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berries, except it be for the express purpose of rendering them 

 barren the ensuing season. The soil in which they thrive best is a 

 deep, fat, retentive, and damp loam. In the first instance, the soil 

 should be well manured, and in the month of February in every 

 succeeding year a thick coat of half-rotten dung should be spread 

 over the ground, but it must not be forked in. Strong-growing 

 kinds are usually planted in groups of three canes, each four feet 

 apart. I prefer to put in single canes, and allow them to form good 

 stools, each complete in itself. A crop of cauliflower may be taken 

 off the first season, and after that there should be no more super- 

 cropping of the ground. S. H. 



PEESERVATIOX OF GEEEXHOUSE PLANTS IN 

 WINTER. 



[|T is only under fortuitous circumstances that man can 

 possess and enjoy the sweets and pleasures of life, with- 

 out first incurring the labours and cares by which, and 

 through which, such are to be obtained. If a man will 

 have fame, he must labour to obtain it — if he will be 

 rich, he must not sit idle — if he should be born to possessions, he 

 will not be exempt from the care of preserving them from encroach- 

 ment ; so it is with those who v.ould enjoy a garden and flowers ; 

 they must rear them, and tend them, and preserve them during 

 the winter from the encroachment of enemies, to which they are 

 subject to fall a prey if uncared for ; these are frost and damp, to 

 which we may add drought and darkness, the two former being far 

 more destructive to the majorit}^ of plants than the two latter, the 

 last-named being so only when in an excessive degree, that is to say, 

 to plants in a state of rest during the winter months. In order, 

 then, to assist our readers with hints for the preservation of their 

 plants from the above-named enemies, it will be well to classify some 

 of the more common and generally cultivated greenhouse and bedding 

 plants, leaving them to modify the instructions according to their 

 means of carrying them out, for, in order to accommodate the 

 number and various habits and characters of what we now cultivate 

 as heddinfj and (jreenliouse plants, many impromptic situations may be 

 made temporarily available as auxiliary to the greenhouse or pit. 

 As the greenhouse will probably be gay with Ericas, Camellias, 

 Cinerarias, Violets, Cyclamens, Lachenalia, Chrysanthemums, Cor- 

 reas, Primula sinensis. Tree Carnations, Mignonette, etc., with which 

 must be associated other plants in free growth, or approaching a 

 flowering state, as Tropicolums, Acacia, Daphne, Cytisus, Veronica, 

 Chorozema, Azalea, etc., all of which will require all the light the 

 dull days of winter will afibrd, with a temperature from 5' to 15' 

 above the freezing-point, also a moderate amount of water at 

 the root, but none overhead. It will also be necessary in dull 

 weather to sometimes make a fire to dry up damp, in order that the 

 flowers may not become mouldy ; observe, however, to give air at 



