NOVEMBER. 351 



paper on the wdnter planting of flower borders is given in the present 

 number. 



Forcing Houses. Where Grapes are wanted in April, the sashes 

 should be at once put on, and the borders, if outside, covered with new 

 warm leaves, a foot or two thick, which may be thatched, to keep them 

 dry, and from blowing about. Dry Fern or stable litter will answer 

 the same purpose ; we ourselves prefer leaves. The temperature must 

 be very mild at first — 45° is ample by night, which may be kept up 

 without fires for some time ; in three weeks a little may be put on by 

 night, and during wet or very cold days ; as leaves can be obtained, it 

 will be a good plan to cover the whole of the early Vinery borders and 

 thatch them ; they will keep them warm and dry through the \\inter. 



Hardy Fruits. All kinds of wall, orchard, and bush fi-uits may 

 now be planted, and the preparation of new borders proceeded with by 

 removing all or a part of the old soil ; do not work the new soil, how- 

 ever, when in a wet state. Mind the borders are shallow and well 

 drained, the loam of medium texture, or rather inclined to heavy than 

 light, and use none or but Httle manure ; pruning may be commenced. 



Heaths and Epacrises. Properly speaking, these plants should have 

 a house to themselves ; for they neither arrange well nor yet thrive 

 with other plants. At this season they will require abundance of light 

 and air. Do not apply fire-heat to them unless the frost is very severe, 

 and we may say at once none will be required this month, unless by 

 day, during a continuance of wet weather. 



Hollyhocks. Now is the best time for procuring cuttings of these 

 from the cro^\Ti of the root, for the reasons that they strike more readily 

 and make the best plants. The summer struck cuttings will be filling 

 the pots with roots by this time, and should be repotted. Strong early 

 plants will winter in almost any situation, if the season is not too wet. 



Kitchen Garden. It is now too late for planting. What remains in 

 the way of Cabbage, Lettuce, &c., will be better left till spring, unless 

 the weather is very mild. However, there are various things required 

 at this season ; in the first place, never allow any ground to be idle ; 

 dig or trench it immediately it becomes vacant. Continue to hoe 

 between late planted crops — Cabbage, Winter Lettuce, Spinach, &c. ; a 

 good dressing of soot on a wet day \vill do them a great deal of good. 



Mixed Greenhouse. As the plants are staged for the winter, let 

 them have a surfacing of fi*esh soil ; give air daily, and apply fire 

 occasionally when wet, to dry up damp, and make the air of the house 

 healthy. But little watering will be necessary at this season, except 

 to such plants as have been a long time without shifting ; let the 

 watering be done in the morning, so that the house may get dry before 

 closing up time. 



Orchids. Unless any plants show indications of a new growth, the 

 moderately cool and dry treatment must be persevered in ; such, how- 

 ever, as are commencing to push must be potted at once and placed in 

 more heat. Plants in bloom keep in a dry part of the house. 



Pansies. These either having been potted up or planted out for 

 blooming, as previously directed, will require but very little attention 

 for a time. Those in firames should be grown as hardy as possible, by 



