\ang fireely ; more air may be 

 allowed, and inure them to more fight by reducing the shading ; 

 this will help to keep the growth compact, and will assist plants 

 done blooming to ripen their wood. Regulate climbing plants. Attend 

 to potting, kc, plants to bloom late in the autumn ; these may now 

 be fully exposed, to arrest their gro\Ai;h and induce an early bloom. 



