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sufficiently staked, for lieavy rains and 

 ■winds play terrible havoc with them, when 

 they are not well supported, owiag to the 

 profusion and wei^'lit of their blooms. 

 Where they are required to take the places 

 of bedding- pi ants, tliey should be {<ot to 

 their places at once, and be lifted with good 

 balls, and well watered in. Choice and 

 delicate sorts are best flowered in pots, 

 under glass, and, for this purpose, they 

 ought to have been potted two or three 

 months ago, and shifted as required, and 

 trained out, so as to give effect to their 

 beauty when in bloom. The bulbs to be 

 planted this month are hyacinths, crocuses, 

 scillas, crown imperials, liliums, irises, 

 narcissus, jonquils, daffjdils, and early 

 tulips. Next month is soon enough for 

 late tulips, and anemones and rantincitluses 

 are best kept out of the ground till Feb- 

 ruary, except in places where autumn 

 planting has been proved to answer for 

 them, in which case it is preferable. Her- 

 baceous spring flowering plants may also be 

 got into the borders, to bloom at the same 

 time as the buibs, such as wallflowers, 

 primulas, polyanthuses, arabis, alyssum, 

 aubrietiapurpiirea, pansieSjdielytras, iberls, 

 etc. Get ail plants of questionable hardi- 

 ness, and any tliat are liable to suffer from 

 wet or the attacks of snails, under cover. 

 Choice alpines are more easy of preserva- 

 tion, if potted and put in frames. Auri- 

 culas, choice pans.es, carnations, pentste- 

 mons, Bnimpton and intermediate stocks, 

 myrtles, and even hollyhocks, if the situa- 

 tion is a damp one, must go to similar 

 quarters for the winter, and have plenty of 

 air in mild weather. Remove decayed 

 leaves wherevei they occur, to prevent the 

 formation of moulds about growing plants. 

 The ground for the best bed of tulips should 

 now be forked over two feet deep, and lay 

 four inches of cow-dung in the bottom of 

 each trench as you proceed. 



Fbuit Garden. — Towards the end of 

 the month, gooseberries, currants, and rasp- 

 berries may be moved. New plantations 

 should be made on ground deeply trenched 

 and manured ; gooseberries and rasjjberries 

 need a richer soil than currants ; and black 

 currants and raspberries will thrive in more 

 marsiiy ground than any other of the bush 

 fruits. In all remova's, whether of trees, 

 bushes, or herbaceous plants, let the roots 

 be examined, and all diseased, or mouldy 

 portions, cut clean away. 



Currant and Gooseberry canes may 

 be put in to increase stock, and for this 

 purpose two-year-old wood is better than 

 the shoots of the season, if disbudded a foot 

 or eighteen inches from the base. Drain 

 and trench the ground where fruit-trees 



are to be planted next mouth. Moss on 

 apple-trees generally disappears when the 

 ground is drained. Root-pruning and 

 planting may be commenced the last week, 

 but root-pruning should only be resorted 

 to in the case of over-luxuriaut, unfruit- 

 ful trees. In planting fruit-trees, unless- 

 the soil is poor and exhausted, use no 

 manure whatever — pure loam is preferable 

 to an enriched soil, for all trees intended 

 to bear early and live long. You need 

 not wait till next month if your ground 

 is ready ; trees may now be moved, even 

 if they have not shed their leaves, and will 

 make fresh roots immediately. 



Greenhouse and Stove. — House at 

 once whatever is to be wintered under 

 glass. Remove the shading, give plenty 

 of air, and whenever green-fly or thrips- 

 appear, resort to effectual methods at once, 

 and much future annoyance will be saved. 

 Plants that are to bloom during the winter- 

 should have the best place as to warmth. 

 Give plenty of air, day and night, and re- 

 move the shading, so as to let in all the 

 sunshine that can be had. Avoid making 

 up fires ; but, when it becomes necessary 

 to do so, make a brisk fire, so as to dry the 

 house and promote a current of air ; other- 

 wise, push nothing into growth more than 

 may be needful to insure vigorous health 

 and plenty of stamina. Chrysanthemums 

 will now keep the house gay for a while,, 

 and, as they go off, fuchsias and geranimus, 

 from summer cuttings, may be got into 

 bloom by giving the plants good places and 

 shelter from draughts. If mildew appears, 

 use flower of sulphur ; for green-fly, to- 

 bacco smoke. If aphides get possession of 

 the tender crowns of cinerarias and fairy 

 roses, and smoke fails to dislodge them, 

 turn the plants upside down into weak 

 tobacco-water, and then lay them on their 

 sides, and syringe them well with soft tepid 

 water. 



Tulips to be sorted over, and arranged 

 for planting. In a bed of fancies, be par- 

 ticular as to heights, as it spoils a bed to 

 get fii-st or second row flowers into third or 

 foui-th rows. Contrasting the colours is of 

 far less consequence than getting the 

 heights correctly, and some sorts grow 

 taller or dwarfer than they are marked in 

 the catalogues, where any peculiarity of 

 soil affects them. Border and bedding 

 tulips should be ordered in quantity at once. 

 Applet to be carefully gathered as they 

 ripeu, and to be stored at once without 

 wiping them. This is a convenient time 

 to cut out dead wood. 



Auricu/as to have plenty of air, and be 

 protected against damp, which is apt to in- 

 jure them as the weatlier grows chilly. 



