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THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEIs' GUIDE. 



ricans,camellias,pclargonlums, and acacias. 

 Plants done blooming should be tended 

 ■vvith care to secure a healthy growth of 

 new wood, and be cnt in if required before 

 tliey spend their strength at the ends of 

 flowering shoots. Give plenty of air, and 

 increase the heat in all plant-houses. Use 

 the syringe freely, to keep a clean foliage ; 

 repot any plants that want more root-i"oom ; 

 see to the training of greenhouse and con- 

 servatory climbers before they get into too 

 free a growth to be handled conveniently. 



Aurkulafi. — These will require frequent 

 watering and plenty of air, but must be 

 sheltered from cutting winds. Weak liquid 

 manure will strengthen the trusses. Green- 

 fly will appear as the plants make their 

 new growth, and must be promptly met by 

 means of tobacco-smoke. Polyanthuses the 

 same treatment. 



Azaleas. — Take up and pot such as are 

 ■wanted for furnishing, and put into a 

 moist heat of 55' by night, and 65' by 

 day. Use turfy peat and silver-sand, and 

 press the soil firmly into the pots round 

 the old balls. Give plenty of water, and 

 train out into good shapes. 



Calceolarias may be struck in any 

 quantity for blooming this season ; a very 

 slight heat is sufficient. Use young tender 

 shoots, and root them in sandy peat. 

 Specimen -plants for early blooming will 

 come on nicely along with Americans and 

 other plants that like moisture ; but they 

 must be in the coolest and airiest part of 

 the house, for much heat is an injury to 

 them. Give liquid manure once a-week. 



Cinerarias must have plenty of light 

 and air, and all superfluous shoots and in- 

 jured leaves should be cut clean away. A 

 cool shelf near the glass is the best place 

 for them ; and they must be watched that 

 green-fl}' does not take complete possession 

 of their succulent foliage. 



Carnafions and Ficotees. — Clean up the 

 plants, and wash the outsides of the pots. 

 Make ready for potting in the second 

 week of the month, and search tiie com- 

 post well for vermin, or much mischief 

 may ensue. 



Dahlias should be got to work without 

 delay. Divide the old roots, one eye to 

 each piece, and pot in light rich loam, and 

 plunge the pots in a warm pit on the tank 

 of a propagating-house. Those started 

 last month may be propagated by cut- 

 tings, if stock runs short ; the cuttings 

 must be taken under a joint, and rooted 

 in thumbs filled with poor sandy loam, to 

 be shifted into rich light soil as soon as 

 rooted. 



Hollifhocks not yet planted out must 

 be hardened by free exposure to the air. 



but protected from severe fi-osts and 

 storms. Those already hardened should 

 be planted without delay, and stakes 

 placed for them at once, as driving the 

 stake down hereafter will do injury to the 

 roots. 



Tulips must be kept hardy by free ex- 

 posure, but severe frosts, especially after 

 rain, will do them much harm. Protect, 

 therefore, as occasion may require, but be 

 careful not to retain the coverings one 

 hour after a change of weather has ren- 

 dered them unnecessary. 



Pelargoniums must be stopped where 

 the growth i.« irregular, and tied out to 

 good shapes for blooming. Give more 

 heat and more water as the days lengthen; 

 plenty of light, and manure-water once a- 

 week. The .syringe and the fumigator 

 must both be kept in action to keep vermin 

 in check. Scarce kinds of pelargoniums 

 may now be propagated fi-om pieces of the 

 roots put into small pots, leaving the top 

 just visible ; they must be in a moist heat, 

 and shaded till they show shoots. 



Fruit Gardex. — Mulch raspberries 

 with four inches of half-rotten dung, the 

 ground between them must never be dug, 

 not even with a fork. Trees nev?ly planted 

 to be securely staked, and in dry soils it 

 will be as well to mulch their roots. Finish 

 pruning and nailing, have ready calico, 

 netting, or whatever else is used for pro- 

 tecting wall trees, which will be in bloom 

 early this year. Lay down plenty of rot- 

 ten dung between strawberries. All kinds 

 of fruit-trees and fruit-bushes may yet be 

 planted though it is full late. 



Stove. — Cut down plants that have 

 flowered ; and put in cuttings in a good 

 heat. Newly-potted plants must be care- 

 fully watered, to guard against soddening 

 the roots. Plant out achimenes in shallow 

 pans. 



Pansies. — Shift those intended for 

 blooming in pots ; stir the soil between 

 plants in beds, and carefully tread in any 

 that the frost has lifted. New beds may 

 be planted in the first week of this month. 



Forcing. — A temperature of 50' night, 

 and 60' day, will bring on roses, daphnes, 

 lilacs, weigelias, kalmias, azaleas, double 

 plum, almond, and peach, and other of the 

 showy spring flowers, with very little 

 trouble. Keep a moist air, and beware of 

 crowding. 



Strawberries under glass will require 

 liquid manure, plenty of air, and to be 

 kept near the glass. Thin the fruit and 

 blossoms as soon as a moderate number are 

 set on each plant. 



ViNEET.— Discontinue syringing as the 

 vines come into flower, and slightly in- 



